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From: Dave Ringle <d.ringle@IEEE.ORG> Date: January 17, 2008 01:30:33 PM MST Subject: [STDS-WG-CHAIRS] IEEE-SA Policy and Procedures (P&P) Changes - Important - Please read 17 January 2008 All, The current version of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws is available at: http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/index.html (HTML version) http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sb-bylaws.pdf (PDF version) The current version of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual is available at: http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/index.html (HTML version) http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sb-om.pdf (PDF version) The text of the changes made to these documents (approved by SASB in 2007) can be found at: Please read through these changes so that you are familiar with the current P&P. Change 1 - Sets minimum ballot group for entity projects at five members. Change 2 - States that audit fees are determined by the IEEE Operations Audit Dept. Change 3 - States that annual financial reports [via the L50-S Form] are the responsibility of the Sponsor. The Sponsor shall ensure submission of the reports for itself and all of its subordinate standards developing committees. Change 4 - Allows confidentiality statements to appear on some communications with legal counsel. Change 5 - States that the IEEE-SA Standards Board is not a Sponsor. Change 6 - Modifications to the appeals process. Change 7 - Eliminates requirement for entity project chairs to be IEEE members. Change 8 - Adds 'threatened litigation' to be in synch with existing procedures Change 9 - Adds requirement for chairs to seek LoAs from Affiliates excluded on Accepted LoAs. {The PatCom Administrator will advise chairs when this is necessary.} Change 10 - States that the IEEE is not responsible for determinations of reasonableness related to licensing agreement or to LoAs. Clean-up of how LoAs are handled by PatCom Administrator. Updates public notice language. Change 11 - Further change to public notice text to indicate that users are solely responsible for determining their risk of patent infringement. Change 12 - Updated version of the stabilized standards process. [Note: Staff is working on incorporating these changes into necessary system changes in myProject.] Change 13 - Notes the various states of Sponsor P&P that AudCom can recommend to the Standards Board. Change 14 - Requires use of IEEE concentration banking. Change 15 - Requires that Sponsor ballot comment submission and Sponsor responses be handled in a manner compatible with IEEE Ballting Center tools. Also includes information related to RevCom submittals. Change 16 - General clean-up of the language related to the adoption of a non-IEEE standard. Change 17 - Sets the time from which LoAs should be sought/submitted. If you have any questions, please contact me. [Please do NOT reply to all unless you want all to view your comments. Thank you.] Regards, **************************************************************** David L. Ringle Manager - IEEE-SA Governance, Policy & Procedures IEEE Standards Activities Department 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA TEL: +1 732 562 3806 FAX: +1 732 875 0524 **************************************************************** |