[8023-10GEPON] FW: [802.3] New meeting participation requirement
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Bob Grow, 802.3 working group chair.
Glen
-----Original Message-----
From: Grow, Bob [mailto:bob.grow@INTEL.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:25 AM
To: STDS-802-3@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: [802.3] New meeting participation requirement
Colleagues:
This is a reminder of information I have reported on at recent opening 802.3
plenaries. A number of significant changes have been incorporated in
IEEE-SA governing documents (IEEE-SA Operations, IEEE-SA Standards Board
Bylaws and IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual) that will affect IEEE
802.3 and subgroup operation. These updated documents are now effective and
can be found for your reference at:
http://standards.ieee.org/resources/index.html#guides.
At next week's meeting, all participants will be asked to provide written
disclosure of their affiliation (verbal disclosure has been the custom
during introductions for most of 2006's 802.3 meetings). The IEEE-SA
Standards Board Operations Manual includes this new requirement, which we
will fulfill through the attendance sign-in book.
For many of you, your affiliation is your employer; but for others, some
other entity may be funding your participation. Anyone refusing or failing
to declare affiliation will not receive attendance credit for the January
interim meeting. Full compliance with the affiliation policy will be
enforced beginning with the March plenary meeting. To support this
declaration of affiliation requirement, there will be a new look for the
attendance books. The attendance sign in sheets will include your contact
information, a place to write affiliation and have the following notice
about your affiliation declaration:
"You are deemed "affiliated" with any person or organization (other than
IEEE and its officers acting in that capacity) that has requested, paid for,
or otherwise sponsored your participation in this meeting, whether that
payment was made to you or your employer. Failure to disclose every
affiliation will result in not receiving attendance credit for this meeting
and may result in other penalties, including permanent loss of membership in
this group. Please note that you are not excused from compliance with this
policy by reason of any claim of a conflicting obligation (whether
contractual or otherwise) that prohibits disclosure of affiliation. If you
are under contract not to disclose your affiliation, you must either get a
waiver of that requirement or lose 802.3 voting member privileges.
Submitting a form without full disclosure would be considered false and
misleading."
Please feel free to email me any suggestions for improving the
implementation of this requirement after trying the new sign in sheets next
week.
Bob Grow
Chair, IEEE 802.3
bob.grow@ieee.org