Dear members
of the SEC,
In behalf of the
10 Gigabit Ethernet Task Force, I would also like to request you support for
this proposal.
I would like to
underscore Bob Grow's comment regarding the Working Groups / Task Forces. It
is a complete frustration not being able to plan a plenary meeting to be as
productive as an interim meeting. My belief is that the quality of the work
suffers because of it. Much that we should be doing in quorum gets pushed to
mid-interim ad hoc meetings. While this is a great way to get specific "big
ticket items" resolved, it should not be the modus
operandi.
It is clear to me
that this proposal will help optimize the effectiveness of large numbers
of professionals who have dedicated their time to the advancement of 802
standards. I feel a heavy responsibility regarding the time (# people * #
hours including travel) consumed by these members and how well it is
utilized.
Please vote
yes.
jonathan
thatcher
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert
Grow
Sent:...
I
want to offer my strong support for Howard's proposal as well as
my
agreement with his rationale. As some of you are aware, I have
been a
voting member in various Working Groups over the last two
decades. One
thing that has been a consistent problem in all five of
those Working Groups
is the limited time for technical work during the
plenary week.
Our attendance has doubled in the last two years,
primarily because of the
number of active major projects. We owe
these people a more productive work
week. One of our objectives
should be to decrease the time required to
produce quality standards.
Moving the closing Executive Committee meeting
to Friday morning will aid
in that objective.
--Bob Grow
-----Original
Message-----
From: Howard Frazier [mailto:millardo@dominetsystems.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:34 PM
To:
stds-802-sec@ieee.org
Subject: Proposal to move the SEC meeting to
Friday
Dear members of the SEC,
I would like to
enlist your support for moving the closing SEC meeting
from Thursday
evening to Friday morning. This change would become
effective at the
July, 2001 meeting of 802.
The rationale for the change is:
1)
Working Groups need more time to conduct their business.
Moving the SEC
meeting from Thursday evening to Friday morning would
allow WGs to meet
until late in the day on Thursday if necessary.
While some Working Groups
do this under the current schedule, others
find it difficult to conclude
their business on Thursday afternoon and
then get ready for an SEC meeting
on Thursday night.
2) SEC members would have more time to prepare for
the meeting.
During my tenure as Recording Secretary, I have noticed that
virtually
all of you could use more time to prepare for the SEC meeting,
and I
think that this additional time for preparation would make the SEC
meetings
much more effective, and much more efficient.
3) With the
elimination of the Friday 802 closing plenary meeting, nothing
stands in
our way except your consent, and the clean up work of changing
our
rules.
I understand that a rules change will be required in
order to make this
change permanent. However, I believe that with the
concurrence
of the SEC, we can announce the change in March, put the change
into
effect in July, and ratify the rules change in due course, just
as
we did with the elimination of the closing plenary. Specific rules
change
text to deal with 5.1.5.2.3, and Procedure 5 Item 7 will be
proposed
at the March meeting.
I ask your support for this change,
in the hopes of making the IEEE 802 LMSC
a more effective standards
development committee.
Howard
Frazier