Dear SEC,
This is a 15 day SEC email ballot on
a Motion to Interpret the LMSC P&P rule on Working Group Initial
Membership as moved by Mat Sherman and seconded by Geoff Thompson.
The
email ballot opens on Monday April 14, 2003 9PM EDT and closes Thursday April
29, 2003 9PM EDT.
Please direct your responses to the SEC reflector
with a CC directly to me (p.nikolich@ieee.org).
Regards,
--Paul
Nikolich
Paul,
I wish to formally make a motion
concerning the interpretation of the current initial membership rules.
The motion I would like to make is as follows:
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"Motion that until the P&P
revision titled "WG membership" being balloted starting March 27th, 2003 is
completed (estimated to occur at the end of the July 2003 IEEE 802 Plenary
meeting) the line in the LMSC P&P section 5.1.3.2 titled "Retention"
reading:
’Membership is retained by participating in at least two of
the last four Plenary session meetings.’
Should be interpreted as
reading:
’Membership is retained by participating in at least two of
the last four Plenary sessions. (An individual who attains membership by
participation and attendance at the first meeting of a new Working Group is
assumed to have the right to retain that membership by the granting of credit
for 'full virtual attendance' at the plenary session that would be immediately
previous to the first working group plenary session.)’”
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Geoff Thompson helped develop this
motion, and has agreed to second it. Note that based on recent
discussions it is somewhat different than the motion I said I would first make
on the reflector. This motion maximally protects the voting rights of
initial members by ensuring retention of their rights through the first 4
plenary sessions. We believe this is the motion that has the greatest
chance of success. If this fails, we may want make a second motion which
we would want to complete before the end of the upcoming wireless interim
session. Since the motion is reasonably concise we would prefer a 15 day
ballot period for this interpretation to allow time for a second round if
needed.
Regards,
Mat
Matthew
Sherman
Vice Chair, IEEE
802
Technology
Consultant
Communications Technology
Research
AT&T Labs - Shannon
Laboratory
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