Not hardly – corporate dues range from $1100 to $5500 per
year – see http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corp_overview.html
However, depending on the level of corporate membership, you do get either 2, 6
or 10 free individual memberships in the IEEE-SA.
The individual/corporate voting conundrum is pretty common –
as Eric points out, it’s usually done to keep a single organization from
wielding too much ballot power in the activities of the organization. The way
we dealt with it in another organization was to designate one voting member
from each organization with others from the same organizations serving as
observers (they could fully participate in all activities except voting).
Best regards.
Richard Austin, MS, CISSP
"From the character, the institutions, the situation and
the circumstances of the adversary, each side will draw its conclusions, in
accordance with the laws of probability, as to what the actions of the other
will be and determine its own accordingly."
-- Carl Von Clausewitz. On War
From: James Hughes
[mailto:jphughes@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:38 PM
To: STDS-P1619@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-P1619] Decision to switch SISWG to corporate-based
voting / IEEE corporate members list
Stupid question from out of the blue...
If you pick corporate-method, can you choose not to have
dues?
On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Eric Hibbard wrote:
The short answer is that we are about half way between the
individual-method and the corporate-method in the way we handle voting
membership, and IEEE-SA is insisting that we pick a method and live with it (no
hybrids). We got to this point because there was concern that one or more entities
could/would dominate the voting by sending many participants, with each being
able to vote.
What is the reasoning for changing to something other than an
individual-based membership?
Just
to be clear, this motion was made not because the movers are necessarily in
favor of it, but that it would be the action that would change the status quo
(conversely, a motion to keep the voting as 'individual' would have no effect
if it passed or failed). If this motion fails, then we'll stay as an
'Individual' working group, and adjust the operating procedures accordingly to
better match the new baseline procedures.
Along these lines, Eric Hibbard has created an operating procedures proposal
for individual (not corporate) voting. See:
https://siswg.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=189&Itemid=41
(changes from the baseline procedures are highlighted)
I've added discussion of this proposal to the agenda for the July 15th
meeting. If the group decides to move to 'Corporate' voting, we'll need
to figure out those Operating Procedures, and change all the PARS.
Thanks,
-Matt
You might talk with James Borden,
Daniel Goodman of the 1667 group, which is entity based, has been from
inception. At times 1667 has considered going to individual-based
membership. I have not heard that recently, but you can get their perspective
on being an entity-based group. One particularly irritating aspect for me
personally has been that, even as sponsor chair, I could not vote in 1667 balloting.
"Daniel Goodman" <daniel.goodman@xxxxxxxx>,
1667 secretary
Hi Folks,
In today's meeting, we tabled a motion to switch SISWG from individual-based
membership to corporate-based membership. We'll hear this motion again at
the next meeting on July 15th. To help you make your decision of
Individual vs. Corporate membership, here are some links. I've also
attached a list of IEEE-SA corporate members, as of June 2009.
If we stay with individual membership, there will be no fees for participating
in SISWG. If we switch to corporate membership, then the fees range from
$1100 to $5500 per year, depending on company size. If you're company is
already on the attached list, then you wouldn't need to pay any extra.
Links:
I know Eric was about ready to hop
on a plane, so I wanted to get these out for review now...
Let me know if I missed anything or if you have any questions!
Cheers,
-Matt
ADDMM,
LLC
ARM
ASSET InterTech
AT&T
ATL
Accellera
Aerotek co., Ltd.
Alcatel-Lucent
Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
BII Group Holdings Ltd
Battery Association of Japan
Beijing Jiaotong University
BioEnergy Solutions
BitMeister Inc.
Boeing
Broadcom
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
China Telecommunications Corporation
CipherLab
Cosmo Research Corp.
CyVerse Corporation
DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency)
DLink Systems, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Discretix
ETRI
EmbedTech Industries
Epson Electronics America, Inc.
FDA
FiberHome Networks
France Telecom
Freescale Semiconductor
Fuji Infox-Net Co. Ltd.
Fujitsu Computer Products
Future Path Medical, LLC
Gemalto
Genesys Logic, Inc.
Gigle Semiconductor
Gridpoint Systems
Hewlett-Packard
Hirotech, Inc.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
IBM
IMS GLC
ISB Corporation
ISTO (IEEE-Industry Standards & Technology Org)
ITE Tech, Inc.
Ilevo -SEPC
Infinico Corporation
Intel
JEITA
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
Kingston Technology
Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Inc.
LSI
Lauterbach Datentechnik GmbH
Lexar Media, Inc.
Liberty University
Lightning Protection Institute
Logipard
Magma Design Automation
Magnadyne Corp.
Marvell
McAfee, Inc.
Mentor Graphics
Microsoft Corporation
Mobile Power Solutions, Inc.
Motorola
NICT
NVIDIA
NXP
Nanoradio AB
National Communications System
Net-O2 Technologies
Netac Technology Co Ltd.
Neterion, Inc.
NexTag
Nokia
Nortel Networks
PCTEST Engineering Laboratory Inc.
Panasonic Technologies Company
Philips
Phison Electronics Corp.
Polycom, Inc.
Proximetry
Pultek Corp
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Rajant Corporation
Research In Motion
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Robert Bosch GmbH
SDR Forum
SISA (Samsung)
SOAR Systems, Inc.
STARC
STEC, Inc.
SanDisk Corporation
Sanyo
Seagate Technologies
Semifore Inc.
Si2
Siemens AG
Sig Sauer, Inc.
Silicon Motion, Inc.
SimpleTech
Skymedi Corporation
Snap-On
Solid State System (3S)
Sony Corporation
St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Company (SPBEC)
Sun Microsystems Inc
Sunrise Telecom
Synchromesh Computing, LLC
Synopsys, Inc.
Synplicity, Inc.
T-Systems International GmbH
TAIS
Texas Instruments
Thermon Manufacturing
Tokyo University of Science
Tonen Chemical Nasu Co., Ltd.
Toshiba
Transparent Visibility (TV-LLC)
Trimble
UNIPI (University of Piraeus Research Center)
Underwriters Laboratories
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
University of Athens
University of Sfax
Valens Semiconductor
Visible Assets, Inc.
Wave Systems Corp.
Western Digital Technologies
Willnet, Inc.
Wintegra, Inc.
Worldpicom Corporation
Xilinx, Inc.
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