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[802SEC] RE: Sponsor Policies and Procedures




Mat-

I would guess that we should request that it be added to the agenda of 
ProCom which meets on Tuesday morning.

Geoff

At 10:24 AM 3/16/2003 -0500, mjsherman@research.att.com wrote:
>Geoff,
>
>Do you know what day next week would be the appropriate day to raise
>this.  I'll probably try to attend the SA meeting on that day since it
>is local for me.  I do think we should discuss it with them.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mat
>
>Matthew Sherman
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geoff Thompson [mailto:gthompso@nortelnetworks.com]
>Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 3:51 PM
>To: Sherman,Matthew J (Matthew)
>Cc: stds-802-sec@ieee.org; j.carlo@ieee.org;
>millardo@dominetsystems.com; sljohnson@rangenet.com;
>Howard.Wolfman@sylvania.com
>Subject: Fwd: Sponsor Policies and Procedures
>
>Mat-
>
>My most strict read of this is that, every time we formally effect a 
>change to the LMSC P&P, we have to submit our updated/current P&P and then 
>can not submit a PAR until we get an OK back -OR- a six month time expires.
>
>This procedure seems to be not well thought out with respect to the P&P of 
>a highly active group (such as ours) whose P&P are under continuous 
>improvement. The worst case effect of this could be that we could only put 
>changes into effect once a year and could only submit PARs during a window 
>that was open 6 months after that until the next rule change date.
>
>I doubt that the SA intended this policy to be that restrictive.
>
>Paul/Howard-
>
>We should probably mention this at ProCom/AudCom and the SA-SB next week.
>
>Geoff
>
>
>
> >Subject: Sponsor Policies and Procedures
> >To: stds-board-comm@ieee.org, stds-wg-chairs@ieee.org,
> >    std-liaison-reps@ieee.org, stds-scc@ieee.org
> >Cc: sa-bog@ieee.org
> >From: r.gertz@ieee.org
> >Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:01:02 -0500
> >
> >
> >Hi Everyone:
> >
> >This is a reminder that at the 12 September 2002 IEEE-SA Standards
>Board
> >meeting, the following change was approved regarding PAR submissions to
>
> >NesCom effective 1 January 2003.  As a practical matter,  NesCom will
>not
> >enforce this until after the 20 March 2003 IEEE-SA Standards Board
> >meeting. After that time, PARs received by NesCom from a sponsor that
>is
> >not in compliance with clause 5.1.1.1 of the 2003 edition of the
>IEEE-SA
> >Operations Manual will be returned to the sponsor.
> >
> >The following two clauses, taken from the IEEE-SA Operations Manual,
>are
> >provided for your information.
> >
> >4.2.4 Audit Committee (AudCom)
> >
> >This committee shall make routine reviews and inspections to assure
>that
> >each standards-developing entity, through its Sponsor policies and
> >procedures (P & P), is adhering to the procedures described in the
>IEEE-SA
> >Standards Board Bylaws and the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations
>Manual.
> >It will make recommendations as appropriate to advise the
> >standards-developing entities of changes that are needed. The committee
>
> >shall periodically issue reports to the IEEE-SA Standards Board,
> >summarizing its findings and making recommendations as appropriate for
> >Standards Board action.
> >
> >5.1.1.1 AudCom review of Sponsor P & P
> >
> >The Sponsor shall ensure that its P & P have been reviewed and accepted
>by
> >AudCom or have been submitted for review a minimum of six months prior
>to
> >the submission of any PARs to NesCom. NesCom will not review PARs
> >submitted by Sponsors whose P & P have not been accepted by AudCom
>unless
> >the Sponsor's P & P have been submitted and have been under review by
> >AudCom for at least six months without a recommendation to the Sponsor.
>
> >Any revised P & P shall be submitted to AudCom for review and
>acceptance.
> >
> >If you have any questions regarding this change, please contact Rona
>Gertz
> >at r.gertz@ieee.org.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Rona
> >_______________________________
> >Rona I. Gertz
> >Manager, IEEE-SA Governance
> >IEEE Standards Activities
> >r.gertz@ieee.org
> >+1 732 562 3808 (phone); +1 732 562 1571 (fax)
> >IEEE Standards web site:http://standards.ieee.org/
> >
> >
>
>
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