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Re: SUO: Progress of Appeal

SUO WG,
Jim has a right to appeal anything he wishes, but the formal and unanimous resolution of the Board of Governors is the official position of the IEEE Standards Association and will remain so until they rule differently, if ever.  I should also add that this appeal is Jim Schoening's personal appeal not the SUO WG's appeal.

The Board of Governors specifically adopted the opinion letter of the law firm of Dorsey and Whitney, the IEEE Institute's counsel.
The IEEE-SA BOG considered the inquiries of the IEEE 1600.1 working group
and the opinion of 7 November 2001 offered by Dorsey and Whitney and
concurs with and reaffirms the opinion stated.
From the Dorsey and Whitney opinion (voting totals provided by Jim Schoening):
Specifically, we understand that 42 e-mail
ballots were received including 9 abstentions, 17 affirmative votes and 16
negative votes.  Mr. Smith advised Messrs. Spillers and Schoening that the
motion failed because the affirmative votes did not constitute a majority
(i.e., 22) of the total number of the ballots cast.  There was no need to
determine whether a quorum was present since the motion failed.
There were other rules of parliamentary procedure violated by the SUMO motion and Jim's actions.  These were identified in the messages from the IEEE Parliamentarian to Jim and myself.  Jim refused to accept this advice.  However the Board of Governors specifically adopts this advice as being correct interpretations of parliamentary procedure.
In reviewing this matter,
the participants in the telephone conference unanimously conclude that the
advice given by Mr. Smith to Messrs. Schoening and Spillers was correct.

The SUMO vote failed.  The SUMO is not a "Starter Document" and should be removed from that category on the SUO webpage http://suo.ieee.org/

Bob

        

        

        

        

        

        

Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I wrote:

        
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SUO WG,

	I never received aknowledgement of the appeal I sent in a couple
weeks ago, but I did hear, second hand, that it was reviewed the Standards
Activity Board meeting.  They plan to form a 3-person appeals committee to
review and rule on it.  I'll keep you posted as I hear anything.

Jim