REMINDER: Motion P1788/M0018.01:TritsToTetrits: Voting period ends TOMORROW
P1788 members,
As an experiment, I have not been nagging, and there have been few votes :-(
REMINDER, the voting period for Motion 18.01Trits to Tetrits ends TOMORROW, 2010-07-08
Current tally: Yes - 2; No - 2. Needed to pass: 37 (1/2 of registered voters)
Baker's call is below.
To vote, you must be registered as a Voting Member with the IEEE.
Baker's instructions for doing so are appended below.
Voting is public. Send your vote to this
stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx alias. You can reply to
this email saying "YES" or "NO," but it saves email
volume if you just send an email with
- empty body
- subject line saying one of
Motion P1788/M00018.01:TritsToTetrits: YES
Motion P1788/M00018.01:TritsToTetrits: NO
Reminder: Every member is expected to vote on each motion,
even if the outcome is clear. IEEE wants to ensure full
participation.
Dr. George F. Corliss
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
1515 W. Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee WI 53201-1881 USA
414-288-6599; GasDay: 288-4400; Fax 288-5579
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: June 17, 2010 2:07:51 AM CDT
> To: stds-1788 <stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Motion P1788/M0018.01:TritsToTetrits: Voting period begins
> Reply-To: <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> P-1788:
>
> The voting period herewith begins for Motion 18. The rules are those for
> a position paper. Voting will continue until after the end of
> Thursday, July 8.
>
> As always, text of the motion is available at
>
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/private/Motions/AllMotions.html
>
> As always, please contact me if you need a password for this web area.
>
> Juergen: Please update the status of this motion on the web page.
> William: Please record this in the minutes.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Baker
>
>
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> R. Baker Kearfott, rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (337) 482-5346 (fax)
> (337) 482-5270 (work) (337) 993-1827 (home)
> URL: http://interval.louisiana.edu/kearfott.html
> Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
> (Room 217 Maxim D. Doucet Hall, 1403 Johnston Street)
> Box 4-1010, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010, USA
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R. Baker Kearfott (acting chair, IEEE 1788 working group)
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IEEE interval arithmetic working group members,
We have been requested to make our participation official
by logging on to the IEEE web site and confirming our
name and affiliation (University of Karlsruhe, etc.) You
do not need to be an IEEE member to do this, but you do need
to have an IEEE web account, if you do not already have one.
Doing this official process accomplishes the following:
(a) It makes votes you submit official.
(b) It provides IEEE insurance against the results of your
activities on the working group, regardless of whether
or not you are an IEEE member.
The process is as follows. (Skip steps 1 to 3 if you already
have an IEEE web account.)
1. Go to IEEE.org
2. In the "What do you want to do" column on the right, click on
"set up IEEE web account"
3. Click on "Create an IEEE Web Account" and follow the instructions.
4. Once you have an IEEE user name and password, go to
standards.ieee.org and click on the "Standards Development" tab.
5. Click on "Log-in to MyProject."
6. You are presented with the login page. Put in your user name
and password and thus login.
7. On the next screen, click on "Manage Activity Profile."
8. You will be presented with a set of overall IEEE organizations,
whose activities can be expanded by clicking on the "+" to the
left of the names. Click on the "+" by "IEEE Computer Society."
9. In the resulting list under IEEE Computer Society, click on
the "+" by "Microprocessor Standards Committee."
10.In the list under "Microprocessor Standards Committee," click on
the "+" by "Working Group for Interval Arithmetic,"
then check all appropriate boxes.
11. Click on the "Continue" button at the bottom of the page.
12. It will then ask you questions, such as "Affiliation." (It
won't ask you private information.) Fill in the information.
Some persons have had a bit of trouble registering through the
IEEE site to be officially able to vote on working group
business. Several whom I have helped have had the same
problem, as follows: When you get to the list of working
groups (step 10 in the instructions between the "===" below),
it is possible to expand "Working Group for Interval Arithmetic"
by clicking on the "+". If you do that, you will find
a single item below it, entitled "Standard for Interval Arithmetic".
The box beside the "Standard for Interval Arithmetic" is
irrelevant at present. Instead, you should check the
box "Working Group for Interval Arithmetic" (at the
higher level in the hierarchy) and press "continue."
P.P.S. Don't worry if it says that you can only be added
as an interested observer. I check the list periodically
and when our "official vote tabulator" asks me to do
so. At those times, I change new registrants' status to
"voting member."
I just got a call from Malia Zaman at IEEE. She explained
to me that the lower level of the selection process,
"Standard for Interval Arithmetic," is indeed for the
ballot group, which is the IEEE process that ratifies
our standard after the working group finishes it. You
should check that box too (that is, you should check
BOTH boxes), if you want to vote "yes" or "no" on the
final standard that we hand to the Sponsor. However,
I only see the roster for "Working Group for Interval
Arithmetic," while the Sponsor sees the "Standard for
Interval Arithmetic" list. When it is eventually time to do the
sponsor ballot, the Sponsor will select the Ballot Group
from the list on "Standard for Interval Arithmetic."
(Presently, the Sponsor is the MSC, chaired by Bob Davis.)
Bob has indicated that the Ballot Group will have considerable
overlap with the Working Group, although the actual
selection is at the discretion of the MSC, and there
are considerations of balance of interest (e.g. we wouldn't
want more than half of the people to be, say, from a
single corporation. Our working group seems to presently
have a good geographical balance and balance of interests.).
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R. Baker Kearfott, rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (337) 482-5346 (fax)
(337) 482-5270 (work) (337) 993-1827 (home)
URL: http://interval.louisiana.edu/kearfott.html
Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(Room 217 Maxim D. Doucet Hall, 1403 Johnston Street)
Box 4-1010, Lafayette, LA 70504-1010, USA
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