Standards Association is a separate IEEE society-type thing, members of IEEE and/or its societies are NOT automatically members -- you have to pay $51 extra to join Standards Association (I just did).
I do not know how to express my interest -- I asked a similar question to Baker
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From: stds-1788@xxxxxxxx [mailto:stds-1788@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corliss, George
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:18 PM
To: Ralph Baker Kearfott
Cc: Corliss, George; stds-1788
Subject: Re: [P1788]: Proceeding towards Sponsor Ballot -- what you can do
Baker,
How can I tell whether I am a member of the IEEE Standards Association?
How do I know that they know that I have expressed an interest in the P1788 Working Group?
I AM a member of the IEEE Computer Society, but I don't understand how big the tent might be.
George Corliss
On Mar 25, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk5287@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
P-1788 members:
We anticipate putting up the entire document for your approval, prior
to the sponsor ballot, in a week or so. If we approve it according to
our rules for standards text, the document should be ready to go to
sponsor ballot in mid-May. (I remind you that the sponsor ballot
phase is like our vote on the entire document, except it is more
formal and considered to be the official ratification of the standard.
The document must be approved in the sponsor ballot by something like
75% of votes, with 75% of members of the ballot committee voting.)
Members of the sponsor ballot group are chosen by invitation.
TO GET AN INVITATION TO BE ON THE SPONSOR BALLOT GROUP, YOU MUST BE A
MEMBER OF THE IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION. ALL MEMBERS OF THE IEEE
STANDARDS ASSOCIATION WHO HAVE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN THE P-1788
WORKING GROUP WILL BE SENT AN INVITATION FOR THE SPONSOR BALLOT.
Officers may also send out additional invitations.
IF YOU WISH TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON ADOPTION OF AN INTERVAL ARITHMETIC
STANDARD, PLEASE JOIN THE IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION SOON.
(An alternative, I think, is to pay a per-ballot fee, but this could
add up if the ballot fails on the first or subsequent votes.)
The next meeting of the sponsor (the IEEE Microprocessor
Standardization Committee -- IEEE MSC) is July 8.
However, since our Project Authorization ends in December, we do not
have much time for a sponsor ballot, so a vote within the IEEE MSC may
be conducted by email during May or early June.
Best regards,
Baker
P.S. IEEE officials may send out additional invitations to
achieve balance within the sponsor ballot group. The
balance is with regard to Industry / Academia / Users
and with regard to geographical area (representation
of different countries). However, that is not our
concern, and furthermore, if the members of the working
group participate in the ballot group, I doubt much
adjustment would be necessary.
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