Entity%20Balloting%20in%20the%20IEEE%20Standards%20Association

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Entity Balloting in the IEEE Standards Association
IEEE 802 Plenary
Judy Gorman, Managing Director, IEEE Standards
Association
15 November 2004 San Antonio, TX
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Contents

• Overview of the IEEE-SA Corporate Program
• Entity is the term on the books
• Definitions of participant types
• IEEE and INCITS comparison
• Entity Balloting Pros and Cons
• Issues Straining the Individual Method
• Proposed Next Steps
• Q A

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110 Years of Stability and Evolution

• 1890 Established the Henry - a practical unit of
  inductance
• 1898 First dedicated effort toward
  standardization of electrotechnology in US
• 1912 Institute of Radio Engineers formed its
  first standards committee
• 1958 Joint Standards Committee of AIEE and IRE
• 1963 Merger of AIEE and the IRE
• 1973 Establishment of the IEEE Standards Board
• 1998 IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
• Individual and corporate membership
• 1999 IEEE Industry Standards and Technology
  Organization (IEEE-ISTO)
• Established an affiliated 501(c)(6) organization
• 2004 IEEE-SA Corporate Program

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Overview of the IEEE-SA Corporate Program
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IEEE Standards Association
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Members
IEEE-SA Board of Governors Legal fiduciary,
policy, finance, NA, Registration Authority,
appeals, awards, etc
Standards Board (SASB) Directs Standards Process
/ Sponsor
Corporate Advisory Group (CAG) Corporate Program
Strategy/ Sponsor
Sponsors Societies, Standards Coordinating
Committees, CAG, Standards Board, etc.
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IEEE-SA Corporate Program

• A membership category in IEEE-SA for
• Corporations
• Government agencies
• Academia
• Consultants
• Industry groups
• Organizations
• Gives organizations
• A defined voice within the IEEE-SA
• A corporate-driven standards development process
• Corporate membership since 1998
• Program inception 2000
• Organizationally active 2004

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IEEE-SA Corporate Program Membership

• 50 corporate members in 10 countries
• Sectors/categories
• Electronic design automation
• Battery and PC manufacturers
• Networking solution providers
• Power suppliers
• Industry applications
• Telecommunications
• Trade associations
• Research laboratory

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IEEE-SA CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP
Maryland Procurement Office
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ROTANI
IEEE-SA CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP
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Corporate Advisory GroupMembers

• Chuck Adams, Chair IBM
• Steve Mills, Vice Chair Hewlett-Packard
• George Arnold Lucent Technologies
• Chuck Powers Motorola
• Robert Fish Panasonic
• Peter Linnert Siemens
• Phil Wennblom Intel
• James Williamson Sony Electronics

Maximum 10
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IEEE-SA 2004 Corporate Member Fee Structure

• Member
• Corporate
• Less than 1M Revenue 1000
• Less than 1B Revenue 3000
• Greater than 1B Revenue 5000
• Government Agency 5000
• Other (Trade Assoc, SDO, Academic) 1000
• Non-Member per ballot fee
• 20 premium to membership fee

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Prognosis for Corporate Program

• Overall - excellent
• Partnership built between corporate members and
  IEEE
• Program strategy under development
• Exceeded 04 goal of acquiring one new project 8X
• In the case of 802, some
• Are willing to propose changes to their P P
• See some instances in which the individual method
  isnt working / is broken / etc.
• Recognize the value corporate method offers for
  bringing in new work

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Definitions of Participant Typesas
perIEEE-SASB Operations Manual RD 2 of
INCITSRules Document 2 / InterNational
Committee for Information Technology Standards
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Individual

• SOURCE dictionary.reference.com
• Noun
• A single human considered apart from a society or
  community.
• A human regarded as a unique personality.
• A person distinguished from others by a special
  quality.
• Usage Problem. A person.
• Source ANSI
• Nothing
• Source IEEE-SA
• Defines everything that is not an individual,
  e.g., partnership, corporation, government
  agency, etc.

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Corporation/Large Small Businesses

• INCITS
• There shall be only one voting membership for
  each separate business entity. A separate entity
  is defined as having a controlling body, such as
  a Board of Directors, that does not report to
  another controlling body.

• IEEE
• An entity that has a controlling body, such as a
  Board of Directors, that does not report to
  another controlling body.

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Government Agency or Subdivision/Government

• IEEE
• An entity that reports to its parent or
  executive, legislative, or judicial branch of a
  government

• INCITS
• There shall be only one voting membership for
  separate government subdivision or agency.
  Separate government subdivision or agency is
  defined as an entity that reports to its parent
  executive, legislative, or judicial branch of
  government

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Partnership or Association

• IEEE
• An entity comprised
• of two or more principal members. In order to be
  a voting member in a particular Sponsor ballot,
  each partnership or association shall declare
  that it does not represent the interests of
  another member of the IEEE-SA of any type
  participating in that Sponsor ballot

• INCITS
• No comparable category/term/
• definition

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Consultant(s)

• IEEE
• An entity whose principal source of revenue is
  derived from providing consulting services for
  other institutions. In order to be a voting
  member in a particular Sponsor ballot, each
  consultant shall declare that it does not
  represent the interests of another person of any
  type participating in that Sponsor ballot.

• INCITS
• A consultant organization is defined as an
  organization whose principal source of revenue is
  derived from providing services for other
  organizations. There shall be only one voting
  membership for each separate consultant
  organization. In order to be in the voting member
  category, consultant organizations shall have to
  declare that their participation is not being
  funded by any organization already having voting
  membership or an organization that is not
  eligible for membership.

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Academic Institution/Academia

• IEEE
• An educational entity that has a controlling
  body, such as a Board of Regents or a Board of
  Governors

• INCITS
• There shall be only one voting membership for
  each separate education institution. A separate
  educational institution is defined as an entity
  that has a controlling body, such as a Board of
  Regents.

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Consortia, Vendor-Specific User Groups,
Professional Societies, Other SDOs / User
Groups Consortia

• IEEE
• The principal and alternate representative for
  these types of entities may be employed by other
  entities that have voting membership in the
  balloting group

• INCITS
• There shall be only one voting membership for
  each separate SDO, User Group and Consortium. For
  these entities, their principal and alternate
  representatives may be employed by other
  organizations who have voting memberships

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Other

• IEEE
• Other institutional persons as approved by the
  IEEE-SA Standards Board

• INCITS
• No comparable category/term/
• definition

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Entity Balloting Pros and Cons

• PROS
• Better business investment for companies
• Equalizing effect on the playing field
• Increases transparency
• Eliminates many questions about affiliation
• Continues to allow consortia to leverage strength
• Consultant perspective equal vote to large
  company
• Reduces not-for-profit tax status liability for
  IEEE
• Increase value to industry of IEEE 802 work
  program

• CONS
• Doesnt necessarily solve the problem of logjams
• Doesnt allow large companies to leverage
  strength
• Continues to allow consortia to leverage strength
• Large company perspective consultant has equal
  vote
• Challenges the existing culture of IEEE 802

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Issues Straining the Individual Method

• Pressure and Evolving Need to Declare Affiliation
• Consultants
• Cannot always declare
• Dont always have a specific client
• Feel discriminated against
• Others
• Business relationships exist behind the scenes
  that influence voting patterns
• Weighted Voting
• Individual method is best bet
• Real system very cumbersome
• ETSI system
• Other IEEE groups have considered/rejected idea
• Protecting the IEEE Brand
• IEEE and IEEE 802 both have much to gain and lose

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Proposed Next Steps

• September 04 - IEEE 802 Task Force
• David Law and Brad Booth to work with IEEE-SA
  staff on proposed PP changes that incorporate
  Entity method
• Newly approved model entity procedures sent to DL
  and BB in October
• 802 Executive Committee to Approve
• Whos going to be first?

IEEE 802.______
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Thank you!
Q A

• Don Wright, Moderator
• Panelists
• Judy Gorman
• Karen Kenney
• Steve Mills
• Paul Nikolich