IEEE TCOS, New Orleans, January 1991: EurOpen IR's report

[Dominic Dunlop]

Submitted-by: domo at tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)

Mary Lynne Nielsen, IEEE Project Editor, makes the following
corrections:

> Whenever a possible new POSIX-related
> standards activity is identified, its promoters can draw up
> a Project Authorization Request (PAR), and submit it to the
> Sponsor Executive Committee (SEC) of TCOS.  If approved
> (sponsored in IEEE terminology), and subsequently rubber-
> stamped by the  IEEE Computer Society's Standards Activities
> Board (SAB), a new project is created.
> ...
>    - Balloting groups are drawn from the membership of a
>      balloting pool.  The pool has three types of member:
>      individual members of the IEEE who have specifically
>      applied to join the pool; institutional
>      representatives (IRs) accepted by the IEEE-CS SAB;
>      and national heads of delegation to the ISO
>      POSIX working group.

The CS SAB has no official right to approve PARs, but
approves to send them on to the IEEE Standards Board.  It is
the IEEE Standards Board, which oversees the standards
activities of all 40-odd societies in the IEEE, which grants
actual approval.  Also, the IEEE Standards Board is the
organization that officially approves IR membership status, not
the CS SAB.

-- 
Dominic Dunlop

Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 117