| Document: | T11/08-644v0 | ||||||||
| Date: | October 21, 2008 | ||||||||
| Ref. Doc: | INCITS Reference Document RD-2 (www.incits.org) | ||||||||
| To: |
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| cc: |
Barbara Bennett
Claudio deSanti Robert Nixon Lynn Barra
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| Reply to: | Robert Snively, Chair TC T11 Brocade Communications 1745 Technology Drive San Jose, CA 95110 408-333-8135 rsnively@brocade.com |
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| Subject:, | Notification of T11 membership jeopardy, December, 2008 |
As Chair of T11, I am informing by email the following organizations that the attendance records of Technical Committee T11 show that none of the designated representatives below have been present at two of the last three (June, August, and October of 2008) plenary meetings of the Technical Committee.
Company |
Recent Plenaries Attd |
Type |
Representative |
EMs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIENA |
10/2008 | P A |
Martin Hunt Sashi Thiagarajan |
mhunt@ciena.com sthiagar@ciena.com |
| Corrigent |
06/2008 | P A |
Moran Roth Luis Aguirre-Torres |
moranr@corrigent.com luis@corrigent.com |
| Hitachi America |
06/2008 | P A |
Hidehisa Shitomi Junji Kinoshita |
hidehisa.shitomi@hds.com junji.kinoshita@hds.com |
| Marvell |
10/2008 | P A |
Paul Wassenberg David Geddes |
paulw@marvell.com dgeddes@marvell.com |
Unless at least one of the designated representatives is present at the next T11 Plenary meeting, the member will lose voting membership status in T11, and the status of the membership will be changed from Voting to Advisory. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, December 11, 2008 in Cancun, Mexico. Information about the meeting is available under the "meetings" button at www.t11.org.
Loss of voting membership will not affect the subscription mailings of those representatives, only the voting privileges of the organization.
Note that marking your presence on the designated electronic attendance tool is the only determinant of attendance at a plenary meeting of T11 or one of its Task Groups. Your particular attendance pattern may result in jeopardy before two consecutive meetings.
For your reference, the rules under which T11 and its subgroups operate, which are documented in the INCITS/RD-2 (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards, Organization, Rules and Procedures of INCITS), available at http://www.incits.org/rd2/in080568.pdf, state the following:
4.2.4.2 Technical Committees, TGs and SGs
Members of the Technical
Committees, TGs, and SGS shall be terminated under the following
conditions:
a) The principal and all
alternate representative(s) shall be warned in writing upon failure of the
organization
to:
1. attend two out of three
successive meetings, in that case the membership shall be terminated if not
represented at the next meeting;
or
2. return two out of three successive non accelerated letter ballots if the next non accelerated letter ballot (identified by LB number) after the warning is not returned.
2. return two out of three successive non accelerated letter ballots if the next non accelerated letter ballot (identified by LB number) after the warning is not returned.
An organization fails to perform an above action when none of the
organization's representatives performs the
actions.
b) Voting and advisory memberships shall be canceled by the INCITS Secretariat for failure to pay appropriate service fees within the time specified by the INCITS Secretariat.
b) Voting and advisory memberships shall be canceled by the INCITS Secretariat for failure to pay appropriate service fees within the time specified by the INCITS Secretariat.
TCs, TGs, and SGs may vote to continue the membership despite failure of the member to comply with the membership criteria in a) above.
An organization that has had its
voting membership terminated may re-establish membership in accordance with
sections 4.2.2 and 4.2.3. If this membership is re-established within the same
billing period and the organization has paid its fee, no new service fee shall
be assessed.
Membership may be gained or regained by the following procedure documented in the RD-2:
4.2.3.1.4 TCs, TGs, and SGs
Voting membership
in TCs, TGs, and SGs is open to all directly and materially affected parties
that meet attendance and voting requirements and pay the designated service
fee(s).
A representative of a prospective voting member shall initially attend a meeting of the TC, TG, or SG without voting privileges and reaffirm interest in the work of the TC, TG, or SG. Voting privileges become effective with attendance at one of the next two successive meetings and receipt by the Secretariat of the applicable fees for the membership year. For a new subgroup, all attendees at the formation meeting or second meeting shall be considered voting members, subject to the rules in Section 4.2.3.2.
An organization with voting membership shall appoint one and only one principal representative and may appoint one or more alternate representatives.
In order to comply with ANSI requirements, while all parties may participate in the discussion, only those organizations domiciled in the U.S. may vote to establish a U.S. position on TAG matters.
A representative of a prospective voting member shall initially attend a meeting of the TC, TG, or SG without voting privileges and reaffirm interest in the work of the TC, TG, or SG. Voting privileges become effective with attendance at one of the next two successive meetings and receipt by the Secretariat of the applicable fees for the membership year. For a new subgroup, all attendees at the formation meeting or second meeting shall be considered voting members, subject to the rules in Section 4.2.3.2.
An organization with voting membership shall appoint one and only one principal representative and may appoint one or more alternate representatives.
In order to comply with ANSI requirements, while all parties may participate in the discussion, only those organizations domiciled in the U.S. may vote to establish a U.S. position on TAG matters.
Your participation in the work of T11 has been appreciated by all concerned. We look forward to your continued participation.
If there are any questions, I can be reached by phone at (408) 835-4321 or via e-mail at rsnively@brocade.com
Sincerely,
Robert Snively,
T11 Chair