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- Submitted-by: domo@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
-
-