IEEESA Standards Board SASB New Member Orientation Don Wright Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board

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IEEE-SA Standards Board (SASB)New Member
OrientationDon WrightChair, IEEE SA Standards
Board
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GovernanceIEEE-SA Standards Board

• Composition
• Up to 26 members appointed by IEEE-SA Board of
  Governors
• Chair (elected by the BoG)
• Vice-Chair (elected by the SASB)
• Immediate Past Chair
• 1 member appointed by TAB
• 2 Members Emeriti (non-voting)
• Managing Director of Standards Activities
• (non-voting)

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GovernanceIEEE-SA Standards Board

• Oversees the standards development process for
  the entire IEEE
• ensures that due process has been served...
• Operates according to IEEE-SA and Standards Board
  Bylaws, policies, and procedures
• Encourages and coordinates the development of
  IEEE standards
• ambassadors back to interest groups
• Promotes the IEEE overall

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GovernanceStanding Committees

• New Standards Committee
• Review Committee
• Procedures Committee
• Patent Committee
• Audit Committee
• Administrative Committee

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New Standards Committee (NesCom)

• Recommends approval (green light) of a project to
  Standards Board
• Reviews Project Authorization Requests (PARs) to
  ensure that proposed projects are within the
  scope and purpose of IEEE

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Review Committee(RevCom)

• Ensures that consensus has been achieved and due
  process has been followed
• Does not make formal technical judgements on a
  project
• Recommends final approval of a completed project
  to the Standards Board

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Procedures Committee (ProCom)

• Drafts changes to procedures and new procedures
  in response to
• changing Standards Board requirements
• directions from the Board of Governors
• Must act judiciously AND quickly!

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Patent Committee (PatCom)

• Addresses patent issues/problems of
  standards-writing groups
• Provides oversight for use of patents in IEEE
  Standards
• Provides archive of patent assurance letters
• IEEE-SA Legal Counsel interprets the law

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Audit Committee (AudCom)

• Provides audit oversight to the
  standards-development activities of IEEE
  Societies and Standards Coordinating Committees
  (SCCs)
• Goal that all IEEE standards committees have
  fair and open processes and procedures, and that
  they comply with them
• Under development program for universal
  Standards Board oversight (Societies, SCCs, ASCs,
  TAGs)
• SCCs are sponsored by the IEEE-SA Standards Board

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Administrative Committee (AdCom)

• Comprised of Standards Board Officers and Chairs
  of each standing committee
• plus senior staff and legal counsel
• Reviews agendas and recommends operational plan
  for the Standards Board meeting

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Suppliers

• Societies TCs, SCs, etc.
• Nanotechnology Council
• Standards Coordinating Committees
• Corporate Advisory Group
• Any others recommended by the SASB and approved
  by the Board of Governors
• Report to Standards Board

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Standards Coordinating Committees (SCCs)

• In addition to Societies, many SCCs develop
  standards.
• SCCs are committees of the Standards Board.
• Address topics of interest involving
• more than one Society
• that go beyond Society scopes
• 16 active SCCs
• type 1 exchanges information, coordinates
  positions
• type 2 develops standards

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Standards Coordinating Committees

• Electrical Insulation
• Terms and Definitions
• Quantities, Units and Letter Symbols
• National Fire Protection Association Standards
• Test and Diagnosis for Electric Systems
• Fuel Cells,Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation,
  and Energy Storage
• Power Quality

• Time and Frequency
• International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety
• Automatic Meter Reading and Energy Management
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Electromagnetic Energy Product Performance Safety
• Complex Systems Definitions and Integration
• Utility Communications
• Reliability Prediction
• Voting System Engineering

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Standards Board MemberPosition Description
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SA Position Description

• Responsibilities
• Uphold and enhance the quality and integrity of
  the standards process and the resultant standards
  and documentation
• Project image and reputation of the IEEE as a
  respected world leader in development and
  dissemination of standards and technical
  documentation.
• Minimize risk from liability from misuse of
  standards process

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Basic Functions

• Establish/maintain a consensus process
• Assure
• Openness,
• Fairness,
• Balance of interests among materially affected
  parties,
• Right to appeal
• Timely dissemination of standards and technical
  information through state-of-the-art media

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Basic Functions

• Review of all new programs/standards for
  adherence to IEEE process (including fiscal and
  legal) for use in the IEEE and IEEE technical
  documents
• Approve or disapprove initiation of all new
  programs and standards projects

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Basic Functions

• Review all standards projects submitted for
  approval as to
• Consensus
• Due process
• Conformance to approved proposal
• Instructions given with project authorization

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Basic Functions

• Approve or disapprove submitted standards based
  on
• Adherence to IEEE processes and rules of
  consensus
• Need
• Effect that document may have on the public and
  the IEEE

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Specific Responsibilities

• Maintain current set of Operating Procedures and
  Bylaws
• Approve or disapprove standards programs and
  projects
• Establish appropriate committees to perform work
  of Board
• Disband committees as appropriate

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Specific Responsibilities

• Elect Vice Chair of the Board
• Hold and attend meetings to accomplish work of
  the Board
• Accept and execute assignments
• Nominate individuals to receive awards in
  recognition of exceptional service

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Accountability

• Board is accountable to the Board of Governors of
  the SA and public at large for
• Integrity of standards process
• Technical documents that result from the process

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Our Behavior

• We are all technical professionals.
• We will operate within the bounds of professional
  courtesy and consideration.
• All the sensitivity we exhibit in our day jobs
  is expected in our participation on the Standards
  Board.

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Basic Tools

• Computer
• Email address
• Access to World Wide Web

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IEEE Standards ActivitiesConducting a
Meeting(Short Highlights)
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Principles Underlying Parliamentary Law

• Justice tempered by courtesy must be afforded to
  all equally
• Balance of rights
• the majority to decide
• the minority to be heard
• absentees to be protected

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Precedence of Documents for IEEE Standards

• New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
• IEEE Statement of Incorporation
• IEEE Constitution
• IEEE Bylaws
• IEEE Policies and Procedures
• IEEE Board of Director Resolutions
• IEEE-SA Operations Manual
• IEEE-SA Board of Governors Resolutions
• IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws
• IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual
• Roberts Rules of Order (Revised)

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Rules We Will Follow

• Set and publish agenda
• Always start and end a meeting on time
• Share time of individual contributors
• Some individuals talk on everything
• Dont allow monopoly of time by some
• Keep speaker queue list
• Take breaks to gain wording consensus
• Write all motions down and display

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Questions and Answers

• Don Wright (f.wright_at_ieee.org)
• Rona Gertz (r.gertz_at_ieee.org)
• Judy Gorman (j.gorman_at_ieee.org)
• WEB Page (http//www.standards.ieee.org/)