> I just received an invitation to ballot on the SDF
> standard. Included was an important notice that states that
> "Effective June 1, 1998, you must be an active member of the IEEE
> Standards Association (IEEE-SA) in order to participate as a voter
> in any new ballots."
>
> I find this to be offensive and was wondering if anyone else had a
> problem with this requirement? I am an IEEE member (since the mid
> 1980's) and have spent $1,000's of dollars (mostly travel and phone
> costs) and 100's of hours over the past two years working on both
> the 1999 Verilog LRM and the Verilog Synthesis Interoperability
> Specification. I believe in addition to the IEEE-SA requirement, we
> have also been asked to join DASC for about $50/year.
>
> I suppose that $100 for IEEE-SA membership, $50 for IEEE-DASC
> membership and $100 for IEEE membership are a small percentage of
> the cost of participation to improve Verilog standards, but this
> feels like asking blood donors to pay for the privilege of giving
> blood. I believe the IEEE is placing too many taxes upon the working
> standards group members and these fees certainly discourage the
> all-important user participation on these committees.
>
> Am I the only standards group participant that is offended by these
> fees? Does anybody know of a formal mechanism to complain about
> these fees to the IEEE?
If you are a member of the DASC (and you should be), then your IEEE-SA
membership is already taken care of.
Paul
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