> My thanks to both Paul Menchini and Victor Berman for sending
> updated information.
You're welcome.
> One update note: my new e-mail address is cliffc@sunburst-design.com
> (my old address will quit working any day now).
I just replied, so perhaps your "Sender" or "Reply-To" address needs
updating....
> Both gents have indicated that DASC membership also covers SA
> membership (which is good).
>
> I still wonder why DASC membership is required. Seems like the IEEE
> should not discourage, nor penalize working group volunteers for
> making a better Verilog specification by exacting additional fees
> from the volunteers. Again, we are investing significant personal
> and/or company time and money to create a quality document that will
> be turned over to the IEEE to be copyrighted and sold. Why penalize
> the volunteers who are working on the standard? Why not add $1-$5 to
> the price of the IEEE salable standard to cover DASC and SA
> sponsorship? (A sponsors tax!)
We've been around this many times in the DASC. The fact is, IEEE
Standards has to pay their own way with the IEEE, and so IEEE
Standards provides no monetary support to the standards making bodies
like the DASC and it's Working and Study Groups. We do need a budget
for our face-to-face meetings, etc. We cannot get this money from
IEEE Standards. So, we ask that people who are active in
standardization pay their own way. As an alternative, we could
solicit coporate sponsorship, but this approach has pitfalls of its
own.
Bottom line, most peoples' companies pay the DASC membership fee. As
one who until recently was my own company, I'm sympathetic to your
issues, but it's not going to change anytime soon. While I encourage
you to work to make this change, in the meantime, we want to keep
making standards, so this is the approach we've taken.
If you need the names of people at IEEE Standards to talk to, I'm sure
that either Vipctor or I will be more than happy to provide you with
the appropriate contact info.
Regards,
Paul
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