LMSC Policy and Procedures Update

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LMSC Policy and Procedures Update

• Author

Matthew Sherman 1st Vice Chair, IEEE 802 BAE
Systems - CINR Matthew.Sherman_at_BAESystems.com
Date July 18th, 2005
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What are the LMSC PP?

• PP is short hand for Policies and Procedures
• LMSC PP are the rules that govern the IEEE
  802 LMSC
• LMSC PP can be found at
• http//grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/policies-and-pr
  ocedures.pdf
• Working groups also have PP
• Other Governance documents from
• IEEE Standards Association
• IEEE Computer Society

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Status on PP Restructuring
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Rationale for Restructuring PP

• Current PP has been patched for 20 years
• Inconsistencies have crept in
• PP viewed as Broken by many Executive
  Committee (EC) members
• Identified as single most critical issue during
  802 restructuring discussions
• Unable to keep up with number of revisions
  required
• Was doing 3 revisions per plenary cycle
• Did not keep up with revisions required
• SA Rules have changed over time
• Need through review to check compliance
• CS SAB recently completed complete rewrite of
  their rules
• Requirements impact our rules
• AUDCOM has model Sponsor PP and now reviews our
  PP
• Complying with AUDCOM model should ease approval
  our our PP

• Restructuring of Rules required to accommodate
  these issues

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Restructuring Process

• Reformat to match Sponsor Model (1 Cycle)
• Editorial in Nature
• Modify for conformance (1 Cycle)
• Identify where requirements of SA and CS SAB not
  met
• Introduce changes to bring into conformance
• Streamline (12 Cycles)
• Implement Less is More
• Fix any deficiencies specific to 802
• Reduce backlog of PP revisions
• Entire process to take roughly 16 months
• Extend 4 months for streamlining

YOU ARE HERE IN 2ND CYCLE
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Current LMSC PP Revision Ballots

• PP are updated via EC letter ballots and votes
• Process defined in the LMSC PP
• Can be monitored via EC Email Archieve
• http//grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/secmail/mail1.h
  tml
• In Process streamlining ballots (Vote for
  balloting Friday)
• WG Membership Meetings (Matthew Sherman)
• LMSC Procedures Process (Matthew Sherman)
• LMSC Organization (Matthew Sherman)
• Miscellaneous (Matthew Sherman)
• Other Ballots
• Procedure for PARs (Tony Jeffree)

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All PP Revs Must be Approved by Vote of EC

• Current Revisions will all be voted at Closing EC
  meeting Friday 7/22/05
• Open to IEEE 802 Attendees

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Next Steps

• Continued restructuring at a slower pace
• WG Model PP
• Improvements
• Task Group membership?
• Ability to opt out of ballots not of direct
  interest
• Others?
• As brought forward by EC members or WG

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Questions?

• Contact Matthew Sherman
• matthew.sherman_at_baesystems.com