A process by which proposed standards are voted upon for technical reliability and soundness. The IEEE has two types of standards balloting. The first is the traditional balloting process by individuals only. The second allows a ballot group made up of non-individuals only (non-individuals can be entities like corporations, organizations, etc.). In both types of balloting groups, each entity (individual or not) has one vote.
The IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group is an arm of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors. Comprised of corporate member representatives, this group provides a forum in order to interact with other members for their feedback, guidance, and advance new proposals for standards work. In addition to the IEEE Societies who serve as the traditional sponsors of standards, the CAG also sponsors standards projects, offering an alternate route into the IEEE-SA, especially for new and emerging technologies that may not fall within the traditional scope of the IEEE’s over 37 technical societies.
A direct hyperlink from the IEEE site to your corporate website: http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corpmemlist.html
As a Corporate Member, you get a number of free (complimentary) individual SA-only memberships for your employed staff that are not existing IEEE or IEEE-SA Members. These memberships grant the same privileges as IEEE-SA individual members, and they stay with your company, so if an employee you select to be a complimentary individual member leaves your company, his/her membership does not travel with them. You can select another employee to fill the position — maintaining continuity and stability for your standards activities.
| Complimentary Individual Memberships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Dues Level | $1,000 | $3,000 | $5,000 |
| Number of Free Individual Memberships | 2 | 6 | 10 |
Developing IEEE standards as an individual can be a great way to network with industry peers and broaden your understanding of your industry and technology, and facilitating early compliance and anticipating market requirements.
You can approach your participation in IEEE standards development via several pathways, depending on your individual and professional standpoint. You can start a new standard, join a working group in progress, ballot on the technical integrity of a newly developed standard draft, become a member of IEEE-SA as a committed supporter of our open process, and you can participate in governance via the IEEE-SA Standards Board or the IEEE-SA Board of Governors to ensure the standards process has been followed and to help set the strategic direction of the IEEE-SA.
Each IEEE standard follows a set path from concept to completion, which adheres to the principles of due process, openness and consensus. These principles allow for equity and fair play so no one interest category dominates the process, and any organization or person with a desire to participate in a proposed standard can do so. For details on the process and pathways to IEEE Standards Development, go to http://standards.ieee.org/stdsdev/getinvolved.html or http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/bkgnd_stdsprocess.html
The IEEE now allows for standards to be developed using corporate (entity) participation, as another option from the usual individual participation for other IEEE standards. This expands the variety of standards development methodologies within the IEEE.
Entities are participants such as academic institutions, corporations, government bodies, partnerships, consortia, standards-development organizations, etc.
Voting in IEEE corporate standards projects is by a "one-company, one-vote" principle. That is different from the individual method of participation, which allows multiple participants from one company or organization to join a balloting group or working group. This difference can result in a more uniform playing field among the standards participants.
The IEEE-SA Corporate Program is a support program for corporate participation in IEEE standards activities. This includes entity standardization at the IEEE, membership in the IEEE-SA, and access to global standards opportunities through IEEE-SA activities. For details on the IEEE-SA Corporate Program, go to http://standards.ieee.org/corpforum/index.html
IEEE-SA Members save 10% on non-IEEE standards from API, CSA, ISO, IEC, NEMA, NFPA, UL and more. Techstreet provides full-text industry codes and standards from more than 350 standards developing organizations worldwide, plus 250,000 technical books and other technical documents. Order standards in single print or download in PDF format. www.techstreet.com.
As an IEEE-SA
Member, you have the opportunity to ballot on an unlimited number of developing
standards. If you prefer not to join the IEEE-SA standards development community,
then you pay a per-ballot fee for each draft that you wish to ballot on.The non-member
per-ballot fees are as follows:
Individual - $275
Corporations with less
than US $1 million in annual revenue - $1200
Corporations with between US
$1 million and $1 billion in annual revenue - $3600
Corporations with over
US $1 billion in annual revenue - $6000
Academic Institutions - $1200
Government entities - $6000
Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) - $1200
Trade Organizations - $1200
Decide the governance of the IEEE-SA at the Board of Governors members-at-large level. Voting privileges give you the opportunity to guide the IEEE-SA in its strategic direction. IEEE-SA Individual members who also are voting members of the IEEE may vote for the IEEE-SA President, the IEEE-SA President-Elect and for the eight IEEE-SA Board of Governors Members-at-Large. IEEE-SA Individual members who are not voting members of the IEEE may vote for the eight IEEE-SA Board of Governors Members-at-Large. IEEE-SA Corporate members may vote for the eight IEEE-SA Board of Governors Members-at-Large.
Copyright
©2008
Contact
IEEE-SA ( ieee-sa-exec@ieee.org)
URL: http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/glossary.html