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802.1 Closing Plenary - 07/2005 Agenda Topics Administrative stuff IEEE Patent Policy Interim meetings Motions Administrative stuff - 1 Officers Chair: Tony Jeffree Vice Chair: Paul Congdon Recording Secretary: Michael Wright Interworking/Link Sec TG Chair: Mick Seaman Link Sec TG Secretary: Allyn Romanow Maintenance of website: John Messenger Maintenance of Email exploder: Hal Keen Website /1/ Username: p8021 Password: go_wildcats Administrative stuff - 2 Voting membership Current 802.1 membership rules (802 rules currently being revamped): N.B. terminology: A session is (the whole of) an Interim or Plenary during which 802.1 meets. A meeting is a subset of a session; I.e., a contiguous time period during the session when the WG meets. Generally meetings are ? day in duration or less. To gain membership: Attend 2 plenaries in the span of the four most recent plenaries (one interim can be substituted) and inform the Chair of your intention to become a voter. Membership is then gained at the start of the next plenary attended To maintain membership: Attend 2 out of the last 4 plenaries one interim can be substituted) , and respond to 2 out of 3 most recent WG/TG ballots Attendance is as per signup sheet – must be 75% of meetings during a session in order to count. Signing the signup sheet for a meeting declares that you have (or will have) attended during the majority of the allotted time for that meeting. Hence, at sessions where more than one WG meets, signing up at two parallel meetings is not valid. Voting rights are properly regarded as an obligation, not a privilege! Administrative stuff - 3 May have to generate “policies procedures” for 802.1 We don’t have any formal PP right now 802’s PP require us to have a defined procedure for electing 802.1’s Chair Vice Chair Not clear that we need anything else but I will check. No treasury Patents - Instructions for the WG Chair At Each Meeting, the Working Group Chair shall: Show slides #1 and #2 of this present