Re: Your DASC and SA membership

From: Alec Stanculescu (alec@fintronic.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 19:24:04 PDT

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    Mac,

    Did you mean 2003 instead of 2002 and 2004 instead of 2003?

    Alec

    >
    > A Reminder to you all:
    >
    > In order to participate in the 1364 Working group, there are no
    > requirements, other than you devote your time.
    >
    > In order for your votes to be counted within the Working Group, you
    > must be a member of the DASC. Membership in the DASC is on an annual
    > basis, so if you pay now, you are good for 2002; and will need to
    > renew your membership again for 2003 in the November time frame..
    > Annual cost is $40. To become a member, one needs to fill in the
    > application form found under:
    > <http://www.dasc.org/dasc_membershp_application.html>
    >
    > In order for your vote to count on any ballot on the work of the
    > Working Group, you must either be a member of the IEEE Standards
    > association, or you can 'pay once' to vote just on a particular
    > ballot. Annual cost is to be a member is $10.
    >
    > In order to join the IEEE Standards Association, you must be an IEEE
    > member. Annual cost is around $150 depending on what other things you
    > want to get.
    >
    > The DASC and the IEEE have special rates for people in a financial
    > situation that makes it difficult for them to pay the approximately
    > $200 dues to be a part of this worth while effort.
    >
    > You can join SA and the IEEE at one time at the web page:
    > <http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=membership&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl>
    > You can also check you status to see if you are already a member at
    > that page.
    >
    > I do recognize the view one could take, that "I spend a huge amount of
    > my personal, and/or my corporate time working on this effort, for
    > which I am NOT recompensed by the IEEE, and now they add to this
    > indignity the requirement that I pay for the privilege!!!"
    >
    > Fundamentally, we need to pay to play. It does cost money to make
    > this all work. Your companies are doing business in this space and
    > should invest in its success. If your are un or underemployed, there
    > are reduced rates available.
    >
    > ------------
    >
    > You may ask, what is DASC?
    >
    > DASC is the Design Automation Standards Committee. It sponsors
    > work on DA related standards like Verilog 1364 and VHDL 1076.
    >
    > DASC is part of the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board. It
    > is governed by the IEEE Standards Association (SA). (more info under
    > http://standards.ieee.org ) It is the group that sponsers our activity
    > withing the IEEE, and helps us get PARs, and the like.
    >
    > The members of the DASC have one job: to elect the DASC Chair, who
    > runs DASC meetings.
    >
    > Decisions regarding PARs are done by a sub group of DASC members
    > called DASC-SC. This group is composed of all the Chairs of DASC
    > sponsored groups. Currently there are 16 members in that group.
    >
    > The DASC home page is at http://www.dasc.org/
    >
    > Please let me know if there are questions,
    >

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