Your DASC and SA membership

From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 17:35:04 PDT

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    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.

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    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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