(j3.2006) [Fwd: For Distribution to INCITS TC and TG Members: 2008 Fees for Participation on INCITS Technical Committees and Task Groups]

[Bill Long]

OK, so that is an extreme case.  But there are some more practical 
considerations.   For example, there are some people who regularly 
attend as alternates.  One could imagine all of them becoming alternates 
of the Chair (I assume the Chair has to be a primary member), and we 
would not have to worry about who xxx could be an an alternate for. 
That's a potential benefit.  The "members" mail list is open to all the 
primary and alternate members.  So, could a vendor, for example, appoint 
all the people in his compiler group to be alternates and have them 
added to the members-only mail list?    Maybe that does not matter since 
we conduct most communications on the open list anyway.  One could 
imagine many former members becoming new alternates - sometimes that 
could be fine (Richard Maine, for example),  but another case might be 
less helpful.  Can the committee vote to reject an alternate 
designation?  There seem to be a lot of questions that arise if there 
are no limits on alternates.

The TC versus TG question is a potentially more important for some of 
the members.  If we are a TG then belonging to both the Fortran and C 
committees costs a total of $1600 - same as this year.  If we are a TC, 
the total will be $2400 - same as belonging to Fortran, C, and C++ this 
year.  There might be temptation to drop one.

Cheers,
Bill


Van Snyder wrote:

>On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 15:38 -0500, Bill Long wrote:
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>>If there is no limit on the number of alternates, what is to prevent a
>>one-member group with everyone else being alternates?
>>    
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>
>All of our votes would have to be straw votes, and then recorded as
>either 1-0 or 0-1.
>
>  
>

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