Subject: Voting Guidelines
From: Yatin Trivedi (trivedi@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 14:19:13 PDT
Hi all,
As chair and co-chair of SV-CC we would like to explain what
it means to vote on and accept the donation.
When Accellera set out to enhance Verilog, and later System Verilog,
the board and TCC invited technical donations from Accellera members
(and industry at large). These donations were technical proposals in
the form of documents that described either actual implementation or
work in progress as it would relate to Verilog or System Verilog.
The acceptance of donation implies that there is enough knowledge by
committee members to take the donation and use it as a basis for the
work of the committee. This is intended as a jump start to establish
the direction of the effort for the committee. The acceptance of the
donation would allow the committee to evaluate each item in the
document for further analysis in the context of the requirements.
The committee can debate and agree to change, add, or delete certain
items in the document to suit the requirements.
The voting policy, as established by Accellera board, is modified a
little to allow larger participation in the voting process. Here
are the rules:
* Only Accellera member companies may vote. An exception is provided
for those individuals/companies who were part of System Verilog 3.0
effort and had voting rights. This exception is still subject to
meeting other requirements.
* Vote on technical issues will be a simple majority of all
attendees (not limited to one per company)
* All procedural and final (accept donation, LRM) approvals (other
items at the chair's discretion) will follow the one vote per
company rule. Each company has a designate (with proxy support).
IEEE members, who are not an Accellera member or commercial
affiliation will have an indivdual vote as well.
* Accellera guideline is to allow anyone (subject to membership
requirement) with 75% attendance in all meetings or 3 out of
last 4 meetings to vote. For the purpose of this particular vote,
TCC chair has agreed that we can allow larger voting particiaption
by anyone (subject to membership requirement) who has attended
50% of all meetings or 2 of the last 4 meetings.
Note: We will send a note directly to those who are eligible to vote.
If you have questions or comments, please send an email directly
to Ghassan and Yatin. Let's not discuss the voting policy on the
reflector for the sake of keeping it focused on technical topics.
Regards
Yatin
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