May 2013doc.: IEEE 802.11-13/0609r0
IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs
Pointers to Press Releases in Rules
Date: 2013-05-15
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / email
Jon Rosdahl / CSR / 10871 N 5750 W
Highland, UT 84003 / 801-492-4023 /
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ANSI Essential Requirements
2.1 Openness
Timely and adequate notice of any action to create, revise, reaffirm, or
withdraw a standard, and the establishment of a new consensus body shall
be provided to all known directly and materially affected interests. Notice
should include a clear and meaningful description of the purpose of the
proposed activity and shall identify a readily available source for further
information. In addition, the name, affiliation [1] and interest category of
each member of the consensus body shall be made available to interested
parties upon request.
[1] “Affiliation” refers to the entity that the consensus body member represents (which may or
may not be that person’s employer). If the consensus body member is serving in an individual
capacity, then the name of the individual, that person’s employer, sponsor and interest
category should be available. Contact information is not required
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IEEE-SA STANDARDS BOARD OPERATIONS MANUAL
5. Standards Development
5.1 Sponsor
5.1.2 Duties of the Sponsor
5.1.2.1 Mandatory requirements
Supervision of a standards project by the Sponsor includes the following mandatory requirements:
a) Submit a properly completed Project Authorization Request (PAR) for IEEE-SA Standards Board approval within six months of the first decision to initiate the project. Forms and information may be obtained from the NesCom Administrator (see 5.2).
b) After approval of the project, work with the IEEE Standards Department Staff to give notice of the project in appropriate publications and to appropriate entities, for the purpose of soliciting an expression of interest in the work of the sponsoring committee.
c) Ensure that mandatory coordination requirements are accomplished (see 4.2.3.2 and 5.4.4).
d) Organize the technical development work on the standard.
e) Notify persons who have expressed interest in the time and the place of meetings as specified in the P & P of the Sponsor (see 5.1.1).
f) Ensure that all meetings involving standards are open to all interested parties.
g) Conduct the standards ballot in accordance with these procedures.
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IEEE 802 LMSC Policies and Procedures, v13
8.5 Standards publicity
The Sponsor is encouraged to prepare press releases and other forms of publicity to promote
their activities. Please see Clause 5.1.4 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual for
further instructions.
2.0 Sponsor Chair's Guidelines
2.1 IEEE 802 Approvals
...after the table of approval...
4. Press releases should be approved by the EC. The WG should normally approve a press release, although in some cases this cannot be done in a timely fashion. In such cases, the EC decision will prevail.
IEEE.org Standards Development Process: Initiating the Project
IEEE.org Standards Develoipment Process: How Projects are Started
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