TOn Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:46 AM Eric Burger <eburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > IEEE: $3,500 (corporate membership; individuals are <$100 but don’t get to be on the BoG) The level you are talking about does not make standards. IEEE Standards Association Standards Projects can have voting either by individual or organization and are numbered, including the possibility of sub-numbering. So, for example, to take a project with which I have some familiarity, there is IEEE 802. It has Working Groups like 802.1 and 802.11, both of which I have, at times, been a voting member. All 802 WGs use individual membership and, I believe, have roughly the same voting membership qualification which involves attending a couple of meetings within a time period of 1 1/3 years. And "attending" is not loosey-goosey, like with the IETF. At least for 802.11, which meets for a week 6 times a year, you have to be at a session for 75% of the session time slots during the week. You can't just drop by for a day or the like. See http://www.ieee802.org/11/abt80211.html#membership And, little of the work is done on mailing list. More is done on teleconferences, depending on how busy a project is, but a lot of the work is done face-to-face at the 6 week long meetings per year so you have to at least attend most of them to be effective and most active participants attend virtually all of them. So I'm not sure what relevance the cost of corporate membership in IEEE is. > > ... >
