IEEE-SA membership

The IEEE Standards Association, IEEE-SA, rigidly controls the procedures and processes of standards maintenance and creation through a series of standing committees and mandatory Web-based facilities. Part of this approach is to ensure compliance with the American National Standards Institute, ANSI, document ANSI Essential Requirements: Due process requirements for American National Standards. SPDC Officers and those paticipants wishing to vote in document ballots must understand the IEEE-SA operating procedures. IEEE-SA (Individual) membership is not required for participation in the standards development process, but membership is required to ballot on standards and assume leadership roles in standards working groups. The IEEE-SA lists membership benefits as:

• Engage in an unlimited number of Individual Projects
• Ballot on unlimited number of Individual Projects
• Initiate new Individual Projects
• Assume leadership positions on working groups
• Participate in IEEE-SA Board of Governors & Elections
• Monthly IEEE-SA News Newsletter
• Discount on the purchase of IEEE standards