I wrote the bit in italics. I suppose it's even more difficult to get
a hearing if you are not a member of the committee, however respected
you are. If I want to contribute to a committee that i am not a member
of, I try to get a member of the committee to adopt it. If I can't, it
probably wouldn't be accepted anyway. You can also try writing privately
to the chair.
With so many members, it's really impossible to have technical
discussions; even a 12 member group has difficulty. Five members, OK,
you can be technical. A very large group has to be run rigidly,
otherwise it would never hope to finish its agenda.
John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only
J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk
Rayleigh, Essex UK
On 2018-05-04 21:35, Richard Nute wrote:
/In general, you are right, but IEC TC108 and its Hazard-Based
Standard Development Team, responsible for IEC 62368-1 is a special
case. It has 122 members at present, so it's quite difficult to get a
hearing in meetings; if every member had 5 minutes, the meeting would
last nearly 11 hours, and even over two days, that's exhausting. It is
much better to contribute by correspondence (email)./
I’ve had no success at contributing by e-mail. If you are not at the
meeting to defend your view, your proposal is given very little time
at the meeting and has a very good chance of being rejected or
ignored. (And, you get no feedback on your comment or proposal until
the minutes are published; even then, you only get that it was
accepted or not.)
At TC108/HBSDT meetings, only comments from national committees are
considered. Usually, only members of the national committee can
present their proposal. Occasionally, a proposal from a committee
member or other source may be discussed if the TC108 leadership
considers the proposal to be germane.
On the other hand, the TC108 leadership goes through each of the
comments and proposals and suggests acceptance or not, and suggests
which of the comments are worth discussion at the full committee level.
Most members are simply listening and learning and voting, not
contributing. Only a handful of members contribute to the
discussions. While there are lots of folks in the room, the meeting
proceeds according to the agenda and in the planned time.
Rich
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