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IEEE P1722 Working Group Operating Procedures 1. Preface In today’s technological environment, standards play a critical role in product development and market competitiveness. Responsibility for how a standard evolves begins in the working group. Every input, behavior, and action has both a contributory and a potential legal consequence. These procedures help protect working group participants and the IEEE by establishing the necessary framework for a sound standardization process. 2. Modifications to these procedures These operating procedures outline the orderly transaction of business by the working group. The working group may amend these procedures with the approval of its Sponsor. The Sponsor may modify these procedures. Modification in this context means that material in these procedures may be modified as long as that clause is not indicated as one that cannot be changed. It is strongly recommended that all subjects included in these procedures be addressed by the working group or Sponsor. (See also clause 9.) 3. Hierarchy The latest version of several documents takes precedence over these procedures in the following order: New York State Not-For-Profit Corporation Law IEEE Certificate of Incorporation IEEE Constitution IEEE Bylaws IEEE Policies IEEE Board of Directors Resolutions IEEE Standards Association Operations Manual IEEE-SA Board of Governors Resolutions IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual IEEE-SA Standards Board Resolutions Policies/Procedures of the IEEE Computer Society Policies/Procedures of the Microprocessor Standards Committee Robert’s Rules of Order (Revised) is the recommended guide on questions of parliamentary procedure not addressed in these procedures. 4. Fundamental Principles of Operation For the development of standards, openness and due process are mandatory. Openness means that any person who has, or could be reasonably expected to have, a direct and material interest, and who