Technology Group Voting Procedures

Posted on March 1, 2012 in ATSC News

A big thank you goes to the hundreds of volunteers who contribute their time and talents to the ATSC’s standards work.  Intensive activity is under way in the Technology Group 1 (TG1), working on ATSC 2.0, and things are now starting to heat up for Technology Group 3 (TG3), working on the long-range initiative known as  ATSC 3.0.

In response to questions from ATSC members about voting eligibility in TG1 and TG3, here’s a reminder about the basic procedures:

• There are two levels of formal voting in ATSC: Technology Groups and the full ATSC membership.
• All ATSC member organizations (except observers) are eligible to vote in membership-level ballots.
• In order to vote on ballots at the TG1 or TG3 level, one or more representatives from the member organization needs to join the Technology Group on Kavi. (Please note there is only one vote per organization).
• In order to have voting eligibility, the organization must have at least one representative attend a certain minimum number of Technology Group meetings. Specifically, 2 of the past 3 meetings or – all of the meetings within the past 120 days. (Please note that observers do not vote.)
• Attending specialist group meetings does not count toward voting eligibility at TG1 or TG3.

The voting integrity of our organization is a key element of our open standards process. If you have any questions, feel free to contact ATSC’s VP of Standards Development, Jerry Whitaker,jwhitaker@atsc.org.

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