I sent this to some of you already.  There was a call for agenda items for
the RAB meeting during the upcoming Board series.  This is my suggested
contribution, if Excom concurs.

One of the initiatives I would like to pursue is the restoration of the
IEEE Membership Directory, to be accessible to members in some form
(perhaps Web-based).  Both Eric Herz and Bob Duggan have mentioned the need
for this, and people looking for fellow references for new nominations are
jumping through hoops to get the information, since the last directory was
printed in 2002.  The end of the directory was apparently the result of
privacy concerns by IEEE staff.

I talked to Cleon Anderson (he was returning from Mexico with his son) in
the Atlanta airport following our October Reg. 3 meeting, and mentioned the
problem to him.  He saw it as a solvable problem - access granted with
member ID and password.  With SAMIEEE on the Web (but never on Mondays)
this may be a subset problem, but SAMIEEE lacks the bios of all fellows
that was a feature of the Directory.

I would like to see this as an agenda item for discussion at RAB in
SF.  It's not reasonable that staff should make a decision (no membership
directory) unilaterally that adversely affects so many dedicated volunteers.

George F McClure
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