2001.6.28

Aeticle 1. Name

This consortium shall be called "SpecC Technology Open Consortium. (STOC)"
"SpecC" shall not be used alone; it shall be used together with other words, like "SpecC language" and "SpecC technology."

Article 2. Objectives

The objectives of STOC shall be the establishment of specification design methods for embedded systems, standardization of specification design languages and specification description data format based on them, and their dissemination including education. The investigation of specification design languages shall be started based on SpecC language that had been developed at University of California Irvine.

Article 3. Scope of Activities

STOC shall perform the activities set forth in the following Sections in order to achieve the Objectives:

(1) To define and propose system design methods for embedded systems,

(2) To define guide lines to develop embedded system design environments, to define specification design languages for embedded systems, and to disclose them to the public,

(3) To define data format specification to connect tools those utilize specification design languages in the above item one another, and to disclose them to the public,

(4) To promote activities like holding seminars and publishing books to disseminate technologies around embedded system design methods and specification design languages, and

(5) To conduct any other activities necessary to achieve the STOC objectives.

Article 4. Members, Admission and Withdrawal

4.1 Joining and Withdraw
Any people and organizations those wish to join STOC shall be allowed to be a member of STOC, provided that it is assumed that they can perform activities of STOC, and that POC defined in Article 7.1 accepts their application forms defined in the other place. Members who intend to withdraw from STOC shall submit written notices of withdrawal to the chairperson of STOC that is defined in Article 7.1 at least 60 days before their actual withdrawal.

4.2 Expulsion
STOC can expunge a member provided that the member does not comply with STOC rules, brings disgrace on STOC, or performs activities those contradict to STOC objectives, through the resolution of POC.

4.3 Members
A member of STOC shall be an individual or a group of individuals, and in case of it is a group of individuals, it can be any unit of an existing organization. The maximum number of members, which have voting rights and are involved in the same existing organization, shall be five. An individual and a group of individuals that have voting rights shall not be involved in more than one STOC member. (Jan.30, 2001, modified Jun.28, 2001)

Article 5. Rights and Obligations of members

STOC has three kinds of memberships, regular members, academic members and individual members. Members shall comply with the rules set forth herein. (modified Jun.28, 2001)

5.1 Membership Dues
Regular members shall pay annual membership dues as the funds to operate STOC. The annual membership dues amount is decided by POC in accordance with STOC operation cost.
Universities and national and public research institutes can become academic members, and academic members and individual members shall not be obliged to pay the membership dues defined in the preceding paragraph. Any person can become an individual member through the defined procedure. (modified Jun.28, 2001)

5.2 Activity Proposal
Members can suggest the POC any ideas about STOC activities.

5.3 Information Acquisition
Members can get any information generated in STOC. The cost for acquiring the information shall be paid by information acquiring members themselves.

5.4 Transfer of Membership
Members shall not give their STOC membership to others.

Article 6. No Restrictions on Other Activities

The rules set forth herein shall not restrict any activities of members outside STOC.

Article 7. Organization

7.1 POC and Secretary
STOC has a chairperson who is the representative of STOC, vice chairpersons who assist the chairperson, auditors who audit the activities of STOC, and the secretary, which is responsible to operate general and accounting affairs. POC (Planning and Operation Committee) that consists of the chairperson, vise chairpersons, auditors, leaders and sub-leaders of WGs, which is defined in Article 7.3, and other members who are appointed by POC and approved by the general meeting, is responsible to decide and manage activities of STOC. The leader and sub-leaders of POC are chairperson and vise chairpersons of STOC respectively. (modified Jun.28, 2001)

7.2 Appointment of the Chairperson, Vise Chairpersons and Auditors
Members of POC shall be appointed by the recommendation of POC and the approval of the general meeting. The chairperson, vise chairpersons and auditors' term of office is two years, but reappointment shall not be inhibited.

IInitially the chairperson is Kiichiro Tamaru (Toshiba), vice-chairpersons are Yukio Kunimine (GAIO Technology) and Joji Murakami (Fujitsu), and auditors are Masaaki Amemiya (Elmic Systems) and Takashi Kawahara (Advanced Date Controls).

7.3 Obligations of POC
(1) POC shall hold the general meeting once per every year. POC can hold extraordinary general meetings provided that POC considers they are necessary.

(2) POC shall perform the following things in the general meetings.
- To deliberate and to resolve issues about STOC standard specifications and the revision of the rules of STOC and relevant formats.
- To approve the appointment of the chairperson, the vise chairperson the auditor and other members of POC, establishment and abolition of WGs, appointment of leaders and sub-leaders of WGs, STOC activity schedules, materials and information to be disclosed to the public, STOC activity reports, and accounting reports.
- To report alternations of secretary members, and changes of members.

(3) POC can establish and abolish a Working Group (WG) and appoint the leader and the sub-leader of it, in order to examine and solve problems concerning technology, management, advertisement, liaisons and etc. The (leader of the) WG shall develop plans and execute them to examine and solve problems, and report the activity status to POC.

7.4 General Meeting
General meetings shall be attended by persons or proxies of regular, academic and individual members in order to decide, deliberate and approve issues concerning STOC operations and activities. More than one person per a member can attend the general meeting in case of regular and academic members. (modified Jun.28, 2001)

(1) Each regular member shall have one voting right.
(2) Resolution of the STOC members shall be passed based on a majority vote by the attending members of general meetings, or the more than half of valid e-mails, which express agree and retuned to POC within three weeks after the POC's delivery of the e-mail initiating the voting process. (Jan. 30, 2001)

Article 8. Expense

The cost necessary to attend seminars events and etc., publishing materials, and etc., shall be paid by individual members. Annual membership fees and surplus of event participation fees and etc. are assigned to the operation of STOC secretary.

Bylaws

1. Travel Cost Support
STOC can provide academic members and individual members with their traveling cost in order to support their attendance to technical meetings in STOC (e.g., WG meetings). The upper limit of the amount is 50,000JPY per one attendance for each person. (Jan. 30, 2001, modified Jun.,28, 2001)