If you're an IEEE standards developer, contact your staff liaison for guidance on using the form. The form is available in both paper format and online . The SPAsystem provides email addresses to those participants who do not have one but who have access. For those who do not, messages can be sent via fax or regular mail. The size of the file will determine if the information will be sent via electronic fax or printed for postal delivery.
Current thoughts are to limit the size of electronic faxes to five pages.
The Standards Department will provide authors with stylesheets that allow writers to create SGML-tagged databases of information using current software. Some people have asked about the SPAsystem support for online balloting. Current balloting is supported by optical scanning. With the advent of multilevel security and electronic signatures, the SPAsystem will be able to automate many aspects of the balloting activity. Trial services are under evaluation.