Nominations for 2000 Annual NCITS Awards

National Committee for Information Technology Standards

NCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005
Telephone 202-737-8888; Fax 202-638-4922;
Email: NCITS@itic.org

REVISED SEPT 9

Date: September 7, 2000
Project: Administrative
Ref. Doc: IT/00-0381
Reply to: Kate McMillan
Phone: 202-626-5742
email: kmcmillan@itic.org

ACTION REQUESTED of the Awards Ad Hoc Committee -- Selection of the Recipients of the 2000 Annual NCITS Awards

NCITS will recognize the individual achievements of members of the NCITS community at the October 17, 2000 NCITS TC Officer Symposium in the Washington, DC area. Nominations have been received in all four categories. You have been asked, as the Awards Ad Hoc Committee, to select the recipients for the 2000 Awards.

Seven recipients in 1999 were technical experts from NCITS/B11, NCITS/H2, NCITS/K5, NCITS/L2 and NCITS/T13. The complete list of previous winners is on the website (http://www.ncits.org/honor.pdf).

This year, nominations have been received for officers and technical experts from NCITS/B10, NCITS/J11, NCITS/K5, NCITS/L1, NCITS/L2, NCITS/L3, NCITS/T4, NCITS/T6, NCITS/T10, NCITS/T11, NCITS/T12, and NCITS/T13. In other words, this will be a harder than in the past - we have many nominations.

NCITS Chairman's Annual Award: - This is Karen's call, so we don't have to worry about it.

This is an honorary award presented to one NCITS participant who has provided outstanding service to the NCITS organization through committee work or duties assigned by the NCITS Chair. This individual is selected by the NCITS Chair.

NCITS Merit Award:

This is an honorary award presented to no more than four participants who have demonstrated continuous support for the work of NCITS.

Criteria for nomination:
Long-standing (10+ years) member of NCITS and/or NCITS Subgroup;
demonstrated continuous support for the work of NCITS;
provided support to the Secretariat in progressing the work of NCITS;
served on at least two or more international committees.

We have three nominations in this category:
Gene Milligan.
John Rodakis
Joan Aliprand

We received a nomination for Gene Dywer that did not specify which award. It would be appropriate here.

NCITS Service Award:

This is an honorary award presented to no more than two participants who have provided outstanding service to the NCITS organization through committee work or duties.

Criteria for nomination: Provided outstanding service to the NCITS organization through committee work or duties assigned by NCITS during the past year.

We have two nominations in this category:
Barbara Hickman
Michel Suignard

We received a nomination for Gene Dywer that did not specify which award. It would also be appropriate here.

NCITS Committee Management Award:

This is an honorary award presented to no more than four NCITS members holding an officer position within an NCITS Subgroup. It recognizes individuals who, as officers, have provided outstanding leadership to the subgroup in its national and/ or international work, have demonstrated proficiency in achieving consensus in the national and/or international arenas and have followed the approved procedures in an exemplary fashion.

Criteria for nomination: Provided leadership to the subgroup in its national and/or international activities; Demonstrated skill in achieving consensus in the national and/or international arenas.

We have received six nominations in this category:

Bernie Brower
Chris Dabrowski
Craig Harmon
Richard Hogan
Gene Milligan
Pete Schirling

Technical Excellence

This is an honorary award presented to no more than four participants to recognize their technical contributions and dedication to the technical program of work. This award is presented with the concurrence of the TC officers.

Criteria for Nomination:
Minimum of 3 years of participation in a TC;
Visible contributions to the work of the TC, nationally or internationally;
Active participation on e-mail lists.

We have received seven nominations in this category:
Martin Boliek
Gene Troy (nomination, officer concurrence)
Michael Marcellin
Charles Roswell
Tom MacDonald
Dennis Warwick
Ken Whistler

We received a nomination for Gene Dywer that did not specify which award. It would also be appropriate here.

Selection Deadline:

We would like to have an opportunity one month out to persuade the winners to attend the TC Officer Symposium and the Awards Reception. Those will occur on October 17, so we'd like to have the group picked by September 15 (which coincides with the completion of the agenda for the symposium).

I'm not sure how we should go about this when there are so many nominations. We have set up a listserv for this ad hoc group (Arnold Winkler, John Neumann, Don Deutsch, Dave Michael) and I'm copying Karen on all messages. If you would like a teleconference, please use the listserv to let Monica know which dates will work. If you'd rather mark your choices and fax them in (202-638-4922) or email them back, that works, too.