期刊名称：Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
出版年度：2012
卷号：35
期号：3
出版社：IEEE Computer Society
摘要：I wrote in the last issue about a proposal that TC Chairs had heard from the Computer Society about enablingTC's to maintain a fund balance, and I indicated that we did not have specifics then. The specifics have nowbeen announced, and I do not believe that the current proposal changes very much. The critical point is that thisis an extremely limited proposal. Here is the wording: "TCs will have the ability to reinvest surplus allocationfor one additional year in order to fund new initiatives and expanded activities".My reply via email was the following: "So- we have two years to consume our allocation. This is truly avery very modest change- and not conducive to long range planning for activities that require some sustainedcontrol over budgets. I doubt that this will change behavior of conference planners- who will continue to try tojust break even."
