Membership is open by application. Contribution does not require membership, and the working groups are open to anyone willing to do the work.
Most of the committee's work is done by people who are not members. The tracks below differ in what they commit you to, not in how seriously the work is taken.
Full participation in one or more workstreams, a vote on committee findings, and the standing to publish dissent when you disagree with one. Members serve as individuals rather than as representatives of an employer.
Work on a specific output without joining the committee. Most of what the committee produces is built this way: a measurement method needs people who have actually metered a facility, and a deployment standard needs people who have shipped one.
Read drafts before publication and say where they are wrong. This is the least glamorous track and probably the most useful one, since the committee's credibility rests on its outputs surviving people who were not involved in writing them.
Tell us which workstream interests you and what you would bring to it. Two or three paragraphs is plenty. A link to something you have made or written is worth more than a description of your role.
A call, usually forty minutes, with one committee member and one person from the relevant workstream. It is a conversation about the work rather than an interview about you.
Members declare commercial interests in anything the committee examines. Declarations are published. A declared interest is not a problem; an undeclared one ends the membership.
Everyone starts on something concrete rather than on a general appointment. It is the fastest way for both sides to find out whether the fit is real.
