For the DVD-Forum Principal member, who signs the WG NDA as well as Undertakings and applies for WG(s):

1. For all the members who satisfy the above condition:

• ID and Password for ’ WG members only area’ in DVD-Forum Web-site will be provided from the secretariat of each WG for which the member applied.

• If the member is absent from the WG/TG meetings two times successively without any notice of his/her absence to the meeting or participation through e-mail, he/she loses his/her voting right in the WG/TG. However, if he/she attends the WG/TG meetings two times successively another time, he/she can recover his/her voting right at the second participation in the meeting.
• At the first meeting for a new member, he/she doesn’t have a voting right because he/she has not joined the discussion before. He/She might be a regular attendant at the 2nd meeting.
• Chairman or the secretariat of each WG/TG should send a table, showing which member has a voting right, to the WG/TG members after the meeting with the minutes. (Refer to the attached table sample.)

3. For the never participating members:

• If the member does not attend the WG/TG meetings two times successively since the first meeting after his/her registration, and has not given notice of his/her absence to the meetings or participated through e-mail, the secretariat of the WG/TG can send a letter at a WG/TG chairman’s request to confirm whether he/she will really maintain the WG/TG membership or not. The secretariat can notify him/her to stop sending the meeting notice if the response does not return by the due date of no less than one month from sending the notice. That is, non- participating member can not be treated as the WG member. However, WG/TG membership can be recovered by the request of applicant.
• Basically non-participating member can not be listed as the WG members on the last page of the DVD-Book which might be created in the WG.

4. For the WG Participants:

• When draft of the DVD-Book created in the WG is distributed to the WG members for evaluation and confirmation purposes, the following information shall be informed to the WG members by the WG Chair.
• Confidentiality obligation of all the WG participants for DVD draft specifications is perpetual. Especially for those who are not DVD Book subscribers, it is noted that the confidentiality obligation is perpetual as the same as for the DVD-Book subscribers. Those who can not accept perpetual confidentiality obligation, can chose not to receive DVD draft specifications.

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