Participation and Voting Rights

Member participation and voting status are tracked in the table below. Group members wishing to vote should enter their Name, Affiliation, and desired Role.

New Groups: No additional actions are required for initial participation and voting setup.
Existing Groups: If the table already has meeting columns, join the next meeting, introduce yourself to the chair/vice-chair, and express your intent to vote.

For each meeting, the group will add a column to record participation, titled with the meeting date (e.g., “Meeting Feb 29, 2024”), and update Voting Status afterward. Additional field and policy details are below the table.

This table should not include email addresses as it will be publicly viewable.

In the table below, indicates that RISC-V International staff have confirmed the individual's membership with a valid entry at lists.riscv.org.

The indicates that the individual was not identified and must contact help@riscv.org to verify and confirm RISC-V membership.

	Name	Affiliation (Company, Organization, or “Individual”)	Role (“Participant”, “Observer”)¹	Voting Status (“Voting”, “Probation”, Blank)²	HC Meeting attendance. Official meetings in Bold
Validated by RVI	Name	Affiliation (Company, Organization, or “Individual”)	Role (“Participant”, “Observer”)¹	Voting Status (“Voting”, “Probation”, Blank)²	2025 02/04	2025 02/18	2025 03/04 (skip)
	Alex Richardson	Google	Participant	Voting	✓	✓
	Marno van der Maas	lowRISC	Participant	Voting	?
	Andres Amaya Garcia	Google	Observer			✓
	Murali Vijayaraghavan	Google	Participant		✓	✓
	Tariq Kurd	Codasip	Participant	Voting	✓	✓
	Fabrice Marinet	Qualcomm	Observer
	Brooks Davis	SRI	Observer			✓
	Prashanth Mundkur	RISC-V International	Observer
	Joe Xie	NVIDIA	Observer		✓
	Ben Laurie	Google	Participant		✓
	Franz Fuchs	University of Cambridge	Participant		✓	✓
	Jessica Clarke	University of Cambridge	Participant	Voting	✓
	Ravi Sahita	Rivos Inc.	Observer
	Radim Krcmar	Ventana Micro Systems	Observer			✓

The voting policy is defined in the RISC-V Policies Procedures document.

Participant

Active contributor and voting member of the workgroup.
Voting status is tracked in the Voting Status column, and criteria for maintaining voting status are outlined below.
Obligations include attending meetings and voting on all Technical Committee questions, work item proposals, and drafts.

Notes:

Single Voter Rule: Each entity (company/organization) can have only one voting member. Participants from the same entity should decide who will hold voting status.
Individual Members: Individual participants can vote and represent themselves. However, if they work for a RISC-V member organization, they are treated as part of that entity.

Observer

Non-voting participant.
Registration is optional but ensures access to documents, meeting attendance, and the ability to submit comments.

Voting: Member is in good standing and eligible to vote.
Probation: Member cannot vote due to one of the following:

Initial criteria for voting not yet met.
Lost voting rights and not yet reinstated.
None/Blank: Member is either an Observer or a Participant but not the designated voter for their entity.

Voting rights may be removed per Section 2B, item #4 of the policy for:

Inactivity: Missing 2 out of 3 consecutive meetings (in-person, virtual, or correspondence). Attending any meeting in a multi-meeting week counts for the entire week.
Failure to Vote: Not voting on any Proposal, Stable, or Freeze Milestone ballots.

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