BBF welcomes all Principal and Associate Members to participate in BBF meetings. Check your company's membership level here.
Please note the following items and guidance:
Meeting etiquette:
- Please be on time or early. If you are going to be late, please let the Work Area Director know.
- Please introduce yourself by renaming yourself in Zoom with your full name and company, or verbally stating such at in-person meeting sessions.
- If you are on Zoom, mute your microphone if you are not speaking.
- Do not take the floor until you are recognized by the meeting leader (Chair/WA Dir/PS Lead/Editor).
- Address your comments to the group, not one-to-one with other individuals
- Speak loudly and clearly into your microphone if you are on Zoom, or use the in-room microphone at in-person meeting sessions.
- Be respectful and professional.
- Do not interrupt or talk over those who have the floor, and do not engage in side discussions at in-person meeting sessions.
- Always yield the floor to the Chair when requested.
Policies and procedures:
- The Broadband Forum Work Areas, inclusive of Project Streams, will seek to reach a consensus on the issues under review. The Chair (Work Area Director or Project Stream Leader) may conduct an informal show of hands to help determine consensus.
- See Section 11: Work Area/Committee Escalation Procedure of the Broadband Forum's Policies and Procedures document for more information about how non-consensus is handled.
"consensus" per the P&P is rough consensus and is as much based on qualitative argument as it is quantitative support or objection- The Chair (Work Area Director or Project Stream Leader) of any meeting session is the only individual who has the authority to declare or make statements or declarations in the meetings regarding the group's level of consensus.