ieee has lost any semblance of trustworthiness.
At that point I thought IEEE was a mostly money-grabbing organization. This was more than half a decade ago.
If it has not changed recently, memberships in IEEE are just a matter of paying the fee.
There is also the issue of authors having to transfer copyright to IEEE.
Yet you have to distinguish between IEEE conferences and IEEE standard bodies. I was briefly involved in the latter and I met great people.
I couldn't help myself asking why the fuck is it on your website, then?
You might publish contrary opinions to spur debate, but you don't publish things you think are total garbage.
The IEEE thinks this is worth reading.