From: To: Subject: Opening Announcement: P802.15.3/D16 Recirculation Date: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:53 PM Dear IEEE P802.15.3/D16 Recirculation Balloting Group Member: This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the electronic ballot for P802.15.3/D16 Recirculation. * * * This is a Recirculation Ballot. * * * Instructions for accessing the draft standard and for casting your vote and comments follow. ------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for balloting on P802.15.3/D16 Recirculation: "Standard for Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - LAN/MAN Specific Requirements - Part 15: (PHY) Specifications for High Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN)" ------------------------------------------------------------- ***** IMPORTANT ***** The electronic ballot officially opens on Friday, 21-February- 2003, and it closes at 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Saturday, 08- March-2003. The voting and comment web sites will be taken down at this time, and no votes and/or comments will be accepted after this point. ***** THE DOCUMENT ***** A copy of the document can be found at the following password- protected website: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ballot/p802_15_3/ username: xxxxxxxxx password: xxxxxxxx (Note: The username and password are case-sensitive.) The draft is posted in Adobe PDF document format; you will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (3.0 or higher) to view or print the document. If you do not have this program, it is freely available for downloading at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html This draft is posted for your review for balloting purposes only and should not be copied or redistributed. Downloading time will vary based on the size of the draft. ***** CASTING YOUR VOTE ***** You should cast your electronic vote on this document at the following URL: http://standards.ieee.org//cgi-bin/balloting?vote:0000476 ***** SUBMITTING COMMENTS ***** Comment only against the portions of the draft that have been changed since D15. These are indicated by the change bar version! Please also familiarize yourself with the unresolved technical comments from D15 which are part of this recirculation package. If you wish to comment on the draft, you are strongly encouraged to prepare your comments using either (1) the IEEE 802.15 comment generation (executable) tool or (2) the IEEE 802.15 comment generation (ASCII) form. The tool or form will work on both Windows and MacOS operating systems in the following directory: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB7/ or via the HTML Page: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB7/SB7.html Note: The comment generation (executable) tool is very useful for anyone intending to submit numerous comments. The comment generation (ASCII) form is a manual method ideally suited for voters who intend to submit very few comments. Both of these tools enhance our ability to easily consolidate your comments for resolution. To use the comment generation (executable) tool, download: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB7/HRWPANBallot.zip Unzip the archive (2373KB) in a new directory off your root directory e.g.,C:\SB7Tool\ Run the program file named, P802-15-3_D16 Solution.EXE and follow the instructions. This program will create a data file containing your comments. To use the comment generation (ASCII) form, download: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB7/P802.15.3CommentForm.txt This text file contains the ASCII comment form. This file can be used on other platforms. This format can be used for multiple comments. Please do not modify or alter the format as the parsing engine cannot handle changes to the format. You may submit either of these comment files using the following URL as stated below: http://standards.ieee.org//cgi-bin/balloting?comment:0000476 Anyone in the balloting group desiring to change his or her initial Sponsor Ballot based on these items, please notify me no later than Saturday, 08-March-2003. Should you have any questions, please contact me at your earliest convenience. Sincerely, Bob Heile, Ph.D Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks Chair, ZigBee Alliance 11 Louis Road Attleboro, MA 02703 USA Phone: 508-222-1393 Mobile: 781-929-4832 Fax: 508-222-0515 email: bheile@ieee.org *****NEWS***** Go to our new Standards Development Online site for more information on standards development processes. This site consolidates the critical mass of standards development process and procedure information into one location on the IEEE-SA website. It also provides informative training modules and information for each step in the IEEE-SA standards development process. The site covers in detail how to initiate a standards project at the IEEE and how to write a standard. 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