David,
My input on the suggested wording that James and other has suggested.
The offending statement under consideration is
"to efficiently support ever-increasing, exponential network bandwidth growth rates."
Essentially, my interpretation of the comments is to suggest to remove either ever- increasing or exponential. I disagree with these comments per the explanation below.
- "Ever-increasing" - this implies that this a continuing trend. It is essentially putting a timing on the growth rate, i.e. not a recent trend, and from what I can tell based on the conversations I am having, nothing that is going to change.
- "exponential" describes the type of growth we are seeing.
- Therefore, I believe applying both of these adjectives to the sentence is appropriate and frankly provides more clarity than the suggested rewording.
Perhaps someone has a better choice of words for "ever-increasing" but I believe that the wording is appropriate for a press release.
John
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Subject: Re: [802SEC] Draft press release for review - IEEE 802.3 400 Gb/s Ethernet Study Group
David
One comment.
Subhead says "ever-increasing, exponential bandwidth growth rates", which sets my mind at ease, because I thought it might be ever decreasing exponential bandwidth growth rates. Does anyone ever say "exponential growth rates" when the exponent is negative?
I would go with either "exponentially-increasing bandwidth growth rates", or "ever-increasing bandwidth growth rates" or "exponentially bandwidth growth rates"
(Note: the same text in in the first paragraph)
James Gilb
On 03/02/2013 08:55 AM, Law, David wrote:
> Dear EC members,
>
> I hope that a IEEE 802.3 400Gb/s Ethernet Study Group will be formed
> as a results of the IEEE 802.3 400Gb/s Ethernet Call for Interest
> taking place during the upcoming March 2013 IEEE 802 plenary. Based on
> this, in consultation with the IEEE-SA PR agency, the attached press
> release has been developed to announce the formation.
>
> I intend to seek IEEE 802 EC approval for the press release at the
> closing IEEE 802 EC meeting on Friday 22nd March, contingent on the
> approval to form the Study Group by the IEEE 802.3 Working Group and
> the IEEE 802 EC. As you will see we are still seeking supporting
> quotes, but as the core of the release has now been drafted, in
> preparation for the vote, I would like to request comments on the
> attached draft.
>
> Thanks and best regards, David
>
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