[STDS-802-11] Fwd: Sponsor Ballot Opening, P802c

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Subject:	Sponsor Ballot Opening, P802c
Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:32:52 GMT
From:	IEEE-SA <sa-ballot@xxxxxxxx>
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Cc: "C/LM/WG802.1 Project Staff Liaison" <k.bennett@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Sponsor Ballot Opening, P802c


Dear IEEE P802c Balloting Group Member:

This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the IEEE Standards Sponsor Ballot for:

P802c

Title: Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture
  Amendment: Local Medium Access Control (MAC) Address Usage

Scope: This standard contains descriptions of the IEEE 802(R) standards published by the IEEE for frame-based data networks as well as a reference model (RM) for protocol standards. The IEEE 802 architecture is defined, and a specification for the identification of public, private, and standard protocols is included.

Purpose: This standard serves as the foundation for the family of IEEE 802 standards published by IEEE for local area networks (LANs), metropolitan area networks (MANs), personal area networks (PANs), and regional area networks (RANs).

***** IMPORTANT *****
This is a New Ballot.

Balloters have many important responsibilities, but we would like to draw your attention to two of these responsibilities:

One of the responsibilities as a balloter is to ensure that the scope of the draft (including the scope statement in the draft, if any) is within the scope of the work authorized by the PAR. An affirmative vote indicates your agreement that the scope of the draft does not exceed the work authorized by the PAR.

(Note: It is acceptable for the scope of the draft to be less than the scope of the work authorized by the PAR.)

Another important responsibility is the obligation to comply with the IEEE-SA Patent Policy [http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/materials.html]. This is pertinent to informing the IEEE (or causing the IEEE to be informed) of the identity of the holders of any potential Essential Patent Claims that may be relevant to this draft. This does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance [http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/patents.html] that applies to the draft under consideration.

IMPORTANT
For sponsor ballots of amendments and corrigenda, please contact your staff liaison if there is a need for the base standard or any approved amendments or corrigenda. Five business days are required to fulfill your request, so requests should be made as early in the ballot process as possible.

The ballot process may include communication among the Sponsor comment resolution group and Sponsor balloting group members regarding the substantive merits and possible resolution of comments. However, no comment resolution member, Sponsor balloting group member, or standards participant shall intimidate or coerce a specific vote from any Sponsor balloting group member. Please contact your staff liaison if you have any concerns.

BALLOT OPENS: 23-Jan-2017
BALLOT CLOSES: 23-Feb-2017.
No votes and/or comments will be accepted after 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the close date. Make sure you review the document, cast your vote, and submit your comments before the closing date/time.

***** ACCESS THE DOCUMENT, SUBMIT YOUR VOTE, AND SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS *****

Go directly to:

https://development.standards.ieee.org/my-site/ballot-activity
(Note:  You may be prompted for your password if not already logged in).

Or, follow this process:

1. Log onto myProject; click the link for myBallot, or my Ballot Home (Voter) if applicable.
2. Click the link for "Manage myBallot Activity."
3. Locate P802c.
4. Click on the DRAFT# to open the draft; click on the drop-down box to submit your vote; click on the comments link (under the Actions column) to submit your comments.

Comments MUST be submitted in plain text using one of the following formats available in myBallot:

(a) single comment submittal (i.e, entering one comment at a time into a comment field, with an attachment mechanism for files in any format); or
(b) multiple comment submittal (i.e., entering comments onto a spreadsheet template provided in either XLS, XML or CSV format, for upload into myBallot).

Attempting to submit comments into myBallot through any other format will result in an error message and your upload will not be accepted.  For best results, please review the associated help pages thoroughly before proceeding.

Comments submitted for IEEE-SA Sponsor ballots are contributions to IEEE standards development. By submitting comments, you agree to provide a license to the IEEE for use of your comments (see Clause 7 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws and Clause 6.1 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual.

Note: This draft standard is posted for your review and for balloting purposes only.  Please be advised that, as a part of the license granted to IEEE Standards Staff, draft or approved standards included during ballots are permitted to be accessed by balloters, and used (which includes saving one copy) during their review in order to submit a vote. Balloters are not permitted to duplicate or distribute the draft or approved standards to any other party without permission granted from the IEEE

NOTE: If you are fulfilling coordination duties only, you will not be able to cast a vote. Coordinators can only submit comments.  Please follow the instructions above to access the document and submit your comments.

***** MESSAGE FROM THE WORKING GROUP CHAIR *****

Note that we are providing the file 802c-OUI-CID-Tutorial-d1-3.pdf, which is a proposed revision of the IEEE "Guidelines for Use Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) and Company ID (CID)" to align with the draft.




***** QUESTIONS *****
If you should have any questions about this document, please contact:

Paul Nikolich
p.nikolich@xxxxxxxx
or :
Roger Marks
r.b.marks@xxxxxxxx

***** myProject QUESTIONS *****
For system questions, please go to the Help pages; or contact your staff liaison or the IEEE-SA Balloting Center at sa-ballot@xxxxxxxx

NOTE: To show our appreciation of your effort, the names of all voters will be listed in the front matter of the published standard. Your vote and your contact information will *not* be included.

Thank you for your participation in this ballot.
If you wish to be removed from this reflector, do not send your request to this reflector - it will have no effect.