IEEE P802.17 Maintenance Task Group
November 2007 Minutes

Attendees: Held as part of 802.17 WG plenary session, so all attendees of the WG were attendees of the IEEE P802.17 Maintenance Task Group.
Maintenance request 0025
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Replace "NORM" to "1/(ageCoef * advertisingInterval)". Remove references to NORM. Add references to ageCoef and advertisingInterval.

Maintenance request 0049
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
The timer mechanism is working as planned.

Maintenance request 0060
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
There is no need to send two copies, even when bi-directionally flooding, when one ringlet is transmitting into an edge, because the point of bi-directionally flooding is to cover both ringlets up to the cleave point. Therefore, the current state table is correct in sending one frame in this case. And the frame is being marked with the correct ringlet ID and being sent into the correct ringlet (which is actually the ringlet that is wrapped, in the case of center wrapping).

Maintenance request 0061
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Although the RingletSelection state table appears to send all frames to the same ringlet (in this case), the TransmitRoute state table will differentially choose ringlets based on whether the frame is allowed to be transmitted into an edge. These two state tables must be viewed together for a full understanding.

Maintenance request 0085
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Add the specific references.

Maintenance request 0086
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Formally define scffErrors in Clause 7 by adding the variable declaration to 7.2.2 and then to 7.6.3.6.2 and then by adding the incrementing of the variable to Table 7.20 in each of the following rows: 12, 13, 20, 21, and 23.

Maintenance request 0087
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
The condition of being an edge does not mean that frames that go across edges can't be received. SCFFs are transmitted across edges (where physically possible), and therefore can be received from an edge.

Maintenance request 0115
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Add the following MIB items:
rprSpanErrorCurrentBadRxFcsFrames
rprSpanErrorIntervalBadRxFcsFrames
rprSpanErrorDayBadRxFcsFrames
rprSpanErrorStatsBadRxFcsFrames

Maintenance request 0117
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change "If the requested queue is Q_TX_RS, ringlet is ignored, and the only instance of Q_TX_RS is used" to "If the requested queue is Q_TX_RS, ringlet_id is set to the value of ringlet, and the only instance of Q_TX_RS is used".

Maintenance request 0125
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Add a row to the ReceiveStrip state machine between rows 7 and 8, that contains i.e.:
Conditions:
frame.ft == RPR_FT_FAIRNESS &&
frame.ffType == RPR_SINGLE_CHOKE &&
frame.saCompact == myMacAddress &&
frame.ri == myRi
Actions:
-
Next state:
START

For the row description, explain that with edge wrapping, it can appear that we receive a copy of our own fairness frame, and we don't want to count it as a received SCFF.

Maintenance request 0131
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change the txSlowTimeout variable default (defined in 11.2.3) to 1 second.


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