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Pankaj, you make a good point that some of the
issues will require significant, in depth discussion before we will be in a good
position to vote on them. I also believe we will need more than one full
day of presentations. Consider two classes of presentations. One
class is for completely new ideas for implementing RPR. Since the proposal
cutoff extends till our November meeting, we must allow time for evaluating new
concepts, not yet presented. If there are any of these, they could be
presented early. As we settle into review of the objectives, some of that
time (Tuesday - Thursday) may be presentations. Some may be ad-hoc groups
or brainstorming.
At the March meeting we ran out of time before we
could even consider most of the objectives. I believe that it is important
that we complete the process of looking at each of the objectives by the end of
the May meeting. Some objectives will remain open at the end of the
meeting. However, we may be able to reach agreement on many others, and
thereby focus the group on which undecided objectives to put our time and energy
into evaluating.
Also please note that if we achieve 50% voting
member attendance at the May meeting, then it won't be "just" an interim
meeting. It will be a regular meeting of IEEE 802.17, where we can take
official 802.17 votes and positions. Even if the 50% threshold is not
reached, we may be able to make enough progress to streamline the task of having
the working group approve "straw polls" passed at the May meeting where
objectives were decided on.
Best regards,
Robert D. Love
Chair, Resilient Packet Ring Alliance President, LAN Connect Consultants 7105 Leveret Circle Raleigh, NC 27615 Phone: 919 848-6773 Mobile: 919 810-7816 email: rdlove@xxxxxxxx Fax: 720 222-0900
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