All 802.17 members and observers, give your
thanks to Bob Sultan, John Hawkins, John Lemon, and the entire Terms and
Definitions Ad Hoc team for preparing our first draft of the IEEE 802.17 Terms
and Definitions draft for us to vote on.
This is our first opportunity to ballot a portion
of the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring draft.
With the posting of the document, today August
8th, the balloting on this document begins. The ballot will close on
Saturday, September 8th at midnight Pacific Coast time. (Therefore, all
comments must be posted to the web site ahead of the interim meeting.)
Since this is a small document, and we don't want
to waste time at the meeting reviewing the comments for the first time, please
make every attempt to complete your review and posting of comments no later
than Friday August 31st. (Think of August 31st as the deadline for comments,
although we will accept comments till the 8th of September.)
As you prepare your comments for submission you
must determine for each comment whether it is editorial or technical in
nature. Since this is a definitions section, I would expect most
comments to be editorial in nature. For technical comments you must
indicate whether making your requested change is necessary before you will
vote approve on the document. A vote of NOT APPROVE for editorial
reasons can be considered an invalid vote.
In preparing your comments for submission my
strong recommendation is to create a document where you list the following for
each comment,
Page Number / Section Number /Subsection Number
/ Line Number / Editorial or Technical / Required Change or Optional /
(Specifying "Required Change" rather than
"Optional" is normally done only for technical comments and implies that your
vote on the draft is "Disapprove" until your concern is adequately
addressed.)
State your concern as clearly as
possible
State specifically what change is required to
address your concern.
Note that you may have some comments that apply
to more than one definition. They may be universal in nature or refer to
a number of instances. Two examples follow:
Example1:
Page 0 / Section 0 / Subsection 0
/ Line 0 / Editorial / Optional
Concern: My reading glasses broke, I can't
read the document
Solution: Change the font to 14 point
everywhere.
(For the above example, Page, section, and line 0
were used to indicate this is a global comment referring
everywhere)
Example 2:
Page 2 / Section 1 /
Subsection 96 / Line 74 / Editorial / Optional
Concern: "Egress" is a non-standard
term
Solution: Change everywhere to
"Gozzoutofthenode". Do a document search and change all instances of
"egress".
For this example, the listed
page/section/subsection/line numbers would be the first use of "egress" within
the document.
After you have completed your review of the document, go online to
the database and cut and paste your comments into the database.
After you have finished entering your comments submit your vote which can
be
Approve without comments
Approve with comments
DisApprove (based on having specific comments submitted that indicate you
have a technical concern that must be corrected to change your vote to
approve. You must have also indicated a specific change that would
address your concern adequately.)
Abstain
As soon as the data base is online a notice will be posted to the
reflector indicating what you must do to access it. Exact instructions
for submitting your comments and your ballot position will also be
posted.
Even though voting is based on the votes of IEEE 802.17 voting members,
comments will be accepted from all who review the
document. We ask all non-voters to refrain from submitting any
of your comments with "Required Comment" which implies a "Do Not
Approve" vote. Also please do not submit any vote other than
"Abstain" Reason - Not a voting member of IEEE 802.17
Best regards,
Robert D. Love
Vice Chair, IEEE 802.17
Chair, Resilient
Packet Ring Alliance
President, LAN Connect Consultants
7105 Leveret
Circle Raleigh, NC 27615
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