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Announcement of opening of 802.17 Working Group Comment Period
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Dear IEEE 802.17 Working Group Member:
This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the IEEE 802.17 Working Group
review for IEEE P802.17 (Resilient Packet Ring), Draft 0.1, otherwise known as:
Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between
systems - Local & Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific requirements -
Resilient Packet Ring Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications
The comment period opens on Friday, 22 February 2002 and closes on Wednesday,
6 March 2002 at 12:00 midnight Pacific time.
THIS IS A REVIEW AND COMMENT CYCLE, AND NOT A BALLOT PERIOD. Any ballots (votes
on the document) that you may submit along with your comments will not be
considered at this point. You are encouraged to submit a "vote", however, so
that we can ensure that the process is functional and can work out possible
bugs in the process prior to the start of actual voting. Voting on the
document will begin when the WG ballot cycle begins in mid-2002. Until then,
only comments on the draft contents will be considered. All properly
submitted comments will be resolved during the March 2002 Plenary meeting
in St. Louis, MO.
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots
The draft is posted in zipped Adobe "pdf" document format and can be viewed online,
or downloaded and printed. You will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader
(4.0 or higher) to view or print the draft. This software is available for
free downloading from Adobe at:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
The draft prints out as 254 paper pages.
This draft is copyrighted by the IEEE and is for your review for balloting
purposes only. It should not be copied or otherwise distributed.
The ballot/comment executable with instructions is also available via the
aforementioned link.
The comment executable is designed for systems capable of running Windows
or Macintosh based programs. Please read the comment instructions carefully.
Please submit comments (i.e., the output of your comment executable)
electronically to Tom Alexander at:
tom_alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you should have any questions, problems or comments please contact:
Mike Takefman
Chair, IEEE 802.17 Working Group
Office: 613-271-3399 Fax: 613-271-3333
tak@xxxxxxxxx
Tom Alexander
Chief Editor, IEEE 802.17 Working Group
Office: 503-431-7303 Fax: 503-431-7400
tom_alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NOTE:
According to the RPR Working Group ballot process, official ballots will only
be accepted from voting members of the 802.17 Working Group. The draft is also,
however, being circulated to those who have been participating in the
standardization process who are not members of the Working Group in order to
provide a wide review of the document and to solicit comments.
You should also be aware that Technical-Binding (TB) comments are not required
to be tracked amongst non-Working Group members. If a TB is entered by a person
who is not a Working Group member, and this person is not at attendance and
readily available at the interim meeting to review the Working Group's response,
we will not obligate the editors or staff of 802.17 to track down the commenter
and obtain the sign-off.
Best Regards,
John Hawkins, Webmaster, on behalf of:
Mike Takefman
Chair, IEEE 802.17 Working Group
Office: 613-271-3399 Fax: 613-271-3333
tak@xxxxxxxxx