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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:11
PM
Subject: [RPRWG] Announcement of opening
of 802.17 D0_2 Working Group Comment Period
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 0.2, 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 Wednesday, 17 April 2002 and
closes on Sunday,
28th April 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/d0_2/
The draft is posted in 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 250 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 and instructions are also
available at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d0_2
The comment executable is designed for systems capable of
running Windows
based programs (MAC to follow soon).
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
If you should have questions or issues regarding the files as
posted, please copy the webmaster at:
John Hawkins
Office:
770-708-7375
jhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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,
Mike Takefman
Chair, IEEE 802.17
Working Group
Office: 613-271-3399 Fax: 613-271-3333
tak@xxxxxxxxx