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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