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On behalf of the WG Chair and Chief Editor:
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 1.1, 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, 26 October 2002 and closes on Tuesday,
5 November 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 late 2002. Until then,
only comments on the draft contents will be considered. All properly
submitted comments will be resolved during the November 2002 Plenary meeting
in Kauai, HI.
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d1_1/
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 453 paper pages. It is copyrighted by the IEEE and is
for your review and balloting purposes only. It should not be copied or otherwise
distributed.
Note that there is an ongoing issue with figures being incorrectly translated
to PDF from the source FrameMaker files. This unfortunately appears to be a
result of bugs in the FrameMaker and/or Acrobat tool versions that are normally
used by the IEEE to produce standards. This issue is being looked into by both
the IEEE and the P802.17 WG editorial staffs. A new version of the PDF with
corrected figures will be posted as soon as one is available. In the mean time,
the inconvenience is regretted.
The ballot/comment executable with instructions is available at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d1_1/P802_17D1_1_CRD_Win.zip
The comment executable is designed for systems capable of running Windows
based programs. Please read the comment instructions carefully.
The set of technical and technically-binding comments that were rejected
at the September 2002 interim meeting in New Orleans is supplied in the file:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d1_1/rejectedCommentaryData.USR
You may review the rejected comments by simply double-clicking on the above
file (after first downloading the ballot/comment executable).
Please submit comments (i.e., the output of your comment executable)
electronically to Tom Alexander at:
tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
Cell: 503-803-3534 Fax: 503-632-7621
tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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 but 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