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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:00
PM
Subject: [RPRWG] Announcement of opening
of 802.17 Working Group Ballot and Comment Period
On behalf of the Chief Editor and Working Group Chair:
Announcement of opening of 802.17 Working Group Ballot and
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 2.2, 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 Thursday, 10 April 2003 at 12.00
noon PST and
closes on Monday, 12 May 2003 at 12:00
noon PST.
THIS IS AN 802.17 BALLOT. All ballots (votes on the document)
that are
submitted along with comments will be counted
towards approval or disapproval
of the draft. All
properly submitted comments will be resolved during the
May 2003 Interim meeting in Montreal.
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected
website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_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 628 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.
The ballot/comment executable with instructions is available
at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_2/P802_17D2_2_CRD_Win.zip
or http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_2/P802_17D2_2_CRD_Mac.sit
The comment executable is designed for systems capable of
running Windows
or Macintosh based programs. Please
read the comment instructions carefully.
The set of technically-binding comments that were rejected at
the March
2003 Plenary meeting is supplied in the
file:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_2/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 ballots and comments (using 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:
613-254-3399 Fax: 613-254-3333
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: 613-254-3399 Fax: 613-254-3333
tak@xxxxxxxxx