[RPRWG] Announcement of opening of 802.17 WG Recirculation Ballot and Comment Period
On behalf of the Chief Editor and Working Group Chairman:
Announcement of opening of 802.17 WG Recirculation 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
Recirculation Ballot for IEEE P802.17 (Resilient Packet Ring), Draft 2.6,
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 Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 11.00 PM PST and
closes on Monday, 20 October 2003 at 11:59 PM PST.
THIS IS AN 802.17 BALLOT. All valid ballots (votes on the document) that are
submitted along with comments will be counted towards approval or
disapproval
of the draft. A valid ballot is one that is cast by a voting member of the
802.17 group that also voted (approve, disapprove or abstain) during the
D2.3 ballot.
All properly submitted comments will be resolved during the September 2003
Interim meeting in Las Vegas. Note that you are only required to submit a
ballot if you wish to change your existing vote. If you do not submit a
ballot, your last recorded vote will be carried forward unchanged.
Further, if you had voted Disapprove on D2.3, D2.4 or D2.5 along with
applicable Technically Binding comments, and all of these comments have
been resolved to your satisfaction, then you are requested to submit new
Technically Binding comments if you wish to maintain your vote as
Disapprove. If you wish to change your vote from Disapprove to Approve in
spite of any outstanding Technically Binding comments, please submit a new
ballot as well.
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_6/
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 754 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.
As this is a RECIRCULATION BALLOT, only changed sections of the draft (i.e.,
those with changebars along the left hand side) are now open for comments.
Please refrain from commenting against draft text that does not have a
changebar next to it.
The ballot/comment executable with instructions is available at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_6/P802_17D2_6_CRD_Win.zip
or
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_6/P802_17D2_6_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 July
2003 Plenary meeting is supplied in the file:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/draftballots/d2_6/rejectedCommentaryData.US
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You may review the rejected comments by simply double-clicking on the above
file (after first downloading the ballot/comment executable). You may, if
you
wish, change your vote from Approve to Disapprove, or maintain your
Disapprove
vote, on the basis that one or more of these Technically Binding comments
should not have been rejected. In this case, please submit a new ballot with
accompanying Technically Binding comments indicating the reason for your
Disapprove vote.
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