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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:27
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Subject: [RPRWG] Announcement of opening
of 802.17 Working Group Ballot and Comment Period
On behalf of the Working Group Chairman:
Announcement of opening of 802.17 Working Group Ballot and
Comment Period
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Dear IEEE 802.1 / 802.17 Working Group Member:
This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the IEEE 802.17
Working Group
Ballot for IEEE P802.17a (RPR Amendment to 802.1D), Draft 1.0,
otherwise known as:
Information technology - Telecommunications and information
exchange between
systems - Local and metropolitan area
networks -
Common specifications Part 3: Media Access
Control (MAC) Bridges
The comment period opens on Thursday, 4 December 2003 and
closes on Monday,
5 January 2004 at 12:00 noon Pacific
time.
THIS IS AN 802.17 ELECTRONIC BALLOT. All valid 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 January 2004 Interim meeting in
Vancouver BC. Please be sure and
indicate your vote
when submitting your comments via e-mail. Note that
Disapprove votes MUST be accompanied by one or more Technically
Binding
comments, and vice versa.
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected
website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17a/d1_0/
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 4 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 will be
available on
Monday December 8, 2003 at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17a/d1_0/P802_17aD1_0_CRD_Win.zip
or
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17a/d1_0/P802_17aD1_0_CRD_Mac.sit
The comment executable is designed for systems capable of
running Windows
or Macintosh based programs. Please
read the comment instructions carefully.
Please submit ballots and comments (using the output of your
comment executable)
electronically to Mike Takefman
at:
tak@xxxxxxxxx
If you should have any questions, problems or comments please
contact:
Mike Takefman
Chair, IEEE 802.17 Working Group
Office:
613-254-3399 Fax: 613-254-3778
tak@xxxxxxxxx
NOTE:
According to the RPR Working Group
ballot process, official ballots will only
be accepted
from voting members of the 802.1 and 802.17 Working Groups. 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:
613-254-3778
tak@xxxxxxxxx