[RPRWG] Announcement of opening of 802.17 WG Ballot and Comment Period for 802.17b D1.0

[J Lemon <jlemon@xxxxxxxx>]

Announcement of opening of 802.17 WG 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 
Ballot for IEEE P802.17b Draft 1.0, otherwise known as:

Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between 
systems - Local & Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific requirements - Part 
17b: Resilient packet ring (RPR) access method and physical layer 
specifications - Amendment 1: Spatially aware sublayer

The comment period opens on Thursday, 11 August 2005 at 11:30 AM PT
and closes on Friday, 9 September 2005 at 23:59 PM PT.

THIS IS AN 802.17 BALLOT. All members of the WG are required to participate. 
Failure to respond to ballots jeopardizes your voting rights.

All valid ballots (votes on the document) that are submitted will be counted 
towards approval or disapproval of the draft. To be valid, a ballot must be 
cast by a voting member of the 802.17 working group. Comments from non-voters 
are also welcome, and will not be counted towards approval or disapproval of 
the draft.

All properly submitted comments will be resolved during the September 2005 
interim meeting in Ottawa.

A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected website:
    http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17b/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
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 270 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, which requires Windows, is available at: 
    http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17b/d1_0/.

If this is your first time using the comment executable, please read the
instructions available at the same location.

Please submit ballots and comments (using the output of your comment
executable) electronically to the editor, Marc Holness, at the email address
given at:
    http://www.ieee802.org/17/P802.17b.htm#EditorialStaff.

If you should have any questions, problems, or comments please contact
the chair, Mike Takefman, at the email address given at:
    http://www.ieee802.org/17/P802.17b.htm#EditorialStaff. 
 
NOTE:
 
According to the RPR Working Group ballot process, official ballots will be
accepted only 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 editor or staff of 802.17 to track down the 
commenter and obtain the sign-off.


John Lemon, Vice Chair, IEEE 802.17 Working Group