Re: [RPRWG] Opening of WG Ballot on P802.17b Draft 1.1
The comment period opens on Friday, 7 October 2005 at 6:00 PM ET and
closes on Sunday, 6 September 2005 at 23:59 PM AOE (Anywhere On Earth).
RPR networking moves forward at such a blistering pace that it makes
time run backwards!
George Young
Principal Member of Technical Staff
SBC Laboratories, Inc.
225 West Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Phone: (312) 220-8202
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Takefman (tak) [mailto:tak@CISCO.COM]
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 3:50 PM
To: STDS-802-17@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [RPRWG] Opening of WG Ballot on P802.17b Draft 1.1
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 1.1, 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 Friday, 7 October 2005 at 6:00 PM ET and
closes on Sunday, 6 September 2005 at 23:59 PM AOE (Anywhere On Earth).
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 November
2005
Plenary session in Vancouver.
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17b/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 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 314 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_1/.
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/projects/P802_17b/index.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/index.htm#Officers.
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.
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Michael Takefman tak@cisco.com
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Chair IEEE 802.17 Stds WG
3000 Innovation Dr, Ottawa, Canada, K2K 3E8
voice: 613-254-3399 cell:613-220-6991