IEEE P802.17 Maintenance Requests
Open Requests

MR # Status Standard Subclause Date Subject
0001 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.2.5 21-Jan-05 The definition of the NOT_USED define for the secMac variable is incorrect.
0002 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.5.1 24-Jan-05 MS-MS scenario does not retain closed ring topology as described in Figure 11.29.
0003 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.1.6.3 24-Jan-05 Ringlet Selection checks for reachability on wrong ringlet.
0004 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.2.4 24-Jan-05 The variable unreservedRate[ri] used in Fairness clause (Pages 273 & 269) should refer to the ringInfo.unreservedRate[ri].
0005 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.10.4 25-Jan-05 Data frames with wrong FCS are copied to the client without any verification or validation.
0006 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.8.4 25-Jan-05 The ps is verified for all frames, but SCFF and MCFF frames do not have this bit.
0007 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.8.4 25-Jan-05 In the case of frame.ri != Other (myRi), the value of receivedTtl is not set.
0008 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 E.1.3 25-Jan-05 In the box labeled crcB = HeadCrc16(.c), the c within the parenthesys should be replaced with d.
0009 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.5.5 10-Mar-05 Four lines are missing at the very end of page 339, so DistantStateMax does not return the correct value.
0010 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.2.4 10-Mar-05 Max() is not defined in Clause 11.
0011 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 13.3.1.2 10-Mar-05 Not all conditions are covered for declaring the operational state of the RPR interface to be down.
0012 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.4.2.1 11-Mar-05 The values encoded into the station bandwidth ATT should not be weight normalized, and should be converted to timescale used by fairness.
0013 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 11-Mar-05 There are a number of issues with the MIB text not conforming to the main clauses in the standard, having invalid ranges or incorrect cross references.
0016 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 11-Mar-05 Range of rprIfKeepaliveTimeout object is (2..50) ms.
0017 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 11-Mar-05 Range of rprSpanProtectionHoldOffTimer object is (0..500) ms.
0019 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.5.7.2.4 13-Mar-05 The classC credits are being saved before updating them.
0020 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 E.2.4 13-Mar-05 The frame example shown in Figure E.8 shows the protocolType, and therefore the FCS, starting at the wrong offset into the frame.
0021 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.8.3.1 13-Mar-05 SM22 refers to the wrong state machine.
0022 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 12.7.3.4 13-Mar-05 SP3 and SP4 refer to the wrong frame type.
0023 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.5.7.2.4 13-Mar-05 Table 7.11, Table 7.12, and Table 7.13 direct taking the Min() of 0 and the credit value after being decremented for one byte.
0024 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.5.7.2.4 13-Mar-05 Table 7.11 and Table 7.12 do not check at entry to the statemachine if the TICK time has expired.
0025 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.5.7.2.4 13-Mar-05 Table 7.11 and Table 7.12 make use of an undefined constant, NORM.
0026 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.5.1.3 13-Mar-05 The description of Table D.2 incorrectly limits the applicability to the operational state of down.
0028 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 13-Mar-05 The MIB specifies WTR and keepalive as being configured per ring.
0029 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.1.4 13-Mar-05 The PerByte statemachine allows neither RATE_BASED nor SHAPER_BASED admission methods to be chosen.
0030 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.7.4 13-Mar-05 transmitTpFrame is not being set to FALSE.
0031 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.8.4 13-Mar-05 The row descriptions for Row 3 and Row 4 are switched.
0032 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.2.3 13-Mar-05 holdoffTimeout and keepaliveTimeout are not shown to be using per-ringlet values.
0033 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.3.2 13-Mar-05 There is no adminReqProtection defined.
0034 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.5.6 13-Mar-05 The statemachine rows 10, 11, and 12 do not correspond to the row descriptions.
0035 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.4.4 13-Mar-05 The row description for Row 12 is incorrect.
0038 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.2.2 13-Mar-05 There is no PICS entry for the "may" in the definition of localWeight, and no corresponding text in the MIB definition.
0039 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.6.3 13-Mar-05 There is no MIB attribute for stabilityTimeout.
0040 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 13-Mar-05 rprIfCurrentStatus is does not provide status and is missing most of 11.2.9.
0041 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 13-Mar-05 RprTopoImageEntry is missing an attribute corresponding to spanEdge[ri].
0042 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 13-Mar-05 rprTopoImageWestProtectionStatus and rprTopoImageEastProtectionStatus are not statuses and are not bit fields.
0043 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 13-Mar-05 rprTopoImageStatus fields receivedBadFcs and receivedMultichokeFairness are not events indicating such things have been received.
0044 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.13.3 13-Mar-05 Extraneous '{' and '}'s.
0045 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.4.4 14-Mar-05 The protMisconfigDefect is not cleared even after the configuration mismatch has been corrected.
0046 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.5.5 14-Mar-05 DistantStateMax() does not return the correct value of awayState for cases in which a station has an edge, but the edge is not caused by the station on the far-end of the span.
0048 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.2.2 14-Mar-05 The definition of classCAccessDelayTimer suggests that the timer specifies the longest waiting time of any traffic waiting for transmission.
0050 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.5.7.4.4 15-Mar-05 The value of creditS is always equal to zero.
0051 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 12.1.4 15-Mar-05 Echo frames are requested by the client, and not the management system.
0052 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 15-Mar-05 rprSpanStatsInOamEchoFrames and rprSpanStatsOutOamEchoFrames each mistakenly combined two counters from the standard.
0054 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.5.5 15-Mar-05 DistantStateMax() does not correctly handle the 2-station case.
0056 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.2 16-Mar-05 The term "flow" is used without a definition.
0057 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.5 23-Mar-05 The heading for the third row of Table 10.16 is incorrect.
0058 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.1.4 23-Mar-05 Incorrect row description for Row 10.5-5.
0059 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.1.2.5 05-Apr-05 For a center-wrapping ring with bidirectional flooding, wouldn't that still be replicated with the we==1?
0062 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 Extra space in "size Stq".
0063 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 The rprOamRequestCount is not cross-referenced to an RPR variable.
0064 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 The rprOamTimeout is not cross-referenced to an RPR variable.
0065 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 The rprOamControl is not cross-referenced to an RPR variable.
0066 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 The rprOamResponseCount is not cross-referenced to an RPR variable.
0067 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 The rprOamAvResponseTime is not cross-referenced to an RPR variable.
0068 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 The rprOamResponseStatus is not cross-referenced to an RPR variable.
0069 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 05-Apr-05 Wrong name: "toClientUcastClassBCirAFrames".
0072 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.4.4 20-May-05 rampUpCoef does not belong in the condition of Row 5.
0073 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.4.4 20-May-05 allowedRate is calculated twice in Row 5 and Row 16. The later calculation overrides the early one.
0074 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.5.4 31-May-05 Incorrect comparison between fairRate and receivedRate.
0075 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.10.4 01-Jun-05 Wrong table name.
0076 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.1.6.4 13-Jul-05 A frame with a multicast DA can be sent on the ring with frame.fi = FI_NONE.
0078 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.2.3 28-Jul-05 ResetStqWatermarks() resets stqHighWatermark to stqSize.
0079 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.2.4 29-Jul-05 Wrong routine name, InitLowPassFilteredRates(), in Table 10.6.
0080 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.10.5 23-Sep-05 frtt is computed before LrttToTail is computed.
0081 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 6.3.1 25-Sep-05 The MAC service interface provides the number of hops to the congestion point, not the nearest congested station.
0084 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.9.4 30-Sep-05 frame.ri of an FDD frame is wrongly assigned the value of receivedRi.
0085 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 03-Oct-05 The attributes of RprSpanErrorCountersCurrentEntry do not state where they get their values.
0086 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 12.6.1.2 03-Oct-05 scffErrors is insufficiently defined.
0088 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.10.6 18-Oct-05 Wrong wrapPoint values in FrttComputation.
0089 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.10.5 18-Oct-05 The function AgeFdd (fdd, newFdd) does not declare 'lastReceivedFdd' as a variable or as a function parameter.
0090 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.10.6 24-Oct-05 Wrong value used for hop count to tailIndex.
0091 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.6.4 07-Nov-05 If a Multichoke fairness frame (MCFF) is caught on the wrong ringlet, it will stay forever.
0092 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.9.4 08-Nov-05 The description of Row 7.23-4 is not consistent with the action in the table, and it is wrong.
0093 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.2 12-Feb-06 The figure seems to imply that there is a failure in the ring, but it describes the normal operating case.
0094 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.8.4 12-Feb-06 Table row 7.22-7 has the wrong parameter name in the condition column.
0095 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.9.4 12-Feb-06 Table row 7.23-4 has the wrong parameter name in the condition column.
0096 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.5.4 13-Feb-06 Table row 7.19-6 has the wrong function name in the condition column.
0097 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.2.3 20-Feb-06 stqSize is not a defined variable.
0098 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.2.4 21-Feb-06 myWrappingMethod is not a defined variable.
0099 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.5.4 22-Feb-06 Wrong description for table row 10.10-4.
0100 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 12.4.1 02-Mar-06 In the ringlet_id definition, the reference table is wrong.
0101 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 02-Mar-06 The definition of rprIfWrapConfig incorrectly uses "Wrap preferred".
0102 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 02-Mar-06 In the definition of rprIfJumboFramePreferred, rprIfMacCapability should be replaced with rprIfRingOperModes.
0103 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.4.4 19-Jun-06 Table-Row 11.14-17 does not save the checksum value.
0104 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 3.2.78 19-Jun-06 There is no such literal: "AGECOEF".
0105 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.8.2 19-Jun-06 ttlExpiredFrames is not defined in 7.2.2.
0106 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.7.2.4 19-Jun-06 There is no such routine: "PHY_READY.inidication()".
0107 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.4.4 19-Jun-06 Table-Row 10.9 condition uses an undefined routine: "IsCongested()".
0108 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.4.3.3 19-Jun-06 Reference is given to the wrong subclause, and no reference is given to myTopoInfo.conservativeMode.
0109 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.4.3.4 19-Jun-06 Reference is given to the wrong subclause, and no reference is given to myTopoInfo.multichokeUser.
0110 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.4.3.4 19-Jun-06 The text wrongly implies separate actions for multichoke behavior for each ringlet.
0111 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.4.3.4 19-Jun-06 The last paragraph on page 311 appears to belong to 11.4.3.4.
0112 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.7.3.4 19-Jun-06 Checking the Yes box of PP6 does not indicate that nonrevertive operation "may be" supported.
0113 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 19-Jun-06 The reference for rprFairnessReservedRate refers to 11.2.4.
0114 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 10.4.10.6 21-Jun-06 tailSa, tailRi, and tailIndex are not defined.
0115 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.10.2 03-Jul-06 The badRxFcsFrames statistics counter is not reflected in any MIB item.
0116 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.14.3 15-Sep-06 There is no definition of variable advertisementInterval used in context of function LrttResponseHandle().
0117 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.7.4 15-Sep-06 TP frames should be broadcasted in both ringlets.
0118 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 0 15-Sep-06 Inconsistent notation "frame.checksumValid" in Table 11.20 rows 6 and 9.
0119 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.4 15-Sep-06 Final hec field value may be incorrect for frame header.
0120 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.3.4 15-Sep-06 "EntryInQueue(Q_RX_TP_PARSE) != NULL" (Table 11.13, Row 3) is a tautology.
0121 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.2 15-Sep-06 There is no holdoffStartTime[ri] variable definition.
0122 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.5.4 15-Sep-06 keepaliveTime is an integer variable in some places, but it is defined as an array.
0123 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.2.1 15-Sep-06 There is no definition of queue Q_TX_ROUTE.
0124 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 J.3 15-Sep-06 There are missing exclamation marks in Table J.1.
0125 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.6.3.8.4 15-Sep-06 ReceiveStrip state machine is allowed to update keepalive variable when station has span failure.
0126 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 1.6.6.5 15-Sep-06 If topoEntryInvalidDefect is set in TopologyValidation state machine, it isn`t cleared when topology is valid.
0127 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.8.4 15-Sep-06 Inconsistent notation "frame.seq" in ReceiveTpFrame state machine specification.
0128 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 0 15-Sep-06 Wrong notation of condition currentTime-wtr[ri].time >= wtr.timeout[ri].
0129 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.6.6.4 15-Sep-06 Definition of routine SetSourceCheck() contains wrong condition.
0130 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 D.6 04-Oct-06 Incorrect description in the rprIfIdleThreshold MIB item.
0131 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.2.3 25-Apr-07 txSlowTimeout variable specified a default of 100msec
0132 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 11.5.4 10-Jul-08 Figure 11.27f lists the wrong topoType.
0133 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.1.6.4 10-Jul-08 Control frame fields are being treated as data frames.
0134 Ready
for ballot		 802.17-2004 7.7.1.6.4 10-Jul-08 FDD frames are not being allowed to wrap.


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