[8023-10GEPON] April meeting report and plan for May
Dear colleagues,
April interim meeting minutes are available at http://www.ieee802.org/3/av/public/2008_04/3av_0804_minutes_unapproved.pdf.
Our attendance was very high (70 people), likely helped by the location of the meeting, and the adjacency to the FSAN meeting, which took place in Tokyo later that week.
At the meeting, we have reviewed 112 T and TR comments and resolved editorial comments in bulk. The final comment resolutions are reported in http://www.ieee802.org/3/av/public/2008_04/3av_0804_comments_d1_2_accepted.pdf.
Unfortunately, we ran out of time and had to defer the following presentations proposing new features to May:
1. Consideration for Power-Saving functionality (av_0804_kuroda_1.pdf)
2. Another look at powersave (3av_0804_mandin_3.pdf)
Since the May interim is the last meeting to add new features, I strongly encourage the authors of the above proposals to fully utilize the reflector to build the consensus for their proposals. This means circulating the proposals early and soliciting and addressing the group's feedback before the meeting. When presented at the May meeting, these proposals should include not only the rationale for the new features, but also the descriptions of very specific changes to be made to the draft (exact text to be added, exact changes to state machines, if any, etc.)
Apart from these two features, the main focus of the meeting will be on getting the draft ready for working group ballot at the end of July plenary. This means resolving the existing TBDs and filling the remaining gaps in the draft.
The table in http://www.ieee802.org/3/av/public/2008_04/3av_0804_closing.pdf identifies a number of gaps in the draft and lists TF members who volunteered to provide proposed remedies to fill these gaps. This, however, does not mean that other members may not or should not address the same issues and propose remedies of their own. Also, there are likely to be other omissions in the draft which were not identified so far. I ask the task force members to be very proactive in reviewing the draft and making comments focused on bringing the draft to a technically complete state.
Below is our schedule for the current review cycle:
Draft D1.3 is published: April 23, 2008
Comments are due: May 1, 2008
Proposed responses published: May 8, 2008
Comment resolution: May 13-15, 2008
Please, remember that if a comment remedy refers to an external supplement file, that file is due at the time the comments are due. All standalone presentations (not comments supplements) are due Monday, May 5th.
Best regards,
Glen Kramer
Chair, IEEE P802.3av "10GEPON" Task Force
glen.kramer@ieee.org