Announcement of opening of P802.3ae Working Group Ballot

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Dear IEEE P802.3ae Task Force Member:

If you are also an IEEE 802.3 Working Group member, this note is redundant with the one you received on the IEEE 802.3 reflector. You should refer solely to that memorandum.

If you are NOT an IEEE 802.3 Working Group member, read on.

This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the IEEE 802.3 Working Group comment review for IEEE P802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet), Draft 3.0 otherwise known as:

Information Technology - Local & Metropolitan Area Networks - Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications - Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation

The comment period opens on Friday, 30 March 2001 and closes on Saturday, 5 May 2001 at 12:00 midnight Pacific time.

A copy of this draft (and previous drafts) can be found on our password-protected website (URL):

http://www.ieee802.org/3/ae/private/index.html#D3dot0

The draft is posted in Adobe "pdf" document format and can be viewed online, or, preferably downloaded and printed if desired.

The draft prints out as 476 paper pages. The download file in pdf is 4837K or 2627K in compressed form.

A significant portion of the text is shown as change instructions to the existing Standard. It is advised that you have a copy of the current Standard (IEEE Std. 802.3 2000 Edition or ISO/IEC 8802-3:2000) handy when you do your review.

You will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (3.0 or higher) to view or print the draft. It is available for free downloading from Adobe at:

http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

This draft is copyrighted by the IEEE and is for your review for balloting purposes only. It should not be copied or otherwise distributed.

The comment executable is available at: http://www.ieee802.org/3/ae/private/d3.0/10GigBallot.zip

The comment executable is designed for systems capable of running Windows based programs. Please read the comment instructions carefully. Those with systems unable to open and use the comment executable, an ASCII version of the comment form for use with e-mail is appended to the end of this message.

The ASCII version is also available at: http://www.ieee802.org/3/ae/private/d3.0/10GigComment.txt

Please submit comments electronically to the P802.3ae chief editor, Brad Booth at: bradley.booth@xxxxxxxxxx

If you should have any questions, problems or comments please contact:

Chair, IEEE P802.3ae Task Force

Office: 509.242.9228 Fax: 509.242.9001

Chief Editor, IEEE P802.3ae Task Force

Office: (512) 407-2135 Fax: (512) 422-6708

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According to our traditional Working Group ballot process, the official ballot is only being circulated to voting members of the 802.3 Working Group.

The draft is also being circulated to those who have been participating in the standardization process who are not members of the Working Group in order to provide a wide review of the document and to solicit comments.

You should be aware that Technical-Required comments (TR) are not required to be tracked amongst non-Working Group members. But, out of courtesy to those who have helped to create this work, and those willing to review it, we will execute the TR and request sign-off of each and every TR during the May interim meeting. Even so, if a TR is entered by a non-Working Group member, and said person is not at attendance and readily available at the interim meeting to review the Task Force's response, we will not obligate the editors or staff of P802.3ae track down the commenter and obtain said sign-off.

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PLEASE RESPOND NO LATER THAN May 4, 2001

RETURN ALL BALLOTS & COMMENTS BY E-MAIL TO:

Brad Booth

E-MAIL: bradley.booth@xxxxxxxxx

COMMENT INFORMATION:

PLEASE USE THE FORM BELOW FOR ALL COMMENTS. THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR

THE EDITOR TO PROPERLY RECORD AND TRACK ALL SUBMISSIONS. MAKE AS MANY

COPIES OF THE TEMPLATE AS NECESSARY AND SUBMIT AS AN ASCII TEXT FILE OR AS

PART OF YOUR E-MAIL. MULTIPLE COMMENTS CAN BE SUBMITTED IN ONE ASCII TEXT

FILE OR E-MAIL. PLEASE USE THE FORMAT BELOW, AND THAT THE COMMENTS ARE IN

ASCII FORM.

Acceptable comment types:

E = Editorial

T = Technical

TR = Technical Required

PLEASE E-MAIL THIS FORM (cut and paste line below)

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