Re: [802.3_NGBASET] [STDS-802-3] IEEE P802.3bq 40GBASE-T D2.0 comments with proposed responses have been posted
Dear Colleagues,
IEEE P802.3bq 40GBASE-T D2.0 comments with proposed responses have been posted to the project web page:
http://www.ieee802.org/3/bq/comments/index.html
Please look over the 489 total comments, categorized as follows:
358 EZ bucket - these are punctuation, indents, simple clean-up in figures, obvious typos, references, and IEEE style guide issues. These are things we intend the committee not to discuss. There should be no TR's, ER's or GR's in here that we do not either ACCEPT or ACCEPT IN PRINCIPLE. (there are a few REJECTs in there, but they are not "R" comments)
PLEASE REVIEW THE "EZ" TOPIC COMMENTS AND SEND AN EMAIL TO THE REFLECTOR OR EDITOR OR CHAIR IF YOU WISH TO HAVE A COMMENT REMOVED FROM THE EZ BUCKET - we intend to approve these with a single motion. All 131 other comments will be approved individually or, in the case of comments on the same piece of text, as a small group. Comments on the same text are noted with related comments as "See comment xyz" in the proposed response (which is usually ACCEPT IN PRINCIPLE). Duplicate comments with the same remedy as well as comment are noted as "Dup".
On the 131 other comments - Most of these are fairly straightforward, but just didn't rise to the level of an EZ comment, but some raised a decision for the group or presented an alternative way of doing things.
1 25G - related to our missing PAR.
11 Autoneg related
37 Cabling (11) or Cabling reference (Cablingrefs) (26) related
10 EEE related
21 Formatting - more complex redrawing figures, style guide issues, and whether to have the objectives in the text.
7 MDI - related (not all about alternative MDIs)
8 MGMT - related to whether we combine management bits, etc.
12 PCS-related that are more than EZ
5 PMA-related that are more than EZ
6 Shortreach - related to short reach mode or channel (but not pure cabling specs)
5 Training - related to things like periodic training mode.
8 xGBASE-T - related to how we handle the nomenclature for common registers, bits and messages of 10G and 40G, soon to take a whole line of text...
Thank you all for your thorough review of the draft, and thank you to our editorial team for an expeditious proposal.
David Chalupsky and George Zimmerman
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Subject: [STDS-802-3] IEEE P802.3bq 40GBASE-T initial IEEE 802.3 Working Group ballot results
Dear Colleagues,
The initial IEEE 802.3 Working Group ballot on the Amendment IEEE P802.3bq 40GBASE-T closed successfully on 24th April 2015. The ballot exceeded the required 75% for consensus to approve the draft. The May 2015 IEEE P802.3bq Task Force interim meeting <http://www.ieee802.org/3/interims/index.html> will consider the 475 comments submitted and determine changes to the draft as appropriate. The availability of the comment database will be announced on the IEEE P802.3bq Task Force reflector.
The ballot statistics are:
274 Voters
93 Approve
20 Disapprove with comment
1 Disapprove without comment
37 Abstain
151 Ballots returned
55.11% Response Rate (> 50% required)
24.5% Abstain Rate (< 30% required)
82.3% Approval Rate (>= 75% required)
Thank you to all that participated in this ballot.
David Law
Chair, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group
David Chalupsky
Chair, IEEE P802.3bq 40GBASE-T Task Force