[bp] March Meeting Goals and Request for Presentations
Colleagues:
First, I want to thank you for contributing to the very successful study group meeting that we held in January. Our next meeting will be during the IEEE 802 plenary in March, and meeting details may be found at:
http://www.ieee802.org/meeting/index.html
I suggest that you make your hotel reservations as soon as possible since rooms tend to go fast.
Our main objective for this plenary meeting is to move our documents through the various stages of the process so we can become a task force. Our documents (the PAR, five criteria, and the initial list of objectives) are posted at:
http://ieee802.org/3/bladesg/
Note that I expect the PAR to posted shortly. As a first priority, we will be responding to comments on these documents. Closely related to this activity is the resolution of the following isuses:
1. "Consider auto-negotiation"
This objective was adopted by the study group due to the belief that there is value in automatically negotiating between the 1 and 10Gb/s speeds. However, this ambiguous wording was chosen because it was not clear whether the auto-negotiation would be based on clause 28, clause 37, or some new protocol. The study group needs to clarify this objective. To this end, I strongly encourage reflector discussion and presentations for the March meeting which do the following:
(a) justify the need for auto-negotiation
(b) recommend a signaling scheme and protocol (clause 28, clause 37, or other)
(c) propose an action that the Study Group can take to resolve this issue (i.e. modify an objective)
2. BER objective
There has been some reflector discussion related to the BER objective of better than 1E-12. Again, discussion and presentations are encouraged that state an action that can be taken by the SG and justification for the action. In this case, it would appear that justification would include a discussion of the system requirements, and a description of a credible means to verify a more aggressive BER specification.
I strongly encourage you to voice other comments on the study group documents (which includes the objectives) on the study group reflector.
We will then use the balance of the meeting to discuss proposals on how we might satisfy the objectives. To this end, I also encourage presentations to address the following:
1. Channel model to describe 40" copper traces on FR-4 with 2 connectors
2. Signaling proposals that satisfy the stated objectives (1 and 10Gb/s)
3. PCS layer proposals (clause 36, clause 49, other?)
etc.
Presentations must be submitted in accordance to the "Procedures for Presenters" which may be found at:
http://ieee802.org/3/bladesg/presentproc.html
Presentation requests and materials are due to me by March 10, although earlier submissions are appreciated.
I look forward to seeing you in Florida.
Thank you,
Adam Healey
Chair, Backplane Ethernet Study Group