[BP] IEEE P802.3ap Draft 0.7 now available for review

["Healey, Adam B (Adam)" <ahealey@xxxxxxxxx>]

IEEE P802.3ap Task Force Members,

 

Per the direction set at the November plenary meeting, Draft 0.7 of IEEE P802.3ap has been generated and posted for review.  Even though the document is incomplete, this partial draft is being submitted for review with the following objectives:

 

• Implement a change control mechanism for adopted baseline text.
• Mark the progress of the Task Force.  Baselines for 1000BASE-KX, 10GBASE-KX4, and auto-negotiation have been adopted and by putting them in draft document form, these baselines may be reviewed in finer detail and appropriate refinements may be recommended.
• Highlight areas that need to be addressed to achieve “technical completeness” and ensure that the new Backplane Ethernet physical layers fit properly into the IEEE 802.3 architecture.
• Since many Task Force members are new to IEEE 802.3, this is an opportunity to become familiar with the document review, comment generation, and comment resolution processes and tools.  In that sense, this serves as a “practice run” for the Task Force members and the editorial team.

 

This first review period will be two weeks.  At the January interim, comments received during this period will be reviewed and resolved.  If a Task Force member plans to make a presentation for adoption into the next draft, then it is highly recommended that the Task Force member submit a comment with a reference to the presentation as part of the suggested remedy

 

Please note that our top priority for the January interim meeting will be work related to the completion of the baseline.  The definition of the 10GBASE-KR port type and the backplane channel specifications are of principal concern.  The first portion of the meeting will be dedicated to these topics, and the second portion will be dedicated to comment resolution (which includes changes to 1000BASE-KX, 10GBASE-KX4, and auto-negotiation).

 

 

COMMENT PERIOD OPEN:
Tuesday, 4 January 2005

COMMENT PERIOD CLOSE:
11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time), Tuesday, 18 January 2005

 

 

Thank you for you careful and thorough review of the document.

Adam Healey, Chair

Schelto van Doorn, Editor

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMMENTING ON: IEEE P802.3ap/D0.7
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HOW TO ACCESS THE DRAFT
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HOW TO SUBMIT COMMENTS
Please send your comments to:

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and paste the following into the subject line:
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