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
Instructions for
accessing the document and submitting comments follow.
HOW TO ACCESS
THE DRAFT
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information should be copied or redistributed to others in violation of
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Userid and
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The
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printed if desired. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, it is available
for free downloading from Adobe at:
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HOW TO SUBMIT
COMMENTS
Please send your comments
to:
ahealey@agere.com; schelto.vandoorn@intel.com
and paste the following into the
subject line:
P802.3ap/D0.7
Comments
If you have comments, you can
access the comment generation tool at the following
URL:
http://ieee802.org/3/ap/public/BP_Comment_Tool.zip
This is a Windows-based run-time
database application. Save the compressed zip file to a directory where you
wish to uncompress the file. Once you uncompress the file, do not move the
directory or any files in the directory as this may prevent the executable
program from running properly. Double-click on the executable file (EXE) to
run the database application. If this is the first time you have used this
comment generation tool, please read the instructions.
NOTE: Use of
this tool is greatly preferred, as the output it generates is easy to import
into our comment resolution database.
If you are unable to use the tool,
please format your comments and submit them as described
below.
Acceptable comment
types:
E =
Editorial
T =
Technical
TR = Technical Required (a
Technical comment that the commenter feels very strongly
about)
To submit comments in text (ASCII)
form, please use the form below. 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. Enter
your comment between "Comment:" and "CommentEnd:" and your suggested remedy to
your comment between "SuggestedRemedy:" and "RemedyEnd:".
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