Re: [8023-CMSG] Backplane ring study group
David,
I think we should put more effort into more of higher level items including
motivational material for this work, what is the problem that we're looking
into solving, any data available to show the problem, any data available to
show characteristics of the traffic we're addressing, what is the size of
the market, why is the suggested ring solution a good one for this problem,
...etc.
My 2 cents anyhow ...
Khaled Amer
President, AmerNet Inc.
Modeling Specialists - Performance Optimization
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Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Backplane ring study group
> All,
>
> At the 12Apr2004 MSC meeting, a PAR was approved for:
> P1796 Resilient backplane ring (RBR)
>
> We cannot meet as a working group until the submitted PAR is
> approved by the IEEE. In the meantime, however, we can have
> an organizing study group teleconference:
>
> Scheduled Conference Date: Friday, May 07, 2004
> Scheduled Start Time: 1:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time
> Scheduled End Time: 3:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time
> Dial-in Number: 1-702-835-5000 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
> Participant Access Code: 17960504
>
> The wording of the submitted PAR scope is as follows:
> "Resilient backplane ring (RBR) is a backplane interconnect based on the
> dual-ring resilient topology of Resilient Packet Ring and the 802 MAC
> addressing structure. RBR includes features appropriate for the
> low-latency
> backplane environment: destination-based flow control, low-power
> short-haul
> PHY, backplane-to-backplane links, transport of IEEE-1394 isochronous
> data,
> and support of IEEE-1596 memory-update operations."
>
> Background material includes:
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/msc/MSC200404/RbrSlides2004Mar31.pdf
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/msc/MSC200401/RprBackplane.pdf
>
> Items on the agenda include:
> 1) Formulation of email reflector lists.
> 2) Review of approved PAR.
> 3) Sollicitation of technical inputs and strawman proposals.
> 4) Discussion of related activities.
> 5) Future meeting schedule.
> 6) Other items as requested.
>
> In particular, this is an opportunity to suggest directions, revisions
> of the slides and objectives, and/or strawman proposals. While the
> background information may look pretty, its content should not be
> viewed as a constraint/limitation as we move forward.
>
> I appoligize for the short notice, but things have been delayed as
> an offered host has failed to materialize as expected.
>
> Since teleconferences are free (see freeconference.com, for such things),
> we can have these as often as desired.
>
> DVJ
>
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