[802.3AZ] The comment deadline is just a week away
Dear colleagues,
Our comment deadline is just over a week away. Please take the time to
review and submit comments before the deadline as this makes our editors'
jobs easier. Remember our goal at this stage in the process is to produce
a technically complete draft. The area that I think needs to most work for
us to achieve technical completeness is backplane. Please contact me if you
are interested in contributing to the backplane effort.
There are two new ad-hocs, "wake time shrinkage" and "L2 (layer 2)".
David Law
is chair of the former and Wael Diab is chair of the latter. David has
scheduled
a conference call on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 8:00 AM PST (5:00PM
CET; 4:00PM
GMT; 11:00 AM EST). Please contact David to get call details if you are
interested
in participating. Wael will send a meeting announcement later this
week. Wael
and Sanjay will provide a revised version of Clause 78 to include the
layer 2
baseline that was inadvertently missed in the current version of the
clause. The
target date for that is Friday, February 19th. Part of the ad-hoc work
is to review
the new text.
Our next meeting is in Vancouver, BC, Canada at the Fairmont Hotel
Vancouver.
The meeting details can be found here:
http://ieee802.facetoface-events.com/sessions/55/index.php Please book
your room
soon if you are planning to go and have not done so already as I am told
the room
block will be reduced soon to mitigate the risk of incurring a large
bill due to a
low turn-out. We will meet all day Tuesday, March 10 and Wednesday
March 11, and
8:30AM to noon on Thursday, March 12. I will send an announcement with
the meeting
schedule on Friday, March 6th.
I cannot stress enough that we need to help our editors as much as we
can. To that
end, I encourage you to submit comments and if you have supporting
material in the
form of a presentation, please reference the presentation in your
comment. Please
provide the editors with the information they need in the suggested
remedy field and
response field if anything changes during the meeting and you are in the
room when the
comment is being processed.
We are making good progress toward a technically complete draft. If we
keep this going,
I am confident we will reach our goal of getting to Working Group ballot
in July.
I look forward to see those of you who can make it to the meeting in
Vancouver.
Best regards,
Mike
--
Michael J. Bennett
Chair, IEEE P802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Tel. 510.486.7913