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[802.3_DIALOG] Comments on November PARs



Colleagues:

I’ve taken a look at the PARs submitted for consideration at the November IEEE 802 plenary session and have the following personal comments.  Feedback is welcome on this reflector or directly to me.

—Bob


IEEE P802.1DP Time-Sensitive Networking Profile for Aerospace Onboard Ethernet Communications
New Standard


General — It isn’t clear why this is a Standard rather than a Recommended Practice.

5.2, Title — The Title and Scope disagree on profile or profiles.  Suggest the plural in the title would be more correct.

5.4, Purpose — The assertion that the standard will “support the entire range” is an ambitious and probably unachievable goal.  Suggest: “support a broad range”.

5.6, Stakeholders — The ending phrase is awkward.  Suggest: replace “of aerospace” with “for aerospace” at end of sentence.


1.2.5,l, Known costs — From the PAR, it might be appropriate to indicate that availability of standard profiles likely will reduce development costs for products.


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IEEE P802.11bh WLAN MAC and PHY Specifications 
Amendment: Enhanced service with randomized MAC addresses

General — Neither the PARs nor CSDs clearly distinguish the need for two similar projects.  Scopes overlap, and distinct identity is not established between proposed P802.11bh and proposed P802.11bi.


6.1.2, Registration activity — The PAR does not make is clear that work will only use randomization and changing of MAC addresses within the local address space.  Without that restriction, this question should be answered yes.  Because the current myProject PAR code only allows an explanation here if answered yes, either the answer could be changed to yes here citing previous RAC interest in MAC address randomization, or an explanation of the restriction could be added to 8.1.


1.2.2, Compatibility — Once approved an amendment becomes part of the base standard, therefore, IEEE Std 802c is part of IEEE Std 802 and should be addressed for this project.  Unless a method for restricting the range for random local MAC addresses is specified, randomization is incompatible with the optional SLAP capabilities of Std 802c.  This should be addressed here.

1.2.3, Distinct identity — See comments on proposed P802.11bi.  There is insufficient information descriminating the work on this project and proposed P802.11bi.


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IEEE P802.11bi WLAN MAC and PHY Specifications
Amendment:  Enhanced service with Data Privacy Protection

General — Neither the PARs nor CSDs clearly distinguish the need for two similar projects.  Scopes overlap, and distinct identity is not established between proposed P802.11bh and proposed P802.11bi.


No comments.

CSD: <https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-1346-02-0rcm-csd-draft-for-privacy-amendment-of-rcm-project.docx>

1.2.3, Distinct identity — There is insufficient information descriminating the work on this project and proposed P802.11bh..

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IEEE P802.15aa Low-Rate Wireless Networks 
Amendment: Higher data rate extension to IEEE 802.15.4 Smart Utility Network (SUN) Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Physical layer (PHY)

3.1 Working Group officers — This comment assumes the PAR content was entered into myProject then copied and pasted into the Word document as stated in the Abstract field.  Checking on 23 October, myProject has been updated with the new officers of 802.15.  Please check when submitting that these updates are shown before the submittal.  If this does not happen, please submit a bug report on my project asking that auto-fill data be updated whenever a draft PAR is saved.

Title page —  P802.15.4.xx should be replaced with the project identification P802.15.4aa in three places.

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IEEE P802.16t Broadband Wireless Access System: Fixed and Mobile Wireless Access in Narrowband Channels
PAR modification

I couldn’t identify the modifications.  The PAR document appears to be a copy of the 06 October 2019 submittal, not a modified PAR form.








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