Re: [8023-POEP] Layer 2 (DLL) Ad-Hoc Meeting This Tuesday Afternoon November 13th: Proposed agenda and categorization of comments
By popular demand, the meeting will start at 6pm not 
5pm so that the TF can continue to resolve comments.
 
Wael
 
 
--
Wael William Diab
Director, 
Technical Strategy, Broadcom
Secretary, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working 
Group
 
Colleagues,
As announced by the TF Chair, the Layer 2 (DLL) adhoc 
will be meeting this afternoon at 5pm in the 802.3at meeting room. We are 
scheduled to meet for an hour and our primary goal will be to propose remedies 
to the comments in this area. This email contains the proposed agenda, categorization of comments / work 
areas and a reminder for the patent policy slides. The adhoc meeting will start 
at 6pm Eastern time this afternoon as previously announced.
 
Proposed 
Agenda
- Cover Patent policy
- Review and 
approve agenda
- Cover comment and suggested work areas (see below)
- 
Review any new consensus text (if any and time)
- Review contributions 
(if any and time)
- Discuss next steps / next mtg. 
of adhoc prior to Nov if necessary
Categorization of Comments / 
Work Areas
Here are the broad areas we have 
comments on:
- 
Register bits: 205, 207, 113, 206, 204
- 
TLVs: 158
- 
State Machine: 210, 211, 214, 60
- Loss 
of communication: 209, 61, 213, 208 
 
Patent Policy 
Reminder
As a reminder, please review the 
IEEE-SA PatCom slides [ http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf <http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.pdf>  ] prior to the start of our meeting today. This will be 
the first order of business before we move into discussing the proposed 
agenda.
Talk to you this afternoon
Wael
 
 
--
Wael William Diab
Director, 
Technical Strategy, Broadcom
Secretary, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working 
Group