[802SEC] 802.15.3 Title-some thoughts
Greetings all-
Hope everyone had a safe journey back (or to IETF93).
I have submitted the revision PAR for 15.3 with the original title
(though MyProjext deleted "IEEE" all on its own) for
consideration at the upcoming NesCom meeting in September. Since
this title does not really reflect what the standard does, I thought
getting some thoughts out on this now might pave the way for fixing this
at some future point.
By way of background:
Original Tiltle:
IEEE Standard for Information technology-- Local and metropolitan
area networks-- Specific requirements-- Part 15.3: Wireless Medium Access
Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for High Data Rate
Wireless Personal Area Networks(WPAN)
Original Title without boilerplate:
Standard for Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer
(PHY) Specifications for High Data Rate Wireless Personal Area
Networks(WPAN)
Original Title without boilerplate and obvious text:
Standard for High Data Rate Wireless Personal Area
Networks(WPAN)
The heartburn would seem to be around the proposed deletion of the two
words "Personal Area". The issue is that "Personal
Area" does not describe what this standard does since the
applications supported are, by and large, anything but
"personal" and/or personal short range.
Geoff suggested I might consider thinking about this in terms of the MAC,
which I thought was a really sensible idea. The 15.3 MAC was
designed from the beginning as a true Mulit-Media MAC rather than one
optimized for LAN applications. It has robust GTS capabilities, a
variable contention access period, and the ability to dynamically adjust
to maximize throughput. Things you would expect for Multi-media and the
reason it was chosen as the base standard for the 2 current
ammendments.
So maybe a title which read:
"Standard for High Data Rate Wireless Multi-Media
Networks" (or versions containing more of the non essential
boilerplate) would be not only more accurate but also more
acceptable.
I would appreciate your thoughts or alternative suggestions.
Regards
Bob
Bob Heile, Ph.D
Director of Standards, Wi-SUN Alliance
Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Specialty Networks
Chair IEEE 2030.5 Working Group for Smart Energy Profile 2
Co-Chair IEEE P2030 Task Force 3 on Smartgrid Communications
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