IEEE P802.17 Maintenance Task Group
March 2006 Minutes

Attendees: Held as part of 802.17 WG plenary session, so all attendees of the WG were attendees of the IEEE P802.17 Maintenance Task Group.
Maintenance request 0025
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Discussion:
Replace "NORM" to "1/(ageCoef * advertisingInterval)". Remove references to NORM. Add references to ageCoef and advertisingInterval.

Maintenance request 0034
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change the action for rows 10 and 11 to set WTR to FALSE. Leave the row descriptions for rows 10, 11, and 12 as is.

Maintenance request 0037
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
The suggested problem is not a problem. Such an admin change should be allowed.

Maintenance request 0046
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: I
Verify, especially with submitter, if MR9 supercedes this.

Maintenance request 0047
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
The perceived problem is expected behavior for aggressive mode fairness. Conservative mode fairness can be used if this behavior is not desired.

Maintenance request 0054
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Replace the if statement with:
if (ringlet != ri &&
tp.macAddress == topoEntry[Other(ringlet)][1].macAddress)
{
awayState = Max(awayState, tp.spanProtState[ri]);
break;
}

Maintenance request 0055
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
It is correct to count these frames. A control frame making it to this row is an error.

Maintenance request 0056
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Replace "flow" with "conversation" on pages 121 and 380.

Maintenance request 0057
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Superceded by MR12.

Maintenance request 0058
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change "A byte of fairness eligible transit traffic bound for a destination beyond the congestion point" to "A byte of
fairness eligible transit traffic bound for a destination short of the congestion point". Also, in the description of row 3, change "not beyond" to "short of".

Maintenance request 0059
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change "For wrapping rings, if the frame is not replicated, the we field is set. For wrapping rings, if the frame is replicated, the we field is not set." to "For wrapping rings, the we field is set."

Maintenance request 0060
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Need input from center-wrapping expert.

Maintenance request 0061
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Need input from center-wrapping expert.

Maintenance request 0062
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Remove the extraneous space.

Maintenance request 0063
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
The rprOamRequestCount attribute will be deprecated in the next revision of the 802.17 MIB. Any extraneous text dealing with the rprOamRequestCount attribute outside of the MIB will be removed.

Maintenance request 0064
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
The rprOamTimeout attribute will be referenced back to 12.5.2.4. The default value will be changed in the MIB to 10 ms to correspond with the value given in 12.5.2.4.

Maintenance request 0065
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
The rprOamControl attribute will be deprecated in the next revision of the 802.17 MIB. Any extraneous text dealing with the rprOamControl attribute outside of the MIB will be removed.

Maintenance request 0066
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
The rprOamResponseCount attribute will be deprecated in the next revision of the 802.17 MIB. Any extraneous text dealing with the rprOamResponseCount attribute outside of the MIB will be removed.

Maintenance request 0067
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
The rprOamAvResponseTime attribute will be deprecated in the next revision of the 802.17 MIB. Any extraneous text dealing with the rprOamAvResponseTime attribute outside of the MIB will be removed.

Maintenance request 0068
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
The rprOamResponseStatus attribute will be deprecated in the next revision of the 802.17 MIB. Any extraneous text dealing with the rprOamResponseStatus attribute outside of the MIB will be removed.

Maintenance request 0069
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change "toClientUcastClassBCirAFrames" to "toClientUcastClassBCirFrames".

Maintenance request 0070
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
This is a request for an enhancement, not an error needing fixing.

Maintenance request 0071
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
This is a request for an enhancement, not an error needing fixing.

Maintenance request 0072
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Current thought:
Change
"localFairRate/localWeight >= unreservedRate[myRi] - rampUpCoef"
to
"localFairRate/localWeight >= unreservedRate[myRi] - (unreservedRate[myRi] / rampUpCoef)".

Maintenance request 0073
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change the next state from "FINAL" to "RETURN".

Maintenance request 0074
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
In the condition for row 5, change "<" to "<=". In the condition for row 7, change ">=" to ">". Change the corresponding row descriptions to reflect the revised comparisons.

Maintenance request 0075
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change "The TransmitCount" to "The TransmitRoute".

Maintenance request 0076
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Insert a new row between 20 and 21 with Condition = "!unicast(frame.da)", Action = “-”, State = “FORM”. Change
rows 24 to 27 to remove the test for “Unicast(frame.da)”. On page 60, add the following sentence to the description of flooding_form, immediately preceding the sentence that begins with "If flooding_form is omitted": "A value of FI_NONE is ignored for frames whose destination address has the group bit set."

Maintenance request 0077
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
This is a request for an enhancement, not an error needing fixing.

Maintenance request 0078
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change
"Reset the stqHighWatermark and stqLowWatermark values to stqSize"
to
"Reset the stqHighWatermark and stqLowWatermark values to stqDepth".

Maintenance request 0079
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
On page 253, in Equation 10.6, change "InitLpilteredRates()" to "InitLpFilteredRates()". On page 255, in the action for row 3, change "InitLowPassFilteredRates();" to "InitLPFilteredRates();".

Maintenance request 0080
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Remove "frtt = fdd + lrttToTail;" from rows 11 and 12.

Maintenance request 0081
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change "For service class classC, the MAC service interface also provides the number of hops to the nearest congested station." to "For service class classC, the MAC service interface of a station lying within a congestion domain also provides the number of hops to the head of the congestion domain in which that station lies."

Maintenance request 0082
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
This is a request for an enhancement, not an error needing fixing.

Maintenance request 0083
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: No
New status: J
Resolution:
This is a request for an enhancement, not an error needing fixing.

Maintenance request 0084
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Resolution:
Change "frame.ri = receivedRi;" in lines 1 and 3 to "frame.ri = myRi;".

Maintenance request 0085
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
The specific references are needed.

Maintenance request 0086
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
The precise locations and approaches to dealing with counting during available and unavailable time need to be worked out.

Maintenance request 0087
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Need input from center-wrapping expert and edge-wrapping expert.

Maintenance request 0088
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0089
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0090
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0091
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0092
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0093
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0094
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0095
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0096
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0097
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0098
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0099
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0100
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0101
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0102
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R


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