IEEE P802.17 Maintenance Task Group
November 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 0103
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Replace the action of Row 17 with "myTopoInfo.myChecksum.value = ComputeTc();".

Maintenance request 0104
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change the referenced item from "AGECOEF" to "ageCoef".

Maintenance request 0105
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Move the definition of ttlExpiredFrames from 7.6.3.6.2 to 7.2.2, and instead reference the definition in 7.2.2.

Maintenance request 0106
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change the routine name to "PHY_READY.indication()".

Maintenance request 0107
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Add the following to 10.4.4.3:
"IsCongested( )
See 10.2.3."

Maintenance request 0108
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change
"conservative mode fairness (see 10.2.2)."
to
"conservative mode fairness, based on the value of myTopoInfo.conservativeMode defined in 11.2.5."

Maintenance request 0109
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change
"multiChokeIndOption defined in 10.2.2."
to
"myTopoInfo.multichokeUser defined in 11.2.5."

Maintenance request 0110
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Delete:
"(If any station on ringlet rid advertises a nonzero mu value, every
station is required to send multi-choke fairness frames onto ringlet rid.)"
Add the following as a separate paragraph, following the existing paragraph:
"The ringInfo.multichokeUser bit indicates if any station on the ring uses multi-choke fairness frames and, therefore,
that every station transmits multi-choke fairness frames."

Maintenance request 0111
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Move the last paragraph on page 311 to be the last sentence of the sole paragraph of 11.4.3.

Maintenance request 0112
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Y
New status: B
Change "may be" to "is" in the comment field of PP6.

Maintenance request 0113
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change "11.2.4" to "11.2.5" in the reference for rprFairnessReservedRate.

Maintenance request 0114
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Add the following to 10.4.10.4:
tailIndex
Index into topoEntry for the current tail station.
tailRi
Ringlet on which the tail station sent the FDD.
tailSa
The MAC address of the tail station.

Maintenance request 0115
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Ask MIB experts about this proposed change.

Maintenance request 0116
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change all three occurences of "advertisementInterval" (10.3.1.1, 11.6.14, and 11.6.14.3) to "advertisingInterval". Add "advertisingInterval" to 11.2.8 under the section for Clause 10.

Maintenance request 0117
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required:
New status: T
Ask technical experts to review changes needed to the RingletSelection statemachine for control frames.

Maintenance request 0118
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change all occurrence of "frame.checksumValid" to "frame.cv".

Maintenance request 0119
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Remove the setting of frame.hec from Rows 34, 36, and 37 of Table 7.29 (RingletSelection state table). Change the action of Row 17 of Table 7.31 (StageQueueSelection state table) to "frame.hec = Crc16(frame);"

Maintenance request 0120
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Change the condition of Table-Row 11.3-3 from "EntryInQueue(Q_RX_TP_PARSE) != NULL" to "EntryInQueue(Q_RX_TP_PARSE)".

Maintenance request 0121
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
Add the following to 11.6.2.2:
"holdoffStartTime[ri]
The time at which the holdoff was started."
Modify all occurrences of holdoffTimeout in Table 11.12 to add "[ri]".

Maintenance request 0122
Errata/Technical: Technical
Ballot Required: Yes
New status: B
In 7.2.4, modify "This clause references the following literals and variables defined in Clause 11:" to "This clause references the following literals and variables defined in Clause 11, where the local reference to per-ringlet arrays assumes the array element for the current datapath (e.g., keepaliveTime[0] is used for the ringlet0 datapath instance and keepaliveTime[1] is used for the ringlet1 datapath instance):"

Maintenance request 0123
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0124
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0125
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0126
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0127
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0128
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0129
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0130
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R

Maintenance request 0131
Errata/Technical:
Ballot Required:
New status: R


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