[RPRWG] Re: PAR for EFM
This note is a follow-up of the one I sent with the 5 Criteria for Ethernet
in the First Mile PAR.
Howard Frazier has made one small change, indicated in his note below, to
the 5 criteria.
Best regards,
Robert D. Love
Chair, Resilient Packet Ring Alliance
President, LAN Connect Consultants
7105 Leveret Circle Raleigh, NC 27615
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Frazier" <millardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stds-802-sec@xxxxxxxx>; <stds-802-3@xxxxxxxx>;
<stds-802-3-efm@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:53 PM
Subject: PAR for EFM
>
> Dear members of the IEEE 802 SEC, the 802.3 WG, and the EFM SG,
>
> I made a rather bone-headed error when I mailed the PAR and 5 Criteria
> for the EFM project to you earlier this month. The 5 Criteria response
> for "Compatibility" contained the wrong text in the first paragraph.
> The text I sent you read:
>
> As a supplement to IEEE Std 802.3, the proposed project will
> remain in conformance with the 802 Overview and Architecture
> with the possible exception of allowing EPON shared media end
> nodes to communicate by means of intermediate switching nodes.
>
> It should have read:
>
> As a supplement to IEEE Std 802.3, the proposed project will
> remain in conformance with the 802 Overview and Architecture
> with the possible exception of the peer to peer key concept for
> Ethernet over PON.
>
> The former text was merely a proposal. The latter was officially voted in
> by the Study Group, as recorded in the meeting minutes. Duh.
>
> I appologize for this error. An updated set of the 5 Criteria responses
> (the aforementioned is the ONLY change from what I mailed earlier) is
> attached in the form of a PDF file.
>
> We have scheduled a tutorial session about EFM for Monday night, July 9th,
> from 8:00 to 9:30 pm. We will review the PAR, 5 Criteria, and Objectives
> for the project, and provide an overview for each of the technical
> subsections within the project.
>
> Howard Frazier
> Chair, IEEE 802.3 EFM Study Group