[RPRWG] Opening of WG Recirculation Ballot for P802.17b Draft 1.5
Announcement of opening of 802.17 WG Recirculation Ballot and Comment
Period
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Dear IEEE 802.17 Working Group Member:
This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the IEEE 802.17 Working
Group
Recirculation Ballot for IEEE P802.17b Draft 1.5, otherwise known as:
Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange
between
systems - Local & Metropolitan Area Networks - Specific requirements -
Part
17b: Resilient packet ring (RPR) access method and physical layer
specifications - Amendment 1: Spatially aware sublayer
The comment period opens on Wednesday, 24 May 2006 at 6:00 PM ET
and closes on Saturday, 10 April 2006 at 6:00 PM AOE (anywhere on
earth).
THIS IS AN 802.17 RECIRCULATION BALLOT. Members who submitted ballots
on draft 1.4 automatically have their votes carried forward. If you wish
to
change your vote, or provide comments you must return a ballot package.
There is no need to return a ballot if your vote remains.
All valid ballots (votes on the document) that are submitted will be
counted
towards approval or disapproval of the draft. To be valid, a ballot must
be
cast by a voting member of the 802.17 working group. Comments from
non-voters
are also welcome, and will not be counted towards approval or
disapproval of
the draft.
All properly submitted comments will be resolved during the June 2006
Interim Session (June 14/15, 2006).
A copy of this draft can be found on our password-protected website:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17b/d1_5/.
The draft is posted in Adobe PDF document format and can be viewed
online,
or downloaded and printed. You will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat
Reader
to view or print the draft. This software is available for free
downloading
from Adobe at:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Two copies of the draft are provided. The official copy is formated
using change instructions (as required by an amendment). The unofficial
copy provides the complete text and should only be used as a
check against the change instructions in the official copy. In other
words
if the official copy does not transform the 802.17-2004 standard into
the full text version, a comment against the official copy should
be raised.
The draft prints out as 238 pages. It is copyrighted by the IEEE and is
for your review and balloting purposes only. It should not be copied or
otherwise distributed.
The ballot/comment executable, which requires Windows, is available at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/member/802_17b/d1_5/.
If this is your first time using the comment executable, please read the
instructions available at the same location.
Please submit ballots and comments (using the output of your comment
executable) electronically to the editor, Marc Holness, at the email
address
given at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/projects/P802_17b/index.htm#EditorialStaff.
If you should have any questions, problems, or comments please contact
the chair, Mike Takefman, at the email address given at:
http://www.ieee802.org/17/index.htm#Officers.
NOTE:
According to the RPR Working Group ballot process, official ballots will
be
accepted only from voting members of the 802.17 Working Group. The draft
is
also, however, being circulated to those who have been participating in
the
standardization process but are not members of the Working Group, in
order to
provide a wide review of the document and to solicit comments.
You should also be aware that Technical-Binding (TB) comments are not
required
to be tracked amongst non-Working Group members. If a TB is entered by a
person
who is not a Working Group member, and this person is not at attendance
and
readily available at the interim meeting to review the Working Group's
response, we will not obligate the editor or staff of 802.17 to track
down the
commenter and obtain the sign-off.
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Michael Takefman tak@cisco.com
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Chair IEEE 802.17 Stds WG
3000 Innovation Dr, Ottawa, Canada, K2K 3E8
voice: 613-254-3399 cell:613-220-6991