[802.3_EXTND_EPON] Ballot Recirculation, P802.3bk
Dear Task Force Participants,
The 1st Sponsor recirculation ballot has opened on IEEE P802.3bk/D3.1 with a
ballot close date of Tuesday 18th June 2013, 23:59 EDT.
If you have joined the Sponsor ballot group and are planning to comment
further on the draft, please, follow the instructions provided on the
myBallot portal <https://development.standards.ieee.org/my-site/home> under
'Balloting' -> 'myBallot Home' -> 'Manage myBallot Activity'.
If you did not join the Sponsor ballot group, but still would like to
comment on the draft, it will save the task force officers significant
effort if you would send your comments to myself for inclusion in the ballot
by Monday 17th June 2013, 23:59 EDT. Such comments will be identified in the
comment field as coming from you, and like all comments from outside the
ballot group will be non-binding. A web page containing the instructions on
how to do this and the spreadsheet that you will need to use to enter your
comments is available at
<http://www.ieee802.org/3/WG_tools/rogue/index.html>.
Best Regards,
Marek Hajduczenia
Chair, IEEE P802.3bk Extended EPON Task Force
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Subject: Ballot Recirculation, P802.3bk
Dear IEEE P802.3bk - Balloting Group Member:
This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of IEEE Standards Sponsor New
Ballot Recirculation - 1 for:
Title: IEEE Standard for Ethernet
Amendment: Physical Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for
Extended Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Scope: This standard defines Ethernet local area, access and metropolitan
area networks. Ethernet is specified at selected speeds of operation; and
uses a common media access control (MAC) specification and management
information base (MIB). The Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection (CSMA/CD) MAC protocol specifies shared medium (half duplex)
operation, as well as full duplex operation. Speed specific Media
Independent Interfaces (MIIs) provide an architectural and optional
implementation interface to selected Physical Layer entities (PHY). The
Physical Layer encodes frames for transmission and decodes received frames
with the modulation specified for the speed of operation, transmission
medium and supported link length. Other specified capabilities include:
control and management protocols, and the provision of power over selected
twisted pair PHY types.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to extend the optical loss budgets
supported by Ethernet Passive Optical Networks to support higher density and
longer reach applications, while optimizing costs of ownership.
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BALLOT OPENS: 03-Jun-2013
BALLOT CLOSES: 18-Jun-2013.
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