IEEE P802.3 March 2004 Maintenance Meeting
Unconfirmed Minutes

David Law convened the meeting at 1:00PM on Wednesday 17th March 2004 in the Captain's Table meeting room at the Hilton Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA.

Meeting attendance was, Bob Grow, Bob Noseworthy, David Law, Eric Lynskey, Geoff Thompson, Mike McCormack, Pat Thaler, Paul Nikolich, Peter Bradshaw, Piers Dawe, Steve Carlson, Tom Dineen.

David Law presented and reviewed the two possible plans for IEEE P802.3REVam dependent on the approval date of IEEE P802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile.

All open revision request were then reviewed:

Maintenance request 1001 The submitter withdrew this request.

Maintenance request 1105 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1106 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1107 Piers Dawe provided a presentation analysis of the change proposed in this request. For the time being the submitter choose to allow the request to remain in its current state - it will not be included in the upcoming revision ballot.

Maintenance request 1108 Include the correction in IEEE P802.3REVam draft - does not require ballot as it is a Errata.

Maintenance request 1110 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1111 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1112 Include the correction in IEEE P802.3REVam draft - does not require ballot as it is a Errata.

Maintenance request 1113 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1114 Correct spelling of Advertisement on Page 1114-1, line 21. Bit 4.24.10 to be defined as 'Ignored - Value 0 or 1, writes ignored'. Once complete include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1115 New text to be supplied by Sailesh. Once supplied include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1116 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1117 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1118 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1119 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1120 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1121 Updated text supplied by David James - Option 1, the maximal approach was chosen with the 20 bits defined as dependent bits. Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1122 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1123 Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1124 Include this correction in IEEE P802.3REVam draft - does not require ballot as it is a Errata.

Maintenance request 1125 Editorial/Technical - Edit Ballot Required - Yes Ready for ballot - Y Ready for Ballot - (B) Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1126 Editorial/Technical - Edit Ballot Required - Yes Ready for ballot - Y Ready for Ballot - (B) Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1127 Editorial/Technical - Tech Ballot Required - Yes Ready for ballot - Y Ready for Ballot - (B) Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1128 Editorial/Technical - Tech Ballot Required - No Ready for ballot - N/A Errata - (E) This errata is considered essential therefore and should be included in an Errata sheet for IEEE Std 802.3-2002. Action: David Law to work with IEEE-SA Staff to issue an Errata sheet for IEEE Std 802.3-2002. Also include the correction in IEEE P802.3REVam draft - does not require ballot as it is a Errata.

Maintenance request 1129 Withdrawn. This request was withdrawn by the requester on the basis it is matter of policy to add this text to all drafts and has been referred to SA Staff to add this text as remedial action to all existing Standards.

Maintenance request 1130 Withdrawn. This request is a duplicate of 1123.

Maintenance request 1131 Editorial/Technical - Tech Ballot Required - No Ready for ballot - N/A Errata - (E) This errata is considered essential therefore and should be included in an Errata sheet for IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002. Action: David Law to work with IEEE-SA Staff to issue an Errata sheet for IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002. Also include the correction in IEEE P802.3REVam draft - does not require ballot as it is a Errata.

Maintenance request 1132 Updates: Clause number should read '4.2.10'. Clause title should read 'Common procedures'. Proposed revision text should read change 'CRC32 := {The 32-bit CRC for the entire frame, excluding the FCS field (if present)}' to read 'CRC32 := {The 32-bit CRC for the entire frame as defined in 3.2.8, excluding the FCS field (if present)}' Rational should read 'Add a cross-reference to 3.2.8'. Based on the updates: Editorial/Technical - Edit Ballot Required - Yes Ready for ballot - Y Ready for Ballot - (B) Include in IEEE P802.3REVam ballot package.

Maintenance request 1133 Editorial/Technical - Tech Ballot Required - No Ready for ballot - N/A Errata - (E) On examination of the approved draft of IEEE P802.3ae (D5.0) it can be seen the text in the approved draft does not match that of the published standard. This is therefore an errata. The Change request will be updated to reflect this. This errata is considered essential therefore and should be included in an Errata sheet for IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002. Action: David Law to work with IEEE-SA Staff to issue an Errata sheet for IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002. Also include the correction in IEEE P802.3REVam draft - does not require ballot as it is a Errata.

The allocation of a Auto-Negotiation Selector Description for IEEE Std 1394 was discussed. It was agreed to allocate the binary value 00100, the IEEE 802.3 Auto-Negotiation Selector Fields web page will be updated to reflect this and a IEEE 802.3 Revision Request raised to add this value to the table in IEEE Std 802.3.

Action: David Law to update web site and submit Revision Request.

The meeting was adjourned.