Cover Letter for 100Mbit/s HSTR PAR revision request

Late Request to NesCom for June98 Meeting

June 14th 1998

The following request was initiated by IEEE staff and Bob Love as part of establishing a ballot pool for Projects 802.5t and 802.5u. Since the documents were actually a combined document, it was felt much more expedient to vote on them as a single document. This requires that the PARs be modified as follows.

I ask that you place this item on the June NesCom agenda for consideration.

Jim Carlo (jcarlo@ti.com) Phone: 214-340-8837 Fax&Voice Mail: 214-853-5274
TI Fellow, Networking Standards at Texas Instruments
Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Telecom and Info Exchange Between Systems
Chair, IEEE 802 LAN MAN Standards Committee

Request to NesCom to revise the PAR for IEEE P802.5t, and if successful, withdraw the PAR for IEEE P802.5u. The revised PAR for P802.5t will include both the original project for P802.5t (twisted pair at 100 Mbit/s) and in addition the project for P802.5u (fibre at 100 Mbit/s). Since both projects have completed together and a single document has been voted and discussed in the token ring working group, this revised PAR will allow for a single IEEE sponsor ballot.

The specific changes are:

  1. Because this single document deals with both copper and fiber, it is no longer important to retain the transmission medium in the title. That information is still retained in the document scope.
  2. Modify the scope to include both twisted pair and fibre cabling.
  3. Update the patent statement for increased clarity for the combined work effort.

The present PARs are available at the IEEE 802.5 web site for detailed review at http://www.8025.org/documents/unsecure/pars/8025t.pdf and http://www.8025.org/documents/unsecure/pars/8025u.pdf

Doucument 802.5/1998/07-06r1 produced June 18th, 1998.

John Messenger