From: To: Subject: Opening Announcement: P802.15.3/D17 2nd Recirculation Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:52 PM Dear IEEE P802.15.3/D17 Second Recirculation Balloting Group Member: This e-mail is to advise you of the opening of the electronic ballot for P802.15.3/D17 Second Recirculation. * * * This is a Recirculation Ballot. * * * Instructions for accessing the draft standard and for casting your vote and comments follow. ------------------------------------------------------------ Instructions for balloting on P802.15.3/D17 Second Recirculation: "Standard for Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - LAN/MAN Specific Requirements - Part 15.3: Wireless Medium Access control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications for High Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN)" ------------------------------------------------------------- ***** IMPORTANT ***** The electronic ballot officially opens on Tuesday, 08-April-2003, and it closes at 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, 22-April-2003. The voting and comment web sites will be taken down at this time, and no votes and/or comments will be accepted after this point. ***** THE DOCUMENT ***** A copy of the document can be found at the following password- protected website: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ballot/p802_15_3/ username: xxxxxxxx password: yyyyyyyy (Note: The username and password are case-sensitive.) The draft is posted in Adobe PDF document format; you will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader (3.0 or higher) to view or print the document. If you do not have this program, it is freely available for downloading at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html This draft is posted for your review for balloting purposes only and should not be copied or redistributed. Downloading time will vary based on the size of the draft. ***** CASTING YOUR VOTE ***** You should cast your electronic vote on this document at the following URL: http://standards.ieee.org//cgi-bin/balloting?vote:0000503 ***You must respond to a Recirculation Ballot if you wish to change your initial vote. If you do not respond to a Recirculation Ballot, your last vote will be carried forward. ***** SUBMITTING COMMENTS ***** If you wish to comment on the draft, you are strongly encouraged to prepare your comments using either (1) the IEEE 802.15 comment generation (executable) tool or (2) the IEEE 802.15 comment generation (ASCII) form. The tool or form will work on both Windows and MacOS operating systems in the following directory: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB10/ or via the HTML Page: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB10/SB10.html Note 1: The IEEE 802.15 WG provides the above links to the Balloting Group for complete access to the complete distribution package for the balloted draft. Note 2: The comment generation (executable) tool is very useful for anyone intending to submit numerous comments. The comment generation (ASCII) form is a manual method ideally suited for voters who intend to submit very few comments. Both of these tools enhance our ability to easily consolidate your comments for resolution. To use the comment generation (executable) tool, download: HRWPANBallot.zip http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB10/HRWPANBallot.zip Unzip the archive (2373KB) in a new directory off your root directory e.g.,C:\SB10Tool\ Run the program file named, P802-15-3_D17 Solution.EXE and follow the instructions. This program will create a data file containing your comments. To use the comment generation (ASCII) form, download: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/SB10/P802.15.3CommentForm.txt This text file contains the ASCII comment form. This file can be used on other platforms. This format can be used for multiple comments. Please do not modify or alter the format as the parsing engine cannot handle changes to the format. You need to submit either of these comment files using the following URL: http://standards.ieee.org//cgi-bin/balloting?comment:0000503 ***** QUESTIONS ***** If you should have any questions about the draft, please contact the Working Group Chair: NAME Bob Heile Phone: +1 508 222 1393 E-mail: bheile@ieee.org *****NEWS***** Go to our new Standards Development Online site for more information onstandards development processes. This site consolidates the critical mass of standards development process and procedure information into one location on the IEEE-SA website. It also provides informative training modules and information for each step in the IEEE-SA standards development process. The site covers in detail how to initiate a standards project at the IEEE and how to write a standard. 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