Minutes from 802.3z meeting held in Merrimack, NH (sponsored by Cabletron) April 30, 1998 Howard Frazier - chair of 802.3z distributed agenda for the two day meeting Todd Hudson of Siecor was appointed as recording secretary Howard mentioned the following point of information - Once document becomes a standard, web site with drafts will go away. D5 has to be at IEEE by May 8 to be a standard by June 24 or 25 - this includes a slot for a 20 day sponsor ballot recirculation if necessary. One of our deliverables for the meeting is to decide if the new draft should be recirculated. There is no tie in for 802.3z to the next IEEE 802 Plenary in July (La Jolla) - all work will be completed and 802.3z will dissolve. D4.2 Sponsor Ballot Results D4.2 recirculation ballot closed April 15 - there were 103 approves and 5 disapproves for a 95% approval rate. The return rate was 82%. Signed statements of approval were received from 5 balloters who had neglected to return ballots during the first recirculation, bringing the ballot tally to 108 approves and 0 disapproves. Thus, as of April 30, the approval rate is 100%. Patent Letters Patent letters of assurance received from: IBM, Cypress, HP, and Sun. There is a letter indicating need for further review received from DEC. A letter was received from Corning. There were two communications received from Michael A. Fischer during sponsor ballots. He voted to abstain due to being involved in a law suit regarding 802.3 standards. Howie Johnson (Editor-in-Chief) showed Comment Statistics for each clause. There are a total of 89 comments - 73 were regarding Clause 38. There are broken down into: 8 technical required 33 technical 48 editorial D4.2 comments were distributed. Del Hanson presented a total of 66 comments (7 are new). They are broken down into 5 TR, 21 T, and 40 E comments. Geoff Thompson displayed a liason letter from TR 41.8.1 asking for a 62.5um OFL bandwidth that would allow distances of 300m. Paul Kolesar stated that an answer of 220 MHz*km had been given to Tony Beam of TR 41.8.1. Geoff has an action item for a written response. Plenary session ended and breakout groups were separated into 2 rooms - one for the PMD and one for all other groups. This occurred at 9:45 am. 802.3z will get back together at 9:00 am tomorrow. May 1, 1998 Reconvened at 10:00 am Several comments which had been received well after the deadline were reviewed. A response was written for each of these late comments. The comments did not reveal any technical flaws in the document, nor was any change made to the document on the basis of these comments. All comments have been reviewed and resolved. Paul Kolesar and others reviewed PICs for accuracy the night of April 30 Business Items Geoff Thompson presented a liason letter to be sent to TIA 41.8.1 proposing a bandwidth of 220 MHz*km that meets the 300m centralized cabling length of TIA/EIA-568 at 850nm using 1000BASE-SX. A motion was made to send this letter to Tony Beam. There was no opposition to the motion. Howie suggested recirculating the following: 802.3z Recirculation List COMMENT DESC CLAUSE 9 CG timer 36 7 signal detect 38 13 change 480 to 408 38 81 3 dB receiver BW 38 3,12,49,50 wrong test pattern 38 27,28 PMD labeling 38 40 delete unused portions of Annex 38B 55 signal detect 39 51 Bessell - Thom. Tolerances 38 A recirculation ballot package will be sent out with the above items. Motion to forward 802.3z That the responses to comments received on draft D4.2 be accepted, and be incorporated in draft D5, with editorial refinement (including updates to PICs tables) as necessary. That the changes in D5 which might be construed as technical be submitted for a second sponsor ballot recirculation. That the chair and the editor-in-chief of 802.3z be authorized to respond to any comments which may be received during recirculation. That draft D5 be submitted to RevCom for inclusion on the June, 1998 meeting agenda. If editorial changes result from recirculation, the revised draft will be substituted into the RevCom submittal package. That the submittal will be withdrawn from the RevCom agenda if the second recirculation ballot is unsuccessful. M: T. Dineen S: H. Johnson Technical Motion (>=75%) Y: 29 N: 1 A: 2 (Bob Grow voted against because he does not think that a recirculation is necessary) PASS (11:00am) Howard discussed "What happens next?" RevCom will get D5 - a non-change-barred document. This will be posted on the Web. The change document above that will be sent for recirculation ballot will also be posted to web. Motion to approve Minutes from Irvine Meeting - they have been previously posted on the web. M: T. Dineen S: B. Grow Motion passed - no opposition Geoff suggested that changes to the Minutes should be e-mailed in. Meeting was adjourned at approximately 11:30 am. Chairman's note: Ben Brown and Cabletron are to be commended for the meeting arrangements and facilities.