Proposed Working Group Charter

["RDLove" <rdlove@xxxxxxxxx>]

At  the August meeting Howard Frazier and I strongly recommended that our study group develop a charter for the Working Group that we would like the SEC to form at the Saturday night SEC Executive meeting.  To that end I presented the following chart at the interim meeting to list possible criteria for us to use in creating our charter:

 

Proposed 802.RPR Working Group Charter
(Think about what will define 802.RPR, and in what areas we may want to expand our family of standards)
Single MAC for entire family of Standards
Use existing PHY Layer designs or develop our own.
High speed (1 Gbps and above) based on market forces
Support of quality of Service
Separate PARs may be for solutions optimized for different network sizes. 
Alternate topologies

 

I have seen no contributions related to this topic since the meeting.  Therefore, I now propose (as a first cut for discussion purposes) a first draft of our charter:

 

 

Proposed 802.RPR Working Group Charter

 

The Resilient Packet Ring Working Group Charter is to
· Define and develop standards for a Resilient Packet Ring Access Protocol for use in Local, Metropolitan, and Wide Area Networks for transfer of data packets at rates scalable to multiple gigabits per second
· Specifically address the data transmission requirements of carriers that have present and planned fiber optic physical infrastructure in a ring topology
· Define and develop detailed specifications for using existing and / or new physical layers at appropriate data rates that will support transmission of this access protocol
· Develop extensions and improvements for this protocol as needed
· Provide ongoing support for the set of standards developed, including
        - Cooperatively working with IEEE 802.1 and other groups chartered to address internetworking issues
        - Issuing Errata and Corrections to the set of standards developed

 

I welcome comment, criticism, and general discussion.

 

Best regards,

 

Robert D. Love
President, LAN Connect Consultants
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