Re: [802SEC] P802.3av PAR for July consideration
Bob,
Regarding your Point 1, you might consider amending your proposed
text in Item 7.4. That's because the "IEEE-SA STANDARDS BOARD WORKING
GUIDE FOR THE PROJECT AUTHORIZATION REQUEST (PAR) FORM":
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/par/parinstruction.html
has a slightly different definition of the interpretation of an
unspecified year:
"Note: If the year is left blank, the document authorized by this PAR
shall be considered to be a modification of the approved base
standard and all of its approved amendments and corrigenda that
exists at the initiation of the ballot invitations."
You might considered using this text (or a grammatically correct
version of it).
Roger
At 01:22 PM -0700 06/06/12, Grow, Bob wrote:
>Colleagues:
>
>Please find following the URLs for the PAR documents for P802.3av,
>an amendment to IEEE Std 802.3 for: Physical Layer Specifications and
>Management Parameters for 10Gb/s Passive Optical Networks.
>
>
>http://www.ieee802.org/3/10GEPON_study/public/may06/10gepon_PAR.pdf
>http://www.ieee802.org/3/10GEPON_study/public/may06/10gepon_5criteria.pdf
>
>In accordance with the LMSC procedure for PARS requirement to
>provide the status of the PAR, the PAR (with the below exceptions)
>and Five Criteria documents are as approved by the 10 Gb/s EPON
>Study Group. These two documents have not yet been approved by IEEE
>802.3 (as they are the output of a May interim SG meeting).
>
>We have also encountered two problems with the now mandatory on-line
>PAR form, that may have corollaries for other WGs attempting to
>complete PAR forms for July:
>
>1. The current form does not allow you to leave the year on a
>standard blank. The NesCom convention prior to the current on-line
>PAR form was that leaving the year blank indicated that the
>amendment would apply to the then current standard. In this case,
>we do expect to have to revise the base standard before the target
>completion date of this amendment. This was discussed at last
>week's NesCom meeting, and they will be developing new NesCom
>convention language to continue to provide an option to having to
>submit a modified PAR to only change the year of the base standard.
>Based on those NesCom discussions, I will recommend to 802.3 (and
>any other WGs facing the same issue) that pending the approval of
>the new convention language, that text be added to Item 7.4
>indicating that "The project will amend the then current revision of
>IEEE Std 802.3 at the time the amendment enters Sponsor ballot".
>
>2. The text approved in May by the 10 Gb/s EPON Study Group also
>differs slightly from that presented in Item 5.5. The approved
>version of this PAR item included a bulleted list. Unknown at the
>time of our SG meeting, even though one can type in this kind of
>formatting, it is removed when the PAR page is saved. Consequently,
>slight grammar changes may be adopted to improve the flow of this
>text recognizing this form limitation.
>
>Bob Grow
>Chair, IEEE 802.3
>bob.grow@ieee.org
>
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