NOTE: ALL BALLOT RESPONSES SHOULD BE SENT TO THE NEW BALLOT RESPONSE LIST:
PLEASE!
This Email is attached to an official 802.1 Working Group ballot form for
P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Bridges and Bridged Networks—Amendment: Application Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Type, Length, Value (TLV). As this is a full Working Group ballot, only 802.1 voting members and liaisons are entitled to vote; however, any non-voting participants in the activities of 802.1 may submit a "Comment Only" ballot on the draft. In accordance with established practice in 802 and the IEEE, all comments received, whether from voters or non-voters, are given due consideration during the Ballot resolution process.
NOTE: As this is a formal WG ballot, if you vote "Approve" you are stating that, in your professional opinion, you consider the document to be technically complete, and ready for Sponsor ballot (i.e., the document is essentially ready for publication, apart from final editing for style, etc.). Hence, sending in an "approve" ballot response within a small number of minutes of the ballot start time cannot possibly mean that the voter has given the document the level of professional consideration necessary to make such a judgment. I believe the record so far was less than 10 minutes between posting the draft and ballot announcement, and receiving the first "Approve" - and that was on a document that contained Editor's notes indicating areas where work needed to be done!
The 802.1 voting members that are entitled to a vote on this ballot are as follows (NOTE: for a WG ballot, the voting population is fixed at the start of the ballot, and does not change during any subsequent recirculation ballots, regardless of any membership changes over the course of the balloting cycle):
Ao, Ting
Boiger, Christian
Bottorff, Paul
Cheng, Weiying
Crupnicoff, Diego
Cummings, Rodney
Diamond, Patrick
DIARRA, Aboubacar Kader
Farkas, Janos
Finn, Norman
Fredette, Andre
Garner, Geoffrey
Ghanwani, Anoop
Goetz, Franz
Gravel, Mark
Gray, Eric
Grow, Robert
Gunther, Craig
Haddock, Stephen
Hayakawa, Hitoshi
Hitt, Jeremy
Hussain, Rahil
Jakovljevic, Mirko
Jeffree, Anthony
Jochim, Markus
Johas Teener, Michael
Keen, Hal
Kiessling, Marcel
Klein, Philippe
Kleineberg, Oliver
Lynch, Jeff
Mack-Crane, Ben
McIntosh, James
Messenger, John
Moldovansky, Anatoly
Multanen, Eric
Muyshondt, Henry
Olsen, David
Pannell, Donald
Parsons, Glenn
Randall, Karen
Romascanu, Dan
Rouyer, Jessy
Saltsidis, Panagiotis
Schell, Rick
Seaman, Michael
Sexton, Daniel
Specht, Johannes
Stanton, Kevin
Steiner, Wilfried
Thaler, Patricia
Touve, Jeremy
Tretter, Albert
Weber, Karl
Wei, Yuehua
It should be noted that the ongoing retention of 802.1 voting rights is predicated on active participation in Working Group ballots. Active participation is defined to be returning ballot forms in two out of the last three Working Group ballots. The 802 Operating Rules allow abstention for any cause other than "lack of technical expertise" to be treated as though it were a failure to respond to a ballot. 802.1 applies this rule.
The closing date of this ballot is:
14th January 2014
The PDF file of P802.1Qcd/D1.0 can be found at:
The MIB text can be found as an attachment to the drafr PDF.
The comment disposition for the previous ballot is here:
Username: p8021
Password: go_wildcats
If you have any difficulty downloading or reading this file, let me know.
As is normal with such ballots, comments should specify not only what problems have been identified with the text, but also what the commenter proposes as a solution.
Any comments accompanying the ballot must be presented using either of the templates to be found here:
Comments can be generated using Excel or an equivalent spreadsheet program that will read XLS or CSV format files. Attach the resultant file, in XLS or CSV format, to your ballot response email.
RETURNING YOUR BALLOT FORM
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You are requested to use (exactly!) the appropriate Subject line from the following set when returning your ballot. Please send your ballot with the Subject line explicitly set, rather than using the Reply function in your mailer.
P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Approve
P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Comments (with approve)
P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Disapprove
P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Comments (with abstain)
P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Abstain
Regards,
Tony Jeffree
802.1 Working Group Chair.
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Ballot form follows.....
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P802.1Qcd/D1.0 EMAIL BALLOT
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TO: Eric Multanen,
Editor, P802.1Qcd
SUBJECT: P802.1Qcd/D1.0 - Bridges and Bridged Networks—Amendment: Application Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Type, Length, Value (TLV)
_____ I Approve (may attach non-binding comments below)
_____ I Disapprove (must attach binding comments below)
_____ I Abstain for the following reasons (may attach non-binding comments
below):
______ Lack of Time
______ Lack of Expertise
______ Other: _______________________________________________
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(Name)
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