Hello Ben,
Yes, I think a PHY-only amendment could safely do that. I haven't
seen any PHY-only amendments in 802.11,
as all PHYs have their unique management requirements.
One of the things we learned from TGaq is that the group did not set
out with the intention of doing anything
with address fields. It turned out over the multiple-year course of
the project the increased sensitivity towards maintaining privacy
coupled with the large number of packets sent meant that it needed
to talk about things
that the RAC care about. In hindsight this is obvious, but it
wasn't when the PAR was written.
Best Regards,
Adrian Stephens
IEEE 802.11 Working Group Chair
mailto: adrian.p.stephens@ieee.org
Phone: +1 (971) 203-2032
Phone: +447342178905
Skype: adrian_stephens
On 03/01/2018 18:47, Benjamin A. Rolfe
wrote:
Thanks Adrian for
pointing this out.
For clarification,
would it be safe to define "non-trivial" as an amendment or
revision that does NOT alter the format or content of an
address field? For example an amendment that added only new
PHY capabilities but had no MAC changes (which might not
otherwise be considered trivial), or a an amendment with
additional MAC features that do not alter in any way the
addressing fields (e.g. add Information Elements but no new
frame formats).?
Or should we just
always assume "yes" and let the RAC know, just to be safe?
Thanks.
Ben
On 1/3/2018 2:17 AM, Adrian Stephens
wrote:
Dear EC members,
Please be aware of the changes to the IEEE-SA P&P's: http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/policy_rev.pdf.
One of the items that has been clarified in my mind is the need
for any project that cites/includes a field whose values
are managed by the IEEE RA to indicate "yes" in its PAR for RAC
coordination. As all of our L2 protocols (AFAIK)
use MAC addresses within of the RAC-defined namespaces, this
should be "yes" for all non-trivial amendments
and revisions.
Best Regards,
Adrian Stephens
IEEE 802.11 Working Group Chair
mailto: adrian.p.stephens@ieee.org
Phone: +1 (971) 203-2032
Phone: +447342178905
Skype: adrian_stephens
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