Sanjay,
On page 5 of my 10GBT November 2003 minutes http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10GBT/public/nov03/minutes_1103.pdf look
at the finer granularity timeline for the next 6-months. This is the best
source of information we've seen from our 10GBASE-T chairman Brad Booth on what
will happen in 1H04.
In particular the 10GBASE-T Task Force
will entertain technical presentations (Proposals) during a number
of interim (e.g. January, April, May) and plenary (March, July)
meetings that form the baseline set of presentations (technically agreed
upon material, 75% or better by TF vote). These presentations
typically find their way into a "Blue Book" that in the
past has been published by a Technical Alliance.
- These agreed upon proposals will be incorporated in the Draft 1.0 of the "10GBASE-T Task Force Proposed Standard". They are the foundation of the 10GBASE-T standard. Once incorporated into the draft standard it will be very difficult to remove them, however another TF vote of 75% or greater can alter or remove any portion of the evolving draft standard.
The 0.9 draft is just an internal draft for TF
edification; it's an aid to get D1.0 done on time - we'll capture as much
agreed upon material as possible in D0.9 in an attempt to lock down the
non-debatable material.
As far as the "Last Technical
Proposal" for D1.0 ONLY I think you have
a point here, that would most likely be presented during the July 2004
Plenary meeting, not after the July meeting. The actual draft 1.0 would be
created after the July 2004 plenary meeting and it would incorporate all
technical changes that were agreed upon up to the close of the July 2004
plenary meeting. Closure of some editorials may slip outside this July
meeting; the various editors will resolve them. We would
use draft 1.0 during our 2004 September interim; this is where the fun
starts managing the 10GBASE-T comment database.
As for the "LAST Technical
Change" just prior to the 2005
July plenary (this is most likely during the 2005 May interim) think of
this as our current stake in the ground
for final closure of the technical content for the standard. After this point in
time the TF is in a FIX IT mode, not allowing feature creep to kill the
standards progress during the final 1-year stretch to the finish line where the
standard is finished from a TF perspective.
I hope this helps. We're going into a 6-month phase
now of a LOT of technical work is ahead of us. Having a high focused and managed
"10GBT Technical Alliance" would have helped but there
was no interest in forming this technical forum so we'll have to do all this
work within the IEEE venues. I'm sure we'll have a number of volunteers to host
non-IEEE sessions at their respective company locations as an alternative to a
well managed technical alliance.
Cheers,
- Jeff
Warren (10GBT SG Secretary)
----- Original Message -----From: Sanjay KasturiaTo: Jeff Warren ; Booth, BradleySent: Monday, December 29, 2003 6:44 PMSubject: Clarification on minutesBrad, Jeff,The minutes of the Albuquerque meeting that have been posted have items on the time line (page 5) that seem inconsistent with the guidelines present in Brad's overview presentation. See figure from Brad's presentation slide 13:This shows that a proposal has been selected by the task force before Draft 1.0.The minutes, however, show on page 5 that the last technical proposal can come in after the July meeting after draft 1.0 is ready.
Can you clarify?Thanks,Sanjay Kasturiacell (650) 704-7686office (408) 653-2235fax (408) 844-8187Teranetics Inc.2953 Bunker Hill Lane, Suite 204Santa Clara, CA 95054
