May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring Draft D0.2 Section 1 Comment

Resolution

May, 2002Ottawa, Canada

ra_sultan@yahoo.com

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Clauses 1 – 4 and Annex A

• Intro material derived from clauses– Due on same date as other clauses– Follows that intro always lags by one cycle (2 months)

• exceptions when material provided early to editor

• Clause 1 provides an overview of the specification– Some text too detailed and will be adjusted– Reflects normative text of other clauses

• Technical decisions not made in the overview

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Statistics

• 50 technical non-binding– 1 rejected– 29 accepted-modified– 23 accepted

• 49 technical binding– 5 referred to section 0 (and resolved)– 7 rejected – 25 accepted modified– 8 accepted

• 69 editorial

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Rejected / Referred

• Rejected– Disallow ‘jumbo’ frames– Incorrect comment on ‘ringlet’ figure– Mandatory wrapping

• Five items referred to chief editor– Notation will be moved to clause 3 (will move for

change to ‘Terms, Definitions, and Notation’– Should, shall, etc. referenced in Style Manual

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Significant Resolved Issues

• Frame size 9216 (jumbo) as specified in D02C8.1 (11)• Least cost vs. shortest path / ring selection by client or

MAC (8)• Classes A0, A1, B, C from RAH (7)• Circumference, not span (4) clause?• Editor’s questions (4) no action needed• Maximum number of stations on ring (3) clause?• Remove HOL blocking reference (3) • Ringlet naming (3) (eg. CW, CCW) clause? Chief editor?• Intent is to be lossless (3) (avoid specifying conditions)

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Significant Resolved Issues

• Describe multicast operation (4)

• Delete reference to cut-through (4)

• Delete material on reservation and provide editors’ note until defined (4) clause ?

• Reject mandatory wrapping (conflicts D0.2) (1)

• Remove reference to authentication/encryption (1)

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Editorial In Nature

• Remove unnecessary NOTE describing ‘fairness’ (2)

• Fairness algorithm doesn’t restrict traffic (1)• Not all fairness message hop-by-hop (1)• RPR header terminology included in overview

when adopted in clause 8 (1)• Correction in Qtag description (2) • Remove Qtag/CID from features list as too

detailed. (1)

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Editorial in Nature

• Omit justification for header checksum (2)

• Additions/corrections to notation (2)

• Editors’ note on reference to OIF docs (1)

• Add steering for multicast when available (1)

• Add HEC and IOP to acronyms (understood that IOP may change) (2)

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Editorial in Nature

• Picture improvements (3)• Provisioning terminology included when approved (1)• Correct description of allowed rate (1)• Clarification of delay properties (1)• Header clarifications (2)• Move notation subclause to clause 3 (1)• Add c-code reference to references (1)• Remove text regarding network layer as client (1)• ‘Looping’ replaced by ‘indefinite circulation’ (1) • Description of insert, strip, etc. (1) (will edit into

overview as appropriate)

May 9, 2002 IEEE 802.17 RPRWG Bob Sultan

Editorial in Nature

• Specify ‘fairness’ as ‘weighted fairness’ (1) Correct definition of ‘reclaimable’ (1)

• Remove incorrect reference to leaky bucket (just refer to policing) (1)

• Replace description of “uncommitted and reclaimable” from approved text (1)

• Remove “uncommitted and reclaimable” as too detailed for features list (1)