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Section 2 Comment Resolution Summary Jim Mollenauer Steve Wood Dave Meyer Med Belhadj. Summary. Total of 491 comments against Clause5/Clause8 124 / 90 Editorial 185 / 144 Technicals All technical comments dealt with (resolved or forwarded to WG) 185 on clause 5 144 on clause 8
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Section 2 Comment Resolution Summary Jim MollenauerSteve WoodDave MeyerMed Belhadj 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Summary • Total of 491 comments against Clause5/Clause8 • 124 / 90 Editorial • 185 / 144 Technicals • All technical comments dealt with (resolved or forwarded to WG) • 185 on clause 5 • 144 on clause 8 • All editorial comments dealt with • 25 Comments Rejected, 9 Rejected-duplicate • 8 comments deferred to WG 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Issues Covered – Clause 5 • In profile class B description Bug • Mapping of ClassB traffic to STQ • Dynamic traffic shaping • Descriptions to be moved to clause 6 • Ringlet Selection • Improvements to the text • Adhoc to be formed to create draft text/proposals • Control Channel • Remove the text & concept. • Specify mapping of control traffic to service class/transit path • MAC Reference Model • WG asked to adopt newly proposed reference model as presented at May02 interim • Remove subclause 5.2 and fix figure 5-1. • Single TB service mapping not well described • MAC is NOT reflective 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Issues Covered – Clause 5 • Congestion Status conveyance via the service interface • Request/response a bad idea, should just be conveyed via indicates as received • Classes of service • Needs to be changed to 3 • Improve description of reserved service 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Issues Covered – Clause 8 • Frame Format Changes • New header format proposed • Remainder of formats untouched • Header, Payload, Trailer, HEC coverage explicitly defined • Request for contributions on HEC replacement with CRC32 • Change to fairness frame format deferred to WG. • Priority Handling • Text describing this should be removed from clause 8 • Bit ordering • Figure 8-1 to be reworked to clarify bit ordering and PHY responsibilities • Ringlet Selection • Text needed, adhoc to be formed • Control TTL Field questions • Questions answered, field retained • Application dependent frame formats moved to informative annex 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Issues Covered – Clause 8 • MAC Address definition subclause • To be removed and replaced with reference to 802-2001 • 802.17 should adopt Ethernet CRC definition 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Pending Resolution • Opcodes/Functions list for Control.req/ind primitive (#123) • 123, 591 etc. Small Adhoc to be formed to start defining the complete list • WG asked to refrain from further comments on this issue until September • Primitive Parameter list contents (#192, 194) • WG asked to provide a single contribution on what needs to be there and why • WG asked to refrain from commenting against draft until such time as the recommendations are adopted • New header format proposed (#539) • See RPR_hdr_flds_jl_nu.pdf on website/server • Resolves many comments – needs to be adopted by WG • Should 64 bit MAC addresses by supported in future (#775) • Claim is that RAC will object unless objective to support transparent bridging • Definition of Minimum and Maximum frame size (#178, #1139) • Needs to be defined by WG 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Pending Resolution • Change requested for header protection: HEC-16 to CRC-32 (#289) • David James asked to provide presentation on the cost/benefit of CRC32 over HEC16 • Straw poll 11 to 1 in favour of HEC16 • Change requested to fairness packet format (#298) • Make it another control frame type • Straw poll 17 to 1 in favour of no change 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv
Action Items – Part 1 • Contribution requested for • Describing processing of invalid frames to be included in Clause 6 • Describing definition of what an invalid frame is to be included in Clause 8 • Cost/Benefit of CRC32 as header protection (David James) • Primitive Ad-hoc • Enumerate a normative list of logical control opcodes/operands that describe client interactions with the MAC control sublayer for inclusion in clause 5 • Decide which header parameters need to be in the primitive formal list and present rationales to WG for adoption (Marc Holness) • Determine why SA included in 802.3 service primitives (Italo Busi) • Ringlet Selection Ad-hoc • Provide presentation and normative text describing how ringlet selection is performed by the MAC • Provide presentation and normative text describing how ringlet selection may be controlled by the client 802-17-01-nnnnn, iii_xxxxx_vv