On 27/03/2015 11:44, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, STARK, BARBARA H wrote:
>
>> I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that IEEE 1905.1 might be something
>> interesting to look at to see if it might be a useful
>> component of a holistic homenet solution. It can do PHY and MAC layer
>> topology discovery and PHY-layer metrics, for all
>> Ethernet MAC-based PHYs (including Wi-Fi, HomePlug, G.hn, MoCA, HomePNA,
>> Ethernet, etc.). Some feedback I got was that not
>> being able to read the spec without paying for it made it a non-starter.
>> Which I completely agree with. I was talking to Pat
>> Thaler, who knows a lot about IEEE, asking if there was some way to get the
>> specs to homenet. She said that if the homenet
>> chairs sent a liaison to IEEE asking for it, explaining there was interest
>> in possibly referencing it, that IEEE might send
>> over a copy that could be made available to homenet participants via a
>> password-protected means.
>>
>> So if there is interest, I'd be happy to volunteer to help make such a
>> liaison happen (work with chairs, liaison officer, and
>> advocate on the IEEE side). I don't see any downside in asking for it.
>
> I am interested in this and would appreciate if it could be done.
+1, and there might be other WGs with a legitmate interest, so it
would be good if the agreement was flexible.
Brian
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