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From: pat@hprnd.HP.COM (Pat Thaler)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cost of 10BaseT
Message-ID: <2230061@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 18:43:38 GMT
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> 
> You should NOT be concerned about the standard changing...here is the scoop
> 
> The 10BASE-T Committee began its work in Aug 87, by reviewing the eight
> formal proposals submitted as part of the preliminary proceedings.
> There were distilled into a single draft standard and submitted to the
> IEEE for review and comment. 2 1/2 years (and several drafts) later, the
> standard has passed confirmation vote and is now waiting approval by the
> Technical Committee on Computer Communications and then it will be ready for
> final approval by the IEEE Standards Board.  At this stage, no technical
> changes to the spec are expected and several IEEE committee members have
> introduced and are shipping their 10BASE-T products (e.g. 3Com). Final
> publication will occur in September 1990.
> 
> -Marianne Cohn
> ----------
The 10BASE-T draft has passed voting by IEEE 802.3.  While I would agree
with Marianne that at this point I don't _expect_ technical changes, the
draft is not yet a standard and it is _possible_ that technical changes
could arise from the TCCC balloting.

TCCC ballotting should be over by mid-May and 10BASE-T will meet to
resolve ballot comments the week of May 21.  If all goes well, IEEE 802.3
will review our comment resolution at the July meeting and 10BASE-T
will be forwarded to the Sept 28 meeting of the IEEE Standards Board,
the final step to becoming an IEEE standard.  10BASE-T is also being
submitted to JTC-1 for balloting as a proposal for an international
standard.

Pat Thaler
Chair of IEEE 802.3