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From: pat@hprnd.HP.COM (Pat Thaler)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: 10BaseT operation, spec?
Message-ID: <2230001@hprnd.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 21:39:18 GMT
References: <1627@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
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> / hprnd:comp.dcom.lans / smith@cos.com (Steve Smith) /  3:32 pm  Apr 19, 1989 /
> In article <1627@Portia.Stanford.EDU> morgan@jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes:
> >
> >I'm puzzled by various references I've seen recently, in this forum
> >and elsewhere, to the operation of the proposed 10BaseT Ethernet.  Is
> >the draft spec available from anywhere, either on paper or (better)
> >on-line?
> 
> The 10BASET standard is currently out for ballot to the IEEE 802.3
> committee.  If it sails through everything, it might be a standard by
> this summer (from past experience, don't bet on it).  However, the spec
> itself probably won't change much if at all.
>
Actually, the 10BASE-T draft will need to be ballotted by the Technical
Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) after it passes IEEE 802.3
working group ballot.  Then it goes to the next IEEE Standards Board
meeting for approval.  Therefore, the earliest date at which it could
be a standard is January 1990.  The 10BASE-T task force will be meeting
June 19-21 and at the July 802 plenary to resolve ballot comments.
 
> You should be able to get copies from the Chair of the 10BASET task
> force:
> 
> 	Pat Thaler
> 	Hewlett Packard
> 	8000 Foothils Blvd. R3NF2
> 	Roseville, CA  95678
> 	(916) 785-5238
> 
Remember this is a draft for comment and is subject to change. 
If you just want the draft, contact my secretary, Suzanne Palacios.
The phone number above is actually hers.  My phone number is
(916) 785-4538.

> >I've seen people referring to the 10BaseT wiring closet device as a
> >repeater.  Is this just loose terminology or is my understanding of
> >10BaseT/Lattisnet wrong?

It isn't loose terminology.  The 10BASE-T draft uses the repeater defined in 
Section 9 of the 802.3 supplements to connect 10BASE-T segments together.
(If you have trouble finding Section 9, the order of sections in the 
supplement is 10, 11, 9, 12.  That's because they ordered the sections
by supplement number rather than by section number.)  

10BASE-T is being developed by the 10BASE-T task force and involves the
contributions of people from many companies.  It was developed to meet
a list of objectives identified at the outset.  It is not 
10BASE-T/(any proprietary product).

> > - RL "Bob" Morgan
> >   Networking Systems
> >   Stanford
> 
>                 -- Steve
> (smith@cos.com)    ({uunet sundc decuac hqda-ai hadron}!cos!smith)
> "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
> ----------

Pat Thaler
Hewlett Packard