Errata in 802.1D-2004
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Christopher Nelson
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 4:20 pm    Post subject: Errata in 802.1D-2004 Reply with quote

I've checked the IEEE site and that is no errata document for
802.1D-2004 though I've found a dozen or more typos. Most I'm pretty
confident about the intended meaning but figure 17-20 (page 175) has a
state transition on

((selectedRole == DisabledPort) #
&& (role != selectedRole)

where "#" is actually shown as a dash through a logical or, ||, but I
can't recreate that here. This section is quite different from the
same section of 802.1w-2001 but I'm guessing that an early draft of
802.1D-2004 had an || there and then it was correct to && with a
strike-out added to the || and the struck-out || wasn't removed from
the final standard. (This flaw exists in the PDF on IEEE.org, too.)

1) Does anyone here have an educated or authoritative take on how this
condition should be read?

2) Is there a way I can bring this error to IEEE's attention?

Chris
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Christopher Nelson
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 12:20 am    Post subject: Re: Errata in 802.1D-2004 Reply with quote

Christopher Nelson wrote:
Quote:
I've checked the IEEE site and that is no errata document for
802.1D-2004 though I've found a dozen or more typos. Most I'm pretty
confident about the intended meaning but figure 17-20 (page 175) has
a state transition on...

I've found an ambiguity that I can't resolve. In a note on page 60,
it's made clear that "higher" and "lower" are confusing because higher
(better) priorities are lower numbers. And yet on page 169, in
17.21.25, l) it says, "...the designated priority vector is higher than
the port priority vector...". So, is that higher priority or a higher
number?
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:19 am    Post subject: Re: Errata in 802.1D-2004 Reply with quote

Christopher Nelson wrote:

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2) Is there a way I can bring this error to IEEE's attention?

You can get on the IEEE 802.1 mailing list and post your
questions there. See http://www.ieee802.org/1/email-pages/.

Anoop
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