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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Ken,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The SLP WG decided to put both of your diagrams into a new non-normative annex in USLP, TM, and AOS.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The text in the normative part of the link layer books will state:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="Paragraph5" style="mso-list:none">The TFDZ of an OID Transfer Frame shall be generated by use of a 32-cell Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) with polynomial 1 + D + D<sup>2</sup> + D<sup>22</sup> +D<sup>32</sup><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">,
 see Annex X.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where Annex X is TBD and will be added by me to the document.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have some questions and requests for you:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Why does the initialization data differ from one figure to the other one?</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">The ‘1’ in the figures are misleading to some WG members, please replace ‘1’ with D sub zero i.e., D<sup>0</sup> in the figures.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Consensus of WG was to specify the initialization vector
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">in both of the diagrams</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">New Info:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Do you concur with these changes ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">If so, the SLP WG will wait for your modifications to those diagrams and thereafter I will insert them into the AOS, USLP, and TM pink sheets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">When might we receive them ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Greg</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greg Kazz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Principal Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Technical Group Supervisor,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PSSE/EEISE/PPSE (312B)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jet Propulsion Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">4800 Oak Grove Dr., M/S 301-490<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11.0pt">Pasadena, CA 91109</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11.0pt">1+(818)393 6529(voice)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1</span><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11.0pt">+(818)393 6871(fax)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11.0pt">email: greg.j.kazz@jpl.nasa.gov
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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