stds-802-16: three 802.16 PARs approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board today
The IEEE-SA Standards Board met today and approved the three 802.16
Project Authorization Requests (PARs):
(1) P802.16e ["Amendment to IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan
area networks - Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed and Mobile Broadband
Wireless Access Systems - Amendment for Physical and Medium Access
Control Layers for Combined Fix and Mobile Operation in Licensed
Bands"]
-followup: This work will be assigned to the new 802.16 Mobile
Wireless MAN Task Group (Task Group e ["TGe"]). Brian Kiernan
<mailto:brian.kiernan@interdigital.com> will serve as Chair.
(2) P802.16d ["Amendment to IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan
Area Networks - Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless
Access Systems - Detailed System Profiles for 2-11 GHz"]
-followup: This work will be assigned to the new Task Group d
["TGd"]. Gordon Antonello <mailto:gantonello@wi-lan.com> will serve
as Chair.
(3) P1802.16.2 ["Standard for Conformance to IEEE Standard 802.16 -
Part 2: Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes {TSS&TP) for 10-66 GHz
WirelessMAN-SC Air Interface"]
-followup: This work will be assigned to the existing Task Group C
["TGC"]. Ken Stanwood <mailto:ken@ensemblecom.com> will serve as
Chair.
In each case, expect to soon see a Call for Contributions for Session #23.
Congratulations to the Working Group, particularly for its commitment
to taking on all of this new work!
Roger
P.S. The Board also approved all of the other 802 PARs, except P802
("Registration of Object Identifiers").