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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").