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[STDS-802-16-MOBILE] [Handoff] Handoff adhoc group



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Dear 802.16e members and observers,
 
Following discussions in Shenzhen last week, we now have a handoff adhoc group within 802.16e. This group's overall charter is to essentially come up with harmonized informative and normative text and figures addressing handoffs in 802.16e - to be incorporated in the D3 draft which will be available soon. The goal is to complete this effort prior to the Portland plenary in July. As part of this effort, the group will extend the vocabulary in the current .16e draft and related MAC primitives to support handoff scenarios (including handoff optimizations) that we collectively agree is in scope of .16e.
 
Given that we have an extremely aggressive timeline of only about 5 weeks (including this week !) to come up with these harmonized contributions (before the June 25th deadline), we need to adopt some process going forward. To this end, I propose the following outline.
 
* Email discussions - we will use the 802-16-MOBILE reflector. Please prefix all handoff related emails with [Handoff].
 
* Regular telecons - telecons are proposed on the following dates (90 min each):
Wednesday, June 2nd
Wednesday, June 9th
Wednesday, June 23rd
 
Proposed time:
8 PM - 9:30 PM US Pacific time (this seems to work OK for Europe/Israel and Asia)
Alternate time suggestions are welcome.
If I do not hear any push back to these dates/times, I will go ahead and setup telecon logistics and publish the information by this Friday.
 
* Face-to-face - We might want to consider a F2F for a couple of days during the week of June 14th - 18th. We can discuss this possibility next week.
 
* Milestones - I propose the following milestones to help moderate our discussions going forward:
 
Between now and June 4th - Discussions to bottom out on scope and terminology. We started some discussions in Shenzhen and as a first step I request Yigal / Yong Chang to distribute the document that outlines some scenarios to consider. We can build on this outline. Please come forth with any suggestions you might have on terminology, informative text on network reference models, scope etc.
 
June 2nd - June 11th - Submit text for eventual incorporation in the .16e draft in contribution format. We will continue to discuss these over email.
As soon as the updated USR file becomes available, I will send out a summary of contributions that were rejected or deferred in Shenzhen.
 
Week of June 14th - June 18th - Consolidate contributions. Some F2F time might be needed to resolve technical points of disagreement.
 
Week of June 21st - June 25th - Updates to contributions before June 25th deadline
 
Week of June 28th - July 2nd - Respond to reply comments as needed
 
Feedback on these proposed milestones are welcome.
 
Hope to see a flurry of email activity on this reflector.
 
-Prakash Iyer
Handoff Adhoc Chair