[802SEC] report of P802.16a/D7 recirculation conducted under Procedure 10
SEC Colleagues:
In our meeting of 15 November, the SEC granted conditional approval,
according to Procedure 10, to forward P802.16a/D7 ("Draft Amendment
to IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - Part 16:
Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems - Medium
Access Control Modifications and Additional Physical Layer
Specifications for 2-11 GHz") to RevCom. Accordingly, I am making the
following report:
Recirc opening date: 20 November 2002
Recirc closing date: 5 December 2002
Vote Changes: 1 change (Approve to Abstain; no reason given)
0 new Disapprove
Final vote tally: 51 Approve (87%)
7 Disapprove
9 Abstain (13%)
88% Return
New comments: 3
The three comments were considered by a Ballot Resolution Committee
of seven members and two observers, as appointed by the IEEE 802.16
Working Group. For multiple reasons, the Committee concluded that the
none of the comments necessitated a Fourth Recirculation. The
comments, and the Committee's responses, are recorded in IEEE
802.16-02/71 <http://ieee802.org/16/docs/02/80216-02_71.pdf>. All
three comments were out of scope of the recirculation, since the
material discussed had not been altered since, nor even mentioned in,
the previous recirculation. Only two of comments (#382 and #383) were
Disapprove comments; both were reiterations of previous comments that
had been rebutted by the Ballot Resolution Committee, with the
rebuttals previously accepted by the ballot group. The third comment
(#381), which was submitted by an Approve voter and so did not
require recirculation in any case, was essentially a repeat of a
previously-recirculated comment, with a new proposed remedy. The
Committee provided a technical rebuttal.
Given the successful conclusion of this ballot, I am proceeding to
submit P802.16a/D7 to RevCom. The full details of the RevCom
submittal are supplied in IEEE 802.16-02/72
<http://ieee802.org/16/docs/02/80216-02_72.pdf>. That document
includes the full list of remaining unresolved Disapprove comments,
both valid and invalid, along with the Working Group responses. All
but the last two of these (#382 and #383) were presented to the SEC
at the time of the conditional approval.
Regards,
Roger
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Dr. Roger B. Marks <mailto:marks@nist.gov>
Chair, IEEE 802.16 WG on Broadband Wireless Access <http://WirelessMAN.org>
National Institute of Standards and Technology/Boulder, CO, USA
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