stds-802-16: actions arising out of Session #24
Folks,
I am on my way to Japan. I'll get home on March 15, but I will take a
week out of the networked world from March 21-28.
I may not be able to fully catch up with all of the outputs from
Session #24 soon. I'll take a crack at it, but the web site is liable
to be out of date for awhile. In the meantime, there are issues to
deal with. Some are related to the fact that the 802.16 motions to
the LMSC SEC were approved:
http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg24/index_sec.html
but others are unrelated.
Here are some key points:
(1) The SEC created the Executive Committee Study Group on 802
Handoff and named David Johnston to chair it. The reflector archives
are at <http://ieee802.org/16/arc/802-handoff/thrd1.html>. To get on
the reflector, see <http://ieee802.org/16/reflector.html> .
(2) The SEC approved sending PAR 1802.16.3 to NesCom. It's already on
the NesCom agenda for next week. I've let NesCom know that the PAR is
cleared for consideration. We made minor editorial changes to satisfy
a NesCom member request.
(3) The SEC approved sending P1802.16.1 to RevCom, conditional on a
satisfactory recirc. Carl Eklund is done with the edited draft, but
the next RevCom deadline isn't until May 2. We are working on
developing an a version of the PICS forms suitable for submission
over the Internet. We'll try to get this into the recirc package.
(4) The SEC conditionally approved sending P802.16.2a to RevCom. We
hoped to avoid another recirc, but we heard on Friday from the
remaining Disapprove voter and he continues to Dis the draft. Again,
since the next RevCom deadline is May 2, there isn't any real hurry
to start the recirc. However, since we haven't touched the draft, I
have all the materials and will make sure it gets going.
(5) The SEC approved a letter to ISTO regarding the BWIF. I have sent
it to the SEC Chair for delivery.
(6) We agreed to initiate a Working Group Letter Ballot on
P802.16.2/D1. Carl has already given me the draft, so this ballot
will begin as soon as I have time to launch it. Our schedule says we
will start in a week. I'll try, but this could run a couple of weeks
late without really affecting the long-term plan.
(7) We agreed to initiate a Working Group Letter Ballot on
P802.16d/D1. Nico van Waes will be editing the draft. Again, our
schedule says we will start in a week, but we really have a couple of
weeks to spare.
(8) TGe decided to create a working document and initiate a Task
Group Review within two weeks. Ron Murias is the editor.
(9) I have received the registration and hotel information for
Session #25 and have posted it
<http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg25>. This will be an expensive
session. I see that, when we accepted the invitation to join in this
session with other 802 wireless groups, we did so without any cost
estimates.
(10) We agreed to hold Session #27 in Denver and invite the other 802
wireless groups. I'll handle the invitation. It will take a few weeks
for this to clear up. If the other groups go elsewhere, then I'll try
to arrange our session on a different week. This should be possible.
(11) We created an Ad Hoc Committee on Mesh Enhancements, with
Kamlesh Rath as Chair. Since such work appears to be out of scope of
our existing projects, the task of the ad hoc would be to consider
drafting and proposing a PAR. Session #25 would be a good venue for
consideration of such a PAR by the Working Group.
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
tel: +1 303 497 3037 fax: +1 509 756 2642