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stds-802-16: 802.16 and the Single Carrier



Dear all,

My colleagues inform me that it was widely agreed at the last meeting that 
the 802.16
standard is full of quality input from a wide range of technical personnel 
contributed
over the last 4 or so years. They also agreed that having 3 phys tended to 
take away
the optimum quality that could be achieved. RevCom realise that everything 
could be
achieved with a Single Carrier FDE approach and the OFDM and OFDMA were just
added as a fashion statement of the time. OFDM and OFDMA are a fantastic 
piece
of wireless technology, but totally unrequired in the standard. I therefore 
agree that
the standard would be far more readable if the OFDM and OFDMA sections were 
deleted.
We all want our products to be 802.16 compliant but very few people have any 
desire
to read an 800 page standard in the first place.

Long live the Single Carrier.

Jo


>From: "Roger B. Marks" <r.b.marks@ieee.org>
>To: stds-802-16@ieee.org
>Subject: stds-802-16: Conformance03 approval schedule
>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:17:28 -0700
>
>As you recall, the P802.16/Conformance03 draft was 100% approved in Sponsor 
>Ballot, with comments. At our WG Closing Plenary of 15 January, we approved 
>comment resolutions, agreed to initiate a recirc, and agreed to "request 
>conditional approval from the 802 EC to forward the final balloted draft to 
>RevCom." However, the motion did not specify a time frame.
>
>Though TGC had been considering a submittal in February, I have discussed 
>the schedule with TGC Chair Ken Stanwood and Editor Lars Lindh. We have 
>decided to postpone the schedule a few weeks. The primary reason is so that 
>we can seek 802 EC approval at the March plenary instead of in an email EC 
>ballot. The EC doesn't really like to make this kind of decision by email. 
>We already have one major email motion in front of them, and I don't want 
>to push them harder. We have decided that the delay is not concern. RevCom 
>approval will be delayed to late April, instead of late March.
>
>Lars is preparing a draft for recirc.
>
>The revised schedule is here:
>	http://ieee802.org/16/tgc/C3/schedule.html
>
>Let me know if you have any concerns.
>
>Roger

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