[STDS-802-16] Status: +++IEEE 802.16 Letter Ballot #18 (on IEEE 802.16/Conformance04/D1) is now open
The deadline for Working Group Letter Ballot #18 passed this morning.
When the deadline came, the ballot was 12 votes short of the 50%
minimum return ratio. As a result, it could not close. This note
announces an extension of the deadline until 3 May 2005 at 2 pm local
time in Sorrento, Italy <http://tinyurl.com/86wq8>.
Because the deadline is being extended, ballots received after the
deadline have been accepted. Given the addition of these ballots, the
current results are showing that the return ratio condition has now
been met:
http://ieee802.org/16/tgc/C4/ballot18/report18.html
Nevertheless, the ballot will remain open until the new deadline.
The comments received to this point are compiled here:
http://ieee802.org/16/docs/05/80216-05_024.zip
Roger
>IEEE 802.16 Working Group Letter Ballot #18 is now open, until 2 May
>2005 at 8 am Sorrento time:
> <http://tinyurl.com/5a8ss>
>
>The ballot concerns the Conformance Task Group's IEEE
>802.16/Conformance04/D1 ("Draft Standard for Conformance to IEEE
>802.16 - Part 4: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
>(PICS) Proforma for Frequencies below 11 GHz"):
> <http://ieee802.org/16/private/drafts/tgc/P80216_Conf04_D1.zip>
>
>The announcement document:
> Title: "IEEE 802.16 Working Group Letter Ballot #18: Announcement"
> Document Number: IEEE 802.16-05/016
> URL: <http://ieee802.org/16/docs/05/80216-05_016.pdf>
>
>details the procedures. It also tells you how to participate and
>explains the Members' obligation to do so. "Membership shall be lost
>if two consecutive, or two of any three consecutive, Working Group
>letter ballots for which the member was eligible are not returned or
>are returned with an abstention other than for 'lack of technical
>expertise'." Those who lose membership on these grounds will be
>ineligible for membership status at Session #37. You can check your
>recent balloting history:
> <http://ieee802.org/16/netman/ballot16/report16.html>.
> <http://ieee802.org/16/maint/ballot17/report17.html>
>
>Don't forget the deadline of 2 May 2005, at 8 am on the opening
>morning of Session #37. Allow time to read the draft carefully. As
>you read, please keep the Commentary database open so you can easily
>record corrections to any problems you see.
>
>The ballot group members are the current members of the Working
>Group, as listed in the announcement. Comments from non-members are
>also welcome.
>
>The ballot submission form is available at:
> http://ieee802.org/16/tgc/C4/ballot18/ballotform18.html
>and the ballot report will be posted at:
> http://ieee802.org/16/tgc/C4/ballot18/report18.html
>
>Ballot submittals will be error-checked and acknowledged in real
>time. They can be confirmed with a web page that is updated in real
>time.
>
>Roger
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Dr. Roger B. Marks <mailto:marks@nist.gov> +1 303 497 7837
National Institute of Standards and Technology/Boulder, CO, USA
Chair, IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access
<http://WirelessMAN.org>