for IEEE 802.16 Letter Ballot Recirc #23a.
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Please remember that the most effective Reply Comment is one that is suitable for use, without modification, as the group's response to the comment.
As previously reported, Letter Ballot Recirc #23a closed on 17 February. At Session #47, the WG authorized the WG Chair to form a Ballot Resolution Committee to resolve the resulting comments and conduct another recirculation. Here is a report on the status of this situation.
In the recirc, we received 81 comments and 17 uploaded contributions. Another 23 comments were uploaded on 18 February. I reviewed the situation with Maintenance TG Chair (Jon Labs) and the document's Editor (Joe Schumacher), considering the number and extent of the comments and the level of detail provided in the proposed remedies. We decided that it was not feasible to conduct a comment resolution in time for the creation of a new draft and the conduct of a second recirculation before Session #48. In order to make good use of the remaining time before Session #48, therefore, we have arranged a different approach.
(1) We have posted 802.16-07/013r1:
which includes the 23 late comments. We will issue a Call for Reply Comments, due Feb 26 AOE.
(2) We will issue a new Call for Comments, with a deadline of March 4 AOE. New comments are welcome. However, we will particularly encourage comments that address previous
comments and their replies.
(3) We issue a second Call for Reply Comments, with a deadline of March 11.
Here's an example of how we hope this will proceed in the three steps:
(1) We receive a Reply Comment to Comment X. It explains that the remedy in Comment X is weak or incomplete. It might propose another solution.
(2) We receive a brand new comment, Comment Y. It proposes a better or more complete solution than that proposed by Comment X. This solution may have been stimulated by a previous Reply Comment.
(3) We receive a Reply Comment recommending that Comment X be marked as Superceded by Comment Y.
We receive a Reply Comment saying that Comment Y should be accepted. Or maybe accepted-modified.
By the time we get to the meeting, we hope to have a pretty clear picture of the views of the WG members. If this works as planned, the Maintenance TG should have a relatively easy job to reach consensus on the comment resolutions.
Soon, I'll post a short note with the details of the first Call for Reply Comments (1).
Roger
The recirc has closed:
The Commentary database has 81 comments, from 13 people, and is at:
The comments point to 17 uploaded contributions:
The comment resolution process has not yet been planned. In any case, we will be open to reply comments, so feel free to develop yours.
Roger
The deadline for this ballot remains open until we reach the minimum return ratio.
Roger
IEEE 802.16 Working Group Letter Ballot Recirc #23a:
The ballot concerns P802.16/Cor2/D2:
The recirc announcement document is:
Title: "IEEE 802.16 Working Group Letter Ballot #23a: Announcement"
Document Number: IEEE 802.16-06/009
Since this is a recirculation, participation will not affect your
Working Group membership status. However, since no direct vote has
been taken on the 802.16/Cor2 draft, no previous votes are available
to carry forward. Therefore, if you do not cast a ballot in this
recirculation, your vote will not be included in the Working Group
Letter Ballot #23 results.
The ballot submission form is available at:
Roger