|  Folks,   I would like to announce my candidacy for the 
Vice-Chair position. My motivations are as follows:   Aside of its primary goal to address 
and tackle known technical issues, a successfull standard is 
also one driven by market and surrounding 
technologies evolution.     Market is governed by tendancies for 
services and technologies adoption and deployment.  Therefore on its way to Sponsor Ballot, .21 
needs to make sure it constantly adresses the needs 
of relevant mobile services and deployed 
architectures.    Meanwhile,  3GPP is currently preparing evolutions 
of its mobility architectures. These include 802 systems. On 
a shorter timescale, IMS and Fixed Mobile Convergence arise as items of strong 
focus.  IETF is also working on new schemes for IP mobility 
support with several architectural 
implications   802.21 needs to adress the question of 
how relevant it is a standard with regards to the challenges of these 
evolutions as prepared by other 
SDOs.    On top of all, an appropriate organization of the 
Working Group is needed to adress this 
objectives.  I hope as a Vice-Chair to be able to work with the 
Chair towards steering the group into the direction that will make 
above challenges achievable.      Regards   Eric Njedjou France Telecom   |