RE: [802SEC] +++P802.16/D4-2001 for Sponsor Ballot NOTE SHORT RESPONSE TIMENEEDED.
I approve without comments.
- Stuart
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Heile [mailto:bob_heile@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 09:39
To: jcarlo@ti.com; IEEE802
Subject: Re: [802SEC] +++Forward P802.16/D4-2001 for Sponsor Ballot NOTE
SHORT RESPONSE TIME NEEDED.
approve
At 05:56 PM 8/4/01 -0500, Jim Carlo wrote:
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>SEC OFFICIAL EMAIL BALLOT 802.0/4Aug2001
>Issue Date: 4Aug2001Closing Date: 10AugApri2001 (BY 11:00am DALLAS
>TIME) Moved By: Roger Marks Seconded By: Bob O'Hara
>Move: Forward P802.16/D4-2001 for Sponsor Ballot
>
>At the SEC July Thursday meeting the SEC gave conditional approval to
>Roger to proceed with forwarding to Sponsor Ballot (If conditional
>approval conditions were met). Because an additional individual
>submitted a new no vote on the same comment, I told Roger we need to
>take an SEC email ballot.
>
>NOTE THAT THIS BALLOT CLOSES ON 10AUG AT 11:00AM DALLAS TIME IN ORDER
>THAT SPONSOR BALLOT CAN START ON FRIDAY AND THUS CLOSE AT THE START OF
>THE
802.16
>INTERIM MEETING. ROGER HAS COMMITTED TO CONTACT PEOPLE AND RESPOND AS
NEEDED
>BECAUSE OF THE SHORT TIME PERIOD TO MEET THE WG SCHEDULE.
>
>I had asked Roger to explain the two new NO votes in email dated
>3August. The No voter with the comment outside the scope was actually
>an approve voter - so this is done. The explanation for the other NO
>voter is found in Roger's notes below.
>
>
>Notes: From Roger Marks
>
>In July, the 802 SEC granted "Conditional Approval" to forward
>P802.16/D4-2001 to Sponsor Ballot upon completion of Confirmation
>Ballot #3b. The ballot concluded yesterday. The outcome is documented
>in these two reports:
>
>*IEEE P802.16 Confirmation Ballot #3b Comment Resolution Report IEEE
>802.16-01/42 <http://ieee802.org/16/docs/01/80216-01_42.pdf>
>In brief:
>Two comments were received in the Confirmation Ballot.
>-One was nonbinding (the vote is Approve). Comment was outside scope;
>it was on a topic not subject to recirc. -One was binding (balloter
>went from Approve to Disapprove). The comment was a duplicate of an
>earlier comment, with no new technical content to justify a further
>recirculation. The comment says that an option for narrow-band
>operation should be included since some countries have allocated narrow
>bands at 10.5 GHz and the standard is supposed to cover 10-66 GHz. The
>resolution basically says that, while the standard will work fine down
>to 10 GHz, it was not designed for narrow band operation; for narrow
>bands at 10.5 GHz, the upcoming 802.16a standard, which covers 2-11 GHz
>and assumes narrower channels, will be more appropriate. [That's why we
>defined 802.16a from 2-11 GHz instead of 2-10 GHz, allowing an
>overlap].
>
>*IEEE P802.16 Confirmation Ballot #3b Voting Report
>IEEE 802.16-01/43 <http://ieee802.org/16/docs/01/80216-01_43.pdf>
>In brief:
>-Approve 76/Disapprove 9 (89.4% Approval)
>-Abstain 8
>-Return ratio 93/124 = 75%
>
>Following the Confirmation Ballot, Working Group Letter Ballot #3 was
>declared to have concluded successfully. However, 802.16 is not
>authorized to continue to Sponsor Ballot because one of the stipulated
>approval conditions (no new Disapprove votes) was not met.
>
>Therefore, with Letter Ballot #3 complete but lacking authorization to
>forward it for Sponsor Ballot, I must come back to the SEC for such
>authorization. I would therefore like to place the following motion
>before the SEC for an email ballot: "To forward P802.16/D4-2001 for
>Sponsor Ballot". Bob O'Hara seconds the motion.
>
>I respectfully request that the email ballot close by noon Eastern time
>on Friday August 10. This would give us an opportunity to launch
>Sponsor Ballot on Friday afternoon and thereby have it close hours
>before our September meeting begins.
>
>Roger
>--
>Dr. Roger B. Marks <mailto:r.b.marks@ieee.org>
>Chair, IEEE 802.16 WG on Broadband Wireless Access
><http://ieee802.org/16>
>phone: +1 303 497 3037 fax: +1 303 497 7828
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