Re: [802SEC] URGENT *** EC ELECTRONIC BALLOT*** Please respond immediately, due to regulatory deadline ...
Approve
Regards
Tony
At 08:00 18/03/2004, you wrote:
Dear EC
Voting Members,
Paul Nikolich has delegated the conduct of the
following EC electronic ballot to me, due to extraordinary
circumstances.
While the ballot is *technically* a 10 day EC
electronic ballot, as a practical matter there is a deadline of 0600
EST Friday, March 19th for filing the attached document with the ITU-R
and I also need time to coordinate IEEE-SA approval with Terry
deCourcelle of the IEEE-SA staff before transmitting it to the ITU-R
Secretariat in Geneva electronically.
Paul has ruled that this ballot will close as
soon as it receives 100% voter response, providing that the last vote is
not a "DIS", since comments attached to a "DIS" vote
could conceivably persuade others to change their "APP" votes
to "DIS" votes ... Please remember that the ballot
will not close without 100% response and cast your vote promptly.
I profoundly apologize for the short notice -
while I was not presented with the substance of this document in a timely
manner, I believe that a timely submittal to the ITU-R is
appropriate and desirable in the interest of furthering the acceptance of
IEEE 802 wireless standards in the ITU-R.
The attached document, for which I am seeking
your approval, is purely informational and non-controversial, but never
the less important to submit to the upcoming meeting of ITU-R JTG 6-8-9,
and I urge you to promptly cast your "APP" vote so that it may
be transmitted to Geneva in a timely fashion.
Note that the EC approval motion below is
conditional on the approval of the document by IEEE 802.18, which has
not yet occurred due to the late delivery of the substance of the
document to me, but that I fully anticipate that the document WILL
be approved by 802.18 shortly after 0800 EST on Thursday, March 18th,
when 802.18 reconvenes. I am submitting this conditional approval motion
in parallel solely in the interest of facilitating the meeting of the
filing deadline, and the document will NOT be transmitted to Geneva
without the approval of 802.18, the EC, and Terry deCourcelle of the
IEEE-SA.
I have pre-coordinated with Jim Carlo on this
and have his explicit approval to send the document to the ITU-R
*if* 802.18, the EC, and Terry deCourcelle all approve.
I will also take steps to make sure that
everyone possible understands that, in the future, such late requests
will not be looked on favorably and will only be acted on in the most
exceptional of circumstances.
Follows the motion:
To approve the attached document,
ieee-jtg689.doc, as an IEEE 802 document, conditional on the approval of
IEEE 802.18, and to authorize the Chair of IEEE 802.18 to seek approval
from the designated IEEE-SA officials to transmit the document to the
ITU-R Secretariat before the submittal deadline of 1200 Geneva time (0600
EST), on Friday, March 19, 2004 for consideration by the upcoming meeting
of ITU-R JTG 6-8-9.
Moved: Carl R. Stevenson, Chair, IEEE
802.18
Seconded: Buzz Rigsbee, Executive Secretary IEEE 802
Again, I apologize for submitting this ballot
on such short notice, but urge you to promptly cast an "APP"
vote so that the document may be transmitted to Geneva in a timely
manner.
If you have questions for me regarding this
motion or the document, please seek me out or call me on my cellphone
ASAP.
Regards and thanks in advance for your prompt
cooperation and assistance, as well as your tolerance and
understanding,
Carl R.
Stevenson
Chair, IEEE 802.18 Radio
Regulatory Technical Advisory Group
IEEE Liaison to ITU-R
610-965-8799 (home office)
610-712-3217 (fax mailbox)
610-570-6168 (cellphone)
Short Message Service: 6105706168@voicestream.net
carl.stevenson@ieee.org
Regards,
Tony