FW: [802SEC] Coexistence "Call to Arms"
Title: Message
Mat-
Your start sounds good. I would suggest that, as soon as you
feel you are some reasonable distance into it, you do a tutorial that (1)
presents your work to a broad audience and (2) provides the opportunity for
braod feedback without the overhead of a draft comment/review
cycle.
Geoff
At 01:02 AM 1/27/2003 -0500,
mjsherman@research.att.com wrote:
Hi Everyone,
This
e-mail is primarily directed at the Wireless chairs, though everyone is
welcome to comment.
Recently
we have started a Coexistence TAG to deal with wireless coexistence
issues. Jim Lansford is doing a great job of Chairing that TAG, but he
has been short handed, and bogged down with start up issues such as a charter
and operating rules. Coexistence topics seem to be a key bone of
contention between wireless groups, and recently I ve heard a number of
individuals complain that they really don t understand what is expected of a
group regarding coexistence. We need a Coexistence Guideline for
802. Actually, such a guideline is a goal for 802.19 They just haven t
had time to deal with it yet. Given the number of coexistence related
concerns I ve heard expressed recently, I feel that this cannot wait for the
startup issues in 802.19 to get resolved.
Accordingly, I am going to try and jump start the process. I
plan to make a contribution (if it is mature enough and in scope) to Jim s
group towards the end of the March plenary session as the basis for a
coexistence guideline. Since coexistence is a cross working group issue,
I d really like input from all the Wireless groups to incorporate into this
document (particularly from the leadership of these groups).
Accordingly, I m passing around (attached to this e-mail) an outline for a
contribution to Jim s group that I hope will form the basis of a coexistence
guideline. Please provide any feedback you (or your WG) may have on this
documents. I will try to faithfully capture all the comments I
receive. I plan to organize an 802.0 level working session early in the
March plenary on the coexistence guideline and present any comments / inputs I
receive. Stuart will also be working with me to organize this little
session. I hope to then take the output of that session and submit it to
Jim s group for their review and comment. Note that the Guideline should
describe the inter-working group process to be followed and issues to be
addressed. It should be very top level, and not try to
describe/recommend actual coexistence solutions. It is process
focused. As such, I am hopeful that it will not be a very lengthy
document, and that we will be able to get a working draft in place relatively
quickly.
Anyway,
this is my game plan at the moment. I encourage comment from the SEC on
both my plan, and the document.
Best
Regards,
Mat
Matthew Sherman
Vice Chair, IEEE 802
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