Re: [802SEC] URGENT *** EC ELECTRONIC BALLOT*** Please respond immediately, due to regulatory deadline ...
approve
At 03:00 AM 3/18/2004 -0500, Stevenson, Carl R \(Carl\) 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)
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carl.stevenson@ieee.org
Bob Heile, Ph.D
Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks
Chair, ZigBee Alliance
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Attleboro, MA 02703 USA
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508-222-0515
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