[802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++Urgent motion to approve 802.18 doc+++Closes no later than 26 NOV 2004
Steve.
Small correction? Off by two months? You are being too kind. Thanks for
picking that up--yes, EC members, I meant the opening/closing dates to be 19
November 2004 and 26 November 2004.
--Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shellhammer, Stephen J" <stephen.j.shellhammer@INTEL.COM>
To: <STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++Urgent motion to approve 802.18
doc+++
> Paul,
>
> Just a small correction on the letter ballot. I believe the
> dates should be November 19 and November 26.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stds-802-sec@listserv.ieee.org
> [mailto:owner-stds-802-sec@listserv.ieee.org] On Behalf Of Paul Nikolich
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:36 PM
> To: STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org
> Subject: [802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++Urgent motion to approve 802.18
> doc+++
> Importance: High
>
>
> Dear EC members,
>
> As agreed at the closing EC meeting, this is a 7 day email ballot to
> make a
> determination on the below motion to
> approve the attached document 18-04-0056-00-00 (TV Band NPRM Comments)
> as an
> 802 Document.
>
> Moved: Carl Stevenson
> Second: Jerry Upton
>
> The ballot opens Friday 19 September 2004 7pm edt and closes the sooner
> of
> Friday 26 September 2004 7pm edt or 24hours after all EC member have
> cast a
> vote (a vote consists of an explicit APPROVE, DISAPPROVE or ABSTAIN).
>
> Regards,
>
> --Paul Nikolich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl R. Stevenson" <wk3c@wk3c.com>
> To: "Paul Nikolich" <p.nikolich@ieee.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 7:29 PM
> Subject: Urgent motion to approve 802.18 doc
>
>
>> Motion:
>>
>> To immediately and urgently
>>
>> approve the attached document 18-04-0056-00-00 (TV Band NPRM Comments)
>>
>> as an 802 Document, authorizing Carl Stevenson and Michael Lynch to
>>
>> make necessary non-substantive editorial cleanups and formatting
>>
>> changes, and to file the document with the FCC on behalf of IEEE 802
>>
>> in a timely fashion. (NOTE: the filing deadline is Nov. 30, 2004 and
>>
>> additionally, we need time to do the editorial cleanups and final
>>
>> Formatting for filing.)
>>
>> Moved: Carl R. Stevenson
>>
>> Seconded: Jerry Upton
>>
>> Information for the EC:
>>
>> The attached document was approved *unanimously* by 802.18 with broad
>>
>> representation by voting members of 802.18 from both 802 as well as
> the
>>
>> licensed incumbent services which future 802 wireless standards would,
>>
>> by FCC rule and the ITU Radio Regulations, be required to protect from
>>
>> harmful interference as a condition for access to the spectrum in
>> question.
>>
>> There are currently *NO* 802 wireless standards operating in the band
> in
>>
>> question (the TV broadcast bands), so the recommendations in this
> document
>>
>> would impose NO additional constraints on existing 802 wireless
> standards.
>>
>> Any future 802 wireless standards desiring to operate in the band in
>> question
>>
>> *will* be *required* by the FCC to afford the incumbent licensed
> services
>>
>> protection from harmful interference.
>>
>> (The standard to be developed by 802.22, under the scope of its PAR,
> is
>>
>> specifically intended to operate in the TV broadcast bands, using
>> cognitive
>>
>> radio techniques to protect the incumbent licensed services from
> harmful
>>
>> interference.)
>>
>> This document was reviewed by an ad hoc group from 802.11 (none of the
>> other
>>
>> Wireless WG Chairs responded to an invitation for review).
>>
>> Any future 802 wireless standard proposing to use the TV bands under
> the
>> rules
>>
>> proposed by the FCC would, by definition, be required to operate on a
>> strictly
>>
>> non-interfering basis to the incumbent licensed services.
>>
>> Additionally, the attached document is a delicately crafted, yet fair,
>>
>> compromise, based on UNPRECEDENTED cooperation between the
> "traditional"
>>
>> 802 community and licensed incumbents, some of whom have gained voting
>>
>> membership, and others who have met the attendance requirements at
> this
>>
>> session and will gain voting membership at the March plenary.
>>
>> These folks came to OUR table to work cooperatively with us in an
> effort
>>
>> to avoid conflict over the FCC's proposal to allow unlicensed devices
> to
>>
>> operate *in spectrum for which they hold licenses and have legal
> rights to
>>
>> protection from harmful interference*.
>>
>> After months of cooperative work, NOT filing the comments that were
>> mutually
>>
>> Agreed between the RR-TAG and these incumbents will severely damage
> the
>>
>> cooperative working relationship that has been forged between the
>> incumbents
>>
>> and "traditional 802 participants" and will almost certainly result in
>> their
>>
>> withdrawing from their attempts to work cooperatively with us and make
> our
>>
>> prospects of gaining access to the spectrum.
>>
>> Finally, since IEEE 802.18 requested, and was granted, an extension of
>> time
>> in the
>>
>> comment period, which the FCC granted - something that they normally
> don't
>> do - on
>>
>> the basis that we had all of the incumbents at the table working
>> cooperatively
>>
>> with us to bring a broad industry consensus position to the FCC, it
> will
>> virtually
>>
>> certainly *trash* 802's reputation with the FCC if we do not deliver
> this
>> document
>>
>> by the Nov. 30 filing deadline established by the extension of time
> that
>> was
>> granted
>>
>> at our request - a relationship that we have worked hard to cultivate
> and
>> has been
>>
>> very productive.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Carl R. Stevenson (outgoing Chair, IEEE 802.18 RR-TAG)
>>
>> Michael Lynch, Interim Chair, IEEE 802.18 RR-TAG
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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