Re: [802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++Urgent motion to approve 802.18 doc+++
approve
At 07:36 PM 11/19/2004 -0500, Paul Nikolich wrote:
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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