Re: [802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++Urgent motion to approve 802.18 doc+++tentative tally
Approve.
Roger
At 10:17 -0500 2004-11-24, Paul Nikolich wrote:
>Dear EC members,
>
>The email ballot on the below motion to approve the attached FCC comments
>closes the sooner of 24hrs after all EC votes are cast or 7PM EST FRIDAY
>26NOV 2004.
>
>The tentative tally for the below motion iss:
>
> 11 Approve
> 01 Disapprove
> 04 Did Not Vote
> 00 Abstains
>
>Please verify your vote, if I did not record it correctly below, send me a
>correction note. If you did not vote, please cast your ballot as soon as
>possible.
>
>Regards,
>
>--Paul Nikolich
>
>
>Vote categories: DIS DNV APP ABS
> -----------------------------------------------
> 01 Mat Sherman/ APP
> 02 Pat Thaler/ APP/comments
> 03 Buzz Rigsbee/ APP
> 04 Bob O'Hara/ APP/comments
> 05 John Hawkins/ APP
> 06 Tony Jeffree/ APP
> 07 Bob Grow= DNV
> 08 Stuart Kerry= DNV
> 09 Bob Heile/ APP
> 10 Roger Marks= DNV
> 11 Mike Takefman/ APP/comment
> 12 Mike Lynch/ APP
> 13 Steve Shellhammer/ DIS/comments
> 14 Jerry Upton/ APP
> 15 Ajay Rajkumar= DNV
> 16 Carl Stevenson/ APP
> ---++++---+++++---++++---
> TOTALS DIS DNV APP ABS
> total: -1- -04- -11- -0-
>
>Regards,
>
>--Paul Nikolich
>IEEE 802 Chairman
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Nikolich" <<mailto:paul.nikolich@ATT.NET>paul.nikolich@ATT.NET>
>> To: <<mailto:STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org>STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 7:36 PM
>> Subject: [802SEC] +++EC Email Ballot+++Urgent motion to approve 802.18
>> doc+++
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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 NOV 2004 7pm edt and closes the sooner of
>>> Friday 26 NOV 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" <<mailto:wk3c@wk3c.com>wk3c@wk3c.com>
>>> To: "Paul Nikolich" <<mailto:p.nikolich@ieee.org>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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