Dear EC,
As approved by the IEEE 802.18 RR-TAG during a pre-announced conference call the RR-TAG approved Document 18-13-0047-06 as a response to the European Union Radio Spectrum Regulatory Group (EU RSPG). The document was approved by a vote of 7 yes, 0 no and 0 abstentions and will, with necessary edits and formatting changes made by the IEEE 802.18 chair, be forwarded to the EU RSPG.
The next scheduled Thursday conference call will be on April 19th to deal with a response to FCC Docket 13-49, on 5GHz U-NIII and Part 15 Rules.
I have asked Paul to allow me to conduct a ten day EC email ballot to approve submitting the comments (Document 18-13-0047-06) to the EU RSPG.
Paul’s response to my request is:
“I will authorize a 10 day EC email ballot, to be conducted by Mike Lynch, for the following motion.”
Paul also asked that I provide the full EC the same background material that I provide to him. So I will “cut and paste” that data here just prior to the actual motion.
“As mentioned in an earlier email IEEE 802.18 held two conference calls to deal with an unforeseen consultation from the European Union Radio Spectrum Regulatory Group. I feel that for your benefit more background would be useful.
At the RR-TAG closing Plenary on March 21st we made the customary motions for conference calls and, based on a known document soon to be forthcoming from the FCC, set a date of April 19th to review and respond to that document. The minutes reflecting that can be found on IEEE 802.18’s Mentor web site as Document 18-13-0039-00.
However, as happens in the regulatory world, another request for comments was forwarded to the RR-TAG. This one was from the European Union Radio Spectrum Policy Group. While the document is watermarked “Draft” in the introduction to that document it states:
REMARKS ON THE STATUS OF THIS DOCUMENT
The following draft Opinion on Strategic Challenges facing Europe in addressing the
Growing Spectrum Demand for Wireless Broadband has been agreed for public
consultation by the RSPG at its plenary meeting on 20 February 2013.
It must be noted that this draft Opinion, particularly its annexes dealing with the
identification of frequency bands with potential for wireless broadband are work in
progress. The RSPG has not taken any final decision with respect to recommending
particular portions of spectrum for wireless broadband and welcomes in this regard
any feedback from stakeholders on the proposals in the draft Opinion and its annexes.
Following the public consultation and based also on the comments received, the
RSPG plans to finalise the draft Opinion and its annexes, and present them at the next
RSPG plenary meeting for approval.
I am providing you with this data since some may say that we (802) are providing comments on a “draft” document. Indeed the EU RSPG plans an using those comments in their final document. Based on the experience of some in the RR-TAG we may still have be able to comment further in this proceeding.
The need for this call was submitted to 802.18 by the 802.11 chair, Bruce Kraemer, on March 22nd. John Notor, the 802.18 vice-chair, sent the announcement of the April 11th conference call to consider the EU RSPG consultation to the RR-TAG reflector on March 26th. The meeting was opened as announced on April 11th but while we had a quorum the meeting was recessed until April 12th. The reason for the recess was an overlap with another meeting that would have taken a number of key participants out of the 802.18 meeting.
On April 12th the meeting resumed and lasted approximately 1.5 hours. The minutes from that meeting are attached for your review. There was extensive discussion and resulted in the document (18-13-0047-06) being approved 7/0/0. Those present are reflected in the attached minutes. There is one error in the minutes, that being the correct email for Ron Porat of Broadcom which is rporat@broadcom.com and not r.b.marks@ieee.org. I think that the error is of a “cut and paste” nature.”
The approval of this contribution was a result of the continuing RR-TAG’s Thursday conference calls. Now that I have given you all of this useful (or not) background please let me move to the request for the motion.
Motion:
“To approve, under OM Subclause 8.2, document 18-13-0047-06 subject to the early close provision of OM Subclause 4.1.2.."
Moved: Mike Lynch
Seconded: Bruce Kraemer
Link to the document:
Comments are to be submitted to the EU RSPG by April 29th, 2013.
The ballot will start April 17th and end on April 26th.
Regards,
Mike
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