Re: [802SEC] +++ 10 Day EC Ballot - Comments to the European Union Radio Spectrum Policy Group +++
Mike,
I vote approve
Bob
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Subject: [802SEC] +++ 10 Day EC Ballot - Comments to the European
Union Radio Spectrum Policy Group +++
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.
Pauls 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 pastethat 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
802.18s 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 Draftin 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 draftdocument. 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 pastenature.
The approval of this contribution was a result of the continuing RR-TAGs
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:
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.18/dcn/13/18-13-0047-06-0000-draft-response-to-eu-rspg-consultation.doc
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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