Title: Supporting report for request of conditional approval to forward P802.16h to RevCom Document...

Title: Supporting report for request of conditional approval to forward P802.16h to RevCom

Document Number: 802.16-09/0039Date Submitted: July 16, 2009

Source:Chair of LE TG: Mariana Goldhamer Voice:+972 3 645 6241 mariana.goldhamer@alvarion.comALVARION21a HaBarzel Street, Tel Aviv, Israel

Venue: Session #62, 13-16 July, 2009

Base Document:

Purpose:

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Rules

– LMSC P&P Clause 19: Motions requesting conditional approval to forward where the prior ballot has closed shall be accompanied by:- Date the ballot closed

- Vote tally including Approve, Disapprove and Abstain votes

- Comments that support the remaining disapprove votes and Working Group responses

- Schedule for confirmation ballot and resolution meeting.

Date the Ballot closed25 April 2009

• First Ballot– BALLOT OPENED: 6-Aug-2008

BALLOT CLOSED: 5-Sep-2008

• First Recirc.– BALLOT OPENED: 4-Dec-2008

BALLOT CLOSED: 25-Dec-2008

• Second Recirc.– BALLOT OPENNED: 10-Apr-2009– BALLOT CLOSED: 25-Apr-2009

Vote tally including Approve, Disapproveand Abstain votes

• Approve: 100• Disapprove: 8• Abstain: 5• Return ratio: 84.3%• Approve ratio: 92.6%

• So far 2 emails with commitments to change Disapprove votes

• This will bring the approval ratio at 94.4%

Comments that support the remaining disapprovevotes and Working Group responses

• Sponsor Ballot:– 23 outstanding disapprove comments

• Sponsor Ballot Recirc #1:– 3 outstanding disapprove comments

• Sponsor Ballot Recirc #2:– 14 outstanding disapprove comments

List of outstanding negative comments

• Note: in the back-up part of this presentation there are some comments referenced in the resolution of the outstanding comments

Comment 776

Comment 778

Comment 781

Comment 782

Comment 785

Comment 786

Comment 790

Comment 793

Comment 794

Comment 795

Comment 796

Comment 797

Comment 798

Comment 799

Comment 800

Comment 801

Comment 802

Comment 803

Comment 807

Comment 813

Comment 842 and 845

Comment 847

Comment A7

Comment A8

Comment A9

Comment A22

Comment B01

Comment B46

Comment B47

Comment B48

Comment B52

Comments B54 and B55

Comment B58

Comment B59

Comment B61

Comment B62 and B63

Comment B64

Schedule for Confirmation Ballotand Resolution Meeting

• Aug. 5: Open recirculation• Aug. 21: Close recirculation• Sept. 24: End comment resolution at Hawaii meeting• Oct. 1: Start new recircirculation

• Oct. 19: Deadline submittal for RevCom meeting

Motion 1

• To authorize the LE TG Editor to create the WG draft IEEE P802.16h/D10 based on IEEE P802.16h/D9 and the comment resolutions recorded in data-base IEEE 802.16-09/0031r2 and to initiate a Sponsor Recirculation Ballot.

• WG vote:

Motion 2

• To ask the WG to authorize the 802.16 WG Chair to request Conditional Approval from the IEEE 802 Executive Committee to forward the IEEE P802.16h Draft to RevCom

• WG Vote:

Back-up slides

Comment 814

Comment 619

Comment 641

Comments 663 and 664

Comment 710