Title: LE TG Closing Report for Session #64

Document Number: 802.16h-09/0029Date Submitted: Nov. 19, 2009

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

Venue: Session #64, 16-19 November, 2009

Base Document:

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Sponsor Ballot Recirculation #5 Status

• Approval conditions were met– 103 Approve; approval rate 94.5%– 6 Disapprove– 7 Abstain

# of Balloters

Response Rate %

Approval Rate %

Negative Rate %

Abstain Rate %

134 86.5% 94.5% 5.5% 6%

LE Task Group activity this week

– Comment resolution• Data-base 802.16-09/0062r2 up-loaded in WG folder

– 13 comments, all resolved, classified as follows:• 7 Agree• 4 Disagree• 2 Principle

– Text changes were made to 802.16h/D12• Recirculation is needed

– 802.16h PAR extension needs to be re-approved by the WG• The Reason field was up-dated in this meeting

Outstanding negative comments

• See also C802.16-09/0025

• Confirmations of satisfied comments by e-mail:– Ron Murias has indicated his 4 remaining negative comments (E9, D4, D10, and

C52) from a total of 42 negative comments; it was determined that the comments C52 and D4 were not submitted by Ron.

– Andrew Miles has indicated satisfaction with his only negative comment (in Recirc. 3, marked with *)

• No e-mail contact was possible with Aik Chindapol – e-mail at NSN bounced

Circ. Recirc.1 Recirc.2 Recirc.3 Recirc.4Recirc.5

(D12)Chindapol, Aik 0 0 4 0 0 0Labs, Jonathan 2 0 0 0 0 0Murias, Ronald G 0 0 0 0 1 1Myles, Andrew Approve 0* 0 0Piggin, Paul 0 1 0 0 0 0Wang, Lei 0 2 0 0 0 2

802.16h PAR Extension

• The 802.16h PAR extension was approved last session

• The PAR extension request was added to the December NesCom agenda

• Still needs the approval of the IEEE 802 EC in this session– The PAR extension form has been updated (IEEE

802.16h-09/0021r5• Changes made to the ‘Why is an extension required ?’

field and to the Estimation of the SB closing date

P802.16h PAR Extension

• PAR Expiration date: 2009-12-31• Details

– Extension: 1 year– Why is the extension required:

• The P802.16h Sponsor Ballot is well underway and it is projected that the Standards Board approval will be requested as early as January 2009. An extension is requested to guarantee the project completion.

– When do you estimate that the final IEEE Sponsor ballot will be completed?:• 15-Jannuary 2010

Conditional EC Approval

• High approval rate– 94.5%

• Only 5 technical comments• Stable draft

– Very limited text changes in this meeting• Project plan

– Create D13 and re-circulate by end November– Comment resolution by WG Chair and TG Chair – by

Dec.20– In case of a non-silent recirc, resolve comments at Session

#65

Motion 1

• To authorize the LE TG Editor to create the WG draft IEEE P802.16h/D13 based on IEEE P802.16h/D12 and the comment resolutions recorded in data-base IEEE 802.16-09/0062r2 and to initiate a Sponsor Recirculation Ballot.

• LE TG vote: 6:0:0

Motion 2

• To request the WG to authorize the WG Chair to forward the IEEE 802.16h PAR extension request in IEEE 802.16h-09/0021r5 to the IEEE 802 EC.

LE TG Vote: 5:0:0

Motion 3

• 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

• LE TG Vote: 6:0:0

Motion 4

• To ask the WG to authorize the WG Chair and the LE TG Chair to resolve any comments resulting from 802.16h/D13 recirculation

• LE TG Vote: 6:0:0

Back-up slides

Ballot history

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

BALLOT CLOSED: 5-Sep-2008– Resulting data-base:

• IEEE 80216-08/047r4.zip• First Recirc.

– BALLOT OPENED: 4-Dec-2008 BALLOT CLOSED: 25-Dec-2008

– Resulting data-base:• IEEE 80216-08/065r5.zip

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

• IEEE 802.16-09/0031r3.zip

Ballot history - continuation

• Third recirc.– BALLOT OPENED: 10-Aug-2009

BALLOT CLOSED: 25-Aug-2009– Resulting data-base:

• IEEE 80216-09/046r3.zip

• Fourth recirc.– BALLOT OPENED: 8-Sept.-2009

BALLOT CLOSED: 20-Sep-2009– Resulting data-base:

• IEEE 80216-08/053r2.zip

• Fifth recirc.– BALLOT OPENED: 21-Oct.-2009

BALLOT CLOSED: 5-Nov.-2009– Resulting data-base:

• IEEE 80216-08/062r2