IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-07-0270-00-0000 Title: P802.21 to Sponsor Ballot Date Submitted: July, 2007 Presented at IEEE 802.21 session #21, San Francisco Authors or Source(s):   Vivek Gupta Abstract: Summary of Working Group Letter Ballot and Approval to go to Sponsor Ballot

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P802.21 To Sponsor Ballot Conditional Approval 20 July, 2007

Conditional Approval Rules Clause 20 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 Closed 15 July, 2007 Stage Open Close WG Letter Ballot March 31, 2006 April 30, 2006 WG Letter Ballot Recirc #1 October 06, 2006 October 23, 2006 WG Letter Ballot Recirc #2 December 04, 2006 January 03, 2007 WG Letter Ballot Recirc #3 February 04, 2007 February 19, 2007 WG Letter Ballot Recirc #4 April 12, 2007 April 27, 2007 WG Letter Ballot Recirc #5 June 30, 2007 July 15, 2007

Vote Tally Draft Ver Approve Disapprove Total Approval Ratio Abstain Ballots Members Return Ratio D6.0 59 3 62 59/62 = 95.1% 1 63 72 63/72 = 87% No new Disapprove voters in LB-1e 3 Disapprove Voters with Comments 42 Negative Comments submitted which constitute the 3 Disapprove Votes WG resolved all 42 comments and the 3 voters have changed to Approve 1 Disapprove voter with NO Comments Have not received any comments in last 2 re-circulations Attempts to contact this individual have not resulted in a response Other Comments 156 Editorial and Minor Technical Comments submitted The WG resolved all of these (42+156) Comments in draft D7.0 Draft D7.0 to be re-circulated for confirmation

Voting Results http://www.ieee802.org/21/ballot_1.html 100% LB #1 LB #1a LB #1b LB #1c LB #1d LB #1e July-15 July-18 Draft 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 Total Voters 72 Approve 14 18 28 40 46 59 63 Disapprove with Comments 39 42 33 21 15 3 Disapprove without Comments - Invalid 2 1 Abstain 5 Total Ballots 58 61 62 64 Approval % 26% 30% 46% 66% 75% 95% 100% Return % 81% 85% 86% 87% 88%

Comment Resolution Draft Total comments Submitted Technical Editorial LB #1 LB #1a LB #1b LB #1c LB #1d LB #1e Total Draft 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 Total comments Submitted 915 414 405 481 591 198 3004 Technical 579 287 303 341 410 141 2061 Editorial 336 127 102 140 181 57 943 Comments NOT part of Disapprove vote 469 212 237 330 156 1691 Comments part of Disapprove vote 446 202 168 194 261 42 1313

Comments that support the Remaining disapprove votes and Working Group responses None. No comments from the only remaining Disapprove voter.

Confirmatory Email Messages This is to confirm that I approve the LB #1e. Regards, -ajay (Ajay Rajkumar) Thanks for taking care of my 802.21 comments this week. Please not that I am approving the draft (in LB-1e) per the accepted comments and voting to move on into the SB process (cycles) - BR, Peretz Feder I approve of the current draft (in LB-1e) and I intend to become a sponsor ballot member. Regards, Fran (Francis O’Brien) The comment resolution procedure done on yesterday, July 17th 2007 was successful to resolve my issues. Therefore, I am approving our draft in LB-1e. Best Regards, Junghoon Jee

Schedule for Confirmation Ballot and Resolution Meeting July 26 Issue D7.0 July 29 – Aug 13 Recirculation Sept 16- 20 Comment Resolution, if required at 802.21 #22

802.21 WG Motion Motion the 802.21 WG To develop and issue the Working Group Draft P802.21/D7.0, to authorize the WG Chair to forward P802.21/D7.0 to the EC for conditional approval to initiate a Sponsor Ballot on the Draft, to initiate a Working Group Letter Ballot confirmation recirculation to close around August 10, 2007, and to authorize the WG Chair to initiate a Sponsor Ballot on the Draft P802.21/D7.0 Moved By: Yoshi Ohba Seconded By: Junghoon Jee Yes: 27 No: 0 Abstain: 2 Result: Motion Passes

Motion To grant conditional approval, under Clause 20, to forward P802.21 to Sponsor Ballot Moved: Vivek Gupta Seconded: Approve: Disapprove Abstain: Result: