Session #53 802.16 Maintenance Task Group Opening Report IEEE 802.16 Presentation Submission Template (Rev. 9) Document Number: IEEE 802.16maint-08/001r1 Date Submitted: 2008-01-21 Source: Jon Labs Voice: +1 514 684 0200 x325 Wavesat, Inc. E-mail: jlabs@wavesat.com 1375 Trans-Canada Hwy Dorval, QC H9P 2W8 Venue: Session #53 Maintenance Task Group Opening Report Base Contribution: N/A Purpose: For review Notice: This document does not represent the agreed views of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group or any of its subgroups. It represents only the views of the participants listed in the “Source(s)” field above. It is offered as a basis for discussion. It is not binding on the contributor(s), who reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Release: The contributor grants a free, irrevocable license to the IEEE to incorporate material contained in this contribution, and any modifications thereof, in the creation of an IEEE Standards publication; to copyright in the IEEE’s name any IEEE Standards publication even though it may include portions of this contribution; and at the IEEE’s sole discretion to permit others to reproduce in whole or in part the resulting IEEE Standards publication. The contributor also acknowledges and accepts that this contribution may be made public by IEEE 802.16. Patent Policy: The contributor is familiar with the IEEE-SA Patent Policy and Procedures: <http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6> and <http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3>. Further information is located at <http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html> and <http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat >.

Session #53 802.16 Maintenance Task Group Opening Report January 21, 2008 Chair: Jon Labs Chief Editor: Joe Schumacher

Rev2 schedule between Session #52 and #53 Generate and release Rev2/D1a (delta version), D2 (clean version) ~ December 10. Initiate Recirc LB #26a on ~December 10 until January 4, AOE Initiate a call for reply comments on January 5 until ~January 19 Resolve comments at Session #53

Process on Revision Project Since Closing Report at Session #52 2007/12/13 P802.16Rev2/D1a and D2 released to WG. 2007/12/20 LB#26a opened 2008/01/14 (AOE) LB#26a closed 2008/01/15 Call for reply comments opened 2008/01/21 Call for reply comments closed at 12:00 noon Levi time)

P802.16Rev2 documents P802.16Rev2/D1a P802.16Rev2/D2 P802.16Rev2/D1 + editorial comment resolutions from IEEE 802.16-07/052r2 (includes P802.16i/D6) (2260 pages; 22.0 Mbytes). Delta document wrt D1 P802.16Rev2/D2 P802.16Rev2/D1a w/o change language (2094 pages; +197 pages wrt D1, 18.7 Mbytes)

LB #26a On draft P802.16Rev2/D2 Ballot summary (www.dot16.org/ballots/ballot26) 198 Approved 74 Disapproved Return Ratio: 84%  Return ratio met Approval Ratio: 73 %  Ballot did not pass Database IEEE 802.16-08/001 (on WG page) 67 commenters Stats: Technical Binding: 223 Editorial Binding: 43 Technical Non-Binding: 81 Editorial Non-Binding: 54 Other: 2 Total: 403 (2 late comments) Database IEEE 802.16-08/001r1 (in WG upload directory) 166 reply comments from 8 commenters

LB #26a The following balloters submitted no technically binding comments on this recirc: Sean Cai* Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan James Carlo Sheng Sun Naftali Chayat Wen Tong Mark Cudak Frederick Vook Kamran Etemad Guo qiang Wang Shulan Feng Michael Wang Mo-Han Fong Geng Wu David Johnston Chengjie Xie Panyuh Joo* Hua Xu Sang Youb Kim Ling Xu Zhibin Lin* Yunsong Yang David Paranchych Frank Zhou Arvind Raghavan* Kiseon Ryu Gamini Senarath Zheng Shang *submitted no binding comments in LB26 or LB26a

LB #26a The following contributions will be rejected unless their format is corrected: C802.16maint-08/009r1 C802.16maint-08/016 C802.16maint-08/010r1 C802.16maint-08/22r1 C802.16maint-08/011r2 C802.16maint-08/023r1 C802.16maint-08/012 C802.16maint-08/028r1 C802.16maint-08/013 C802.16maint-08/029r1 C802.16maint-08/014 C802.16maint-08/035r1 C802.16maint-08/015 51 Contributions accepted for review.

Proposed Maintenance Agenda Monday 17:00-19:00, Talvi Opening & Administration Approval of the Agenda Review (IEEE-SA Patent Slides) Approval of Minutes from Session #52 (IEEE 802.16maint-07/036) Tuesday 8:30-12:00, Talvi Resolve Comments on LB#26a in IEEE 802.16-08/001r1 Tuesday 13:00-18:00, Talvi Tuesday 20:00-23:00, Talvi Wednesday 8:30-12:00, Talvi Resolve Comments on LB#26a in IEEE 802.16-08/001r1, specifically related to 802.16i material Wednesday 13:00-18:00, Talvi Thursday 8:30-12:00, Talvi Resolve Comments on LB#26a in IEEE, specifically related to comments on FDD/H-FDD Thursday 13:00-18:00, Talvi Resolve Late Comments on LB#26a in IEEE 802.16-08/001r1 Review schedule for Rev2 Expected Motions: “Authorize TG Editor to generate P802.16Rev2/D3 according to the comment resolutions in 80216-08_001r2.cmt.” “Authorize TG Chair to request the WG to open a Letter Ballot Recirc on P802.16Rev2/D3 as modified by comment resolutions in 80216-08_001r2.cmt.” Closing

Comment Resolution Strategy Order of comment resolution: Technically Binding Comments except on H-FDD/FDD Technically Non-binding Comments except on H-FDD/FDD Comments on H-FDD/FDD Editorially Binding Comments Editorially Non-binding Comments Determine a block of editorial comments for approval. Limited deferral of technical issues for the end of the week (particularly on FDD/H-FDD issues)