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Session # Maintenance Task Group Closing Plenary Report March 20, 2008 Chair: Jon Labs Chief Editor: Joe Schumacher

Activities of the Week 6 sessions: –Monday 17:00-19:00 –Tuesday 8:00-12:00 –Wednesday 8:00-12:00 –Wednesday 13:00-18:00 –Thursday 8:00-12:15 –Thursday 13:05-19:40 Attendance: /-10 people

Activities of the Week Administrative: –Approved agenda (IEEE maint-08/008). –Approved minutes from Session #53 (IEEE maint-08/003) –Reviewed the IEEE Patent Policy: slideset.pdf –Recorded minutes → IEEE maint-08/007 (to be uploaded to Maintenance directory)

Resolution of Comments for LB#26b IEEE /010r2 (in WG upload dir) –259 comments (12 late comments) Technical Binding: 147 Editorial Binding: 18 Technical Non-Binding:60 Editorial Non-Binding:30 Other:4 –~97 contributions reviewed –Resolution summary: 138 Accepted or Accepted-modified 68 Rejected 4 Withdrawn 43 Superceded 6 late comments were resolved.

Resolution of Comments for LB#26b Rapporteur sessions held (Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening) –HO –H-FDD/FDD –MBS –MIMO –Persistent allocation/VoIP –Security

Rev2 Development Plan between Session #54 and #55 Generate and release Rev2/D3a (delta version), D4 (clean version) for target date April 4. Rapporteur groups start harmonization work on April 4 Initiate Recirc LB #26c on the document ~April 4 until April 19, AOE (~15 days) Initiate a call for reply comments on April 20 until ~April 30 (~10 days) Rapporteur groups complete harmonization work on ballot comments by May 12. Resolve comments at Session #54

Resolution of Comments TG Motions –To accept the database IEEE /010r2 as the comment resolutions from LB#26b. (21/0/0) –To authorize the editor to generate the document P802.16Rev2/D4 according to the resolutions in IEEE /010r2. (24/0/0)

Motion TG Chair has been authorized by the task group (24/0/0) to make the motion: “ To accept draft P Rev2/D3 as modified by the comment resolutions (IEEE /010r2) and open a Working Group Recirculation Letter Ballot on the draft (P Rev2/D4).”

LB #26b The following balloters submitted no technically binding comments on this recirc: Jerry Chow Zhigang Rong Jimmy Chui Herbert Ruck Mark Cudak Gamini Senarath Kamran Etemad Gang Shen Shulan Feng Roshni Srinivasan John HumbertWen Tong Panyuh Joo* Guo qiang Wang Gokhan Korkmaz Xuyong Wu Shaohua Li Chengjie Xie Zhibin Lin* Hua Xu Giovanni Maggi Kaibin Zhang Ronald Mao Peiying Zhu Scott Migaldi *submitted no binding comments in LB26, LB26a, LB26b

Rapporteur Groups Charters for all Rapporteur Groups have been extended until Session #55 –MIMO –HO –PA –802.16i –FDD –Security –MBS New Rapporteur Group formed: ROHC –Erik Colban appointed as Chair.

Maint TG Strategy for Rev2 Project To Go to Sponsor Ballot –Get harmonization completed on the major issues in LB #26c –Do a confirmation ballot between Session #55 and Session #56 –Request approval to go to Sponsor Ballot from the EC at Session #56 This requires all members to take the necessary discipline to harmonize and bring the Rev2 draft to sufficient maturity for Sponsor Ballot!