1. December 18
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: TG4i conditional approval package
Date Submitted: March 2010
Source: James Gilb
Contact: James Gilb
Voice: , last name at ieee dot org
Re: revision
Abstract: Conditional approval package for revision.
Purpose: revision.
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2. Ballot information Ballot closed 10 March 2011
Vote results (pool of 139 voters)
139 responses (82% response ratio)
105 yes, 3 no (97% approval ratio)
6 abstain (5% abstain ratio)
Ballot passes
30 comments from 6 commenters
21 Technical and General
9 Editorial

3. Comments supporting no votes
No voter #1 (Struik, 12 comments)
A variety of comments, some on security, some on adding new MAC features
8 principle, 1 agree, 3 disagree
No voter #2 (Chaplin, 8 comments), has accepted the resolution of his comment
No voter #3 (Bhupender, 1 comments), has accepted the resolution of his comment
Comments from voter 1 are in document at:

4. No voter #1 comments 8 security related comments
Areas of concern: Steps in wrong order, missing check, mistake in description of calculation field, structure needs to be re-done, etc.
Response: Rewrite the subclause, fixing the errors, but not using the exact text submitted by the commenter
Group addressing referenced but not supported
Principle, remove reference to allowing group addressing.
Add ability to simultaneously join multiple PANs
Disagree, MAC is not designed for this, but can be done by instantiating parallel MAC process.
Add MAC source filtering
Disagree, not needed for security, upper layer has information needed to do this if necessary
Editorial comment (missing ‘as’) – accepted

5. Schedule for ballot and meetings
1st recirculation
4 April 2011 to 15 April 2011
BRC comment resolution teleconference
19 April, 2011, 9:00-11:00 PST
2nd recirculation (if necessary)
25 April 2011 to 5 May 2011
Comment resolution at May interim meeting

6. EC motion
requests conditional approval from the EC to submit revision draft to RevCom.
WG vote
Moved Gilb, seconded Alfvin
Yes: , No: 0, Abstain: 0
EC vote
Moved Heile, seconded Gilb
Yes: , No:, Abstain: