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

3. 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

4. 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 :00 noon Levi time)

5. P802.16Rev2 documents P802.16Rev2/D1a P802.16Rev2/D2
P802.16Rev2/D1 + editorial comment resolutions from IEEE /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)

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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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 maint-07/036)
Tuesday 8:30-12:00, Talvi
Resolve Comments on LB#26a in IEEE /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 /001r1, specifically related to i 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 /001r1
Review schedule for Rev2
Expected Motions:
“Authorize TG Editor to generate P802.16Rev2/D3 according to the comment resolutions in _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 _001r2.cmt.”
Closing

10. 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)