WLAN/ moving unlicensed discussion off 802.16 reflector

["Roger B. Marks" <r.b.marks@ieee.org>]

Recently, a lot of discussion regarding unlicensed bands has been 
posted to stds-802-16@ieee.org, stds-802-11@ieee.org, and 
stds-802-wpan@ieee.org.

This topic is central to 802.11 and 802.15, and it may soon become 
important to 802.16 if the WirelessHUMAN PAR is approved by the 
IEEE-SA Standards Board next week.

On the other hands, unlicensed bands are not a core issue at this 
point to 802.16 participants in general. Therefore, stds-802-16 is 
not an ideal venue for this discussion.

The plan in 802.16 is for our Task Group 4 (the WirelessHUMAN Task 
Group) to take the lead in the 802.16 efforts in the unlicensed 
bands. Therefore, it would be appropriate for the unlicensed 
coexistence discussions to be cross-posted to the WirelessHUMAN 
reflector instead of the 802.16 reflector.

I therefore respectfully request that future discussion on this 
topic, and related ones, be directed not to stds-802-16 but instead 
to the WirelessHUMAN reflector <mailto:wirelesshuman@egroups.com>.

Anyone can subscribe to the WirelessHUMAN reflector (receiving 
individual emails, daily digests, or simply following the discussion 
by the web archive). The URL is 
<http://www.egroups.com/group/wirelesshuman>.

Thanks for your consideration,

Roger

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Dr. Roger B. Marks  <mailto:marks@nist.gov>
Chair, IEEE 802.16 WG on Broadband Wireless Access <http://wirelessman.org>
National Wireless Electronic Systems Testbed (N-WEST) <http://nwest.nist.gov>
National Institute of Standards and Technology/Boulder, CO 
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