Re: [802SEC] Draft 802.16 maintenance PARs for Friday EC agenda
Roger:
1. There already is an 802.16m amendment project and creating a new standard 802.16M is very confusing to users of the standard as well as to case insensitive search. I doubt NesCom or the Nescom administrator will allow the number 802.16M.
2. While 802.1 has an exemption on numbering (grandfathering their numbering convention that existed prior to the current numbering policy), 802.16 cannot depend on being able to get a similar exemption to violate the numbering conventions enforced on all other standards groups.
3. Because 802.16M is co-contingent on 802.16 revision, and the number 802.16M is used in the proposed revision PAR, it could cause problems for the revision project.
See the IEEE-SA Project Numbering Policy at: https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/init/parnum.pdf
Therefore, I will oppose both PARs unless numbering is changed.
FYI, if present during NesCom consideration, I would speak against approval; and if this numbering were able to get through NesCom, I would oppose at the SASB.
--Bob
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From: ***** IEEE 802 Executive Committee List ***** [mailto:STDS-802-SEC@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Roger B. Marks
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:29 PM
To: STDS-802-SEC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [802SEC] Draft 802.16 maintenance PARs for Friday EC agenda
EC Colleagues,
The 802.16 Working Group would like to place two maintenance PARs on the Friday EC agenda, per the 48-hour rule in subclause 12.2 of the LMSC Operations Manual:
"At the discretion of the IEEE 802 LMSC Chair, PARs for ordinary items (e.g., Maintenance PARs) and PAR changes essential to the orderly conduct of business (e.g., division of existing work items or name changes to harmonize with equivalent ISO JTC-1 work items) may be placed on the Sponsor agenda if delivered to Sponsor members 48 hours in advance."
Here are the two PARs:
* Draft PAR for the Revision of IEEE Std 802.16
http://ieee802.org/16/docs/11/80216-11_0010.pdf
* Draft PAR for IEEE P802.16M
http://ieee802.org/16/docs/11/80216-11_0011.pdf
In essence, the proposal is to initiate a revision of IEEE Std 802.16 and divide the standard into two separate documents.
Roger
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