PROGRESS REPORT ON 802.20

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PROGRESS REPORT ON 802.20

• Arnie Greenspan
• Chair 802.20
• Member Standards Board
• Piscataway, NJ
• September 27, 2007

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BACKGROUND

• Last report presented in June
• Reported significant progress
• Reported on WG efforts to develop a new broad
  based consensus draft containing significant
  proposal inputs from Motorola, Kyocera, Samsung,
  LGE and Qualcomm

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GOALS

• Joint mission of this Standards Board the IEEE-SA
  OC for 802.20 the 802 EC, 802.20 OC and myself
  was to
• Address the issue of dominance within 802.20
• Produce a good consensus standard in a fair and
  open manner

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SIGNIFICANT NEW EVENTS

• The 802.20 OC held a series of interviews and
  investigated the perception of dominance within
  802.20
• At the San Francisco meeting the 802.20 OC
  recommended several actions to the unconflicted
  EC including changing the voting method in 802.20
  from individual voting to a hybrid entity/member
  approach
• This new voting approach is believed to address
  both positive and negative dominance in the short
  and long term

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WHAT IS 802.20 HYBRID/MEMBER ENTITY VOTING

• Voting in 802.20 will be done by a designated
  voter selected by an eligable entity
• Eligibility of an entity in 802.20 is derived
  through an individual that has established
  membership by complying with the membership.
  Attendance rules of 802 and 802.20 and who has
  declared affiliation with that entity while
  establishing membership

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WHAT IS 802.20 HYBRID/MEMBER ENTITY VOTING contd

• Corollaries of this approach ar
• Each entity will have one vote
• In order to maintain voting rights the entity
  must maintain a designated voter who is a member
  of 802.20
• New entities that desire voting rights or members
  of 802.20 who wish to vote on behalf of a new
  entity must attend 4 meetings, 2 of which are
  plenary meetings after declaring their
  affiliation to that entity. (This is an 802
  rule)
• An existing member of 802.20 may become the
  designated voter of an entity that has existing
  rights at the next meeting after declaring
  affiliation to that entity
• The approach and rules implemented by 802.20
  precludes potential abuses such as individual
  members making their membership votes available
  to differing entities on a meeting by meeting
  basis

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PROGRESS UNDER THE NEW VOTING APPROACH

• The new voting approach for 802.20 was
  implemented in San Francisco in July
• Under these voting rules
• The WG established 15 entity voters
• The entity voters voted to advance the 802.20
  draft to Letter Ballot status
• 13 approve
• 0 opposed
• 2 abstain

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BETWEEN MEETINGS

• All current entities of 802.20 were contacted and
  told of the new 802.20 voting approach and
  requested to designate a voter
• Responses expanded the entity voter list from 15
  to 25
• Instructions were sent for the Working Group
  Letter Ballot and a 40-day Letter Ballot was begun

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BALLOT RESULTS

• Nineteen ballots were received from the potential
  25 entity voters - a greater than 50 response
• The ballot response was
• 10 yes 4 no 5 abstain
• Two ballots were received past the deadline, 1
  yes and 1 no. All comments late and otherwise
  were acted upon.
• The two late ballots were not counted for
  statistical purposes, resulting in a 75 approval
  of the Letter Ballot

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COMMENT RESOLUTION

• 1785 comments were received
• 818 Technical
• 820 Editorial
• 147 Hybrid
• At the September meeting ALL comments were
  addressed by working incredible hours

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COMMENT RESOLUTION CONTD

• 13 Entity voters were present in Hawaii which
  constituted a quorum
• Two votes were taken
• Approval of the San Francisco minutes by
  acclamation
• Affirmations of the comment resolutions by the
  Working Group in a vote of
• 8 approve 4 abstain The Chair not voting

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NEXT ACTIONS

• The modified draft will be posted sowing the
  changes due to comment resolution
• A 30-day recirculation ballot will be undertaken
  under Letter Ballot recirculation rules
• The ballot will open October 7 and close November
  6 - one week before the 802 Plenary meeting in
  Atlanta