802.18 RR-TAG Closing Report Report of the March 2011 Plenary meeting Work planned for the May interim meeting Michael Lynch, MJ Lynch & Associates

Report of the March Meeting Approved four documents: 18-11-0031-00-0000 - Update of Sub-clause 5.6 - This provides an update to Recommendation ITU-R M.1457 which deals with IMT-2000. It provides an update to that Recommendation in regards to 802.16 18-11-0032-00-0000 - Proposed Modification to PDNR [IMT-RSPEC] - This provides input from 802.16 in regards to the ITU-R WP5D's work on IMT-Advanced 18-11-0024-02-0000 - Contribution on WP1A PDNR on Smart Grid - This provides the initial IEEE 802 input to the Proposed Draft New Report on Smart Grid Power Management Systems 18-11-0035-00-0000 - Cover letter for the input to ITU-R WP1A - This is the document that will be used to transmit 18-11-0024-02 to ITU-R WP1A. It also shows that IEEE 802 plans a further contribution Michael Lynch, MJ Lynch & Associates

Report of the March Meeting Deferred two documents to a conference call scheduled for March 29th: 18-11-0033-00-0000 - Vocabulary terms related to IEEE 802.16 - This document adds terms related to 802.16 and IMT-Advanced to Recommendation M.1224. It was not possible to complete the two annexes providing the vocabulary and definitions by the end of the March meeting 18-11-0036-00-0000 - IEEE position on 2.4 GHz - This deals with the European rules on the use of the 2.4 GHz frequency band. It was not possible to receive further inputs from some European colleagues. The author will provide those further inputs for the March 29th conference call Michael Lynch, MJ Lynch & Associates

Work Planned for the May Meeting March 2011 Work Planned for the May Meeting Review/discuss any new regulatory rules or proposed rules between meetings Begin work on the follow-on input to ITU-R WP1A on SG communications Michael Lynch, MJ Lynch & Associates