1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER
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Title: Liaison Report – Work Related to
Date Submitted: July 15, 2010
Source: Dan Gal, Alcatel-Lucent
Abstract: liaison report on Session #68 in San Diego
San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 1
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic

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San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 2
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic

3. Liaison Report IEEE 802.16 Session #68, San Diego
Dan Gal
Alcatel-Lucent
San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 3
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic

4. Objectives of this session:
Summary
Objectives of this session:
TGm: Resolve the first round of Sponsor ballot comments on p802.16m/draft D6.
TGmaint: Resolve a few maintenance comments the resolution of which would go into 16m/D7
TGh: Project is complete. No meeting planned for this session.
Project Planning (PP): Finalize the PAR and 5C (five criteria) for the M2M proposed project.
TGn, a.k.a – GRIDMAN: Continue drafting and possibly finish the SRD – System requirements document.
San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 4
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic

5. 802.16m/D6 Sponsor ballot comments resolution
The 16m/D6 sponsor ballot that closed on July 9, has failed with an approval rate of 58%.
There are 817 technical and 187 editorial comments to resolve this week.
233 contributions accompany comments.
A recirculation – D7 – of the 16m draft, would certainly be needed and recirculation #1 of the Sponsor Ballot is likely to start in two to three weeks time.
The target completion date of the 16m amendment remains Dec-2010
San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 5
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic

6. 802.16p - M2M Study Group
Study Group Committee on Machine to Machine (M2M) started its work three sessions ago.
It plans to submit a PAR+5C request to the EC on Friday July 16, 2010.
Status: Currently developing a pre-draft for the SRD (System Requirements Document).
Will likely start to operate as TGp in August 2010.
San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 6
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic

7. 802.16n – GRIDMAN Study Group
This is the study group on Greater Reliability In Disrupted Metropolitan Area Networks was created at session #58 and its PAR approved in March 2010.
It still operates as a study group, pending decision of the chair, rather than a task group.
Status this week: advanced the development of the Requirements Document (SRD) to near completion.
Problem area: running into overlap and conflicts with M2M functionalities.
San Diego, California
July 15, Dan Gal, ALU Slide 7
January 19, David Hunter, Panasonic