[802SEC] let's sell the approved 802.16 draft
Title: let's sell the approved 802.16
draft
Angela,
Following the approval of 802.16, IEEE-SA put a press release
both at the top of its own site and on Business Wire
<http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120701/213412218>. The release has been
picked up widely and is now repeated on many web sites.
In order to help sell the draft, the press release includes the
URL to the 802.16 publication list
<http://WirelessMAN.org/published.html>.
Unfortunately, this won't help to sell drafts, because the URLs
to the product (both PDF and softcover) now both return the message
"Product No Longer Available."
I have searched the IEEE Catalog in many different ways but have
found no sign of the draft.
Can you look into this and tell me why the draft is longer
available? Is it a policy to remove drafts from the catalog once
approved? If so, I would recommend a different policy. I request
that, since we have advertised the product widely, we put it back in
the catalog.
Regards,
Roger
Karen,
Thanks for
getting the IEEE 802.16 press release onto the IEEE-SA front
page:
http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/80216app.html
While I knew that
IEEE had trademarked "WirelessMAN", I was surprised to find
the trademark symbol attached to "802.16" (in 12 places).
I'd like to better understand exactly what the trademark covers. I'm
a little confused by the press release's statement that "IEEE
Std 802.16, WirelessMAN is a trademark of the IEEE." Exactly
what term is trademarked?
[By the way, I
didn't find "802.16" on the USPTO site
<http://tess.uspto.gov>. (I did, however, find "802"
registered to IEEE for "pamphlets of standards and
specifications for local and metropolitan area networks", to
Wayne Gretzky for hockey equipment, and to the Bose Corporation for
loudspeakers).]
I would like to
voice an objection to one particular use of the trademark symbol in
the press release: the reference to our previously-published standard
as "IEEE Standard 802.16.2". I request that you
reconsider this use of the trademark symbol inside a standard number.
I hope that, if you agree with me, you will correct the version on
the web.
Thanks for all
your help in getting the press release out.
Roger