To follow up on Bob
Loves earlier e-mail there will be a motion at
the
next meeting dealing with
the process for resolving the remaining
sections. Note that there
are changes from Mr. Loves e-mail in the way
that the WG will process
sections that do not meet the 75% rule
during
the first review of the
SRD.
The text of the motion is
shown below for your consideration.
Whereas it is the desire of
the working group to complete the System
Requirements document by the
end of the March meeting and the SRD has
gone about as far as it can
go with the current correspondence group
process and most of the work
remaining needs to be completed by the
working
group. Therefore the WG shall adopt the
following process to
review and approve the
System Requirements Document during
session #7
in
Orlando. It is noted that adoption of this process will allow
Immediate motions and voting on the system requirements document
text.
1) Review the section as
presented in latest version of the SRD.
2) Call for additional
contributions for that particular section
(section is defined as
X.X.X)
3) Hold a brief discussion
on each contribution. The idea is not
to
debate the contribution but
rather provide an opportunity for the WG
to consider the rational
behind the proposed language. Presentations
are limited to 5 minutes and
then the floor is open for 5 minutes or the
time required for one
comment per person in the discussion queue for
questions.
4) Present a motion to the
WG to vote on each option as potential
baseline text, there are two
cases for
consideration
a. Only one option for the
section
i. If
there is only one option and it gets 75% approval
then this becomes the baseline text
ii. If
this fails then there will be another motion to
remand this section
to an ad-hoc group for consideration.
iii. If the motion to remand the section to an
ad-hoc group
fails then there will be another
vote on whether or not this section
should be dropped from
consideration by the WG. This motion must have
at least 75% of the members voting
in favor to end consideration of
this section by the working
group.
b. If more than one option exists
for a section
i. A vote
will be taken on each option in the
section
ii. The
option with the 75% of the vote will become the
baseline text.
a.
If more than one option has 75% approval, the
baseline text becomes the one
with the highest
percentage of approval.
iii. If none of the options considered has 75%
approval then:
a. If
there are 3 or more options then the WG
will hold another vote on the two options with
the
highest percentage approval
iv. If neither one of
the two top options passes the 75% threshold
then there will be a
motion to remand the option with the highest
percentage to an ad-hoc
group for further development. Obviously the
option with the highest percentage approval becomes the
working text
for the ad-hoc group and
the other options will be dropped.
4) The Chair of 802.20 shall
establish ad-hoc groups as needed,
progress reports from the
working group leaders are due to be
presented to the working
group ON THURSDAY MARCH 18TH.
The working group will again follow
the procedure outlined above except
that any sections that do not have
baseline text will follow
the process that the WG approves for
handling issues between
meetings.
END OF
MOTION...
If by 3pm on Thursday the WG has
not voted to approve
the SRD, then there will be an additional
motion to adopt the latest consensus version as
the baseline document and to require
further work on the document via a WG
ballot circulation using the
802.16 software tool.
Assuming that the 802.16
process is adopted then WG will take the
output from commentary and
make changes to the SRD at the May 2004
meeting. Only comments
submitted within Commentary or comments related
to changes proposed by the
WG will be considered at the next
working
group
meeting.
Attached is
flow chart version of what is described
above.
<<Plenary SRD review process1.pdf>>
John Humbert
Sprint
Corporation
(816) 210-9611