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IP over IEEE 802.16 Problem Statement and Goals
draft-ietf-16ng-ps-goals-04

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, 
    16ng mailing list <16ng@ietf.org>, 
    16ng chair <16ng-chairs@tools.ietf.org>
Subject: Document Action: 'IP over 802.16 Problem Statement and 
         Goals' to Informational RFC 

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'IP over 802.16 Problem Statement and Goals '
   <draft-ietf-16ng-ps-goals-05.txt> as an Informational RFC

This document is the product of the IP over IEEE 802.16 Networks Working 
Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Mark Townsley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-16ng-ps-goals-05.txt

Ballot Text

Technical Summary
 
  This document specifices problems in running the IETF protocols over
  IEEE 802.16 network and identifies specific gaps in the 802.16 MAC for
  IPv4 and IPv6 support.Also, this document spells out several goals to
  point at relevant works to be done in IETF. 
 
Working Group Summary
 
  There is concensus from the WG for this document. Amount of
  review in the WG is small, however.
 
Protocol Quality

  Jari Arkko has reviewed this document for the IESG. Reviews
  from IEEE 802.16 were sought and received.

Note to RFC Editor

  In the Abstract, please change "running the IETF IP protocols
  over IEEE 802.16" to "running IP over 802.16".

  In Section 1, please change the first occurrence of "BS" to
  "Base Station (BS)". Similarly, change the first occurrence
  of "SS" to "Subscriber Station (SS)".

  Also in Section 1, please change "within the current 16ng WG scope"
  to "within the current scope of IETF efforts".

  Also in Section 1, please change "IP protocols for each case"
  to "IP for each case".

  In Section 4,1, please change "within the scope of 16ng" to
  "within the scope of ongoing IETF work".

  In Section 4.1, please change "not to wake up sleep/idle 
  [IEEE802.16e] SSs" to "SSs which are in the sleep/idle mode 
  [IEEE802.16e]".

  In Section 4.3, please change "the problem of waking up the 
  sleep/idle [IEEE802.16e] SSs" to "the problem of waking up SSs 
  which are in sleep/idle mode [IEEE802.16e]".

  In Section 4.4, please add the following to the end:

    Goal #6. Review management requirements and specifically the
    interfaces and specific management model (objects) for IP
    over 802.16 in collaboration with IEEE 802.16.

  In Section 7, please change "16ng WG" to "IETF 16ng Working Group".

  In Section 8, please change as follows:

  OLD:
    section 4
  NEW:
    section 3

RFC Editor Note