Hi Andy, 
How about we compromise? I understand the issues with license exempt. but many 
countries in the world use the phrase
"lightly licensed" , and many are emerging countries where things need to be 
clear, so if we change it to ( licensed, unlicensed, or lightly licensed) most 
of the world will understand the meaning and
we will not have a misunderstanding around what license exempt implies in any 
county or the ITU?
What we are doing is making the wording understandable on a global basis, and 
at the same time not interfering with the ITU's meanings in this respect, we 
can all agree on . 
Thanks for your assistance. Sincerely, Nancy

On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Teco, Jussi, Nancy, (Scott, Raj)
> 
> I agree with your sentiment but in addition to the use of the term 
> licence-exempt I also have a problem with primary and secondary. Primary and 
> secondary (and tertiary) services have a particular meaning in ITU in 
> relation to spectrum allocations, and we are giving the words a different 
> meaning here in relation to users. When this PAWS protocol is later applied 
> to non-TV bands, it might be radar (say) that is the primary use and fixed 
> links or mobile (say) that is the secondary use, in ITU regulations. This 
> will then conflict with calling white space operation secondary. How about 
> this re-write of the abstract, considering "use" instead of "user" and 
> avoiding "primary" and "secondary":
> 
> Portions of the radio spectrum that are allocated to a particular use
> but are unused or unoccupied at specific locations and times are
> defined as "white space". The concept of allowing additional 
> transmissions (which may or may not be licensed) in white space is a
> technique to "unlock" existing spectrum for new use. An obvious
> requirement is that these additional transmissions do not interfere
> with the allocated use of the spectrum. One approach to using the
> white space spectrum at a given time and location is to verify with a
> database for available channels.
> 
> This document describes the concept of TV White Spaces. It also
> describes the problems that need to be addressed to enable white
> space spectrum for additional uses, without causing interference to
> currently allocated use, by querying a database which knows the
> channel availability at any given location and time. A number of
> possible use cases of white space spectrum and derived 
> requirements are also described.
> 
> The parts of the Introduction etc from which this Abstract was originally 
> derived will also need to be updated to match.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Teco 
> Boot
> Sent: 27 January 2012 09:07
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [paws] re proposed edits on rev 2
> 
> I suggest we keep our documents agnostic on exact specifications for this 
> kind of terminology. The Rapid deployed network for emergency scenario says 
> "free or freed spectrum". We can do a lot more with the protocol than just 
> TVWS, or TVWS in country xx.
> 
> Teco
> 
> 
> Op 27 jan. 2012, om 09:18 heeft <[email protected]> 
> <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Dear Nancy,
>> 
>> My understanding is that 'unlicensed' is used in North America and 
>> 'licence-exempt' in the UK. They do refer to the same thing, I think, so one 
>> could say (licensed, unlicensed/licence-exempt).
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Jussi
>> 
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of ext Nancy Bravin
>> Sent: 27 January 2012 06:08
>> To: Probasco Scott (Nokia-CIC/Dallas)
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: [paws] re proposed edits on rev 2
>> 
>> Dear Scott, Raj, and all,
>> 
>> Abstract
>> 
>>   Portions of the radio spectrum that are allocated to a licensed,
>>   primary user but are unused or unoccupied at specific locations and
>>   times are defined as "white space".  The concept of allowing
>>   secondary transmissions (licensed or unlicensed) in white space is a
>>   technique to "unlock" existing spectrum for new use.
>> I would change (licensed or unlicensed) to: (licensed, licensed exempt or 
>> unlicensed) as some countries have 3 categories.
>> Also, license exempt is mentioned in section 4.4
>> 
>> 
>> SIncerely, Nancy
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