Yay! > On Nov 10, 2014, at 4:49 PM, The IESG <[email protected]> wrote: > > The IESG has approved the following document: > - 'Protocol to Access White-Space (PAWS) Databases' > (draft-ietf-paws-protocol-20.txt) as Proposed Standard > > This document is the product of the Protocol to Access WS database > Working Group. > > The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Barry Leiba. > > A URL of this Internet Draft is: > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-paws-protocol/ > > > > > Technical Summary > > Portions of the radio spectrum that are allocated to licensees are > available for non-interfering use. This available spectrum is called > "White Space." Allowing secondary users access to available spectrum > "unlocks" existing spectrum to maximize its utilization and to > provide opportunities for innovation, resulting in greater overall > spectrum utilization. > > One approach to manage spectrum sharing uses databases to report > spectrum availability to devices. To achieve interoperability among > multiple devices and databases, a standardized protocol must be > defined and implemented. This document defines such a protocol, the > "Protocol to Access White Space (PAWS) Databases". > > Working Group Summary > > During the design of the protocol, in earlier phases, there was some > controversy, even deadlock at some point over a few points. But > issues got addressed, and for the last 3 versions of the document > there were no comments indicating any controversy. There were > significant comments during AD Review and Last Call that have > also been addressed to the satisfaction of the reviewers, and a > second Last Call took place to confirm. > > Document Quality > > During private conversations, several mailing list members indicated > that they have an implementation of a version of the protocol, but > none came forward publicly with their implementations yet, and there > was no request to hold an interop event. > > Personnel > > Gabor Bajko <[email protected]> is the shepherd. > Pete Resnick <[email protected]> is the AD. > > _______________________________________________ > paws mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/paws
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