“It took us only nine months to standardise the new technology after the study phase,” said Dino Flore, chairman of the 3GPP RAN group. “Once again 3GPP demonstrated the ability to quickly respond to the emerging market needs.”

Source: www.totaltele.com

So much for the legacy slowness of standards orgs, I think the OSS community is speeding things up, in advance of their code based prototypes now.