Jan, 2006doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0070r0
IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs
Date: 2006-01-16
Author(s):
Name / Company / Address / Phone / email
Tim Godfrey / Link-7 / +1-913-664-2544 /
JointOpeningPlenary: Monday, January 16, 2006
1.1.Introduction
1.1.1.Meeting called to order by Stuart J. Kerry at 08:10.
1.1.2.The agenda of the 95th session of 802.11 is in doc: IEEE 11-05-1234r3.
1.1.3.Secretary – Tim Godfrey
1.1.4.Officers and Chairs of 802.11:
Link to 802.15 Officers and Chairs
Link to 802.18 Officers and Chairs
Link to 802.19 Officers and Chairs
Link to 802.20 Officers and Chairs
Link to 802.21 Officers and Chairs
Link to 802.22 Officers and Chairs
1.2.Approval of the Joint Meeting Agenda
1.2.1.Stuart J. Kerry reviews the agenda for the group
1.2.2.Any modifications or new items for the agenda?
1.2.2.1.None
1.2.3.The agenda is approved with Unanimous consent.
1.3.Approval of Minutes
1.3.1.Joint Meeting minutes from Sept 2005.
1.3.2.Are there any matters arising from the minutes?
1.3.2.1.None
1.3.3.The minute are approved with Unanimous consent.
1.4.Announcements
1.4.1.The courtesy notices are reviewed for the body.
1.4.2.Audio and video recording is prohibited by our procedures. Still cameras require express permission from the WG chair.
1.4.3.Members who are attending for the first time: 42
1.4.4.There are 326 people in the room
1.5.Anti Trust Statement
1.5.1.Stuart J. Kerry reads the following notice to the body:
1.5.2.
1.6.Treasury report
1.6.1.John Barr presents the wireless treasury report.
1.6.2.Document 11-06-52r2
1.6.3.In November we had a bank account of $101K. We paid IEEE legal fees ($22K);we need to pay Tourhosts about $AU14K.
1.6.4.For this meeting we started with a plan to be $14K positive with 600 attendees. Actual attendance 730. We should end up with loss of $4K.
1.7.Review of Policies and Procedures
1.7.1.Harry Worstell presents document 11-06-0053r0 to the body.
1.7.2.Review of working group officers and duties for all wireless working groups. Members are encouraged to wear their voting tokens. Voting rights are also indicated by a printed indication on the badge.
1.7.3.Review of operating policies and procedures, registration, payment of fees. 802.11 P&P are in 11-05-456r0, which is posted on the web site. Roberts Rules are revision 10 (Gold Book)
1.7.4.Review of registration requirements
1.7.5.Review of rules against photographs, tape recording, and media briefings.
1.7.6.Review of procedures for server access and reflector subscriptions.
1.7.7.Review of voting rights and process for obtaining voting rights, and signing up for email and reflectors. The email confidentiality disclaimer was presented.
1.7.7.1.Members are reminded that confidentiality notices on emails posted to the reflector are not allowed.
1.7.7.2.Any material with confidentiality or copyright disclaimers attached will not be accepted for IEEE 802.
1.7.7.3.Harry Worstell reads the following statement to the body:
1.7.7.4.
1.7.8.Review of the process and requirements for gaining and keeping voting rights.
1.7.9.Attendance recording procedures are reviewed
1.7.9.1.Signing in for 802.11 attendance is required for gaining and maintaining voting rights. There is no opportunity to sign in late if you forget.
1.7.9.2.There is a sign in sheet that must be signed once per day, from 7:30 to 17:30 each day at the IEEE registration desk.
1.7.9.3.Attendance credit pool is based on all daytime sessions, and evening sessions are optional.
1.7.9.4.Harry Worstell reads the following statements to the body:
1.7.9.5.
1.7.9.6.Harry asks if there are any questions on this policy. There are none.
1.7.10.A memo on indemnification has been received from the 802 chair, Paul Nicolich. It has been sent to the reflector. Members are encouraged to review it.
1.7.11.Review of copyright status of submissions
1.7.12.Review of standards compliance disclaimers
1.7.12.1.Claims of compliance to unapproved drafts are not allowed
1.7.13.Review of meeting etiquette.
1.8.IEEE SA Letters of Assurance
1.8.1.Stuart J. Kerry asks if any members have LOA for any WGs represented here.
1.8.1.1.There are none
1.9.Announcements
1.9.1.Attendees are requested to always wear their badge
1.9.2.Members are advised to monitor their belongings and the security of their computers and property.
1.9.3.We are expecting about 1000 people at the social. Badges are required for members and guests.
1.9.4.Projectors are locked to the table. The last chair leaving a room should call security.
1.10.Interim meetings
1.10.1.May 14-19, JacksonvilleFlorida
1.10.2.July 16-21 San Diego
1.10.3.September 17th, MelbourneAustralia
1.10.4.November 12-17, Hyatt Dallas Downtown
1.10.5.January 14-19 2007, Hilton London Metropole
1.10.6.March 11-16, 2007, Orlando
1.10.7.May 2007. TBD
1.10.7.1.Considering Cancun Mexico, Montreal, Canada, or NW USA (Seattle/Portland)
1.10.7.2.Straw Poll results (For/Against): Cancun: 121/21 Montreal: 117/4 Northwest USA: 56/18
1.10.7.3.Cancun and Montreal are the most popular.
1.11.Announcements
1.11.1.We will review the 802.16k PAR before the next meeting
1.12.Attendance and Network
1.12.1.We will continue with the sign-in sheets at this meeting for attendance recording.
1.12.2.The network is running the same as previous meetings.
1.12.3.The IEEE 802 LMSC has taken over the sourcing of software for attendance recording.
1.13.Approval of 802.11 meeting agenda
1.13.1.11/05/1234r3
1.13.2.Any modifications to the 802.11 agenda
1.13.2.1.None
1.13.3.The agenda is approved with Unanimous consent
1.14.Approval of Minutes of Vancouver
1.14.1.Are there any matters arising from the minutes?
1.14.1.1.None
1.14.1.2.
1.14.2.The minutes are approved with Unanimous consent
1.15.Voter Status
1.15.1.We have 519 Voters, 17 potential voters, 73 nearly voters, and 245 aspirants.
1.16.Announcements
1.16.1.Al Petrick will not be present this week. Jon Rosdahl will help with Policies and Procedures this week.
1.17.802.11 Task Group Reports
1.17.1.Publicity – Nanci Vogtli
1.17.1.1.The timeline will be updated once per session at the end of the week. Changes will be presented on Friday.
1.17.1.2. There have been requests for interviews from various publications.
1.17.1.3.There will be press releases for TGp this week.
1.17.2.Editors Report – Simon Barber
1.17.2.1.Document 06/58r0
1.17.2.2.There will be an editors meeting on Tuesday.
1.17.2.3.Will discuss implication of 11rev-ma on current amendments.
1.17.3.WNG – TK Tan
1.17.3.1.There will be 2 sessions Wednesday
1.17.3.2.There will be two presentations. There is time available for more presentations if anyone has any.
1.17.4.TGk – Richard Paine
1.17.4.1.We have formed a sponsor ballot pool. We are resolving comments on LB78 in preparation for recirculation.
1.17.5.TGm – Bob O’Hara
1.17.5.1.TGm will resolve comments on the sponsor ballot from November. There are about 300 comments to process. If completed by the end of the week, there will be a recirculation. All amendments in any task group cannot be approved until the revision is approved.
1.17.5.2.There will be a discussion of DLS security, regarding the insertion of 11e into the draft. Wednesday at 08:00.
1.17.5.3.There are no interpretation requests received.
1.17.5.4.ANA Update: A spreadsheet is on the server, and linked from the website. ANA is responsible for extending any existing fields, or for arbitrating any fields shared between amendments that could have a conflict.
1.17.6.TGn – Bruce Kraemer
1.17.6.1.The Joint Proposal group has been working for the last few months There is a new proposal to consider this week. It will be presented and there will be Q&A.
1.17.6.2.There will be confirmation vote, and if successful, there will be an election for a technical editor.
1.17.7.TGp – Lee Armstrong
1.17.7.1.At this meeting, we expect to issue a letter ballot. All remaining comments have been resolved.
1.17.8.TGr – Clint Chaplin
1.17.8.1.Document 0068
1.17.8.2.The letter ballot passed. There are 1200 comments to be processed. Document 05/1284r6 contains all comments.
1.17.8.3.It is possible to go for recirculation ballot this week.
1.17.9.TGs – Donald Eastlake
1.17.9.1.In proposal selection process 05/1197r18. There are two remaining alternatives. There may be a merger before the first meeting. If not, there will be a ballot. Agenda is 06/1265r3.
1.17.10.TGT – Charles Wright
1.17.10.1.Will have 5-6 proposals this week.
1.17.11.TGu – Stephen McCann
1.17.11.1.Agenda is 05/1285. There will be discussion of liaison letters that have been received regarding the TGu requirements. Docs 06/ 0061 thru 0064. There will be a joint session with TGv after lunch Tuesday.
1.17.12.TGv – Pat Calhoun
1.17.12.1.Will complete Q&A, and then have motions on submissions. There will be more submissions. There will be comments and resolutions on existing adopted text.
1.17.13.CBP-SG – Peter Ecclesine
1.17.13.1.Meeting twice this week. Will discuss plans for acting as task group. Will also present to WNG and 802.19.
1.17.13.2.Stuart notes that there was an action given to Al Petrick that the 802.11Y PAR be forwarded to NesCom. However a delay within IEEE during the holidays, and continuation does not run during January and February. So the PAR cannot be processed until the end of March, after the next meeting. Therefore the group will operate as a SG at this meeting.
1.17.14.TGw – Jesse Walker
1.17.14.1.The goal is to hear presentations and motions to improve the draft and move towards letter ballot.
1.17.15.JTC1 Ad Hoc – Jesse Walker
1.17.15.1.The ISO ballot closes March 6. This is our last opportunity to develop documents to influence voters. We will also revise letters regarding issues from this ballot.
1.18.802.15 Task Group Reports
1.18.1.General – Bob Heile
1.18.1.1.There are 234 voters, and 39 nearly voters.
1.18.2.802.15 WNG – Eric Shylander
1.18.2.1.Will have two meeting slots. There will be presentation on in-vehicle video networks.
1.18.3.802.15.3a – Greg Rasor
1.18.3.1.3a will meet on Tuesday regarding the PAR.
1.18.4.3b John Barr
1.18.4.1.Work is completed. There will be one meeting this week to address editing issue. The standard will be ready to publish this year...
1.18.5.3c – Reed Fisher
1.18.5.1.Millimeter wave. Call for intent has closed, and we have 25 intents to propose. Will work on selection criteria and downselect process, and issue CFP. We expect 13 contributions this week.
1.18.6.4a – Pat Kinney
1.18.6.1.Completed a letter ballot. Results are still too close to call. Will work on comment resolution this week.
1.18.7.4b – Mark McNabb
1.18.7.1.Finished sponsor ballot over the weekend. 124 responses, 90 affirmative. 15 negative votes. Will conduct comment resolution this week.
1.18.8.5 – Myong Lee
1.18.8.1.Mesh Technology – We will resolve comments from last vote. There will be a second confirmation vote this week.
1.19.802.18
1.19.1.Mike Lynch presents document 18-05-0054
1.19.2.19 voters and 2 aspirant
1.19.3.Have worked on revisions to ITU-R recommendation M.1450.
1.19.4.Planning joint interim with ITU in 2006.
1.19.5.Will hold joint sessions with 802.11 CBP, complete recommendations for ITU-R.
1.19.6.Participation is requested.
1.20.802.19
1.20.1.Steve Shellhammer presents document 19-06-0001r0
1.20.2.There are 16 voting members.
1.20.3.Recently formed SG to address methods of assessing coexistence.
1.20.4.SG will develop PAR and 5C, and review submitted documents this week.
1.20.5.Will meet all day Tuesday.
1.21.802.20
1.21.1.Jerry Upton presents document 06-20-09r1
1.21.2.There are 79 voters at this meeting
1.21.3.Will complete reviews of technology proposals, and conduct selection voting.
1.22.802.21
1.22.1.Ajay Rajkumar presents document 21-06-464r0
1.22.2.There is a private server at 172.16.1.21
1.22.3.There are 70 voting members
1.22.4.There are 14 meeting slots this week.
1.22.5.Working to enable handover between heterogeneous 802 and non-802 network. Currently have draft version 0.4.
1.22.6.Will conduct comment resolutions. Expecting LB in March 2006.
1.22.7.Contributions regarding gaps in draft are being accepted.
1.23.802.22
1.23.1.Carl Stephenson presents document 22-05-116r1s
1.23.2.Cognitive radio to share TV broadcast spectrum. First proposals were given in November. There will be review of mergers.
1.23.3.Will consider protection for licensed devices. The Study Group on protection
1.23.4.Wednesday will discuss plans going forward and issues with respect to documentation errors.
1.23.5.Will meet in all available slots.
1.23.6.There are 63 voting members at this meeting.
1.24.Announcements
1.24.1.Bob Heile announces a contest for the tackiest Hawaiian shirt at the social on Wednesday
1.25.The Joint Session is adjourned
2.Wednesday, January 18, 2006
2.1.Opening
2.1.1.The meeting is called to order by Stuart J. Kerry at 10:30
2.1.2.There are 127 people in the room.
2.2.Agenda
2.2.1.Stuart J. Kerry reviews the agenda in 05/1234r4
2.2.2.Changes to the Agenda
2.2.2.1.Request addition of closing report for CBP today.
2.2.3.The agenda as modified is approved with Unanimous consent.
2.3.IEEE SA Letters of Assurance
2.3.1.Stuart J. Kerry asks for any new LOAs
2.3.1.1.None
2.3.2.Stuart J. Kerry asks if there are any questions on the Patent Policy
2.3.2.1.There are none
2.4.Announcements
2.4.1.CAC meeting is at 7:30pm Thursday
2.4.2.Anyone not going to the social is asked to return unused drink tickets to the registration desk.
2.4.3.TGn will have a confirmation vote at 9:00 on Thursday, followed by a technical editor election.
2.4.4.If the CBP SG PAR is approved there will be a chair election for TGy. Candidates to see Stuart J. Kerry or Peter Ecclesine.
2.5.Attendance Recording
2.5.1.The sign in list is the only official record of attendance.
2.6.Liaison Reports
2.6.1.802.18 – Denis Kuahara
2.6.1.1.Report in document 06/0168r1
2.6.1.2.Working on updating ITU recommendation M.1450
2.6.1.3.There will be a vote in the TAG and a motion on Friday.
2.6.1.4.Will meet with ITU in Geneva
2.6.2.802.19 – Sheung Li
2.6.2.1.A PAR and 5C has been approved for a new TG to develop recommend practice on Coexistence Analysis.
2.6.2.2.To address coexistence with existing standards and amendments, a new group will develop test cases and parameters. 802.19 is seeking volunteers to help with this effort. Contact Joe Levy or Steve Shellhammer.
2.6.3.802.22 – Peter Ecclesine
2.6.3.1.802.22 is reviewing proposals. There are currently 5 proposals.
2.6.3.2.The request for PAR and 5C for Microphones was not approved in November. A revised PAR and 5C will be developed this week regarding part 74 devices. It will be put on the March ExCom agenda.
2.6.3.3.Outstanding PARs, 802.16K, 802.19, and 802.22 will be
2.6.4.802 Architecture – Andrew Myles
2.6.4.1.Next meeting in Denver starting 2pm Sunday
2.6.5.WiFi Alliance – Clint Chaplin
2.6.5.1.Presentation in document 06/178r0
2.6.5.2.TGn Marketing and TGn technical have just started as of the last meeting. Will start working on test plan and requirements.
2.6.5.3.Simple Config is developing a specification.
2.6.5.4.2006 Meetings in Greece, Vancouver, Japan
2.6.6.JC61
2.6.6.1.No update
2.6.7.IETF – Dorothy Stanley
2.6.7.1.Document 06/177
2.6.7.2.EAP Method Update working group has been approved.
2.6.7.3.EAP-AKA and EAP-SIM have been published as RFCs
2.6.7.4.CAPWAP work is continuing – no new documents since November
2.6.7.5.Geographic Location and Privacy (Geopriv) WG specifically references wireless LAN
2.6.8.MMAC
2.6.8.1.Are there any volunteers for Liaison? None
2.6.8.2.The position is officially removed
2.6.9.JTC1-SC6 – Jesse Walker
2.6.9.1.There is no update to report – the fast track ballots are still in process. Will close March 7th.
2.6.10.3GPP – Stephen McCann
2.6.10.1.There are incoming liaison letters from 3GPP (SA2 and SA3) and 3GPP2
2.6.10.2.These documents are on the server as 06/ 61-64.
2.6.10.3.They are responses to the TGu requirements document that was published in November.
2.6.10.4.TGu will prepare responses, and will also modify requirements based on these inputs.
2.6.11.TIA – Ariel Sharon
2.6.11.1.Document 06/1278r0
2.6.11.2.Broadband TG was started in 2005 as TR8.8. It defines public safety networks, and uses the 4.9GHz band. There are 5Mhz channels.
2.6.12.3GPP2 – Stephano Faccin
2.6.12.1.No new updates beyond the 3GPP report.
2.7.Old Business
2.7.1.None
2.8.CBP-SG closing report
2.8.1.1.Peter Ecclesine presents document 06/0066r1
2.8.1.2.Documents in Task Group Temporary under TGy
2.8.1.3.Had presentation on range vs. channel width considerations.
2.8.1.4.NesCom called and said the scope of the PAR was grammatically incorrect. They changed the PAR, and sent it back to us; it is on the website and in the temporary document area.
2.8.1.5.CBP SG will continue bi-weekly teleconferences.
2.8.1.6.There will be two sessions in March.
2.9.Recess
2.9.1.The meeting is recessed at 11:00am
3.Friday, January 20, 2006
3.1.Opening
3.1.1.The meeting is called to order at 08:00 by Stuart J. Kerry.
3.1.2.Agenda is in r5
3.1.3.Any modifications to the agenda? None
3.1.4.The agenda is approved with Unanimous consent
3.2.Letters of Assurance
3.2.1.There are no new LOAs for the chair.
3.2.2.Members are aware of the IEEE policies
3.3.Announcements
3.3.1.Chairs: Minutes are due by January 23rd. Next conference call is February 6th.
3.3.2.There are 105 people in the room.
3.4.Documentation update
3.4.1.802wirelessworld is only used for document numbers. Do not use it for updating your membership information. Send updates to Harry.
3.4.2.Policies and Procedures have not been updated at this meeting.
3.5.Publicity and Timeline Update
3.5.1.The timeline has been updated. TGk, TGm, TGn, and TGu updated their schedules. This will be put on the website in a few days.
3.5.2.Publicity generated a press release for TGn. There will be a motion to approve
3.6.Editors Report
3.6.1.Simon Barber presents 06/58r1
3.6.2.The editors’ team has been expanded with the addition of Adrian Stephens for TGn.
3.6.3.We are requesting clarification from IEEE-SA on submissions
3.6.3.1.Mike Kipness will discuss these issues in New Business.
3.7.Straw Poll on Location
3.7.1.Members who liked the location: 48
3.7.2.Didn’t like the location: 13
3.7.3.Abstain: 2
3.8.WNG
3.8.1.TK Tan presents document 06/57r1
3.8.2.Had two presentations, one on video transmission, and one on CBP.
3.8.3.Will have updates on video, OBAN, and Ambient Networks in Denver.
3.8.4.Stuart J. Kerry announces that one session of WNG will be done as part of the Wednesday WG plenary session in March.
3.8.5.Discussion
3.8.5.1.What is the rationale for splitting the presentations between the WG and separate session? Undecided currently.
3.9.TGk
3.9.1.Richard Paine presents document 06/223r0
3.9.2.Completed 70% of comments. Not ready for recirculation.
3.9.3.Will have ad-hoc meeting
3.9.4.Will finish comment resolution and conduct recirculation ballot in March.
3.10.TGm / ANA
3.10.1.Bob O’Hara presents document 06/0090r0
3.10.2.There were two presentations received on the replacement of the 802.11e STAkey for DLS traffic in an infrastructure BSS. These will be considered as resolutions to comments, and likely voted on in May.
3.10.3.During this session, 172 resolutions were written. 118 editorial comments were assigned to the editor.
3.10.4.Details are in document 06/095.
3.10.5.We have 95.4% completion of comment processing.
3.10.6.There are 14 comments remaining, 8 are technical.
3.10.7.There are no ANA requests this week.
3.11.TGn
3.11.1.Bruce Kraemer presents document 06/222
3.11.2.Had presentation of full technical proposal, confirmation vote, and elected technical editor. Confirmation vote was unanimous: 184/0/4.
3.11.3.Adrian Stephens was elected as technical editor.
3.11.4.The editor will prepare the draft.
3.11.5.Ad-hoc groups will prepare MIB, PICS, and Coexistence assurance statement.
3.11.6.In March, we will review draft and other documents from ad-hoc groups. Will consider readiness for letter ballot.