May 2010IEEE 802.11-10/0535r0

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

May 13th 2010 TGs Telecon Minutes
Date: 2010-05-13
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / email
Stephen G. Rayment / BelAir Networks / 603 March Road
Kanata ON
Canada K2K2M5 / +1 613 254 7070 x112 /

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Minutes

Minutes were taken by Stephen Rayment and reviewed by Dee Denteneer.

The Chair convened the call at 11:05 EST.

The telecon announcement included the following informational pointers:

IEEE Patent Policy

Patent FAQ

LoA Form
Affiliation FAQ
Anti-Trust FAQ
Ethics

IEEE 802.11 Working Group Policies and Procedures

The Chair reminded everyone that we are operating under the IEEE Patent Policy. The Chair inquired if anyone on the call was personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of TGs and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance. Such persons must either speak up now or provide 802.11 Chair Bruce Kraemer with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or cause an LOA to be submitted.

There was no response.

The Chair reviewed the proposed Agenda:

  1. Attendance
  2. Secretary selection
  3. IPR and other relevant IEEE policies (see pointers above)
  4. Agenda for this call
  5. Status of comment resolution
  6. Comment assignment
  7. Agenda Beijing
  8. Other business
  9. Adjourn

The Chair asked if there were any suggested changes to or questions on the Agenda.

5. Status of comment resolution

Kaz presented document 11-10/0537r0 “General frame format comment resolution overview”

Comments / questions . . .

  • General support for a Mesh STA responding with a Probe Response only if the received Probe Request contains a Mesh ID element (slide 7)
  • General support for consolidating the action frame categories (slide 8)
  • General support to reject CIDs on Multi Hop Action frames (slide 10)
    CID 3211 needs clarification

The Chair indicated other contributions have also been made.

Kaz uploaded document 11-10/0478r2 “LB 161 Comment Resolution” containing resolutions up to about a week ago. Under the “Issue Ids” tab you can see which comments have been reviewed. Kaz highlighted there were 29 General and 94 MAC comments remaining. These do not include Dan’s responses. Good progress

Kaz has been working on r3 of the document.

René has circulated a document on Emergency Services via e-mail. He will upload to the server.

Kaz has also prepared document 11-10/0539r0 “MAC beaconing sync comment resolution” - a spreadsheet documenting those comments.

6. Comment assignment

The Chair has reached Liwen whoa greed to work on 11n comments. He will present at Beijing.

In general most comments are covered.

All will be reviewed in Beijing.

7. Agenda Beijing

The Chair has prepared an outline agenda in document 11-10/0519r0. Most time will be spent in comment resolution. There will be a leadership election. There will also be a review of the timeline as prepared by Dee, Kaz and Adrian. There will also be discussion on professional editing of the draft. Still targeting re-circulation after Beijing. Members were urged to suggest any other agenda items to the Chair.

8. Other business

No further agenda items were raised.

The Chair adjourned the call at 11:52AM.

Participants

  1. Dee Denteneer – Philips
  2. René Purnadi – Research in Motion
  3. Stephen Rayment – BelAir Networks
  4. Guido Hiertz – Philips
  5. Kazuyuki Sakoda – Sony Corporation

Submissionpage 1Stephen G. Rayment, BelAir Networks