June 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0750r0

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

802.11 Minutes of TGn Telecon, June 25, 2008
Date: 2008-06-26
Author(s):
Name / Company / Address / Phone / email
Adrian Stephens / Intel Corporation /

Agenda as published

1. Review Patent Policy requirements, call for notification of any new essential patents. See below.

2. Review and approve agenda

3. Beam ad-hoc, comment resolution

4. PHY ad-hoc, comment resolution

5. MAC ad-hoc, comment resolution (TBD)

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Attendees

(Name, Affiliation)

Adrian Stephens, Intel

Assaf Kasher, Intel

Bill Marshall, AT&T

Dave Bagby, Sanyo & Calypso Ventures

Doug Chan, Cisco

Eldad Perahia, Intel

Harish Ramamurthy, Marvell

Hongyuan Zhang, Marvell

John K, Qualcomm

Joonsuk Kim, Broadcom

Matt Fischer, Broadcom

Michael Livshitz, Metalink

Naveen Kakani, Nokia

Peter Loc, Ralink Technology

Raja Banerjea, Marvell

Vinko Erceg, Broadcom

Agenda as approved

1.  Review Patent Policy requirements, call for notification of any new essential patents. See below.

2.  Review and approve agenda

3.  Beam ad-hoc, comment resolution

a.  2 contributions – 1 hour

4.  PHY ad-hoc, comment resolution

a.  17 comments – 1 hour

5.  MAC ad-hoc, comment resolution

Minutes

1.  Review Patent Policy requirements, call for notification of any new essential patents

a.  No response to “is there anybody unfamiliar with the IEEE patent policy”

b.  No response to “is there anybody who wishes to bring any new essential patents”

2.  Review and approve agenda

3.  Beam ad-hoc, comment resolution

a.  Comments Doc is 11-08/737

b.  Doc 11-08/736r1 (Ketchum)

i.  CID 7320 7321. Proposed rejection. No feedback. No objection to accept this resolution.

ii. CID 7322.

1.  Proposed counter.

2.  Long discussion on whether the commenter is correct, or expressing an opinion.

3.  No objection to accept this resolution.

c.  Doc 11-08/738

i.  CID 7151.

1.  Proposed rejection.

2.  No objection to accept this resolution.

ii. CID 7537.

1.  Proposed counter.

2.  Discussion: reject as this is informative. There are normative statements elsewhere that suffice.

3.  Joonsuk will update the document.

iii.  CID 8089

1.  Proposed counter.

2.  Some discussion: Adrian questions why commenter’s resolution wasn’t adopted.

3.  No objection

iv.  CID 8108.

1.  Proposed rejection.

2.  No objection

d.  Treatment of minor technical comments.

e.  Any objection to moving unassigned 19 comments to Editor?

i.  Peter Loc – will there be any objection to classifying these as editorial?

ii. Adrian – we’re not reclassifying them. I will bring a motion to TGn for approval.

iii.  No objection.

4.  PHY ad-hoc, comment resolution

a.  11-08/743r0

i.  CID 8071

1.  Proposed resolution

2.  No objection

ii. CID 8097

1.  Document contains a rejection

2.  Vinko wants to change resolution to accept, based on email with commenter.

3.  Raja Bannerjee – Marvell wants to discuss further.

a.  Raja will propose alternative

4.  Comment deferred.

iii.  CID 8098

1.  Document contains defer.

2.  Vinko will update resolution to define resolution as a counter and define aSignalExtension in 20.4.4 and 10.4.3

iv.  CID 7457 - 7460

1.  Document contains Reject.

2.  Adrian suggests adding a NOTE to table to add reference to 11.14.1.

3.  Resolution now: “Insert note to table to add reference to 11.14.1”

4.  Vinko will update resolution.

v. CID 7470

1.  Proposed Reject

2.  No Discussion

3.  Proposed resolution accepted

vi.  This completes the comments which are not “minor technical”

vii.  Restart from top of document looking at minor technicals

viii.  CID 7473

1.  Proposed Reject

2.  No objection

ix.  CID 7474

1.  Proposed Reject

2.  No objection

x. CID 7475

1.  Proposed Accept

2.  Some discussion. Eldad wants to reject. Values are used in equations which do (or will) have a shall.

3.  New resolution: reject. No discussion.

4.  Vinko will update.

xi.  CID 7476

1.  Proposed Accept.

2.  No objection

xii.  CID 7477

1.  Proposed Accept.

2.  No objection

xiii.  CID 7469

1.  Proposed Reject

2.  No objection

xiv.  CID 7471

1.  Proposed Reject

2.  No objection

xv.  CID 7472

1.  Proposed Counter

2.  No objection

xvi.  CID 7538

1.  Document shows an accept.

2.  Changed to reject based on discussion for 7475

3.  Vinko will update

xvii.  CID 8072

1.  Proposed Accept

2.  No objection

b.  10 of 18 were accepted as in the document, 8 need to be updated.

5.  MAC ad-hoc, comment resolution

a.  Document 11-08/0742r0

i.  CID 7073

1.  Proposed Reject

2.  No discussion

3.  No objection

ii. CID 7074

1.  Proposed reject

2.  Question: anybody believes there is ambiguity when the FORMAT parameter does not exist?

a.  No response

3.  No objection

6.  Next Meeting July 02, 2008

a.  PHY, can use some time, but Eldad’s minor comments

b.  MAC - hours

c.  COEX – maybe some material (20 minutes at most)

d.  BEAM – not this week, but 10 minute slot in following week

Minutes page 1 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation