October 2008doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1210r0

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

[TGn telcon Minutes of 01 Oct 2008]
Date: 2008-03-17
Author(s):
Name / Company / Address / Phone / email
Bruce Kraemer / Marvell Semiconductor / 5488 Marvell Lane,
Santa Clara, CA95054 / (321) 751-3988 /

01 October Meeting called to order at 10:04 EDT by TGn chair Bruce Kraemer

1) Roll call

Attendee / Affiliation
Prabodh Varshney / Nokia
Sven Mesecke / Buffalo
Dave Bagby / Calypso Enterprises
Adrian Stephens / Intel
Eldad Perahia / Intel
Tomoko Adachi / Toshiba
Matthew Fischer / Broadcom
Vinko Erceg / Broadcom
Doug Chan / Cisco
Peter Loc / Ralink
Don Schultz / Boeing

2) Approval of agenda

Agenda as presented was approved

3) No one had any questions about the IEEE patent policy or meeting policy.

No one indicated any essential IP that needed to be brought to the attention of the WG chair.

"Are you aware of, and understand the IEEE patent policy",
if not "Refer the correct section or IEEE Patcom URL"

NOTE WELL: Please review the documents at the following links:
- IEEE Patent Policy -
- Patent FAQ -
- LoA Form -
- Affiliation FAQ -
- Anti-Trust FAQ -
- Ethics -
- IEEE 802.11 Working Group Policies and Procedures -

4) Reviewed Recirculation Ballot 136 results

APPROVAL RATE:
276affirmative votes =94.2 % affirmative
17totalnegative votes = 5.8 % negative

5) Review of comments receivedand assignment to ad hocs:

48 total comments, 41 unique, 4 associated with no votes.

11-08-1208-00-000n-tgn-lb136-composite-comments.xls.

First pass estimate of number of CIDS allocated to adhocs:

4 – General

7 Coex

8 MAC

5 PHY & Beam

14 Editor

  • Agreed that Beam comments will, again, be addressed within the PHY ad hoc.Vinko will coordinate with Joonsuk Kim and John Ketchum as needed.

6) Review plans for teleconferences

Agreed to reduce scale of plans between ballot and November plenary.

  • ALL Teleconference time slots will be reduced from the authorized 4 hour durationto 2 hours.
  • ALL Teleconference call start times will be reset from the authorized 10 am ET to 11 am ET.
  • The topics for discussion on the Oct 8 call will remain Gen and MAC but each will be allocated ~1 hour.
  • The call topics for Oct 15 are now noted as TBD. Based upon how events unfold during the Oct 8th call,plans for Oct 15 will either become firmor the call canceled.
  • The call event and topics for Oct 22 were reconfirmed - but again within a 2 hour time block.

8) Review plans for pre-meeting ad hoc in Dallas

  • The TGn ad hoc authorized for Dallas prior to the plenary is unnecessary and is CANCELLED.

9) Any other business

Clarified that one voter had submitted three sets of comments of which only the final set needs to be included in the database. Awaiting email confirmation before resetting the database.

Call concluded at 11:05 ET.

Submissionpage 1Bruce Kraemer, Marvell