November 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1312r0

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

FIA SG Meeting Minutes for the IEEE 802.11 November 2010 Plenary
Date: 2010-07-12
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / email
Marc Emmelmann / Fraunhofer FOKUS / Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
10589 Berlin GERMANY / +49 30 34637268 /

FIA SG November 2010 Dallas Meeting Minutes

Monday PM1 Session:

  1. The Chair Hiroshi Mano (ROOT) calls meeting to order at 1.35PM
  2. Secretary, Marc Emmelmann sates his affiliations being Fraunhofer FOKUS & ROOT Inc.
  3. Chair presents goal for the week:

3.1.  Respond to potential feedback from other working groups to our PAR / 5c

3.2.  Request extension of study group

  1. Information on IEEE Bylaws on Patents and Standards

4.1.  Chair shows and reads out slides #1 through #5 of IEEE Patent Policy including:

4.1.1. Highlights of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards

4.1.2. Section 6.2 of IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards

4.1.3. Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings

4.2.  Advise the WG attendees that:

4.2.1. The IEEE’s patent policy is consistent with the ANSI patent policy and is described in Clause 6 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws;

4.2.2. Early identification of patent claims which may be essential for the use of standards under development is encouraged;

4.2.3. There may be Essential Patent Claims of which the IEEE is not aware. Additionally, neither the IEEE, the WG, nor the WG chair can ensure the accuracy or completeness of any assurance or whether any such assurance is, in fact, of a Patent Claim that is essential for the use of the standard under development

4.3.  The chair provided an opportunity for participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) that the participant believes may be essential for the use of that standard

4.3.1. There was no response indicating that any patent-related issues should be brought to the attention of the chair.

  1. Approval of agenda

5.1.  Chair presents agenda (11-10/1287r1)

5.2.  Agenda accepted by unanimous consent.

  1. Approval of meeting minutes

6.1.  Motion: Approve the FIA Waikoloa face-to-face meeting minutes (11-10/1160r0)

6.1.1. Minutes approved by unanimous consent

6.2.  Motion: Approve minutes of FIA telephone conferences (11-10/1219r1)

6.2.1. Minutes approved by unanimous consent

  1. Timeline of FIA

7.1.  Discussion of FIA timeline as shown on Chair’s slides

  1. Extension of Study Group

8.1.  Motion: Request the IEEE 802 LMSC to extend the 802.11 Fast Initial Authentication Study Group until the end of March 802.11 plenary

8.1.1. Moved / Seconded: Marc Emmelmann / Dwight Smith

8.1.2. Discussion: none

8.1.3. Y/N/A: 13-0-0

8.1.4. Motion passes

8.1.5. There were 14 people attending

  1. Recess at 1.50PM

Tuesday EVE1 Session:

  1. The session was cancelled via the e-mail reflector as FIA SG did not receive any technical comments to their PAR or 5C by the 5pm deadline.

Wednesday AM1 Session:

  1. Call meeting to order at 8.03AM
  2. No changes to agenda
  3. Response to comments to PAR & 5C:

13.1.  No comments regarding technical contents received by 5pm deadline

13.2.  One formatting issue identified by 5pm deadline:

13.2.1.  When submitting the PAR via MyProject, we accidently used the form for a revision and not for an “amendment”. Jon Rosdahl apologizes. A corrected version has been posted on the server. Jon Rosdahl indicated that the corrected version was put on the NesCom agenda. Our PAR will be handled under “New PARs” on the NesCom agenda.

13.3.  Motion: Request that the PAR contained in 11-10/1152r01 be posted for WG802 review and EC approval to submit to NesCom

13.3.1.  Moved/Seconded: Jon Rosdahl / Harry Worstell

13.3.2.  Discussion: none

13.3.3.  Yes/No/Abstain: 17 / 0 / 0

13.3.4.  Motion passes

13.4.  Action item: Chair to make the motion in Midweek Plenary.

13.5.  Make 802.11 Chair inform EC on revised PAR after WG motion passes.

  1. Time line of FIA / Plans for January

14.1.  Election of Chair given Standard Board approval

14.2.  Use case and technical requirements presentations

14.3.  First technical presentations

  1. Teleconference plan

15.1.  Motion: Approve the following schedule of weekly teleconferences on
December 1st 01:00 am EST, 15th 11:30 am EST, 2010
January 5th 01:00 am EST, 12th 11:30 am EST, 2011
duration 1 hour
using Web-Ex that will be provided by Study Group Chair

15.2.  Moved / Seconded: Dwight Smith / Harry Worstell

15.3.  Discussion: none

15.4.  Yes / No / Abstain: 16 / 0 / 1

15.5.  Motion passes

  1. Recess until Thursday PM1 session.

Wednesday PM1 Session:

  1. Cancelled

Thursday PM1 Session:

  1. Call meeting to order at 1.30PM
  2. PAR & 5C

19.1.  No new matter arouse wrt. the PAR & 5C

19.2.  No further action required

  1. New Business

20.1.  None

  1. Adjourn: 1.34 PM

Submission page 3 Marc Emmelmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS