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doc.: IEEE /738r0 Submission March 2006 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 2 Abstract Report of TGs, ESS Mesh Networking Task Group, to the May, 2006 (Jacksonville, Florida) closing Plenary. TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

doc.: IEEE /738r0 Submission March 2006 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 3 TGs Closing Plenary Report An annotated agenda is available in 11-06/544r8. The minutes will be uploaded shortly. –Since Recording Secretary Stephen Rayment was unable to make this meeting, Sandra Turner was selected as Temporary Secretary. A special session of TGs was held on security at which two technical presentations were received: –“Internal Routing and Forwarding Analysis”, Jesse Walker, /672r1 –“Mesh Security Recommendations”, Jesse Walker, 11-06/708r0 A straw poll indicated that the group supported the recommendations in 11-06/708r0,

doc.: IEEE /738r0 Submission March 2006 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 4 TGs Closing Plenary Report Nine other technical presentations were received: –“TBR Centralized Routing Extension”, Azman-Osman Lim, 11-06/631r2 –“Some thoughts on potential issues in mesh operation”, Kazuyuki Sakoda, 11-06/581r0 –“Optimal Tree Formation in IEEE s Mesh WLAN”, Sai Nandagopalan, 11-06/653r1 –“Packet forwarding for non-routable devices in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh”, Hrishikesh Gossain, 11-06/661r0 –“NAV Clearing Problems and Proposed Remedy”, Mathilde Beneviste, 11-06/698r1 –“Handling the Groupcast Sequence Number for Proxied Device in Multihop Mesh”, Hrishikesh Gossain, 11-06/601r0 –“How to Tune AIFS Parameters to Achieve Desired Flow Ratios to Do Congestion Flow Control”, Sai Nandagopalan, 11-06/654r1 –“Some thoughts on power saving functionality”, Kazuyuki Sakoda, /582r1 –“Connectivity reporting mechanism”, Jarkko Kneckt, 11-06/757r0

doc.: IEEE /738r0 Submission March 2006 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 5 TGs Closing Plenary Report Resolution of Informal Comments on TGs D0.01: –In March, TGs confirmed a single proposal, directed the Editor to produce D0.01, and issued an informal call for technical comments on D0.01 ending 1 May –283 comments were received from 18 people. –During this meeting, 121 or about 43% of these 283 comments were resolved (110 accept, 11 reject) and the TGs Technical Editor directed to produce a D0.02 incorporating these resolutions. About half of TGs believes that the appropriate goal for the group is going to WG Letter Ballot from the September 2006 meeting. TGs is holding an ad hoc in June which was approved by the WG at the March meeting.

doc.: IEEE /738r0 Submission March 2006 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 6 TGs Closing Plenary Report TGs June 2006 ad hoc Information The meeting will be hosted by Intel, point of conact Steven Conner facility: –Jones Farm # NE 25th Ave Hillsboro, OR USA Dates and tentative hours are: –6/13 10am-6pm, 6/14 9am-6pm, 6/15 9am-4pm Topics – further comment resolution and Draft improvements –Routing/Interworking; MAC Enhancements; Security; General issues, including draft organization Hotels (all have high speed Internet) Marriott Courtyard 3050 NW Stucki Place Hillsboro, OR Phone Toll Free Marriott Residence Inn NW Tanasbourne Dr. Hillsboro, OR Phone Toll Free Complimentary Breakfast Larkspur Landing Hillsboro 3133 NE Shute Road Hillsboro, OR Phone Complimentary Breakfast

doc.: IEEE /738r0 Submission March 2006 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 7 TGs Closing Plenary Report Three TGs teleconferences have been scheduled between the May and July meetings for the purpose of discussing Draft improvement and planning the June ad hoc and July meeting agendas : –17:00 pm Eastern US time, Wednesday 31 May June July Goals for the July meeting in San Diego, California: –Continue to resolve informal technical review comments. –Other presentations and refinement of the TGs Draft.