TGmb Agenda, January 2009 Date: 2009-01-14 Authors: January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 TGmb Agenda, January 2009 Date: 2009-01-14 Authors: Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Abstract Agenda for the TGmb meeting in Los Angeles, CA, USA from January 19-23, 2008. Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Agenda January 2009 Call meeting to order doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Agenda Call meeting to order Agenda review Attendance recording & meeting resources Policies & procedures (including patent policy) Approval of prior meeting minutes Call for Officers (Technical Editor) TGmb revision status & schedule Interpretation request Issue review & resolution Plans for next meeting Authorize teleconferences & ad hocs Review timeline AOB Adjourn Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Attendance recording Attendance Documentation January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Attendance recording Attendance 11-08-0058-00-0000-opening-network-information-attendance-and-documentation-for-january-2008-session.ppt https://murphy.events.ieee.org/imat Must register before logging attendance Must log attendance during each 2 hour session Documentation http://mentor.ieee.org Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search Slide #1 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Patent Related Links January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html This slide set is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Slide #2 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Call for Potentially Essential Patents January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 Call for Potentially Essential Patents January 2009 If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: Either speak up now or Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or Cause an LOA to be submitted Slide #3 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. Technical considerations remain primary focus Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. --------------------------------------------------------------- See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Slide #4 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf Link to IEEE Code of Ethics http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html Link to IEEE Patent Policy http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Meeting Etiquette IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization Meetings are to be conducted in an orderly and professional manner in accordance with the policies and procedures governed by the organization. Individuals are to address the “Technical” content of the subject under consideration and refrain from making “personal” comments to or about the presenter. The Copyright Act of 1976 made a dramatic change to U.S. copyright law. Copyright was now deemed to exist from the moment of creation. Thus anything that is created is deemed to be owned by its creator. Additionally, a work no longer needs to be published in order to be protected. Therefore, even your scribbles on a piece of note paper constitute copyrighted material that you own and control. The NII (National Information Infrastructure) and the GII (Global Information Infrastructure) are causing lawmakers and copyright owners to assess the ability of current copyright law to protect owners rights in a digital environment. While at this point the changes being talked about are not significant, they will make it clear that copyright protection is afforded to owners in the digital environment making it a requirement to honor the rights accorded to owners. It is a requirement under the IEEE Bylaws that copyright ownership of all material published by the IEEE resides with the IEEE. The Standards Department accomplishes the transfer of copyright ownership from the volunteer authors to the Institute via the Project Authorization Request (PAR) form. Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Approval of prior meeting minutes January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Approval of prior meeting minutes November 2008 (Dallas, Texas, USA): 11-08/1366r0 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-1363-00-000m-minutes-for-november-dallas-plenary.doc Teleconferences https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-1456-01-000m-telcon-minutes-for-tgmb-dec-10-2008-to-jan-14-2009.doc Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Call for Officers Still seeking a technical editor. The glory could be yours! Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

TGmb Plan of Record May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 TGmb Plan of Record May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input July 2008 – begin process input and old Interpretation requests Acknowledge previous Task Group referrals Sept 2008 – PAR revision process started Nov 2008 – close receipt of new input Nov 2008 – WG/EC approval of PAR Revision Dec 2008 – NesCom/SASB approval PAR Revision Mar 2009 first WG Letter ballot (includes All published Amendments as of Mar 2009) July/Sept 2009 Recirc start Sept 2009 – Form Sponsor Pool Nov 2009 – Sponsor Ballot Start (Include all published amendments as of Nov 2009) Mar 2010 – Sponsor Recirc Nov 2010 – WG/EC Final Approval Mar 2011 – RevCom/SASB Approval Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Amendment Ordering January 2009 Amendment Number Task Group July 2007 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Amendment reordering was discussed by editors Nov 11 based on current timeline estimates and resulted announced herein. Amendment Ordering Taken from 11-08/1345r0, which is as of Nov 11 from 802.11 web. See http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/802.11_Timelines.htm Amendment Number Task Group REVCOM Date 802.11 Amendment 1 TGk May 2008 (actual) 802.11 Amendment 2 TGr 802.11 Amendment 3 TGy Sept 2008 (actual) 802.11 Amendment 4 TGw Sept 2009 802.11 Amendment 5 TGn June 2009 (was TBA) 802.11 Amendment 6 TGz 802.11 Amendment 7 TGp Dec 2009 802.11 Amendment 8 (was 9) TGv 802.11 Amendment 9 (was 10) TGu Mar 2010 802.11 Amendment 10 (was 8) TGs May 2010 (was Dec 2009) 802.11 Revision 802.11mb Mar 2011 TGaa May 2011 (new) 802.11.2 TGT Dec 2009 (plan to withdraw) Slide 14 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Page 14 Terry Cole (AMD) Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Interpretation Request #1 January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Interpretation Request #1 Request received from Christian Skupin (Christian.Skupin@de.bosch.com) on 802.11-2007 regarding 7.1.3.7 (FCS field) and Annex G, specifically tables G.1 and G.14: “During the evaluation process of my 802.11 PHY/MAC implementation I got in doubt with the accuracy of the given FCS (bytes 97-100) in Table G.1. This FCS in Table G.1 corresponds to bits 784-815 in Table G.14. With respect to the FCS calculation instructions in chapter 7.1.3.7 and the given message (bytes 1-96) in Table G.1 my calculations result in the FCS {1110 0110 1100 1100 1000 0100 0110 1101} (msb-left), whereas the given FCS is {0101 1011 1110 1010 1001 1001 1011 0111} (bits 784-815 in Table G.14). In consideration of the fact that my FCS-implementation works with other reference data which I collected by recording 802.11a signals, I assume that the given FCS in Table G.1 is not appropriate.” Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Issue Review & Resolution January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Issue Review & Resolution Responses to initial call for comments are consolidated as 11-08/1127r7 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-1127-07-000m-tgmb-issues-list.xls After adding approved amendments (see timeline on next slide) to 802.11-2007, editor should incorporate resolutions to these initial issues Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Closing tasks Need for teleconferences? Review timeline January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0040r0 January 2009 Closing tasks Need for teleconferences? Review timeline Preparation for March 2009 plenary meeting AOB Adjourn Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks