802.11 2nd Vice Chair’s Report – Mar 2012 May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 802.11 2nd Vice Chair’s Report – Mar 2012 Date: 2012-03-11 Authors: Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2012 Introduction This presentation is a status update on attendance, membership, balloting and documentation matters. If you are new to 802.11, read document 11-10/0274 ** That document covers material every 802.11 member needs to know: Places to look for information, Policies and Procedures, Patent Policy, WG Guidelines, Network, Attendance, Membership, Documentation, Reflectors ** (https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/10/11-10-0274-00-0000-802-11-new-participant-introduction.ppt) Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

802.11 Assigned Numbers Authority (ANA) March 2012 802.11 Assigned Numbers Authority (ANA) The 802.11 ANA is Adrian Stephens The purpose of the ANA is to ensure we have no conflicts for numbers between parallel 802.11 developments. Such a conflict has the potential to create interoperability problems. The ANA Process: Request by TG Editor (or TG chair) to ANA ANA checks for conflicts with TG Editors ANA issues revised spreadsheet showing any changes Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

ANA - 2 The latest database is 11-11/0270r8 (Dec 2011) March 2012 ANA - 2 The latest database is 11-11/0270r8 (Dec 2011) Changes since last meeting: REVmb final allocations Changes since last meeting: TGac initial allocations Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Current Membership Status May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 Current Membership Status Status Number Aspirant 124 Potential Voter 59 Voter 298 Definitions: Aspirant: a member who has attended 1 qualifying meeting Potential Voter: a member who has attended 2 qualifying meetings and will become a voter at the start of the next plenary they attend Data as of 2012-01-11 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Recent voting member history May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 Recent voting member history Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2012 WG Balloting - ePoll Each WG letter ballot sequence (i.e., task group) has its own voting pool set to the voting members of 802.11 at the time the ballot first reaches 75% approval. I get asked all the time “should I vote on this ballot” The answer is “go check the voters list published with each and every ballot”. There’s a link on the 802.11 home page during the ballot. The mechanism we will use to collect votes/comments is the ePoll mechanism provided by the IEEE-SA. Use either individual comments or the template .csv spreadsheet provided. Can also supply comments using .xls format You will need to sign in using your IEEE-SA web account Last ballot was generally successful, but some improvements are necessary based on experience from LB187 Will be meeting IEEE-SA officers this week to progress Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Recording Attendance Record attendance using this URL: May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 Recording Attendance It is a requirement that attendees register, in order that a correct record of attendees and their disclosed affiliations can be recorded in the minutes. You must record 75% attendance of eligible 802.11 slots in a session for that session to count towards gaining or maintaining 802.11 voting membership You need a single IEEE-SA web account The IEEE SA web account requires a working email address do not remove your email address from the account Use the email address associated with that web account when registering attendance If you change email addresses, update the web account, don’t create a new web account, or your membership status may not be calculated properly Record attendance using this URL: http://newton.events.ieee.org Click the “802.11” attendance link on the left hand side Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Session graphic Jan 2012 March 2012 17 Normal slots, 2 Extra slots May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 Session graphic Jan 2012 Register once 17 Normal slots, 2 Extra slots 75% attendance requires 13 slots attended Closing plenary requires only 1 registration for 2 slot credit Source: 11-11/1595r0 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2012 Online Calendar This session’s meetings are also shown on the 802.11 calendar on the 802.11 home page (http://www.ieee802.org/11). This is a Google calendar “802_11_calendar@ieee.org” There are multiple ways of accessing this information, for example from a cell-phone, or as a remote calendar. Note: the schedule on this calendar will be updated, but any room changes will not. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Documentation March 2012 May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Local File Document Server information May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 Local File Document Server information Local FTP server: ftp://newton.events.ieee.org (anonymous) External Document Server https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents   Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Synchronizing while at the meeting March 2012 Synchronizing while at the meeting Particularly important when external bandwidth is limited and unreliable Use anonymous ftp Host: ftp://newton.events.ieee.org User: anonymous Password: <your-email-address-here> Destination directory: /802.11/10 Freeware tools are available, for example search for “syncback free” ** ** Other tools are available. The IEEE does not endorse the use of any particular tool. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Email Reflectors March 2012 May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2012 Reflector Requests There is an email reflector for the working group, plus one for each task group. Access to the reflector is limited to those who are members with status: aspirant, nearly-voter, potential-voter, voter. To change your access, visit the reflector request page: http://www.ieee802.org/11/Reflector.html Gathers information and sends an email to Vice Chair If you change email address – please let me know. I will perform a global change to the list servers. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2012 Backup Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Membership – Historic Data March 2012 Membership – Historic Data Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

Documents – historic data March 2012 Documents – historic data Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation