802.21 Liaison Report Date: 2008-01-16 Author: Jan 2008 Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0xxxr0 Jan 2008 802.21 Liaison Report Date: 2008-01-16 Author: David Hunter, Panasonic David Hunter, Panasonic

802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0xxxr0 Jan 2008 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) Charter Develop standards to enable handover and interoperability between heterogeneous networks, including both 802 and non-802 networks Transition glue between 802.11 and other network technologies Including: 802.3, 802.16, cellular Overview Introductory tutorial from July 2006 IEEE 802 plenary session http://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/index.htm Planning new tutorials for March 2008 IEEE 802 plenary session 802.21 Security 802.21 DVB David Hunter, Panasonic David Hunter, Panasonic

P802.21 Sponsor Ballot Progress Jan 2008 P802.21 Sponsor Ballot Progress Initial Sponsor Ballot Aug 2007 165 Sponsor Members Much larger than 802.21 WG (currently 73 WG voters) Ballot Progress Initial SB completed Sept 2007; 62% approval; 650 comments Second SB completed Dec 2007; 83% approval; 330 comments Comments 170 editorial / 160 technical comments After December ad-hoc and this week’s meeting, only 15 remain 21 disapprove voters – 9 of which are outside the WG During this session 4 external have changed their votes to approve Negative voters inside the WG will be polled tomorrow David Hunter, Panasonic

802.21 Internal Current Tasks Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0xxxr0 Jan 2008 802.21 Internal Current Tasks Recirculation Sponsor Ballot Probably 15-20 day recirc on Draft D9.0 in January-February Ad-Hoc meeting scheduled at end of February, probably Bay Area Work on PARs for Amendments to 802.21 Security Signaling Study Group Chair: Yoshiro Ohba (Toshiba) Expected to become TG in March (SG PAR meeting this afternoon) New DVB Study Group forming this week Chair: to be elected May become TG in March (PAR is pretty clear) Multi-Radio Power Conservation Management Study Group Chair: Behcet Sarikaya (Huawei) Expected to become TG in March or July (SG PAR mtg tomorrow) David Hunter, Panasonic David Hunter, Panasonic

802.21 Standards Interfaces Jan 2008 Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0xxxr0 Jan 2008 802.21 Standards Interfaces 802.1 Comments indicated a number of issues with 802.1 LinkSec group 802.21 and 802.1 have a joint teleconference this evening  NOTE 802.11u 802.21 and TGu coordinated joint meeting this morning 802.11u is still providing excellent support of MIH Resolving 802.21 Sponsor Ballot comments asking for even more integration of .11 functionality One complication: how 802.21 can refer to 802.11u functions when 802.11u is not even in Sponsor Ballot yet Suggestions of informative appendices, possible amendment to 802.21, etc. 802.16 Working closely with 802.16m 3GPP 3GPP SA2 and RAN both working with 802.21 The 802.21 Information Server (IS) model is now part of the 3GPP architecture 3GPP completed document TR36.938 that includes 802.21 interface Current proposal (this week) in 3GPP SA2 to use 802.21 MIH as primary interface for WiMAX – 3GPP handovers 802.21 work item phase this year DVB New SG likely to form after this session IMT Advanced November 2007: 802.21 submitted requirements to ITU through 802.18 IETF MIPSHOP MIH Problem Statement draft has been approved as an Informational RFC (number TBD) MIH Solutions draft has been adopted as a MIPSHOP WG draft; perhaps last call in June meeting David Hunter, Panasonic David Hunter, Panasonic

P802.21 Current State and Timeline Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0xxxr0 Jan 2008 P802.21 Current State and Timeline Initial Sponsor Ballot completed Sept 2007 Second Sponsor Ballot completed Dec 2007 Third Sponsor Ballot probably completed Feb 2008 Depending on comments in the third SB, *possible* to Submit to RevCom after March 2008 LMSC Key: 802.21 is close to finishing So get your comments in during the next Sponsor Ballot David Hunter, Panasonic David Hunter, Panasonic

References This document All Documents http://www.ieee802.org/21 Jan 2008 References This document Thanks to Vivek Gupta, Chair of 802.21 All Documents http://www.ieee802.org/21 All submissions are open to the public http://www.ieee802.org/21/doctree/ Current draft is in the members-only area http://www.ieee802.org/21  Members_Only_Area 802.11 members log in using 802.11 username and password David Hunter, Panasonic