TGn Opening Report – July ‘06 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 TGn Opening Report – July ‘06 Date: 2006-07-17 Authors: Notice: This document has been prepared to assist IEEE 802.11. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Release: The contributor grants a free, irrevocable license to the IEEE to incorporate material contained in this contribution, and any modifications thereof, in the creation of an IEEE Standards publication; to copyright in the IEEE’s name any IEEE Standards publication even though it may include portions of this contribution; and at the IEEE’s sole discretion to permit others to reproduce in whole or in part the resulting IEEE Standards publication. The contributor also acknowledges and accepts that this contribution may be made public by IEEE 802.11. Patent Policy and Procedures: The contributor is familiar with the IEEE 802 Patent Policy and Procedures <http:// ieee802.org/guides/bylaws/sb-bylaws.pdf>, including the statement "IEEE standards may include the known use of patent(s), including patent applications, provided the IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder or applicant with respect to patents essential for compliance with both mandatory and optional portions of the standard." Early disclosure to the Working Group of patent information that might be relevant to the standard is essential to reduce the possibility for delays in the development process and increase the likelihood that the draft publication will be approved for publication. Please notify the Chair <stuart.kerry@philips.com> as early as possible, in written or electronic form, if patented technology (or technology under patent application) might be incorporated into a draft standard being developed within the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. If you have questions, contact the IEEE Patent Committee Administrator at <patcom@ieee.org>. Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 U R Here 802.11 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Inappropriate Topics for IEEE WG Meetings July 2006 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 Inappropriate Topics for IEEE WG Meetings July 2006 Don’t discuss the validity/essentiality of patents/patent claims Don’t discuss the cost of specific patent use Don’t discuss licensing terms or conditions Don’t discuss product pricing, territorial restrictions, or market share Don’t discuss ongoing litigation or threatened litigation Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed… do formally object. 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 Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – March 2003 (Revised January 2006) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Attendance, Voting & Document Status July 2006 Attendance, Voting & Document Status Make sure your badges are correct Questions on Voting status, Ballot pool, Access to Reflector or member’s area see Harry Worstell – hworstell@att.com If you plan to make a submission be sure it does not contain company logos or advertising Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Attendance http://newton/11/attendance Register Indicate attendance July 2006 Attendance http://newton/11/attendance Register Indicate attendance Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn Quick Review of Events prior to this meeting July 2006 TGn Quick Review of Events prior to this meeting Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 One Page History of TGn HTSG formed – First meeting 9-11-’02 (Monterey) TGn formed – First meeting 9-15-’03 (Singapore) Began call for proposals May 17 ’04 (Garden Grove) Presentations - First round (32) Sep 13 ’04 (Berlin) Down selected to one proposal – Mar ’05 (Atlanta) –first confirm failed Confirmation #2 failed - reset to 3 proposals -left the May ‘05 meeting with a serious deadlock. (Cairns) 3 proposal groups agreed to a joint proposal activity in July ’05 (San Francisco) JP proposal accepted January ’06 by vote of 184/0/4, editor instructed to create draft (Waikoloa) Baseline specification converted into Draft 1.0. Letter ballot issued (LB84) March ’06 (Denver) and closed on April 29 (failed). Comment resolution began in May ’06 …. Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn Ad Hoc Organization July 2006 TGn Ad Hoc Organization Ad Hoc Topic Ad hoc leader PSMP Naveen Kakani CA Doc Sheung Li Frame Format Peter Loc PHY Jim Petranovich MAC Matt Fischer Coexistence Don Schultz Beamforming & Adaptation John Ketchum Joonsuk Kim General Jon Rosdahl Editorial Adrian Stephens Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Count of Resn. Status by Group July 2006 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 Count of Resn. Status by Group Topic Group Lookup R A C L D T W X (blank) Grand Total R+A+C+ L+W % of tot PHY 47 48 32   73 37 2 3 393 635 129 20% MAC 25 52 22 354 517 104 Frame Formats 17 26 10 1 445 509 53 10% Coexistence 20 30 38 9 387 494 60 12% General 7 111 121 8 144 401 239 60% Beamforming & Adaptation 42 41 93 183 374 91 24% PSMP 24 12 177 264 45 17% Frame Format 0% CA DOC 4 13 6 23 96% PHT Grand Total 170 345 218 292 145 5 2083 3267 744 23% Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

11n - Overall timeline July 2006 HT SG Formed Publication PAR Approved 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 HT SG Formed Publication PAR Approved TGn Formed REVCOM Approval First Sponsor Letter Ballot 2nd WG Letter Ballot Selection Process & Criteria Call for Proposals 1st WG Letter Ballot Proposal Presentations Confirmation Down Select Joint proposal Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Posted Timeline May Updates : Change WG Recirc to January ’07 July 2006 Posted Timeline May Updates : Change WG Recirc to January ’07 Change “Form Sponsor ballot pool” to March ’07 Discuss/Update in Thursday Full TGn meeting Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn Minutes of May ’06 06/0721r1 July 2006 Executive Summary (also see Chairs’ meeting doc 11-06-0528r5 and closing report doc. 11-06-0765r0: Letter Ballot 84 failed (149,171,32) The meeting was devoted to LB84 comment resolution – 12,277 comments received The resolution procedure was as follows: First, comment duplicates (4692) were identified – reduced total to 7585 Comments were then categorized into 8 subject matter categories – PHY, MAC, Frame Format, Coexistence, CA, General, PSMP, Beam Forming; decision to form ad hocs for each category was made; leaders volunteered for each of the ad hocs were discovered  Comments were then resolved by placing them (including the resolution) into 1 of 6 categories – Accept, Reject, Defer, Transfer to a different ad hoc, Counter, Withdraw As of the close of the meeting ~ 24% of the comments had been resolved; see 11-06-0787r0 for a breakdown by subject matter and resolution categories No votes were taken on resolutions as group as a whole wanted time to consider further An interim F2F will be held in Santa Clara on May 31 and June 1 to resolve comments Weekly conference calls on Wednesdays at 11 AM ET will continue as needed Ad hocs will meet July 12,13,14 before the July 17-21 Plenary for comment resolution in the SanDiego area The timeline was updated to reflect the large number of comments by estimating that the next LB will not occur until after the November meeting Goals for July meeting are to resolve comments and vote on the resolutions Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 Approve Minutes Motion to approve May ‘06 TGn minutes as contained in 06-0721-r2 With minuted change to wording regarding “resolved” changed to “proposed resolution” Move: Second: Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 Recent TGn Events May 31 & June 1       TGn ad hoc to continue processing comments and explore resolution options. To be held between 8am and 5pm on May 31 and June 1at the Hyatt hotel in Santa Clara, California. (Hyatt - Santa Clara,   5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054,   408-200-1234) This is organized as a group meeting without a teleconference bridge.            July 12, 13, 14 TGn ad hoc in La Jolla, CA July 17-21 802 Plenary meetings at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Formal voting on changes to draft content can only occur during these sessions. Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn Comment Resolution Progress July 2006 TGn Comment Resolution Progress Deferred is not included Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Ad Hoc Output Document Summary July 2006 Ad Hoc Output Document Summary Ad Hoc Topic .xls resolution file # Revision as of July 15 8 pm PSMP 687 19 CA Doc 731 03 Frame Format 717 17 PHY 693 26 MAC 690 16 Coexistence 724 12 Beamforming & Adaptation 675 General 688 Editorial 706 08 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July Session Objectives Ad Hoc Comment resolution in ad hoc All hands Present and discuss some difficult topics Present and discuss topics we can close on Conduct strawpolls and votes Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Editorial Changes July 2006 Background Letter ballot 84 conducted on TGn Draft1.0 resulted in 12290 comments of which 6774 were designated to be editorial. The technical editor has been actively creating proposed resolutions for these items and the referenced documents now included resolutions for 3119 unique comments and a total of 6702 editorial comments when their exact duplicates are included. There remain 72 editorial comments for which additional time and effort will be required to prepare resolution proposals. New Documents The following TGn documents containing the 3119 resolved editorial comments are now available on the IEEE 802.11 website in the members' area: Document NameDescriptionCommentsP802.11n D1.01 (insertions marked).pdf Insertions are marked with a blue fontChange tracking is related to D1.00.P802.11n D1.01 (insertions and deletions marked).pdfInsertions are marked with a blue font Deletions are marked with a red strikeout font   The P802.11n D1.01 documents are unapproved revisions of the TGn Draft modified (from D1.00) to implement the proposed resolutions to the LB84 editorial comments.  These comments and their proposed resolutions are contained in document 11-06-0706r7.  D1.01 contains only editorial changes compared to D1.00. Document 11-06-0706r7 has also been uploaded the 802wirelessworld document server. This document contains the details of the voter comment and the editorial resolution. Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

New Draft Revision Procedure July 2006 New Draft Revision Procedure Editor prepares revision 1 page submission goes to 802wirelesworld public server indicating new document exists in the private server draft area. Server area will identify approved from un-approved versions Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Preliminary Progress Projections July 2006 Preliminary Progress Projections Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Another ad hoc To further advance comment resolution we will need July 2006 Another ad hoc To further advance comment resolution we will need ad hoc event (s) between July and September Melbourne Australia – just be fore 802 session California – Hyatt in Santa Clara Meeting fees ~ $300 each Discuss/Update in Thursday Full TGn meeting Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 Melbourne City 2 minute walk Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Primary Goals for July Review results of Letter Ballot 84 Continue Comment Resolution Review timeline Plan activities from end of July meeting thru Sept meeting Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 July WG Graphic (11-06-0754r1) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 TGn –July ‘06 Schedule Meeting Room for the week: several – look at schedule July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 8:00-10:00 Full TGn 10:30-12:30 X 13:30-15:30 Ad hocs 16:00-18:00 5:30 end 19:30-21:30 8-11 TGn PHY ad hoc am 1 Ad hocs Ad hocs am 2 pm 1 pm 2 eve Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn –July ‘06 Schedule X 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 13:30-15:30 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 TGn –July ‘06 Schedule July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 8:00-10:00 Ad hocs 1-Eliz DE 2-Eliz F 3-Eliz B 4-Eliz A 1-Eliz E 2-Eliz D Full TGn Eliz DE 10:30-12:30 X 13:30-15:30 2-Eliz C 16:00-18:00 5:30 end Eliz E 19:30-21:30 8-11 TGn PHY ad hoc Man DEF am 1 am 2 pm 1 pm 2 eve Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Rooms/Capacities Elizabeth D 220 Elizabeth E 240 Elizabeth DE 460 July 2006 Rooms/Capacities Elizabeth D 220 Elizabeth E 240 Elizabeth DE 460 Elizabeth F 60 Elizabeth A 60 Elizabeth B 80 Elizabeth C 60 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn –July ‘06 Schedule Approved X July 2006 Monday Tuesday Wednesday doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 Approved TGn –July ‘06 Schedule July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 8:00-10:00 Ad hocs 1-Eliz DE MAC 2-Eliz F PHY 3-Eliz B PSMP 4-Eliz A editor 1-Eliz E PHY 2-Eliz D MAC 3-Eliz B Frame 4-Eliz A General Full TGn Eliz DE 10:30-12:30 X Full PMC 13:30-15:30 1-Eliz E Coex 2-Eliz F Beam 3-Eliz B MAC 4-Eliz A General 1-Eliz E Coex 2-Eliz C Frame 3-Eliz B PSMP 4-Eliz A Beam 16:00-18:00 5:30 end Eliz E 19:30-21:30 8-11 TGn PHY ad hoc Man DEF am 1 am 2 pm 1 pm 2 PHY simulation BOF Room - TBD eve Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

TGn –July ‘06 Schedule X July 2006 Tuesday 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 doc.: IEEE 802.11-06/0957r1 July 2006 TGn –July ‘06 Schedule Time Tuesday 8:00-10:00 Ad hocs 1-Eliz DE MAC 2-Eliz F PHY 3-Eliz B PSMP 4-Eliz A editor 10:30-12:30 X 13:30-15:30 1-Eliz E Coex 2-Eliz F Beam 3-Eliz B MAC 4-Eliz A General 16:00-18:00 Full TGn 5:30 end Eliz E 19:30-21:30 am 1 am 2 pm 1 pm 2 eve Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Tuesday – All Hands - PM2 90 minute session July 2006 Tuesday – All Hands - PM2 90 minute session PHY (40 min) Greenfield ( 2 presentations+ discussion) Frame (20 min) Capability bits Coexistence (15 min) 20/40 etiquette General (15 min) Section 5.7 & 5.8 also 9.13 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 Any other agenda items? Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 Approve Agenda Motion to approve July ’06 TGn agenda as contained on slide 29 - 31 (with any minuted amendments). Move: Second: Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Communications Roving officers Email to WG reflector July 2006 Communications Roving officers Email to WG reflector Face to Face agendas contain printed Room Assignments Tuesday Full TGn meeting at 16:00-18:00 Then break into ad hoc Thursday Full TGn meeting at 8:00-18:00 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

July 2006 End of Opening Report Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Technical Editor’s Report 11-06-0910-r0 July 2006 Technical Editor’s Report 11-06-0910-r0 Bruce Kraemer, Marvell