March 2015 802.11 Session Supplementary Material May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2015 March 2015 802.11 Session Supplementary Material Date: 2015-03-08 Authors: Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2015 Introduction This report provides supplementary material related to attending the March 2015 802.11 plenary meetings. Refer to the agenda: 11-15/218r<latest> Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2015 Monday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

M2.3.1 Summary of new and ongoing Liaisons and Status March 2015 M2.3.1 Summary of new and ongoing Liaisons and Status Ongoing - NGMN Owned by REG SC Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2015 M2.4 – Email from PatCom An email was received from the IEEE-SA Patent Committee (PatCom) administrator. https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0260-00-0000-communication-from-patcom-re-802-11ah.pdf The email indicates that the WG chair should share this information with the WG. There is very little that can be said within the WG on this topic, except to recite the facts. Any questions that arise within the WG from the facts must be sent back to PatCom for an answer. A comment has been entered into the TGah working group ballot indicating the content of the email and asking that the WG should seek PatCom’s advice about whether the WG should take any action on this matter. This comment should enable the status of the matter to be tracked, and also provides visibility to the 802 executive committee (EC). Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit March 2015 M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit Joint Meetings Wed am1: ARC, 802.1IWK Thu am1: TGak, 802.1Qbz, 802.1AC, and ARC Reciprocal credit is provided to 802.11 voters for attendance at: 802.18, 802.19, 802.24, 802.1 and Privacy ECSG Reciprocal credit for 802.19 is for “Coexistence lessons learned” and the Coexistence in Unlicensed Bands Study Group Reciprocal credit for 802.1 is for 801.1Qbz, 802.1CF and 802c (Local MAC address) Study Group Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

M3.10 Discussion Topics for Wednesday plenary March 2015 M3.10 Discussion Topics for Wednesday plenary The future of the MAC Privacy ECSG DSRC Report out and Q&A from WG Motions related to DSRC topic Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

M3.11 802 EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions March 2015 M3.11 802 EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions PARS None Approval of draft standards Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2015 Wednesday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2015 W2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents 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 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W2.3 – Thursday CAC reminder March 2015 W2.3 – Thursday CAC reminder Leaders of 802.11 Task Groups, Study Groups and Standing Committees (or their nominee) should attend the Thursday CAC at 7:30pm. The purpose of the CAC is: To prepare the agenda and material for the closing WG plenary To create room requests for the next session To advise and support the chair in his responsibilities as an EC member Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W4.1.1 - Wi-Fi Alliance / 802.11 leadership summit report March 2015 W4.1.1 - Wi-Fi Alliance / 802.11 leadership summit report 802.11 Goals for meeting To engage with the Wi-Fi Alliance and determine whether it is necessary and possible to strengthen the relationship between the two organizations, to their mutual benefit Attendees: 802.11: Adrian Stephens, Jon Rosdahl, Dorothy Stanley, Stephen McCann WFA: Edgar Figueroa (CEO), Ian Sherlock (Chair of Board) + 3 board members Met on Feb 13th, 2015 in Seoul, Korea for 3 hours Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W4.1.1 (cont.) - Agenda March 2015 Review logistics and introductions Communication methods Update on recent Wi-Fi Alliance confidentiality policy changes that may help enable richer updates of Wi-Fi Alliance activity to the 802.11 working group - Edgar Review communications methods available for our memberships and across the two organizations Discuss any other likely means to facilitate communication improvements Methods to maintain consistency between 802.11 standards and Wi-Fi Alliance specifications Review 802 activities on topics of potential joint interest - Briefing of 802 activities ** MAC address privacy concerns Coexistence with LTE IoT topics Summarize meeting  Plans for next meeting ** WFA in listening mode, except for discussions about potential communications improvement opportunities Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 1 March 2015 W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 1 Wi-Fi Alliance “Current Work Areas” public webpage is live (https://www.wi-fi.org/who-we-are/current-work-areas). Includes program “elevator pitches”. WFA Draft specifications will be considered for WFA publication. There should no bar to IEEE 802.11 citing and referencing WFA published specifications. WFA CEO is invited to attend an 802.11 to address the members on topics of mutual interest. WFA Long Range Task Group (LRTG) might ask for specific updates from 802.11. 802.11 might ask for and the WFA might contribute use cases for emerging 802.11 projects. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 2 March 2015 W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 2 Action: 802.11 to highlight the new process for public review being created by the IEEE-SA. This might be a way for the WFA to comment as an organization on drafts in sponsor ballot WFA might consider publishing a list of its own “assigned numbers”. WFA might consider requesting the 802.11 to develop a standard to address specific WFA requirements. There was discussion on how a spec might be contributed from WFA to 802.11. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 3 March 2015 W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 3 Regarding LTE coexistence. If the WFA wants to liaise to IEEE, 802.11 is its most appropriate point of contact. 802.11 will forward to 802.19 as appropriate. The leadership summit meeting is likely to repeat 6 monthly, alternating WFA/802.11 host (802.11 is next). Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2015 W4.1.1 (cont.) - Straw Poll Do you believe that there is value in the 802.11 leadership continuing to meet with the Wi-Fi Alliance leadership in “leadership summit” meetings? Yes No Abstain Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W5.3 – Documentation Project March 2015 W5.3 – Documentation Project Purpose To make scanned copies of early (1990-1996) 802.11 submissions available on the WG website. Motivation A number of submissions from this period were not available on the server. Some were only circulated as hard-copy. Word processing tools were in flux during this period, and a number of the submissions were in formats that are no longer readily accessible. Graphics support was weak. Some graphics were circulated only as hard-copy attachments. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W5.3 – Documentation Project - Method March 2015 W5.3 – Documentation Project - Method The first 802.11 WG Chair, Vic Hayes, had a paper archive of submissions during the period 1990-1996. This archive was mouldering away gently in his garage. Vic had the submissions scanned. Adrian Stephens ran OCR on the files to make them searchable images. The IEEE-SA employed an intern – Tyler McGehee – who organized the pdf files by splitting, merging, renaming and checking them for completeness. Adrian created new index files that link original submissions and the new pdf files. Note that where an original pdf was available, the scanned pdf was discarded. Adrian and Vic spent many happy hours resolving exceptions Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

W5.3 – Documentation Project – Status March 2015 W5.3 – Documentation Project – Status Very nearly almost Done. Some rescanning required. See http://www.ieee802.org/11/Documents/DocumentArchives/ Click on one of the [year]_docs/table.html links Example index: Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

March 2015 friday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

F2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2015 F2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents 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 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

F2.4 Administrative Reminders March 2015 F2.4 Administrative Reminders Next Full WG Session: May 10-15 1st CAC telecon – 30th March at noon ET (-6 weeks) Initial objectives/agendas should be uploaded as mentor documents (.ppt format) or send to chair (.xls tab format) before the telecon. Meeting date set to meet 30-day agenda submission deadline. This meeting is 1 week earlier than usual to avoid Easter holidays. 2nd CAC telecon – 4th May at noon ET (-1 week) Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is here March 2015 F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is here 4 requests for LoA pending**: Qualcomm (802.11ah), Broadcom (802.11ai), Texas A&M University System (802.11n, .11ac, .11ad) update Data as of 2015-01-06 ** i.e. Chair has not received a substantive response Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

F2.6 Availability of documents- Jan 2015 November 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-14/0203r2 March 2014 March 2015 F2.6 Availability of documents- Jan 2015 Publication Draft in TechStreet Draft in Members Area Published in Get 802? Published by ISO? IEEE P802.11REVmc D3.0 $600 pdf D3.3 IEEE P802.11ai D3.0 $165 pdf D3.1 IEEE P802.11ah D2.0 $433 pdf IEEE Std 802.11af-2013 $201 print Yes IEEE Std 802.11ac-2013 $309 print IEEE Std 802.11ad-2012 $371 print IEEE Std 802.11ae-2012 $108 print IEEE Std 802.11aa-2012 $185 print IEEE Std 802.11-2012 $556 print IEEE Std 802.11<x>: b, k, i, n, p, y, r, w, u, v, z, s $100 - $309 update Last updated: 2014-10 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 November 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-14/0203r2 March 2014 March 2015 F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Drafts are sent to ISO during sponsor ballot to solicit comments. Approved drafts may also be sent during working group ballot. Any comments received from ISO are processed by the comment resolution committee No comments outstanding Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Andrew Myles, Cisco

F7.1 802 Wireless Chairs meeting March 2015 F7.1 802 Wireless Chairs meeting The wireless chairs meeting makes decisions related to the operation of the wireless interim meetings, such as location and cost. The meeting is open to all. If you are interested in these topics, please attend. The wireless chairs meeting takes place at 4:00pm local time on the Sunday of 802 Plenary and 802 Wireless Interim sessions. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

F7.2 Next Meetings – Interim meetings March 2015 F7.2 Next Meetings – Interim meetings May 10-15, Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC IEEE 802 Wireless Interim All 802.11 groups meeting except TGaj Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are TBD May 19-20, Zhuhai, China IEEE 802.11 China Interim – with TGaj For information and registration links, see http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html update Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation