Submission Title: Opening Report for the TG6 Session in July 2008 Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: Opening Report for the TG6 Session in July 2008 Date Submitted: July 12, 2008 Source: Arthur Astrin Contact: Arthur Astrin, Astrin Radio Voice: +1 650 704 2517, E-Mail: astrin@ieee.org Re: TG6 Opening Report for July 2008 Session Abstract: Report for the TG6 Session. Purpose: To summarize activities during the meeting Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. 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 acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and maybe made publicly available by P802.15. Arthur Astrin

4th Meeting as a Task Group 6 July 2008 IEEE 802.15 TG6 Body Area Network Opening Report 4th Meeting as a Task Group 6 Denver, CO 14 July, 2008 Arthur Astrin

Plans for July 2008 meeting Review CFI Responses Presentations of responses to TG Call for presentations Edit Applications, Regulatory and Channel Model documents Edit Technical Requirements document Edit Call for Proposals (CFP) to issue in July Arthur Astrin

CFI Results July 2008 Arthur Astrin 26 Feng Shu IMEC NL 27   Name Affiliation 1 Huan-Bang Li NICT 2 Omeni Okundu Tomaz 3 Dino Minutti NICTA 4 Tatsuo Nakagawa Hitachi 5 R. de Francisco, Y. Zhang and D. Guido IMEC NL 6 Olivier Rousseaux TBD 7 Maulin Patel Philips 8 John Farserotu CSEM 9 Jaehwan Kim ETRI 10 Jung-hwan Hwang 11 Sung Weon Kang 12 Hyung-il Park 13 Frederick Martin Motorola 14 Alireza Seyedi University of Rochester 15 Gang Ding Olympus 16 Ida Ichiro Fujitsu 17 Jean Schwoerer France Telecom 18 Kyung Sup Kwak and  Seok Ho Kim   Inha University, Korea 19 Youjin Kim 20 Li Huang 21 Dong Kyoo Kim 22 Seung-Moon Ryu Casuh Corp 23 Bin Zhen 24 John Farserotu #2 25 Kiran Bynam Samsung Electronics 26 Feng Shu IMEC NL 27 Shinsuke Hara NICT 28 Jahng Sun Park Samsung Electronics 29 Giriraj Goyal 30 Seung-Hoon Park 31 Eun Tae Won 32 Chihong Cho 33 Wan-Cheol Yang Samsung Electro-Mechanics 34 Seong-Jun Song 35 Daniel Lewis NICTA 36 Seung Hyong Rhee Kwangwoon University 37 Sang-Yub Lee 38 Noh-Gyoung Kang 39 Marco Hernandez 40 Igor Dotlic 41 Anuj Batra Texas Instruments 42 June Seung Yoon City University of New York 43 Kamran Sayrafian NIST 44 Tetsushi Ikegami Meiji University 45 Ranjeet Kumar Patro 46 Sungrae Cho Chung-Ang University 47 Kenichi Takizawa 48 Changle Li 49 Michael Mc Laughlin DecaWave Ltd. 50 Didier Sagan Zarlink Arthur Astrin

Timeline 08 July 2008 Arthur Astrin 2008 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11   2008 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TG CFA (Call for Applications) > Affirm Apps matrix ^ TRD (Technical Requirements Doc) SCD (Select Criteria Document) Channel Model CFI (Call for Intent) CFP (Call for Proposals) Issue CFP Close CFP Hear Proposals Base line selection Technical editorial team in place Technical Comments Resolution Draft ready for letter ballot Draft ready for Sponsor ballot Arthur Astrin

Japanese Medical ICT consortium liaison July 2008 Japanese Medical ICT consortium liaison IEEE802.15 TG6 requests liaison with the Medical ICT Consortium herein called “the Party”. Specifically, IEEE802.15 TG6 seeks to officially establish a link with the Party and to share information towards the development of medical BAN standards. The IEEE802.15 TG6 agrees to provide the Party with regular status updates and to share working documents for information. The Party is requested to do likewise. The dissemination by one party of the documents received from the other party shall be strictly limited to the members of the Party and members of IEEE802.15 TG6, and solely for the purpose of technical activities relating to the party's work program. Arthur Astrin

Objectives for next few sessions July 2008 Objectives for next few sessions Presentations of proposal responses to Call for Proposals Form partnerships, merge proposals Select proposal that accommodates the requirements closest. Drive towards comprehensive Baseline Document (1/09) Appoint Technical Editors (9/08) Arthur Astrin

Thank You ! Any Questions ? July 2008 Thank You ! Any Questions ? Arthur Astrin