802.11 2nd Vice Chair’s Report – March 2013 May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2013 802.11 2nd Vice Chair’s Report – March 2013 Date: 2013-03-18 Authors: Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
March 2013 Introduction This presentation is a status update on attendance, membership, balloting and documentation matters. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
ANA Status The latest database is 11-11/0270r15 (Feb 2013) March 2013 ANA Status The latest database is 11-11/0270r15 (Feb 2013) Changes since last meeting: Allocations to TGac for GCMP Released numbers from obsolete material removed in Draft P802.11REVmc D1.0. Changes pending: TGaf allocations Include putting TLV namespace under ANA administration Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Meeting Registration Working Group Count 802.3 239 802.11 230 802.15 March 2013 Meeting Registration Working Group Count 802.3 239 802.11 230 802.15 100 802.24 5 802.18 802.xx 19 none 802.1 63 802.16 7 802.21 8 802.19 11 802.22 802.25 3 Data collected: 2013-03-17 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Current Membership Status May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2013 Current Membership Status Status Number Aspirant 86 Potential Voter 44 Voter 325 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 2013-03-01 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
March 2013 LB193 5 members lost voting status due to not returning 4 of 6 consecutive mandatory ballots. Because this ballot closed close to (i.e., 2 weeks prior to) this meeting, the change of status takes effect only after this session. This change will be reported in the figures at the next session. Reminder: voting members must respond to mandatory WG11 ballots. WG11 ballots are announced on the 802.11 reflector and web-page. All 802.11 voting members need to be subscribed to the 802.11 reflector. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Recent voting member history May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2013 Recent voting member history Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2013 Recording Attendance It is a requirement that attendees record their participation at an 802.11 session and declare their affiliation. This record is usually made using the IMAT attendance system. If you wish to participate without recording attendance, send an email per session to the WG 2nd vice chair declaring your participation and affiliation. You cannot gain or maintain 802.11 voting membership using this method. 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: https://imat.ieee.org/attendance Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Session graphic - March2013 May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0051r2 March 2013 Session graphic - March2013 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: 11-13/0166r0 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
March 2013 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 probably not be. Room changes will be posted on rooms. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Documentation March 2013 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 2013 Local File Document Server information Local FTP server: ftp://griffin.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 2013 Synchronizing while at the meeting Particularly important when external bandwidth is limited and unreliable Use anonymous ftp Host: ftp://griffin.events.ieee.org User: anonymous Password: <your-email-address-here> Destination directory: /802.11/13 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 2013 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 2013 Email Reflectors There is an email reflector for the working group, plus one for each task group. Write access to the reflectors allowed for those who are members with status: aspirant, nearly-voter, potential-voter, voter. To make a request, 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. Public read access to all reflectors is available via the 802.11 home page http://www.ieee802.org/11 on the “WG Email” menu. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
March 2013 Reference Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
802.11 Assigned Numbers Authority (ANA) March 2013 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
March 2013 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 (LB187) was successful – people seem to be getting used to the technology quickly. If you are new to writing comments or comment resolutions, please see document 11-11/1625. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
March 2013 Reciprocal Credit An 802.11 voting member will get attendance credit for attending any of the following groups: 802.18 (Radio Regulatory TAG) 802.19 (Coexistence WG) OmniRAN ECSG SG 802.24 (Smart Grid TAG) Note that this means you can maintain 802.11 voting status while attending these groups, but you cannot gain 802.11 voting status. For 802.18 / 802.19 / ECSG SG attendance – There should be an option under IMAT to record reciprocal credit. Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Membership – Historic Data March 2013 Membership – Historic Data Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Document uploads – historic data March 2013 Document uploads – historic data Uploads per Meeting Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation