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 14, 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 Respondents July 2008 Arthur Astrin Name Affiliation 1   Name Affiliation 1 Huan-Bang Li NICT 2 Omeni Okundu Tomaz 3 Dino Minutti NICTA 4 Tatsuo Nakagawa Hitachi 5 Ruben de Francisco 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  Inha University, Korea 19 Seok Ho Kim   20 Youjin Kim 21 Li Huang 22 Dong Kyoo Kim 23 Seung-Moon Ryu Casuh Corp 24 Bin Zhen 25 John Farserotu #2 26 Kiran Bynam Samsung Electronics 27 Feng Shu 28 Shinsuke Hara 29 Jahng Sun Park 30 Giriraj Goyal 31 Seung-Hoon Park 32 Eun Tae Won 33 Chihong Cho 34 Wan-Cheol Yang Samsung Electro-Mechanics 35 Seong-Jun Song Samsung Electronics 36 Daniel Lewis NICTA 37 Seung Hyong Rhee Kwangwoon University 38 Sang-Yub Lee 39 Noh-Gyoung Kang 40 Marco Hernandez NICT 41 Igor Dotlic 42 Anuj Batra Texas Instruments 43 June Seung Yoon City University of New York 44 Kamran Sayrafian NIST 45 Tetsushi Ikegami Meiji University 46 Ranjeet Kumar Patro 47 Sungrae Cho Chung-Ang University 48 Kenichi Takizawa 49 Changle Li 50 Michael Mc Laughlin DecaWave Ltd. 51 Didier Sagan Zarlink 52 Arnaud Tonnerre THALES Communications 53 Amal Ekbal Qualcomm 54 James Spoto Kairos Microsystems 55 Christopher Hansen Broadcom Corporation 56 Jason Trachewsky 57 Ryuji Kohno Yokohama National University 58 Ismail Lakkis Tensorcom 59 Hind Munzer-Chebbo Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe LTD 60 Jin-Meng Ho 61 Huai-Rong Shao 62 Laurent Ouvry CEA-Leti 63 Abbie Mathew NewLANS 64 Raymond Yu Zhan Panasonic Singapore Lab 65 BeomJin (Paul) Jeon LG Electronics 66 Guido Dolmans IMEC NL 67 Hans Pflug 68 Yan Zhang 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