March 2008 Mesh Meeting Agenda doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 March 2008 Mesh Meeting Agenda Date: 2008-03-17 Authors: Name Address Affiliations Phone Email Donald Eastlake 3rd 111 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Motorola +1-508-786-7554 donald.eastlake@motorola.com Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

IEEE 802.11s: Mesh Networking Task Group March 2008 doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 IEEE 802.11s: Mesh Networking Task Group TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Orlando, Florida 17-20 March, 2008 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd., Motorola Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com +1-508-786-7554 Temporary Technical Editor: Avinash Joshi, Motorola Temporary Secretary: Dee Denteener, Philips Secretary: Stephen Rayment, BelAir Networks Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 Caribe Royale Suites, Orlando, Florida March 2008 doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Venue Caribe Royale Suites, Orlando, Florida Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

General Flow of the TGs Meeting March 2008 General Flow of the TGs Meeting Monday Morning Ad Hoc Meeting Administrivia and Status TGs Process Presentation Improvement of the Draft Tuesday Security Presentations Wednesday Thursday TGs Process Discussion Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Monday, 17 March 2008 9:30-11:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Monday, 17 March 2008 9:30-11:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) Call ad hoc meeting to Order Dee Denteener appointed as Temporary Recording Secretary Miscellaneous Announcements Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. Ad hoc meeting Agenda approved Status of TGs Draft and Letter Ballot Draft D1.09 “Resolution of comments received during IEEE 802.11 Letter Ballot 93”, 11-07/23r55 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Monday, 17 March 2008 9:30-11:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Monday, 17 March 2008 9:30-11:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) Presentation and Discussion on Process “TGs Process, March”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-08/320r1 “Enhancements to Mesh Discovery”, Michelle Gong (Intel), 11-08/TBDr0 “Odd Mesh Header”, Javier Cardona (cozybit Inc.), 11-08/341r0 Straw Poll: Should the mesh header by evenly aligned? No: 0 2*N (16-bit): 4 4*N (32-bit): 6 Don’t care: 1 Adjourn ad hoc meeting. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 8:00-10:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Tuesday, 18 March 2008 8:00-10:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) Call meeting to Order Selection of Recording Secretary Miscellaneous Announcements Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. Approval of Agenda Approval of Minutes: January 2008 Taipei Meeting Minutes, 11-08/170r2 Monday ad hoc meeting Minutes Status of TGs Draft and Letter Ballot 802.11s Draft D1.09 “Resolution of comments received during IEEE 802.11 Letter Ballot 93”, 11-07/23r55 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

March 2008 Important Stuff Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Anti-Trust: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf IEEE Ethics: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html Letter of Assurance Form: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf IEEE Patent Committee: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html IEEE Patent Policy: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Patent FAQ: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Miscellaneous Announcements March 2008 Miscellaneous Announcements Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! Individual membership In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. Photographs and Recordings No sound recordings are permitted at 802.11 WG or TG meetings. No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. Media – Press and Analyst briefings Only the 802.11/.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working groups Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

March 2008 doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Affiliation It is defined in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws, 5.2.1.5 as: “An individual is deemed “affiliated” with any individual or entity that has been, or will be, financially or materially supporting that individual’s participation in a particular IEEE standards activity. This includes, but is not limited to, his or her employer and any individual or entity that has or will have, either directly or indirectly, requested, paid for, or otherwise sponsored his or her participation. Revision: Feb 2006 Standards Board Bylaw 5.2.1.1 Openness is defined as the quality of being not restricted to a particular type or category of participants. All meetings involving standards development an all IEEE Sponsor ballots shall be open to all interested parties. Each individual participant in IEEE Standards activities shall disclose his or her affiliations when requested. A person who knows or reasonably should know, that a participant’s disclosure is materially incomplete or incorrect should report that fact to the Secretary of the IEEE-SA Standards Board and the appropriate Sponsors. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Automated Attendance Recording March 2008 doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Automated Attendance Recording Go to http://newton/11/attendance (Documents: http://802server.events.ieee.org/ or 172.16.0.10 or just http://newton) Sign-in Claim attendance credit for each session. Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. You have to log in every session! Do NOT use 802wirelessworld for anything! Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 8:00-10:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Tuesday, 18 March 2008 8:00-10:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) PAR Extension Moved, to approve and forward the following motion to the 802.11 Working Group: Moved, to request 802 Executive Committee to approve a request to extend the P802.11s PAR, which currently expires 2008-12-31, for 2 years for the following reason: “Mesh is a complex enhancement to 802.11. 802.11s has made enormous progress and its Draft has been subject to a Working Group Letter Ballot. Although this LB failed, all comments submitted have been resolved resulting in major improvements in the Draft and a new Letter Ballot has been approved. We estimate that completing Letter Ballot, Sponsor Ballot, and higher level approvals will take until late 2009 or possibly early 2010.” Moved: Seconded: Yes: No: Abstain: Presentation and Discussion on Process “TGs Process, March”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-08/320r1 Improvement of the Draft Security Presentations Recess until 13:30 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Pending Presentations March 2008 Pending Presentations Medium access in wireless mesh, Mathile Benveniste (Avaya) Power save for wireless mesh, Mathilde Benvensite (Avaya) “Normative Text for Proxy Frame Format”, Yongho Seok (LGE), 11-08/306r0 “Enhancements to Mesh Discovery”, Michelle Gong (Intel) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Pending Security Presentations March 2008 Pending Security Presentations “Password Authentication for Mesh Points”, Dan Harkins (Aruba), 11-08/299r0 “Authentication and Key Management of MP with multiple radios”, Amy Zhang (Huawei) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:30-18:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:30-18:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Improvement of the Draft Recess until 16:00 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:30-18:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:30-18:00 (Grand Sierra I Room) IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Security Presentations Improvement of the Draft Recess until 13:30 Wednesday Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Wednesday, 19 March 2008 13:30-15:30 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Wednesday, 19 March 2008 13:30-15:30 (Grand Sierra I Room) IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Improvement of the Draft Recess until 13:30 Thursday Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:30-15:30 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:30-15:30 (Grand Sierra I Room) IPR and Attendance recording reminder Improvement of the Draft Discussion and Votes re Process “TGs Process, March”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-08/320r2 Moved, to approve and forward the following motion to the 802.11 Working Group: “Moved, to renumber the current 802.11s draft as D2.0 and authorize a 30-Day Letter Ballot asking the question ‘Should 802.11 Draft D2.0 be sent to Sponsor Ballot?’.” Moved: Seconded: Yes: No: Abstain: Moved, to schedule an ad hoc meeting May 7-9, location TBD, to resolve comments from the second 802.11s Letter Ballot. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:30-15:30 (Grand Sierra I Room) doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:30-15:30 (Grand Sierra I Room) Moved, to authorize bi-weekly teleconferences from April 16th through July 23rd, Wednesdays, except during face-to-face meetings, at TBDam/pm. Moved: Seconded: Other Technical Presentations Adjourn sine die TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

[Reference Information] March 2008 doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 [Reference Information] Updated PAR at http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/802-11s.pdf. Original PAR for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/54r2. Original Five Criteria for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/56r1. Comment Resolution Spreadsheet for Current Draft D1.08: 11-07/23r55: Resolution of comments received during IEEE 802.11 Letter Ballot 93 Confirmed Proposal on which Draft D0.01 was based: 11-06/328r0: Joint SEE-Mesh/Wi-Mesh Proposal to 802.11 TGs 11-06/329r3: Joint SEE-Mesh/Wi-Mesh Proposal to 802.11 TGs Overview TGs Technical Editor through Draft D1.08: W. Steven Conner, Intel Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

[Earlier Meeting Minutes] March 2008 doc.: IEEE P802.11-08/210r4 March 2008 [Earlier Meeting Minutes] Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes January 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-08/170r2 November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-07/2826r1 September 2007, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11-07/2495r0 September 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-07/2413r0 July 2007, San Francisco, California, 11-07/2277r0 June 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11-07/2009r0 May 2007, Montreal, Quebec, 11-07/746r0 April 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 11-07/559r1 March 2007, Orlando, Florida, 11-07/413r0 February 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11-07/240r0 January 2007, London, England, 11-07/92r0 Recent Teleconference Minutes 21 November 2007, 11-07/2934r0 9 January 2008, 11-08/41r0 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola