IEEE 802.11 TGaf Meeting Plan and Agenda April 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.19-09/xxxxr0 March 2011 IEEE 802.11 TGaf Meeting Plan and Agenda Date: 2011-03-14 Authors: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

April 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.19-09/xxxxr0 March 2011 Abstract This presentation is the agenda and meeting plan for the meeting of IEEE 802.11 TGaf taking place the week of March 14, 2011 at the IEEE 802 Plenary in Singapore. Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Plan for the Week [MPM1, TAM1+PM3, WPM1+2, ThAM1+PM2] March 2011 Plan for the Week [MPM1, TAM1+PM3, WPM1+2, ThAM1+PM2] Approve meeting, ad hoc meeting and teleconference minutes Review the results of LB171 Approve the LB171 comment spreadsheet in 11-11/277r3 Review FCC database administrators workshop presentation in https://mentor.ieee.org/802.18/dcn/11/18-11-0029-00-0000-fcc-tv-bands-administrator-workshop.pdf Review Andy Gowans presentation on D1.0 and the Ofcom DD plan Comment resolution Plan for May meeting, including an ad hoc the week prior, and teleconferences Task Group Officers Chair: Rich Kennedy (Research In Motion) Vice-chair: Peter Ecclesine (Cisco Systems) Recording Secretary: Zhou Lan (NICT) Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Monday PM1 Meeting call to order March 2011 Monday PM1 Meeting call to order Administrative items including IEEE IP statement Modify and approve the agenda Approve meeting, ad hoc and teleconference minutes Review the results of LB171 Approve 11-11/277r3 as the LB171 comment resolution spreadsheet Begin the resolution process Recess Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform March 2011 All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Patent Related Links March 2011 All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html This slide set is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings March 2011 All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. Technical considerations remain primary focus Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. --------------------------------------------------------------- See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Call for Potentially Essential Patents March 2011 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 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Other Documents and WebPages to Review March 2011 Other Documents and WebPages to Review Please review the documents at the following links: -  IEEE Patent Policy - http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt -  Patent FAQ - http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf -  LoA Form - http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf -  Affiliation FAQ -http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html -  Anti-Trust FAQ - http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf -  Ethics - http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/about/CoE_poster.pdf -  IEEE 802.11 Working Group P&P -     https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/public-file/07/11-07-0360-04-0000-802-11-policies-and-procedures.doc New 802 WG P&P: https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/09/ec-09-0007-02-00EC-draft-lmsc-wg-p-p.pdf New 802 LMSC P&P:https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/09/ec-09-0005-02-00EC-draft-revised-lmsc-p-p-for-wg-p-p-ballot.pdf New 802 LMSC OM: https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/09/ec-09-0006-02-00EC-draft-revision-of-the-lmsc-om-for-wg-p-p.pdf Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/0265r1 March 2011 Meeting Etiquette IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization Meetings are to be conducted in an orderly and professional manner in accordance with the policies and procedures governed by the organization. Individuals are to address the “Technical” content of the subject under consideration and refrain from making “personal” comments to or about the presenter. Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion Stephen McCann, RIM

Task Group Chair’s Functions March 2011 Task Group Chair’s Functions [From Policies and Procedures of IEEE Project 802.11™, subclause 3.7.3] The TG Chair may decide non-technical issues or may put them to a vote of the TG. The TG participants and the Chair decide technical issues by vote. The TG Chair decides what is non-technical and what is technical. The TG Chair is responsible for presiding over TG sessions. The TG Chair shall operate the TG in an unbiased fashion. To maintain impartiality, the TG Chair shall refrain from taking sides in debate on technical motions. It is the responsibility of the TG Chair to lead the TG in producing a quality draft standard in a timely fashion as specified by the specific PAR Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Task Group Chair's Authority March 2011 Task Group Chair's Authority [From Policies and Procedures of IEEE Project 802.11™, subclause 3.7.4] To carry out the responsibilities cited in subclause 3.7.3*, the TG Chair has authority to: Decide which issues are technical and which are non-technical. Assign and unassign subtasks and task leaders or executors, e.g. secretary, subgroup leader, etc. Speak for the TG to the WG. Determine if an organization or consortium is dominating the TG, and, if so, raise the issue to the WG Chair. Be representative of the TG during coordination and interaction with IEEE® staff. * See slide 11 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 Introduction WELCOME to the ninth face-to-face meeting of IEEE 802.11 TGaf! On Friday, November 20, 2009 the IEEE 802.11 TGaf was approved by the EC (10/1/4) with this motion: Believing that the PAR and Five Criteria contained in the document referenced below meet IEEE-SA guidelines, Move to forward the 802.11 TVWS PAR information from 11-09/934r8 to NesCom. On December 8th NesCom approved the formation of the Task Group for P802.11af LB171 started on 1/24/11 and ran for 30 days, ending ar 23:59:59 EST on February 24th. The 1st letter ballot failed with 61.81% approval and 14.96% abstaining We will begin comment resolution this week Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 PAR Scope and Purpose Approved PAR Scope: An amendment that defines modifications to both the 802.11 physical layers (PHY) and the 802.11 Medium Access Control Layer (MAC), to meet the legal requirements for channel access and coexistence in the TV White Space Approved PAR Purpose: The purpose of this amendment is to allow 802.11 wireless networks to be used in the TV white space Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 Purpose, Principles and Vision/Outcome “If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”* 11-06-0056-00-0000-cbp-and-david-allens-methods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done Purpose: the Task Group should create an amendment whose implementation in solutions is likely to receive Regulatory approval for operation in the TV White Spaces under the applicable regulatory rules in the different regulatory domains. Principles: The amendment should not duplicate functionality that is being standardized in other Task Groups that are likely to complete before 802.11af. There is no need for backwards compatibility with 2.45 GHz ISM operation. The starting point is changes to Clauses 17 and 19 and Annexes D and E Vision/Outcome: Use the OFDM PHYs with 5-, 10- and 20-MHz channel widths to specify the basis for a system that the regulators can approve for operation in the TVWS bands. * Yogi Berra Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

TV Bands Regulatory Requirements March 2011 TV Bands Regulatory Requirements These [FCC] rules are primarily intended to ensure the efficient sharing of the TV Bands while protecting incumbent users The FCC has enabled this band for TVBDs if and only if the licensed users’ interests are protected We must not interfere Mitigation of any interference issue should not increase the enforcement requirements for the Commission There are no formal changes in regulatory status since San Diego Expected announcement on September 23rd at FCC Open Meeting Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Meeting and Teleconference Minutes March 2011 Meeting and Teleconference Minutes Posted Minutes January Meeting in Los Angeles 11-11-0214-00-00af-meeting-minutes-la-january-2011 (posted 29-Jan-2011 19:33:5916:49) January Ad Hoc meeting notes 11-11-0089-00-00af-11af-january-ad-hoc-notes (Posted 17-Jan-2011 00:56:34) February 22nd and March 8th teleconferences 11-11-0308-00-00af-february-22nd-teleconference-minutes (posted 12-Mar-2011 21:27:47) 11-11-0309-00-00af-march 8th-teleconference-minutes (posted 12-Mar-2011 21:25:48) Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Motion #1 Motion: Moved by: Paul Lambert Seconded by: Stephen McCann March 2011 Motion #1 Motion: To approve the TGaf minutes from the January Interim in Los Angeles, and the January Ad Hoc meeting notes and the February 22nd and March 8th teleconferences in documents 11-11/0214r00, 11-11/0089r0, 11-11/0308r0 and 11-11/0309r0 respectively Moved by: Paul Lambert Seconded by: Stephen McCann Discussion on the motion? Vote: unanimous consent Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Review of the Results of LB 171 March 2011 Review of the Results of LB 171 The Results 300 eligible people are in this ballot group.     125 affirmative votes    76 negative votes     35 abstention votes ===   236  votes received  =  78.7% valid returns                                      =  14.8% valid abstentions   This ballot has met the 50% returned ballot  requirement This ballot has met the less than 30% abstention requirement   APPROVAL RATE: 125  affirmative votes       =      62.2 % affirmative   76  total negative votes  =      37.8 % negative The 75% affirmation requirement has not been met, Motion fails. There were 1304 comments received.     Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 Motion #2 Motion To approve document 11-11/277r3 as the LB171 comment resolution spreadsheet. Moved by: Jim Lansford Seconded by: Eunsun Kim Discussion on the motion? Vote: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

The Process Divide the comments into categories March 2011 The Process Divide the comments into categories Editorial PHY MAC General Begin comment resolution Assign comments marked “E” by the commenters to the Editor Review comments that have no Page or Line specified Decide how we want to divide up the rest of the week’s schedule of resolutions Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Tuesday AM1 and PM3 Agenda March 2011 Tuesday AM1 and PM3 Agenda Meeting call to order Modify and approve the agenda Administrative items Reminder and Call for essential patents Review of the LB171 comment resolutions in 11-11/277r4 Comment resolutions Identify major issues Recess Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Preferred Presentation Format March 2011 Preferred Presentation Format Slide 1: Cover sheet Slide 2 Abstract Slide 3 CID, Page and Paragraph Number(s) Comment(s) Comment resolution text Slide 4 – n Explanation Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 Terminology Document CIDs 21, 134, 163, 381, 693, 695, 755, 804, 856, 865, 866, 867, 1031, 1200, 3, 73, 149, 234, 326, 327, 511, 512, 513, 802, 949, 950, 1154, 1156, 85, Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 General Clause 4 CIDs 951, 1034, 1035, 1036, 8, 78, 137, 452, 650, 1006 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 PICS CIDs 689, 690, 691, 1144, 1145, 1146 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 MIBs CIDs 147, 325, 509, 977, 1147, 1148, 1149, 1150, 1151, 1152, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 Annex E CID 129 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

All passed in REVmb CIDs 130, 131, 132, 133, 151 March 2011 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 Just Plain General CIDs 798, 973, 316, 329, 516, 517, 518, 519, 592, 614, 692, 905, 942, 943, 944, 1024, 1301 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

March 2011 MAC CIDs 510, 1157, 545, 1103, 4, 136, 138, 139, 162, 229, 321, 322, 348, 349, 495, 502, 503, 504, 505, 529, 579, 580, 641, 670, 925, 926, 1116, 1117, 1119 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Wednesday PM1 and PM2 Agenda March 2011 Wednesday PM1 and PM2 Agenda Meeting call to order Modify and approve the agenda Administrative items including IEEE IP statement Comment resolutions Recess Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Thursday AM1 Agenda Meeting call to order March 2011 Thursday AM1 Agenda Meeting call to order Modify and approve the agenda Administrative items Reminder and Call for essential patents PHY Comment resolutions Review Andy Gowans presentation on D1.0 and the Ofcom DD plan Recess Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Thursday PM2 Agenda Meeting call to order March 2011 Thursday PM2 Agenda Meeting call to order Modify and approve the agenda Administrative items Reminder and Call for essential patents Vote on uncontroversial comment resolutions if any Plan for teleconferences, May ad hoc and May Interim Adjourn Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Motion #3 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx March 2011 Motion #3 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx Moved by: Seconded by: Discussion on the motion? Vote: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Motion #4 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx March 2011 Motion #4 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx Moved by: Seconded by: Discussion on the motion? Vote: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Motion #5 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx March 2011 Motion #5 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx Moved by: Seconded by: Discussion on the motion? Vote: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Motion #6 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx March 2011 Motion #6 Motion: To approve the resolutions in document 11-11/0xxxrx Moved by: Seconded by: Discussion on the motion? Vote: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Teleconferences Weekly on Tuesdays Time: 22:00 ET for 3 hours March 2011 Teleconferences Weekly on Tuesdays Time: 22:00 ET for 3 hours Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

TGaf Timeline – Updated July 2010 January 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 March 2011 TGaf Timeline – Updated July 2010 New Initial Working Group Letter Ballot: January 2011 Re-circulation Working Group Letter Ballot: May 2011 Form Sponsor Ballot Pool: June 2011 Initial Sponsor Ballot: July 2011 Approved Sponsor Ballot: December 2011 Final WG/EC Approval: March 2012 RevCom/Standards Board Approval: March 2012 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion Michael Montemurro, RIM

Any Other Business? None heard Motion to Adjourn Moved by: March 2011 Any Other Business? None heard Motion to Adjourn Moved by: Seconded by: Vote: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

Process of Getting to Letter Ballot and Beyond May 2007 doc.: IEEE 802.11-07/0679r2 March 2011 Process of Getting to Letter Ballot and Beyond Completed Steps | Future Steps Adoption of PAR and 5 Criteria Technical Presentations and Discussions Specify Any Additional Requirements, Comparison Criteria, or Other Documents Call For Proposals Presentation of Proposals Select from Submitted Complete Proposals to Produce a Draft Refine Draft Letter Ballot – January 2011 Recirculation – May 2011 Sponsor Ballot – July 2011 Recirculation – September 2011 Final WG/EC Approval – March 2012 IEEE SB REVCOM Approval – March 2012 Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems

3 Cycles of Comments and Resolution March 2011 3 Cycles of Comments and Resolution Call for Informal Comments Comment Resolution WG Letter Ballot Comment Resolution, Recirculation Sponsor Ballot Comment Resolution, Recirculation Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion

References Go to https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents March 2011 References Go to https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents In the box labeled “All Groups”, pull down the menu and select “TGaf” Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion