TGmb Agenda, November 2008 Date: 2008-11-10 Authors: November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 TGmb Agenda, November 2008 Date: 2008-11-10 Authors: Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Abstract Agenda for the TGmb meeting held in Dallas, TX, USA from November 10-14, 2008. Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Agenda Call Meeting to Order Review schedule November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Agenda Call Meeting to Order Review schedule Respond to Interpretation Request Make PAR changes for approval Review issues inputs to TGmb revision Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Tuesday Call Meeting to Order / Administrivia November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Tuesday Call Meeting to Order / Administrivia Agenda review attendance recording & meeting resources Policies & procedures (including patent policy) Approval of prior meeting minutes TGmb revision status & schedule Interpretation request Issue review & resolution Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Attendance recording Attendance Documentation November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Attendance recording Attendance 11-08-0058-00-0000-opening-network-information-attendance-and-documentation-for-january-2008-session.ppt https://murphy.events.ieee.org/imat Must register before logging attendance Must log attendance during each 2 hour session Documentation http://mentor.ieee.org Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform 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 Slide #1 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Patent Related Links November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Patent Related Links 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 Slide #2 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Call for Potentially Essential Patents November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents November 2008 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 Slide #3 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings 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. Slide #4 Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf Link to IEEE Code of Ethics http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html Link to IEEE Patent Policy http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 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. The Copyright Act of 1976 made a dramatic change to U.S. copyright law. Copyright was now deemed to exist from the moment of creation. Thus anything that is created is deemed to be owned by its creator. Additionally, a work no longer needs to be published in order to be protected. Therefore, even your scribbles on a piece of note paper constitute copyrighted material that you own and control. The NII (National Information Infrastructure) and the GII (Global Information Infrastructure) are causing lawmakers and copyright owners to assess the ability of current copyright law to protect owners rights in a digital environment. While at this point the changes being talked about are not significant, they will make it clear that copyright protection is afforded to owners in the digital environment making it a requirement to honor the rights accorded to owners. It is a requirement under the IEEE Bylaws that copyright ownership of all material published by the IEEE resides with the IEEE. The Standards Department accomplishes the transfer of copyright ownership from the volunteer authors to the Institute via the Project Authorization Request (PAR) form. Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Approval of prior meeting minutes November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Approval of prior meeting minutes September 2008 (Waikoloa, Hawai‘i): 11-08/1114r1 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-1114-01-000m-september-2008-interim-meeting-minutes-kona-hawai-i.doc Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 TGmb timeline Call for comments on 802.11-2007 closed yesterday (November 10, 2008) Future projected dates March 2009: Initial letter ballot November 2009: Initial sponsor ballot March 2011: RevCom approval Plan of record on next slide for reference Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

TGmb Plan of Record May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 TGmb Plan of Record May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input July 2008 – begin process input and old Interpretation requests Acknowledge previous Task Group referrals Sept 2008 – PAR revision process started Nov 2008 – close receipt of new input Nov 2008 – WG/EC approval of PAR Revision Dec 2008 – NesCom/SASB approval PAR Revision Mar 2009 first WG Letter ballot (includes All published Amendments as of Mar 2009) July/Sept 2009 Recirc start Sept 2009 – Form Sponsor Pool Nov 2009 – Sponsor Ballot Start (Include all published amendments as of Nov 2009) Mar 2010 – Sponsor Recirc Nov 2010 – WG/EC Final Approval Mar 2011 – RevCom/SASB Approval Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Interpretation Request #1 November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Interpretation Request #1 Request received from Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> : In 802.11-2007, section 11.7.1.2 ("Setup procedure at the AP") [for DLS] notes: "[...] Send DLS Response frame to the STA that sent the DLS Request frame with a result code of Not a STA, if the destination STA [...]“ Is this meant to say "[...] Send DLS Response frame to the STA that sent the DLS Request frame with a result code of Not QoS STA, if the destination STA [...]“ (note "Not QoS STA") Note: emphasis added Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Data points for Interpretation Request November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Data points for Interpretation Request Text appears on page 458 of 802.11-2007 Table 11-6 on page 458 of 802.11-2007 maps result codes for primitives into status codes Table has codes for NOT_ALLOWED, NOT_PRESENT, and NOT_QOS_STA Table 7-23 (status codes) on pp. 94-5 of 802.11-2007 has code 50 for “The Destination STA is not a QoS STA” but does not have a status code for “not a STA” Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Issue Review & Resolution November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Issue Review & Resolution Responses to initial call for comments are consolidated as 11-08/1127r4 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-1127-04-000m-tgmb-issues-list.xls After adding approved amendments (see timeline on next slide) to 802.11-2007, editor should incorporate resolutions to these initial issues Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Amendment Ordering Data as of Sept 2008 from 802.11 web November 2008 July 2007 November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Amendment reordering is discussed by editors at each session and adjusted based on current timeline estimates Amendment Ordering Data as of Sept 2008 from 802.11 web See http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/802.11_Timelines.htm Amendment Number Task Group REVCOM Date 802.11 Amendment 1 TGk July 2008 - Published 802.11 Amendment 2 TGr July 2008 -- Published 802.11 Amendment 3 TGy Sept/Dec 2008 -- Pending 802.11 Amendment 4 TGw Dec 2009 (was Sep 2009) 802.11 Amendment 5 TGn Sept 2009 (was June 2009) 802.11 Amendment 6 TGz Sept 2009 802.11 Amendment 7 TGp Dec 2009 802.11 Amendment 8 (was 9) TGv Mar 2010 (was Dec 2009) 802.11 Amendment 9 (was 10) TGu Mar 2010 802.11 Amendment 10 (was 8) TGs July 2010 (was Dec 2009) 802.11.2 TGT Disbanded 802.11 Revision 802.11mb Mar 2011 Slide 18 Terry L Cole (AMD) Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Page 18 Terry Cole (AMD) Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Wednesday I Approval of PAR changes – 11-08/1373r0 (Jon Rosdahl) November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Wednesday I Approval of PAR changes – 11-08/1373r0 (Jon Rosdahl) Approval of interpretation response – 11-08/1366r0 (Matthew Gast) Approval of Comment Group 1 in issues list (11-08/1127r5) Security expert follow-up Issue Review & Resolution Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Wednesday II Issue Review & Resolution November 2008 November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Wednesday II Issue Review & Resolution Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Thursday Issue review & resolution Teleconferences Review timeline November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1330r2 November 2008 Thursday Issue review & resolution Teleconferences Review timeline Preparation for January 2009 interim meeting AOB Adjourn Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks