TGmb Agenda, March 2009 Date: 2009-03-10 Authors: March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 TGmb Agenda, March 2009 Date: 2009-03-10 Authors: Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Abstract Agenda for the TGmb meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada from March 9-13, 2009. Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Agenda March 2009 Call meeting to order doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Agenda Call meeting to order Agenda review Policies & procedures (including patent policy) Attendance recording & meeting resources Approval of prior meeting minutes Call for Officers (Technical Editor) TGmb revision status & schedule Interpretation request Comment review & resolution Plans for next meeting Authorize teleconferences & ad hocs Review timeline AOB Adjourn Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Monday 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 Call meeting to order March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Monday 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 Call meeting to order Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 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 March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 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 March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 Call for Potentially Essential Patents March 2009 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 March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 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 March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 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 March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 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

Monday (continued) 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Monday (continued) 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 Attendance recording procedures See 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

Monday (continued) 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Monday (continued) 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 Approve Agenda 11-09/0341r0 (this document) Approval of January 2009 (Los Angeles, California, USA) meeting minutes: 11-09/0095r0 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/09/11-09-0095-00-000m-tgmb-minutes-january-09-la.doc Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Officer Election Technical Editor nominations March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Officer Election Technical Editor nominations Vote on candidates to select Technical Editor Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Monday (continued) 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Monday (continued) 10 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 TGmb Editorial Procedure Review TGmb plan of record and 802.11 amendment ordering Review Comment Resolutions Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

TGmb Plan of Record May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 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 May 2009 – First WG Letter ballot (includes All published Amendments as of May 2009) Sep/Nov 2009 – Recirc start November 2009– Form Sponsor Pool January 2010 – Sponsor Ballot Start (Include all published amendments as of Jan 2010) May 2010 – Sponsor Recirc Jan 2011 – WG/EC Final Approval Mar 2011 – RevCom/SASB Approval Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Amendment Ordering March 2009 Amendment Number Task Group REVCOM Date July 2007 March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Amendment reordering was discussed by editors Jan 20 based on current timeline estimates and resulted announced herein. Amendment Ordering (Note: This is taken from 11-09/0322r0) Data as of Jan 20 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 May 2008 (actual) 802.11 Amendment 2 TGr 802.11 Amendment 3 TGy Sept 2008 (actual) 802.11 Amendment 4 TGw Dec 2009 802.11 Amendment 5 TGn Jan 2010 802.11 Amendment 6 TGz Sept 2009 802.11 Amendment 7 TGp June 2010 802.11 Amendment 8 TGv 802.11 Amendment 9 TGu May 2010 802.11 Amendment 10 TGs Sept 2010 802.11 Revision 802.11mb Mar 2011 TGaa May 2011 TGac <no schedule> Slide 16 Peter Ecclesine (Cisco Systems) Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Page 16 Terry Cole (AMD) Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Comment Review & Resolution March 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Comment Review & Resolution Responses to initial call for comments are consolidated as 11-08/1127r12 https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/08/11-08-1127-12-000m-tgmb-issues-list.xls After adding approved amendments (see timeline on slide 14) to 802.11-2007, editor should incorporate resolutions to these initial issues Discussion of open comments and presentations to address Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 Presentations doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0341r0 March 2009 Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16:00 – 18:00 Presentations Comment Resolution Preparation for July 2009 meeting Teleconferences/ad hocs Review timeline http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/802.11_Timelines.htm AOB Adjourn Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks Matthew Gast, Trapeze Networks