doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide th Session of meetings of the IEEE Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks May 8-12, 2000 Renaissance Madison Hotel 515 Madison Street Seattle, WA 98104

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide Functional Organization Chart

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 3 IEEE WG Imperatives Enable IEEE to develop consensus standards that benefits the World Wide Networking Society. Maintain the imperative principals of due process, consensus, openness, balance and rights of appeal. Electronic distribution of standards.

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 4 Archive, Mailing List, URLs Web Page – Mailing List Bluetooth Special Interest Group – Home RF Working Group – To add your name to IEEE mailing list please send an to

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 5 Overall Objectives of the Seattle Meeting May8-12, 2000

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 6 Individual Representation and Anti-Trust In IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. The Anti-Trust laws forbid the discussion of prices

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 7 IEEE 802 WG Voting Membership All persons participating in the initial meeting of the Working Group become voting members of the Working Group. Thereafter, voting membership in a Working Group is established by participating in at least 75% of the meetings of the Working Group at two out of the last four Plenary sessions. Membership starts at the beginning of the third Plenary session attended, providing the 2 out of 4 rule is satisfied. One duly constituted interim Working Group Meeting may be substituted for the Working Group meetings at one of the two Plenary sessions Members of the Working Group who have not achieved voting status are known as observers. Liaison members are those designated individuals who provide liaison with other working groups or standards bodies. Reference of the IEEE 802 Rules

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 8 IEEE 802 WG Meetings Working Group meetings are open to anyone. The privilege of observers to participate in discussions is at the discretion of the Working Group Chair. Interim Working Group or Technical Advisory Group meetings, as a goal, are to have: –1) Reasonable advance notification to all Working Group members, observers and liaison people (>4 weeks), –2) Few last minute shifts in location (<< 1 per year), and –3) Announcement of Interim meeting at the plenary.

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 9 IEEE WG Membership Rules The rules and procedures governing WG membership including establishment, retention, loss and rights are contained in the Operating rules of IEEE Project 802 (See ref [1], 5.1.3). The following additional requirements are imposed within WG : –TG and SG meetings do not count towards WG voting rights unless they are held in conjunction with a WG meeting. –To establish and retain voting rights participants must record and maintain complete contact information in the database Voting rights may be lost by: –Failure to pay conference fee –Missing two out of three consecutive letter ballots –Failure to maintain contact information

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 10 IEEE P WG Membership Rules In addition to the requirements for membership the following is highly recommended for most efficient exchange of information between members: – address capable of handling large file attachments –Laptop computer at meetings – WLAN card for laptop –Flash card for laptop

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 11 Attendance Book Attendance has to be recorded for voting membership registration Attendance Record Book controlled by ____________ He/she signs for chair and / or presenter Only sign for yourself, for the current session. Keep the book moving!!! The last person hands the book back to the chair of the meeting

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 12 Attendance Book-May8-12, 2000 Only sign when you attend at least 90 % of the meeting for which you sign; i.e. AM or PM or Eve(ning) part of the session) Sign with your initials (no cross etc). Do not underline. Only sign in the box designated with the applicable day and part of the day, AM/PM/Eve Never sign ahead Attendance at a minimum of 7 meetings is required for the Session to count for voting rights. An Evening session may be substituted.

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 13 Attendance Book Check addresses some addresses crossed out, or have a $-sign added to the right those so marked have been bounced when used. If your address is so marked, please provide a working address--it is a requirement of maintaining your voting status.

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 14 All Documents and Submissions must confirm to the Templates posted on the Web site and be accepted by the WG Chair or his designee. File names should conform to the following convention: 00/[xxx]r[y]P802-15_[WG,TG[X],MC]-Title-no-spaces Document numbers may be obtained from the WG Chair. All Documents must be available to meeting attendees prior to presentation. The contributor acknowledges and accepts that any documents or submission contributed to the WG or any of its TGs, SGs, or Committees become the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by If any copyright notices appear, a written release must be filed with the WG chair prior to acceptance of the document. Documents and Submissions

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 15 IEEE Patent Policy IEEE-SA Standards Association Bylaws (Jan1998) IEEE-SA Standards Association Operations Manual (Mar1998) Standards Companion (1995) –Patent Request and Patent Response Letters (Annex A) –Other information on Patents is Out-of-date WG Chairs should review patent policy at each meeting When evaluating alternative technologies: –Patent letters can be requested and tabulated for each technology –Terms and Conditions NOT appropriate (Violates cost discussions) –All patent claims may not be visible at time of tabulation

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 16 Patents -IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws (Jan 1998) 6. Patents IEEE standards may include the known use of patent(s), including patent applications, if there is technical justification in the opinion of the standards-developing committee and provided the IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder that it will license applicants under reasonable terms and conditions for the purpose of implementing the standard. This assurance shall be provided without coercion and prior to approval of the standard (or reaffirmation when a patent becomes known after initial approval of the standard). This assurance shall be a letter that is in the form of either –a) A general disclaimer to the effect that the patentee will not enforce any of its present or future patent(s) whose use would be required to implement the proposed IEEE standard against any person or entity using the patent(s) to comply with the standard or –b) A statement that a license will be made available to all applicants without compensation or under reasonable rates, with reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination.

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 17 Logistics-Meeting Graphic

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 18

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 19 Logistics-Breaks, Docs, etc

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 20

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 21 IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks Backup Slides

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide CSMA/CD Geoff Thompson TOKEN BUS Paul Eastman TOKEN RING Bob Love DQDB WAN Jim Mollenauer BROADBAND ( Res) FIBER TAG Chip Benson ISLAN Dhad. Vamen SECURITY Ken Alonge WIRELESS Vic Hayes DEMAND PRIORITY Pat Thaler CABLE-TV Robert Russell BRIDGING/ARCH Bill Lidinsky LLC Dave Carlson WORKING GROUP CHAIRS VICE CHAIR Paul Nikolich RECORDING SEC Howard Frazier TREASURER Bob Grow EXECUTIVE SEC Buzz Rigsbee EXEC OFFICERS CHAIR Jim Carlo LMSC SPONSOR Hibernation Active WPAN Bob Heile BWA Roger Marks IEEE 802 Organization

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 23 (1) The SEC chair may override in order to avoid issues which would negatively impact the process for IEEE 802 standards. (2) Either SEC or SEC chair should approve submission to the US TAG. (3) Requires 30 day draft submission to SEC. IEEE 802 Approval Guidelines

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 24 IEEE Standards Companion, Annex A Sample Correspondence This letter is written in response to your letter of (date), which requested that (company) confirm to the IEEE that we will provide licenses under our (country) Patent # with respect to the proposed IEEEP standard. In that regard: –In the event the proposed standard is adopted and the standard cannot be practiced without the use of the cited patent, (company) agrees upon written request to grant a nonexclusive license under such patent on a nondiscriminatory basis and on reasonable terms and conditions. This letter does not grant any right to the IEEE with respect to (company) copyrights or other intellectual property rights that relate to the proposed standard. Any party interested in the license described above may write to (name of contact person) at the address on the letterhead.

doc.: IEEE /135r0 Submission May 2000 Robert F. Heile, GTESlide 25 Acronym's & Glossary IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) MAC (Medium Access Control) Layer PHY (Physical) Layer TG (Task Group) SG (Study Group) MC (Marketing Committee) WG (Working Group) WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Networking) Bluetooth (Bluetooth Special Interest Group is the codename for a technology specification for small form factor, low-cost, short range radio links between mobile PCs, mobile phones and other portable devices.) HomeRF (The HRFWG plans to publish the SWAP specification by fall of 1998 and companies may begin product development shortly thereafter.)