IEEE MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: Title: Liaison Report – Work Related to Date Submitted: November 16, 2006 Presented at IEEE session 17 in Dallas, Texas Authors or Source(s): David Hunter Abstract: is one of the technologies that MIH is required to support.

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k – Radio Resource Measurement Measurements provided for runtime adjustment of radios Available to internal STA components, higher layers, and external devices m – Maintenance (compilation of all approved amendments) Work is now complete: will become IEEE Std in March r – Fast BSS Transition Between BSSes within the same ESS Relies on k (especially neighbor reports) u – Interworking with External Networks MAC changes to accommodate, among others, Relies on k and r; has scope agreement with v Joint meetings with this week; more in January(?) v – Wireless Network Management Management protocol additions AP-AP negotiations; load balancing; additional access controls Relies on k w – Protecting Management Frames Security for management frames, including broadcast frames Relies on k, r and perhaps u Groups Related to (the usual suspects)

s This Session (VERY quick overview of this week) Major controversy over CCF Limited mesh-only change that affects e QoS Including EDCA, as would not obey NAV protection Major problem for legacy equipment TGs approved motion to pull CCF out of draft Passed by bare 75% vote: 45:14 Approved motion to create Draft D0.06 Will be issued this afternoon Likely vote to go to Letter Ballot again (But I had to leave to attend 11u.)

u This Session (Another VERY quick overview of this week) This morning: one requirement left unfulfilled: R12N8 Support of informing STA of what online subscription methods are supported by the local network Approved motion to change its status to “Optional” Therefore, all requirements are now fulfilled (at least in part) by current draft Approved sending liaison letter: – asking to review R12N8 for applicability to Actual transmittal still needs approval by WG tomorrow Informal request from u to in the meantime Moved from Step 13 to Step16 of Downselection Process Voted to approve new Draft D0.02 for Internal Review But expanded “Internal Review” to include non-voters  Especially members

r This Session Re-circulation ballot Issued re-circulation ballot in September Held ballot resolution ad-hoc in October Finished all comments this week Issuing a re-circulation ballot after this week’s meeting Drafts Draft coming out today is Draft 3.1 Current responses are in r-d2- comments.xls

r This Session, 2 Controversy #1 *Normative* state machines in the amendment One problem: same information in two places TGr voted to keep the state machines normative Controversy #2 Pull model Text inserted by bare 75% vote in Melbourne Text removed from the draft this meeting –Significant portions of Draft 3 reverted to Draft 2.2 –Draft 3.1 incorporates these changes

r Timeline PAR was approved over 2 years ago Another Ad-Hoc Comment Resolution Meeting Scheduled February 21-23, 2007 Circulations Next recirculation ballot will be issued tomorrow Possible to go to Sponsor Ballot after March, 2007 Plenary Limitations IETF support : Key Management Goal is still to have a new RFC issued within a year Dependency on am am will become IEEE Std in March, k dependencies If k doesn’t finish first, arrangement is to copy the portions of k that r needs Key point: r sponsor ballot still before sponsor ballot But the race is getting close