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802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz –Successor to n at frequencies less than 6GHz ad – Very High Throughput 60GHz –Successor to n at 60GHz af – TVWS –TV White Space ah – Sub-1GHz –Sub-1GHz Operation ai – Fast Link Setup –Speed up initial link setup aj – CMMW –Chinese Millimeter Wave ak – General Link –Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks aq – Pre-Association Discovery –Pre-Association Discovery mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) –Working towards Groups

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Osama Aboul-Magd TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz Second Recirculation WG ballot LB190 on IEEE ac D4.0 closed November 1, Results: 242/15/ % 252 comments received: 103 technical, 149 editorial, 0 general Resolved all comments Going to recirculation ballot

Eldad Perahia TGad Very High Throughput 60GHz Published

Rich Kennedy TGaf TV White Space Second Initial WG Ballot LB189 on draft 2.0 closed August 19, Results 163/43/ % Received 998 comments: 595 technical, 316 editorial, 87 general comments. Finished addressing all the comments (this time for sure) Will go out for recirculation after this meeting

Dave Halasz TGah Less than 1GHz Work continued on specification framework –Update to the spec framework adopted – ah-specification-framework- for-tgah.docx ah-specification-framework- for-tgah.docx –20 Specification framework submissions presented and passed 20 motions to update the specification framework document. Hoping to go to internal task group ballot on draft in March 2013

Hiroshi Mano TGai Fast Initial Authentication 293 comments were received in the beginning of week –230 resolved comment –63 open technical comments 14 Technical motions ( 14 passed/ 0 failed) Instructed editor to revise the TGai draft D0.4 with all of resolved comment.

Xiaoming PENG TGaj China MM-Wave Meeting January 23-24, 2013 in Shenzen, China

Donald Eastlake TGak General Link New Task Group Accomplishments Received and discussed 8 submissions Met jointly with Thursday morning. Recommended Donald Eastlake as TGak Chair and ZHUANG Yan as TGak Secretary, which recommendations were approved by the WG. The minutes of this TGak meeting will be in 11-13/150 and an annotated agenda is in /64r10. Presentations “Problem list for P802.1Qbz / P802.11ak point-to-point model”, 12/1441r0, Norm Finn (Cisco) “Divide and Conquer”, 12/1447r1, Donald Eastlake (Huawei) “Virtual Wireless Port based Bridging”, 12/1449r0, ZHUANG Yan (Huawei) “TGak Process and Schedule”, 13/119r0, Donald Eastlake (Huawei) “802.1Qbz–802.11ak Solutions: Tagging”, 11-13/147r0, Norm Finn (Cisco) “802.1Qbz–802.11ak Solutions: Architecture Issue”, 11-13/139r0, Norm Finn (Cisco) “802.1Qbz–802.11ak Solutions: Unreliable Links”, 11-13/146r0, Norm Finn (Cisco) “802.1Qbz–802.11ak Solutions: Station Subsetting Issue”, 11-13/141r1, Norm Finn (Cisco)

Stephen McCann TGaq Pre-Association Discovery New Task Group Summary –Officer Election –Requirements Analysis aq-use-case-analysis.doc aq-summary-of-PAD-SG-use-cases- update.doc –Updated use case & requirements doc –Teleconferences –Initial Timeline Plans for March 2013 –Call for Presentations –Requirements and terminology

Dorothy Stanley TGmc Accumulated Maintenance Changes Continued processing comments received in the recent Call for Comments on IEEE Std ™-2012 –372 comments (106 editorial) –Approximately 280 comments are resolved; remaining unresolved comments will be submitted in initial LB First WG ballot after this meeting

Clint Chaplin WNG Wireless Next Generation SC Four presentations at January 2013 meeting : Looking Ahead to the Future – Part II ( wng looking-ahead-to-the-future-part-ii.pptx) – Osama Aboul-Magd 2.Applications and Requirements for Next Generation WLAN ( wng-applications-and-requirements-for-next- generation-wlan.pptx) - Huai-Rong Shao 3.A Physical-layer Network Coding Relay scheme for IEEE ( wng-a-physical-layer-network-coding-relay- scheme-for-ieee ppt) – 4.Joint Coding and Modulation Diversity for the Next Generation WLAN ( wng-joint-coding-and-modulation- diversity-for-the-next-generation-wlan.ppt) – May start special BOF sessions.

Andrew Myles JTC1/SC6 SC ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Reviewed latest liaisons to SC6 of Sponsor Ballot drafts –802.11ac D4.0 liaised –Will liaise ac D5.0 Reviewed status of PSDO activity –Pre-ballots in SC6 on 802.1X & 802.1AE close in Feb, and will be followed by 5 month ballots –It is hoped will be submitted to SC6 pre-ballot in March – WG decided to submit aa/ae/ad to SC6 pre-ballot Reviewed responses to comments from JTC1 ballot on ISO/IEC :2012 –Responses were developed by TGmc –SC agreed to liaise responses to SC6; motion later Reviewed status of various China NB proposals in SC6 –No known changes to TEPA-AC, TLSec, TAAA, TISec status –Reviewed Swiss NB “comparison of 802.1X and TEPA-AC”; an expert evaluation will be considered in March –No change to WAPI in ISO, but a government lab has been set up to promote its international standardisation –Nufront will present on EUHT and coexistence with in March in Orlando; possibly in SC forum Prepared for next SC6 meeting in June in Korea –Reviewed a draft of the “contribution process” for SC6 NBs to “participate” in development & maintenance of 802 standards; it will be completed in March –Discussed a Swiss NB “explanatory report” on the SC6 resolutions from Graz; further discussion on any action will occur in March

Rich Kennedy Regulatory SC Regulatory Summaries –North America US –NPRM FCC TV Band Auctions; TVWS channel allocation –NPRM FCC to 3650 MHz –February 20th NPRM on 5350 to 5470, 5850 to 5925 and TDWR Canada –RSS-210 for TVWS –European Union ETSI –ERM TG11 EN v1.9.0 –BRAN EN Operation in the TV Bands White Spaces »Now at v »Meeting week of February 22nd to complete test methodologies UK –Ofcom Consultation on the TVWS closed January 14th (yesterday) –Asia China in the process of opening the 5 GHz band for unlicensed access; Defense Ministry objects to opening 5470 to 5725 band Developed responses to NPRM FCC and NPRM FCC

Mark Hamilton Architecture SC Brief update on General Links (GLK SC) and bridging discussions –Clarified that MSDUs in an A-MSDU are still LLC format (not Ethertype) Noted that P ballot closed Nov 23 – submitted comments, but they seem to have gotten lost(?) - investigating IETF/802 coordination –Reviewed RFC 4441 update. No comments. –Will request a WG ePoll to collect comments on the next revision 802 Overview and Architecture Draft 1.6 letter ballot –Very few comments received working on it off-line (no face- to-face meetings), probably going to Sponsor Ballot next. Architecture of APs/DS/Portals, and concepts –Spent considerable time reviewing all the related concepts, trying to relate to concepts in ’s architecture description –See 11-13/0115 for discussion