1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 1 March 2016 802.11 Session Supplementary Material Date: 2016-03-17 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report Introduction This report provides supplementary material related to attending the March 2016 802.11 WG plenary meetings. Refer to the agenda: 11-16/215r March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 2

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report MONDAY March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 3

4. Kim Chang Departed March 10, 2016 46 Years of Age Supporting Huawei at WFA meeting in Kyoto, Japan Survived by his wife, Fung, and his daughter, Iris Respected member of Huawei’s North America Standards and Industry Development team Member of Huawei Community 2005 - 2016 Over 20 years of standards experience; starting with 2G CDMA while at Nortel Networks Involved in and held leadership positions in standards communities from 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802, WiFi Alliance and others One of the originals of 3GPP2 and chair of TSG-C Huawei’s IEEE 802 delegation coordinator & original leader of the Wireless Advanced Research and Standards (WARS) in Futurewei Strong supporter of IEEE standardization work and was key to Huawei’s start in IEEE Wi-Fi was Kim’s personal compassion and the first thing he would look for where ever his travels took him

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report The WG chair is due for election in this meeting. Nominations close with this agenda item. Nominations: –Adrian Stephens M5.1 – Call for nominations for the WG Chair March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 5

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report The two WG vice chairs are due for election in this meeting. Nominations close with this agenda item. Nominations: –Jon Rosdahl –Dorothy Stanley M5.3 – Call for nominations for 2 WG vice chairs March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 6

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report WEDNESDAY March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 7

8. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report W2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents 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 March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 8

9. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report Leaders of 802.11 Task Groups, Study Groups, Topic Interest Groups and Standing Committees (or their nominee) should attend the Thursday CAC at 7:30pm. The purpose of the CAC is: –To prepare the agenda and material for the closing WG plenary –To create room requests for the next session –To advise and support the chair in his responsibilities as an EC member W2.3 – Thursday CAC reminder March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 9

10. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report WG Appointed Positions - Update March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 10 WG Secretary – Stephen McCann Treasurer – Jon Rosdahl ANA Authority – Robert Stacey WG Technical Editors – Adrian Stephens, Robert Stacey

11. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report The IEEE LMSC (802) EC held a workshop on Friday 22 nd Jan and Saturday 23 rd Jan after the Atlanta plenary. The purpose of the workshop was to give the EC time to discuss in depth on topics of mutual interest related to the operation of the LMSC. No decisions were made at the meeting. However, decisions were taken by EC email ballot after the meeting related to content in the meeting. See: http://ieee802.org/minutes/2016_01/2016-01-22- minutes-v0.pdfhttp://ieee802.org/minutes/2016_01/2016-01-22- minutes-v0.pdf W5.2 – Report out on EC workshop (Jan 2016) March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 11

12. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report Substantial discussion on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s session included briefing material on what it means to be an IMT technology, and the processes to be followed to get there. The EC determined to create a SC as follows: –The scope of the IEEE 802 5G/IMT­2020 standing committee (Type 2) To provide a report on the following items to the EC: Costs and benefits of creating an IEEE 5G specification Costs and benefits of providing a proposal for IMT­2020, considering possible models of a proposal: –as a single technology, –as a set of technologies, –or as one or more technologies within a proposal from external bodies (e.g., 3GPP) –During its lifetime, to act as the communication point with other IEEE organizations on this top ic. Organization: The committee is chartered for 6 months as an EC SC (i.e., due at the July 2016 plenary session). Any 802 WG voting member can vote in the EC SC. (The SC will be meeting Mon and Tue evening. Glenn Parsons, Chair 802.1, will be its chair.) W5.2 (cont.) - 5G, IMT-2020 and 802 March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 12

13. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report The WG chair reported out on the survey and discussion in 802.11 recently. The EC discussed possible options. In the end, the consensus of the EC was that nothing should be changed, as shown in this straw poll: –1. Do nothing ­ 14 –2. Tweak the parameters of the existing rules ­ 0 –3. More trust/less attendee overhead – 8.5 –4. More accuracy – 2 W5.2 (cont.) - Attendance requirements March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 13

14. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report The EC debated how best to progress an improvement in the organization of regulatory. They determined to keep the 802.18 TAG, but with an updated mission statement, and its formal meetings kept to 2 well-known slots a session, to enable other WG members to build up voting status in 802.18. W5.2 (cont.) - Regulatory March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 14

15. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report Many of our projects have one or more special interest groups (SIGs) operating in the background. Under what conditions does such a group display dominant behaviour? What are the conditions under which block voting should be recognised? What tools are available for correction? The WG chair is responsible for recognizing block voting and will bring any such recognition to the EC for remedy, which might include counting all those associated with such a block as a single vote in the WG. Based on the discussion in the workshop, there is no need for immediate action in the WG. The WG chair will bring advice on this topic to the WG in a later meeting (probably May). W5.2 (cont.) - Discussion on domination, block voting and SIGs March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 15

16. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report There are two WG vice-chair vacancies –Roles and responsibilities will be distributed by the WG chair once the successful candidates are known The following have been nominated: –Jon Rosdahl – Qualcomm –Dorothy Stanley – HPE Process (down-selection to 2 candidates) – if required –Round(s) of voting. Each voting member has 2 votes in each round. Candidate with least votes will be eliminated at each round. Individual confirmation votes of 2 surviving candidates –50% WG approval required W5.6 – Election of WG Vice Chairs March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 16

17. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report The WG compiled a list of questions related to intellectual property (IP) from those asked on the 802.11 WG reflector, and those directed to PatCom from TGah. This list was directed to PatCom before its December 2015 meeting. There was no response from that meeting. A simplified set of generic questions was compiled from the specific list, on the understanding that PatCom might be able to answer generic questions more easily. This list was presented to the IEEE-SA PatCom meeting by the WG chair in March 2016. As a result, PatCom responded to one of the questions by creating a new FAQ entry, and created a process to respond to other questions. See the PatCom minutes: http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/0316patmins.pdf W5.8 – Status of response from 802.11 members March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 17

18. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report FRIDAY March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 18

19. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report F2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents 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 March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 19

20. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report F2.4 Administrative Reminders Next Full WG Session: March 13-19 1 st CAC telecon – April 11 th at noon ET (-5 weeks) –Initial objectives/agendas should be uploaded as mentor documents (.ppt format) or send to chair (.xls tab format) before the telecon. –Meeting date set to meet 30-day agenda submission deadline. 2 nd CAC telecon – May 9th at noon ET (-1 week) –Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon. March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 20

21. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is herehere Open LoA requests (i.e., those that the WG chair is pursuing) –Nokia (802.11ai) –Microsoft (802.11ai) Detailed status is here: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1489-04- 0000-register-of-loa-requests.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1489-04- 0000-register-of-loa-requests.docx March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 21

22. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 22 F2.6 Availability of documents- Nov 2015 Publication Draft in TechStreet Draft in Members Area Published in Get 802Get 802? Published by ISO? IEEE P802.11REVmcD5.0 $814 pdfD5.2 IEEE P802.11aiD6.0 $165 pdfD6.4 IEEE P802.11ahD6.0 $302 pdfD6.0 IEEE P802.11akD2.0 IEEE P802.11aqD3.0 $56 pdfD3.2 IEEE Std 802.11af-2013$201 printYes IEEE Std 802.11ac-2013$309 printYes IEEE Std 802.11ad-2012$371 printYes IEEE Std 802.11ae-2012$108 printYes IEEE Std 802.11aa-2012$185 printYes IEEE Std 802.11-2012$556 printYes ** = request pending

23. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Drafts are sent to ISO during sponsor ballot to solicit comments. Approved drafts may also be sent during working group ballot. Any comments received from ISO are processed by the comment resolution committee No comments outstanding REVmc D5.0 will be liaised when Sponsor Recirc completes March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 23 Supplementary

24. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report F7.1 802 Wireless Chairs meeting The wireless chairs meeting makes decisions related to the operation of the wireless interim meetings, such as location and cost. The meeting is open to all. If you are interested in these topics, please attend. The wireless chairs meeting takes place at 4:00pm local time on the Sunday of 802 Plenary and 802 Wireless Interim sessions. March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 24

25. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/216r3 Report F7.2 Next Meeting – LMSC Interim 2016-05-15 to 2016-05-20 at Hilton Waikoloa Village, HI, USA –IEEE Wireless Interim –Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are open Note -- The previously-announced China interim has been cancelled. TGaj will be meeting at Waikoloa. For information and registration links, see http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html March 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 25