1. TGn Sync, WWiSE and Mitmot opening Report
March 2005
doc.: IEEE /888r11
July 2005
TGn Sync, WWiSE and Mitmot opening Report
Date:
Author
Name
Company
Address
Phone
Syed Aon Mujtaba
Agere Systems
555 Union Blvd.,
Allentown, PA 18109, USA
Sean Coffey
Realtek
16269 Laguna Canyon Rd., Irvine, CA 92618
Marc de Courville
Motorola
Parc les Algorithmes, Gif-sur-Yvette France
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S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.
Syed Aon Mujtaba, Agere Systems, et. al.

2. July 2005
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

3. July 2005
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

4. July 2005
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

5. Parc les Algorithmes, Gif-sur-Yvette 91193 France +33 1 69352573
July 2005
Markus Muck
Motorola Labs
Parc les Algorithmes, Gif-sur-Yvette France
Jean-Noel Patillon
Sebastien Simoens
Stéphanie Rouquette
Alexandre Ribeiro Dias
Karine Gosse
Brian Classon
1301 E. Algonquin Rd, Schaumburg IL USA
Keith Blankenship
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

6. VK Jones Airgo Networks vkjones@airgonetworks.com Richard van Nee
July 2005
VK Jones
Airgo Networks
Richard van Nee
Ali Raissinia
Allert van Zelst
Bruce Edwards
Broadcom
Matthew Fischer
Chris Hansen
Tushar Moorti
Chris Young
Takashi Ishidoshiro
Buffalo
Masato Kato
Dave Hedberg
Conexant
Cenk Kose
Jim Petranovich
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

7. Hughes Network Systems feroz@hns.com
July 2005
Michael Seals
Conexant
Mark Webster
Menzo Wentink
Taehyun Jeon
ETRI
Sok-kyu Lee
Heejung Yu
Mustafa Eroz
Hughes Network Systems
Lakshmi Iyer
Lin-Nan Lee
Feng-Wen Sun
Marc de Courville
Motorola
Markus Muck
Alexandre Ribeiro-Dias
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

8. Stephanie Rouquette-Leveil Motorola stephanie.rouquette@motorola.com
July 2005
Stephanie Rouquette-Leveil
Motorola
Sebastien Simoens
Nico van Waes
Nokia
John Chang
Ralink
Sheng Lee
Tom Pare
David Tung
Der-Zheng Liu
Realtek
Ravi Mahadevappa
Stephan ten Brink
Gabriella Convertino
STMicroelectronics
Mike Moreton
Fabio Osnato
Pratima Pai
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

9. Vincenzo Scarpa STMicroelectronics vincenzo.scarpa@st.com
July 2005
Vincenzo Scarpa
STMicroelectronics
Massimiliano Siti
George Vlantis
Anuj Batra
Texas Instruments
Srikanth Gummadi
Dale Hocevar
Richard Williams
Keith Chugg
TrellisWare
Paul Gray
Bob Ward
Jeng-Hong Chen
Winbond Electronics
Pansop Kim
Alfred Lin
Wei-Chung Peng
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

10. July 2005
Abstract
This document describes the status of the merger talks among TGn Sync, WWiSE, and Mitmot
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

11. Update on joint discussions
July 2005
Update on joint discussions
Since the Cairns meeting, there have been 4 face-to-face meetings:
June 13th – Bay Area
June 30th – Chicago
July 15th – San Francisco
July 17th – San Francisco
During this period, joint conf calls have also been conducted.
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

12. July 2005
Status
Proposals have each evolved and converged significantly since August 13, 2004
The groups are working towards a new joint proposal merging these individual proposals
The groups have conducted several highly detailed technical discussions to establish how this JP can be created
Tentative mechanics will be a mixture of global design guidelines and detailed draft text
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

13. TGn target goals for July 2005
Update TGn on proposals as of July 8th, 2005
Hold TGn Q&A on the updated proposals
Free up some TGn time for further JP work since many authors from the 3 proposals are in the same time/place
Provide a progress update in the closing report
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

14. TGn target goals for Sept 2005
July 2005
TGn target goals for Sept 2005
Provide 1st draft of Joint Proposal to TGn
Hold extensive Q&A on the Joint Proposal
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

15. TGn target goals for Nov 2005
July 2005
TGn target goals for Nov 2005
JP replaces the current 3 proposals
Conduct confirmation vote on the JP
There would then be one proposal, and as per the TGn process we can conduct a confirmation vote
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.

16. Timeline Summary San Fran F2F Anaheim Goal to Submit Draft Joint Prop
July 2005
Timeline Summary
San Fran
F2F
Anaheim
Goal to Submit
Draft Joint Prop
F2F
Vancouver
Final Joint Prop
Confirm Vote
F2F
Hawaii
Draft proposal owned by TGn
JAP
F2F
EUR
F2F
Weekly Conference Calls between F2F Meetings
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
2005
2006
S. A. Mujtaba (Agere), S. Coffey (Realtek), M. de Courville (Motorola), et. al.