1. MMAC T71 Ad hoc WG Liaison Report May 2004
Yasuhiko Inoue
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories
Yasuhiko Inoue, NTT

2. Month 2000
doc.: IEEE /xxx
May 2004
MMAC Overview
MMAC (Multimedia Mobile Access Communication Systems Promotion Council)
Activities:
Investigation and study on system specifications, Standardization
MMAC makes some of the Japanese standard for radio communication systems including ARIB STD T-71
Demonstrative experiment
Information exchange and popularization activities, etc
Committees
High Speed Wireless Access Committee (HiSWAN, CSMA)
Wireless Home-Link Committee (Wireless 1394, UWB)
Yasuhiko Inoue, NTT
John Doe, His Company

3. T71 Ad hoc WG Mission: Creation: January 2003
Month 2000
doc.: IEEE /xxx
May 2004
T71 Ad hoc WG
Mission:
Maintenance of ARIB STD-T71
ARIB STD-T71: IEEE a compatible WLAN system
Standardization of 5GHz band wireless access system
Operations in the 4.9 – 5.0 and – GHz bands
The same scope with TGj
Creation: January 2003
Chair: Noboru Matsumoto (TEPCO Optical Network)
Member companies:
Atheros, Canon, Denso, Fujitsu, Hitach Cable, Intel, Japan Telecom, JRC, Mitsubishi, Murata, NEC, NTT, TOYOCOM, Panasonic, Samsung, TEPCO Optical Network, TDK, Toshiba, TTNet, and more
Yasuhiko Inoue, NTT
John Doe, His Company

4. Current Activities WG Activities Discussion about future plans none
May 2004
Current Activities
WG Activities
none
Discussion about future plans
MMAC is going to change its organization
2 Working Groups and 1 Special Interest Group for WLAN systems:
WG for systems
WG for HiSWAN systems
SIG for Future Wireless LAN systems
Some other WGs and SIGs will be formed:
UWB
Wireless 1394
publicity
New organization will be approved in MMAC plenary meeting to be held in June.
Yasuhiko Inoue, NTT