1. Project: IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [WG Liaison Report, No.14]
Date Submitted: [9Jul01]
Source: [Ian Gifford] Company [Consultant]
Address [23 Kelshill Road, MA USA 01863]
Voice:[ ], FAX: [ ],
Re: [-01/215r0, etc.]
Abstract: [This Liaison Report is a running Liaison report that is offered to the WG for their consideration. It is only as good as what is provided to the Author…there are many WG Liaisons that are not captured as they are not provided to the Author or Liaison Officer.]
Purpose: [Our Sponsor requested that an official Liaison Officer be added to the WG. This report is for the Sponsor and/or the WG.]
Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein.
Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

2. IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks™
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
IEEE Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks™
Liaison Report #14
July 2001 Portland, OR USA
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

3. Contents Liaison Objectives Liaison Summary Liaison Reports
March 2001
Contents
Liaison Objectives
Liaison Summary
Liaison Reports
Liaison Negotiations
Liaison Observations
Ian Gifford, Consultant

4. Liaison Objectives Promote the IEEE as a Value Add
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Liaison Objectives
Promote the IEEE as a Value Add
Promote the IEEE 802 as a leader in Wireless Standards-Making
Promote P as an expert in WPANs
Request/Receive Draft Standard Submissions from External and Internal (IEEE) from our Liaison activities
Ian Gifford, Consultant

5. Liaison Summary Active Liaison List Nonactive Liaison List
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doc.: IEEE /291r0
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Liaison Summary
Active Liaison List
TG1 – BSIG (Gifford/Truntzer)
TG2 – BSIG (Shellhammer/Sizer)
TG3 – BSIG (Barr/Siep)
TG4 – BSIG (Heile/Siep)
TG4 – ZigBee Working Group
IEEE (?/Kerry)
IEEE (?/RogerM )
IEEE
Standards Activities, Standards Publishing Programs (Gifford/Tatiner)
IEEE Standards Dept., Balloting Center (Gifford/Kahofer)
Nonactive Liaison List
IEEE (/Lindinsky)
IEEE (/Carlson)
ATM Forum WATM (/Delaverson)
Digital Imaging Group (Allen/?)
DSRC (?/Kurihara)
ETSI BRAN (?/Khun-Jush)
HomeRF Working Group (/Manny)
IETF BOF on Bluetooth over IP (Siep/Atwal, Akers)
IrDA (/McKay)
UWBWG (/Withington)
WAP Forum (/Parrish)
WECA (?)
WLANA (?/DiCillo)
Other Liaisons?
Note 1: /Liaison
Note 2: ? Unknown
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

6. IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks
March 2001
IEEE Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks
External Liaison Report
Ian Gifford, Consultant

7. Bluetooth™ TG1 Report Telecon & Meetings E-Mail’s to Bluetooth SIG
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
Bluetooth™ TG1 Report
Telecon & Meetings
Miscellaneous
’s to Bluetooth SIG
30May01 “IEEE BSIG Word Usage and IEEE Style Manual” request
27Jun01 “WPAN/ LB11 begins today and closes Friday July 6 at 11pm edt” alert
’s from Bluetooth SIG
18Jun01 “BARB review of must2shalls” reply
Next Steps
Update BSIG PM during/post Session #13/Portland
Bluetooth SIGnal Editor/Publisher and Issue No. 7, 8, 9, etc., follow up
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

8. July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
ZigBee Working Group
The ZigBee Working Group a.k.a. PURLnet star network proposal which has PURL LLC, PURL NWK, etc.
ZigBee URL or
From:
To:
Sent: Monday, June 11, :13 PM
Subject: ZigBee information
Dear all,
The temporary ZigBee working group web page can be found at:
This will replaced by at some point in time.
On the site (the name PURLnet was one of our old unsuccessful
attempts at getting a working name), select "Membership Information"
and then download the "Participants Agreement" and contact
for application instructions.
As a signed participant you will get access to the members only part
of the site (which includes the latest ZigBee specification) and
access to the face-face meetings.
Best regards,
Phil.
Phil Jamieson,
Advanced Systems & Applications Laboratory,
Philips Electronics UK Ltd.,
Cross Oak Lane, Direct Telephone: +44 (0)
Redhill, Switchboard: +44 (0)
Surrey, Fax: +44 (0)
RH1 5HA,
United Kingdom Central URL:
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

9. IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks
March 2001
IEEE Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks
Internal Liaison Report
Ian Gifford, Consultant

10. IEEE Report Telecon & Meetings E-Mail’s to IEEE E-Mail’s from IEEE
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
IEEE Report
Telecon & Meetings
Miscellaneous
’s to IEEE
’s from IEEE
Next Steps
Follow up on /D Comments or D1.0.1 for Sponsor Ballot, contact Balloting Center.
Follow up on Handbook request and plan Manuscript due 2H01
Follow up on Draft Std onto IEEE 802 Plus CD-ROM
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

11. Liaison Negotiations Bluetooth™ SIG IEEE
March 2001
Liaison Negotiations
Bluetooth™ SIG
Next BSIG-IEEE Telecon and f2f Meeting Dates?
IEEE
802.11/ Interim Meetings?
We need to identify hosts and venue 12 months out, or more.
We need to benchmark our Admin tools i.e., Balloting Tools, Comment DB, etc. to other IEEE WGs and other SDOs. As well as future proof our Membership DB.
Ian Gifford, Consultant

12. Liaison Observation #1 – 802.15 WG Projects…promo?
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doc.: IEEE /291r0
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Liaison Observation #1 – WG Projects…promo?
Wireless 802 WGs
is a single MAC Sublayer/WG.
is a single MAC Sublayer/WG.
…but has 3 MAC Sublayers/WGs.
IEEE 802 Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Draft 6.8 Revised: July 10, 1991
4.2 Compatibility
IEEE 802 defines a family of standards. All standards shall be in conformance with IEEE Architecture, Management and Interworking.
All LLC and MAC standards shall be compatible with ISO 10039[20], MAC Service Definition1, at the LLC/MAC boundary. Within the LLC Working Group there shall be one LLC standard, including one or more LLC protocols with a common LLC/MAC interface. Within a MAC Working Group there shall be one MAC standard and one or more Physical Layer standards with a common MAC/Physical layer interface.
Each standard in the IEEE 802 family of standards shall include a definition of managed objects which are compatible with OSI systems management standards.
1. Note: This requirement is subject to final resolution of corrections and revision to current ISO 10039, currently inconsistent with ISO 8802 series standards.
= Draft in process or complete
= Draft not defined e.g., CFP, etc.
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

13. Liaison Observation #1 – 802.15 WG Projects…promo?
March 2001
Liaison Observation #1 – WG Projects…promo? {
Logical Link
Control Sublayer
LLC
PAR? {
Medium Access
Control Sublayer {
Physical
Layer
“The data rate will be high enough, 20 Mbps or more (see 13a), to satisfy a set of consumer multimedia industry needs for WPAN communications.” PAR
“…allow  message data in the CAP in order to insure that the TG3 MAC and TG4 MAC are compatible.” MarkS
What’s up w/ the 11Mbit/s?
Source: /D0.5, pg 127
Ian Gifford, Consultant

14. Liaison Observation #1 – 802.15 WG Projects…promo?
March 2001
Liaison Observation #1 – WG Projects…promo?
Promotion of the various Projects as well as the various PHY Layers, MAC Sublayers, and in the case of TG4 the LLC is very complex.
The WG needs to have a unified story and each Project needs to have its own story. These promotional stories should be complementary.
Reviewing lessons learned from related WGs is highly suggested e.g., 802.3, , etc. and SDOs e.g. ETSI BRAN, etc.
Ian Gifford, Consultant

15. Liaison Observation #2 – 802.15.4 LLC?
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
Liaison Observation #2 – LLC?
CFP review…
In reviewing –01/272r3, it appears this contribution is promoting the PURL LLC as LLC BUT you need to sign ZigBee agreement to access the ZigBee Spec. which includes PURL LLC a.k.a LLC.
Also I believe this LLC is out of scope for the PAR? PHY/MAC only.
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

16. Liaison Observation #2 – 802.15.4 LLC?
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
Liaison Observation #2 – LLC?
“…-01/272r3 slide 27 & 28, suggests the upper layers are being invented by an 802 group. There is the possibility that could adopt these alternate topological LLC methodologies, but must define it, not can SUGGEST it, but it is not for them to decide.
It is totally incorrect and unacceptable for an 802 WG to violate the fundamental premises of LMSC. Any and all 802 stack components must use the common LLC.
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

17. Liaison Observation #2 – 802.15.4 LLC?
Source: -01/272r3 [01272r3P802-15_TG4-Unified-MAC-Proposal.ppt]
July 2001
doc.: IEEE /291r0
March 2001
Liaison Observation #2 – LLC?
Application Convergence Layer (ACL)
Maintained by
ZigBee
Working Group
NWK A
NWK B
NWK C
IEEE LLC
IEEE 802.2
LLC, Type I
Maintained by
IEEE
IEEE MAC
IEEE
868/915 MHz
PHY
IEEE
915/2400 MHz
PHY
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant

18. Previous Liaison Reports On Web, Server & Flash Card(s)
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doc.: IEEE /291r0
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Previous Liaison Reports On Web, Server & Flash Card(s)
Report #1 -99/005r0 [99005r0P802-15_Liaison-Report.ppt]
Report #2 -99/029r0 [99029r0P802-15_Liaison-Report-2.ppt]
Report #3 -99/063r1 [99063r1P802-15_Liaison-Report-3.ppt]
Report #4 -99/124r0 [99124r0P802-15_Liaison-Report-4.ppt]
Report #5 -99/174r0 [99174r0P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-5.ppt]
Report #6 -00/037r1 [00037r1P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-6.ppt]
Report #7 -00/118r0 [00118r1P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-7.ppt]
Report #8 -00/182r0 [00182r0P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-8.ppt]
Report #9 -00/266r0 [00266r0P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-9.ppt]
Report #10 -00/340r2 [00340r2P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-10.ppt]
Report #11 –01/020r1 [01020r1P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-11.ppt]
Report #12 –01/112r0 [01112r1P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-12.ppt]
Report #13 –01/215r0 [01215r0P802-15_WG-Liaison-Report-13.ppt]
Ian Gifford, Consultant
Ian Gifford, Consultant