1. March 2015 802.11 Session Supplementary Material
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
March 2015
March Session Supplementary Material
Date:
Authors:
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

2. March 2015
Introduction
This report provides supplementary material related to attending the March plenary meetings.
Refer to the agenda: 11-15/218r<latest>
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3. March 2015
Monday
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4. M2.3.1 Summary of new and ongoing Liaisons and Status
March 2015
M2.3.1 Summary of new and ongoing Liaisons and Status
Ongoing - NGMN
Owned by REG SC
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5. March 2015
M2.4 – from PatCom
An was received from the IEEE-SA Patent Committee (PatCom) administrator.
The indicates that the WG chair should share this information with the WG.
There is very little that can be said within the WG on this topic, except to recite the facts. Any questions that arise within the WG from the facts must be sent back to PatCom for an answer.
A comment has been entered into the TGah working group ballot indicating the content of the and asking that the WG should seek PatCom’s advice about whether the WG should take any action on this matter.
This comment should enable the status of the matter to be tracked, and also provides visibility to the 802 executive committee (EC).
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

6. M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit
March 2015
M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit
Joint Meetings
Wed am1: ARC, 802.1IWK
Thu am1: TGak, 802.1Qbz, 802.1AC, and ARC
Reciprocal credit is provided to voters for attendance at: , , , and Privacy ECSG
Reciprocal credit for is for “Coexistence lessons learned” and the Coexistence in Unlicensed Bands Study Group
Reciprocal credit for is for 801.1Qbz, 802.1CF and 802c (Local MAC address) Study Group
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7. M3.10 Discussion Topics for Wednesday plenary
March 2015
M3.10 Discussion Topics for Wednesday plenary
The future of the MAC Privacy ECSG
DSRC Report out and Q&A from WG
Motions related to DSRC topic
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8. M3.11 802 EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions
March 2015
M EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions
PARS
None
Approval of draft standards
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9. March 2015
Wednesday
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10. W2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
March 2015
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
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

11. W2.3 – Thursday CAC reminder
March 2015
W2.3 – Thursday CAC reminder
Leaders of Task Groups, Study 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
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12. W4.1.1 - Wi-Fi Alliance / 802.11 leadership summit report
March 2015
W Wi-Fi Alliance / leadership summit report
Goals for meeting
To engage with the Wi-Fi Alliance and determine whether it is necessary and possible to strengthen the relationship between the two organizations, to their mutual benefit
Attendees:
802.11: Adrian Stephens, Jon Rosdahl, Dorothy Stanley, Stephen McCann
WFA: Edgar Figueroa (CEO), Ian Sherlock (Chair of Board) + 3 board members
Met on Feb 13th, 2015 in Seoul, Korea for 3 hours
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13. W4.1.1 (cont.) - Agenda March 2015 Review logistics and introductions
Communication methods
Update on recent Wi-Fi Alliance confidentiality policy changes that may help enable richer updates of Wi-Fi Alliance activity to the working group - Edgar
Review communications methods available for our memberships and across the two organizations
Discuss any other likely means to facilitate communication improvements
Methods to maintain consistency between standards and Wi-Fi Alliance specifications
Review 802 activities on topics of potential joint interest - Briefing of 802 activities **
MAC address privacy concerns
Coexistence with LTE
IoT topics
Summarize meeting 
Plans for next meeting
** WFA in listening mode, except for discussions about potential communications improvement opportunities
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14. W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 1
March 2015
W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 1
Wi-Fi Alliance “Current Work Areas” public webpage is live ( Includes program “elevator pitches”.
WFA Draft specifications will be considered for WFA publication.
There should no bar to IEEE citing and referencing WFA published specifications.
WFA CEO is invited to attend an to address the members on topics of mutual interest.
WFA Long Range Task Group (LRTG) might ask for specific updates from
might ask for and the WFA might contribute use cases for emerging projects.
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15. W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 2
March 2015
W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 2
Action: to highlight the new process for public review being created by the IEEE-SA.
This might be a way for the WFA to comment as an organization on drafts in sponsor ballot
WFA might consider publishing a list of its own “assigned numbers”.
WFA might consider requesting the to develop a standard to address specific WFA requirements.
There was discussion on how a spec might be contributed from WFA to
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16. W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 3
March 2015
W4.1.1 (cont.) - Discussion/Outcome - 3
Regarding LTE coexistence. If the WFA wants to liaise to IEEE, is its most appropriate point of contact will forward to as appropriate.
The leadership summit meeting is likely to repeat 6 monthly, alternating WFA/ host ( is next).
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

17. March 2015
W4.1.1 (cont.) - Straw Poll
Do you believe that there is value in the leadership continuing to meet with the Wi-Fi Alliance leadership in “leadership summit” meetings?
Yes No
Abstain
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18. W5.3 – Documentation Project
March 2015
W5.3 – Documentation Project
Purpose
To make scanned copies of early ( ) submissions available on the WG website.
Motivation
A number of submissions from this period were not available on the server. Some were only circulated as hard-copy.
Word processing tools were in flux during this period, and a number of the submissions were in formats that are no longer readily accessible.
Graphics support was weak. Some graphics were circulated only as hard-copy attachments.
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19. W5.3 – Documentation Project - Method
March 2015
W5.3 – Documentation Project - Method
The first WG Chair, Vic Hayes, had a paper archive of submissions during the period This archive was mouldering away gently in his garage.
Vic had the submissions scanned.
Adrian Stephens ran OCR on the files to make them searchable images.
The IEEE-SA employed an intern – Tyler McGehee – who organized the pdf files by splitting, merging, renaming and checking them for completeness.
Adrian created new index files that link original submissions and the new pdf files.
Note that where an original pdf was available, the scanned pdf was discarded.
Adrian and Vic spent many happy hours resolving exceptions
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20. W5.3 – Documentation Project – Status
March 2015
W5.3 – Documentation Project – Status
Very nearly almost Done. Some rescanning required.
See
Click on one of the [year]_docs/table.html links
Example index:
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21. March 2015
friday
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22. F2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
March 2015
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
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

23. F2.4 Administrative Reminders
March 2015
F2.4 Administrative Reminders
Next Full WG Session: May 10-15
1st CAC telecon – 30th March at noon ET (-6 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.
This meeting is 1 week earlier than usual to avoid Easter holidays.
2nd CAC telecon – 4th May at noon ET (-1 week)
Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon.
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24. F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is here
March 2015
F2.5 Letters of Assurance
Database is here
4 requests for LoA pending**: Qualcomm (802.11ah), Broadcom (802.11ai), Texas A&M University System (802.11n, .11ac, .11ad)
update
Data as of
** i.e. Chair has not received a substantive response
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25. F2.6 Availability of documents- Jan 2015
November 2011
doc.: IEEE /0203r2
March 2014
March 2015
F2.6 Availability of documents- Jan 2015
Publication
Draft in
TechStreet
Draft in Members Area
Published in
Get 802?
Published by ISO?
IEEE P802.11REVmc
D3.0 $600 pdf
D3.3
IEEE P802.11ai
D3.0 $165 pdf
D3.1
IEEE P802.11ah
D2.0 $433 pdf
IEEE Std af-2013
$201 print
Yes
IEEE Std ac-2013
$309 print
IEEE Std ad-2012
$371 print
IEEE Std ae-2012
$108 print
IEEE Std aa-2012
$185 print
IEEE Std
$556 print
IEEE Std <x>:
b, k, i, n, p, y, r, w, u, v, z, s
$100 - $309
update
Last updated:
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Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

26. F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
November 2011
doc.: IEEE /0203r2
March 2014
March 2015
F 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
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Andrew Myles, Cisco

27. F7.1 802 Wireless Chairs meeting
March 2015
F 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.
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28. F7.2 Next Meetings – Interim meetings
March 2015
F7.2 Next Meetings – Interim meetings
May 10-15, Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC
IEEE 802 Wireless Interim
All groups meeting except TGaj
Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are TBD
May 19-20, Zhuhai, China
IEEE China Interim – with TGaj
For information and registration links, see
update
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