1. WG Concepts - Mar 12 ‘08 Date: 2008-Mar-12 Authors: Name Company
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WG Concepts - Mar 12 ‘08
Date: 2008-Mar-12
Authors:
Name
Company
Address
Phone
Bruce Kraemer
Marvell +1 -
321 4 27
4098
marvell
.com
5488 Marvell Lane,
Santa Clara, CA, 95054
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

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The intent is to construct a useful diagrammatic representation of to highlight both current assumptions and future opportunities. These are not meant to be complete “simulation” models but rather a descriptive notation to facilitate discussions.
The sequence of slides shown introduces some key concepts but cannot capture the entire scope of either today’s operations or opportunities for the future..
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

3. The 802.11 Eco System March 2008 Commercial Relevance Industry
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Commercial Relevance
Industry
Academia
Deliberation & Development Process
Fair, equitable, consistent
Timely
Standards Development Organizations exist because they represent a useful mechanism for developing technical specifications that can be widely used by industry to build products that are commercially relevant.
Failure to connect the standards development Process to commercial relevance results in industry, and their academic partners, withdrawing from the activity. Maintaining a development process that is open, fair and operationally consistent is necessary but not sufficient. The development activity must also maintain a development pace that suits the industry and their served markets.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

4. The 802.11 Eco System March 2008 Commercial Relevance Industry
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Commercial Relevance
Industry
Academia
Deliberation & Development Process
Fair, equitable, consistent
Timely
TG, SG, Committees
uses a set of task groups, study groups and committees to accomplish its work. While the observation is trivially obvious, the effort required to ensure consistency across groups, over time, with changing membership is not.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

5. The 802.11 Eco System March 2008 Commercial Relevance Industry
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IEEE
IEEE SA
802 ExCom
802 WGs
Liaisons
SDOs, SIGs
Commercial Relevance
Industry
Academia
Deliberation & Development Process
Fair, equitable, consistent
Timely
TG, SG, Committees
is not quite as independent as the previous diagrams have implied. It must rely on exchanges with a variety of other, external organizations to accomplish its work. Additionally there is an administrative structure within IEEE that offers both guidance and support that must be recognized and utilized.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

6. The 802.11 Eco System March 2008 Commercial Relevance Industry
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March 2008
IEEE
IEEE SA
802 ExCom
802 WGs
Liaisons
SDOs, SIGs
Commercial Relevance
Industry
Academia
Deliberation & Development Process
Fair, equitable, consistent
Timely
TG, SG, Committees
WG Foundation & Machinery
Meeting location
Meeting rooms
Time slots
Food
Timelines
Registration
Agendas
Plenary Prep
P & P evolution
Attendance
Badges
Website + updates
Document server
Balloting
Finances
Publicity
conducts business through a set of critical “machinery”. Well tuned machinery is always operational and used in an fashion that becomes almost transparent or invisible. Developing and maintaining this machinery requires considerable investment of time and effort.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

7. The 802.11 Eco System March 2008 Commercial Relevance Industry
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March 2008
IEEE
IEEE SA
802 ExCom
802 WGs
Liaisons
SDOs, SIGs
Commercial Relevance
Industry
Academia
Improvements ?
Deliberation & Development Process
Fair, equitable, consistent
Timely
Amendment Generation & Completion
Project Management
Scope & Duration
Priority
Completion rate
Architecture
Existing
Next generation
TG, SG, Committees
WG Foundation & Machinery
Meeting location
Meeting rooms
Time slots
Food
Timelines
Registration
Agendas
Plenary Prep
P & P evolution
Attendance
Badges
Website + updates
Document server
Balloting
Finances
Publicity
needs to address some strategic improvements to bolster long term existence. Primary topics involve the selection of new amendments to pursue, more realistic scope and project completion expectations and dealing with an architecture framework that is well proven but is showing signs of overloading and decreasing opportunities for significant improvements in the future.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

8. WG Organizational Structure
The Eco System
March 2008
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March 2008
IEEE
IEEE SA
802 ExCom
802 WGs
Liaisons
SDOs, SIGs
Commercial Relevance
Industry
Academia
WG Organizational Structure
Improvements ?
Deliberation & Development Process
Fair, equitable, consistent
Timely
Amendment Generation & Completion
Project Management
Scope & Duration
Priority
Completion rate
Architecture
Existing
Next generation
TG, SG, Committees
WG Foundation & Machinery
Meeting location
Meeting rooms
Time slots
Food
Timelines
Registration
Website + updates
Document server
Balloting
Finances
Publicity
Agendas
Plenary Prep
P & P evolution
Attendance
Badges
The components of the foundation machinery have to be maintained and improved. Additionally there are several strategic changes that need to be debated and undertaken. Then it is necessary to ask if the organizational structure to accomplish all this is in place and if any revisions would better support the revised objectives or priorities.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

9. March 2008
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As stated in the introduction, the intent of this document is to introduce a representation of that facilitates discussion on both the current goals and objectives as well as those future opportunities that are worthy of pursuing.
Comments and improvements are certainly welcomed and encouraged.
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell