1. EC Monday Meeting Report March 17, 2008 Orlando, Florida, USA
Robert F. Heile

2. Monday EC Meeting-Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting-Orlando
Reviewed Election procedures for the week
James Gilb has been appointed as potential replacement for recording secretary
802 has been directed to complete a meeting planner RFP and issue a contract by Nov 2008
Board of Governors is engaged in developing a ‘Strategic Plan’
Bob Grow has been elected Chair of the Standards Board and number of other 802 people occupy various Standards Board positions
There is a desire to eliminate the non-conflicted EC regarding will be addressed Friday. Ultimately needs to decided by the SASB
Added an agenda topic to discuss criteria for conflict
802 Task Force—11n PatCom issue with CISRO still in the hands of IEEE. Sense is IEEE has over-reacted
Robert F. Heile

3. Monday EC Meeting-Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting-Orlando
continues with its sponsor ballot. Potential negative influence issues within Blocks being investigated.
Fairly extension list of topics on 802 Task Force agenda including WPAN copyright, get 802, trademarks, and myProject. Meeting Wednesday
Get 802 program—4.1 million program to date, 650k year to date, , 802.3, , and are top hitters. Program is returning to the six month waiting period. Will be cleaned up by July but the potential for continued areas of disagreement still exist
Robert F. Heile

4. Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
IEEE SA looking into whether it wants to be in the patent pool business
Attendance SW—Ran fairly well in TPE. Still a few rough edges. Need to sort out how (and who by) the system is hosted in the long run. Also need to a generic interface to any registration system. Meeting Weds
On line training plugging along with around 60 course completions per year. Time to sign up again for hosting services. Need to do something different. Recommendation on Friday
Staff Liaison Report—IEEE SA will send regular reminders to the WG Chairs seeking potential drafts that might be stable enough for sale
Robert F. Heile

5. Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
Treasurer’s Report—1424 attended in ATL, Session surplus of $95K. Looking at moving the reserve up to $1M to cover non North American Sessions, currently at $900K. Meeting on 802 Treasury Weds
Orlando Session attendance looks to be around Expect around a $100K surplus
Robert F. Heile

6. Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
ISO/JTC1/SC6 update Revision Comment resolution took place in London. Almost a fiasco. Relevance overshadowed by new IEEE/ISO agreement which should make it a lot easier to get ISO approval if it is even needed any more. US TAG meeting Tues at 1930 in the Executive Board Room. First portion of the meeting will be open to discuss the new agreement
Current 802 P&P can be found on 802 web site. Main task now is separation of current P&P into an Ops Manual and a Baseline P&P.
Robert F. Heile

7. Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
Non North American Venue Update (meeting Weds ). Plenary host guidelines sent out with a request for Letters of Intent by March 1. Interest received from Huawei, Nortel, Alvarlon, and University of Twente to be hosts
IMT-Advanced inputs delivered in January in Geneva. Members from 11, 16 and 18 were in attendance. WGs need to decide if they will participate in a joint input on IMT Advanced to be completed by November Session
Robert F. Heile

8. Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
March 2008
Monday EC Meeting- Orlando
Need to declare you affiliations or loose your voting status.
Robert F. Heile