1. September 2014 802.11 Session Supplementary Material
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
September 2014
September Session Supplementary Material
Date:
Authors:
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

2. September 2014
Introduction
This report provides supplementary material related to attending the September interims.
Refer to the agenda:
11-14/997 (Athens Wireless Interim)
11-14/996 (Chengdu, China Interim)
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3. September 2014
Monday
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4. M2.3.1 Summary of Liaisons and Status
September 2014
M2.3.1 Summary of Liaisons and Status
New
Second liaison on non-OFDM use cases from WFA
Ongoing
WBA request for clarification on location fields r1. Owner: Stephen McCann
Stephen is looking to generate a reply with substantive comment.
WFA liaison response on “Non-OFDM Use Cases”. Owner: Dorothy Stanley.
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5. M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit
September 2014
M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit
Internal Joint Meetings
TGaq / TGai (Tue pm1)
TGak / ARC (Thu am1)
External
None
Reciprocal credit is provided to voters for attendance at: , ,
Reciproal credit is being considered for 802.1
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6. M3.10 Topics for Wednesday plenary
September 2014
M3.10 Topics for Wednesday plenary
“802 EC Privacy Recommendation SG” – Juan Carlos Zuniga
GPP activities – Stephen Shellhammer
“Make Wi-Fi fast” – David That
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7. M3.11 802 EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions
September 2014
M EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions
PARS
The IEEE 802 EC approved the P802.11ah & P802.11ai PAR Extension requests during its closing plenary, July 2014.
P802.11ah & P802.11ai PAR Extension requests were submitted to myProject on 21st July.
They are currently on the NesCom continuing process agenda (October).
Approval of draft standards
None
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8. September 2014
Wednesday
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9. W2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
September 2014
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

10. W6.5 ANA – Element ID exhaustion
September 2014
W6.5 ANA – Element ID exhaustion
After TGah ANA allocations, which include 27 Element IDs, has 19 unused and 6 reserved (was allocated) values.
Current “large” projects need to be aware that they might not have enough element IDs.
Should we create an “escape format” now?
Element ID (1 octet, value = 255)
Length (1 octet)
Element ID extension (1 or more octets TBD)
Element body
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11. September 2014
friday
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12. F2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
September 2014
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

13. F2.4 Administrative Reminders
September 2014
F2.4 Administrative Reminders
Next Session: 2-7 November
1st CAC telecon – 29th Sept at noon ET (-5 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.
2nd CAC telecon – 27th Oct at noon ET (-1 week)
Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon.
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14. F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is here
September 2014
F2.5 Letters of Assurance
Database is here
15 Entries have 2014 submission dates
8 Request for LoAs sent out since October 2013
3 requests pending**: Marvell (802.11ai), Qualcomm (802.11ah), Broadcom (802.11ai)
1 new request received at this session (Texas A&M University System)
Data as of
** i.e. Chair has not received a substantive response
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15. F2.6 IEEE Store Contents - July 2014
November 2011
doc.: IEEE /0203r2
March 2014
September 2014
F2.6 IEEE Store Contents - July 2014
Publication
Draft in
TechStreet
Draft in Members Area
Published in
Get 802?
IEEE P802.11REVmc
D3.0 $600 pdf
D3.0
IEEE P802.11ai
D2.0 $165
D2.0
IEEE Std af-2013
$165 pdf
IEEE Std ac-2013
$309 print
Yes
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
Last updated:
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Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

16. F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
November 2011
doc.: IEEE /0203r2
March 2014
September 2014
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
P802.11REVmc D3 LB202 (June 2014)
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Andrew Myles, Cisco

17. F2.9 Early 802.11 Documentation Project
September 2014
F2.9 Early Documentation Project
There is a continuing interest in being able to access early submissions.
The submissions on the server are not necessarily accessible:
Some submissions were never uploaded
Some submissions are in word processor formats that are no longer generally available.
Vic Hayes, former chair, has a large paper archive of early submissions. He has obtained funding and has scanned this archive. WG chair has these.
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18. F2.9 Early Documentation - continued
September 2014
F2.9 Early Documentation - continued
The IEEE-SA has employed an intern on a part-time basis to work on making the documentation accessible.
The tasks involve
Merging, splitting and renaming the scanned pdf files
Checking that nothing is missing from the scans.
Updating a database of document numbers, revisions and files.
It is hoped that the work will be completed this year.
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

19. F7.1 802 Wireless Chairs meeting
September 2014
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.
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

20. F7.2 Next Meeting – IEEE 802 Plenary
September 2014
F7.2 Next Meeting – IEEE 802 Plenary
November 2-7, San Antonio, Tx, USA
At the Hyatt Regency
Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are open
Standard registration deadline: October 24th 2014.
Hotel reservation deadline: October 18th.
For information and registration links, see
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