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March 2005
Report of TGm – March 2005
DATE: March 2005
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Bob O’Hara
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2. Abstract Report of the meeting of TGm at the March 2005 session.
January 2005
doc.: IEEE /1647
March 2005
Abstract
Report of the meeting of TGm at the March 2005 session.
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3. Goals for March 2005
March 2005
Integration of content from AP Functional Description SC
Process any interpretation requests received
Issue of draft to working group letter ballot
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4. Submissions Submissions Darwin Engwer: 04/639, 05/69r2
March 2005
Submissions
Darwin Engwer: 04/639, 05/69r2
Simon Black: 05/209
Output of APF: 05/120, 05/105, 05/257, 05/262
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5. Proposed Agenda Review IEEE Patent Policy
March 2005
Review IEEE Patent Policy
Review interpretation request procedure
New business
Submissions
Continue with items from 04/801r3
APF SC submission
Instruct Editor to create REVma/d1.0
Approve draft
Forward draft to working group for letter ballot
Interpretation Request
Adjourn
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6. Motion #1 to adopt Agenda
March 2005
Moved: to adopt the agenda
Mover: Andrew Myles, Darwin Engwer
Passes: unanimous
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7. IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards
March 2005
IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards
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8. Interpretation Procedure
March 2005
Send to Linda Gargiulo
IEEE forwards requests to the WG
WG responds
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9. Report from APF Group
March 2005
Dorothy Stanley presented documents 05/120, 05/105, 05/262, and 05/257.
05/120 will be included as an informative annex
05/105 provides changes predominately in clause 5
05/257 will be included as an informative annex
05/262 provides description of a DS service interface
Documents 04/1225 and 05/159 provide additional background information on the material in the above documents
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10. Motion #2
March 2005
Moved: to adopt the text in document 05/105r4 and incorporate it into the REV-ma draft.
Moved: Dorothy Stanley, David Hunter
Passes: unanimous
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11. Motion #3
March 2005
Moved: to incorporate the text from document 05/257r0, plus the examples from 05/159 (the result shown in 05/257r1), and incorporate it in the REV-ma draft.
Moved: Sandra Turner, Darwin Engwer
Passes: unanimous
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12. Straw Poll
March 2005
Question: should we continue with the definition of the DS service interface presented in 05/262?
Yes:6
No: 2
Question: How should this be done:
Clause 6: 4
Informative annex: 5
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13. Motion #4
March 2005
Moved: to resolve item #71 with the text in document 05/209r0.
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Jon Edney
Passes: unanimous
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14. Motion #5
March 2005
Moved: To resolve item #93 with the text in document 05/209r0.
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Dorothy Stanley
Passes: unanimous
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15. Motion #6
March 2005
Moved: to resolve item #39 with the text in document 04/639r1
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Fred Haisch
Passes: 7-0-6
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16. Motion #7
March 2005
Moved: to adopt the text in document 05/120r9 and incorporate it into the REV-ma draft.
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Roger Durand
Passes: unanimous
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17. Motion #8 Moved: to resolve item #35 with the text
March 2005
Moved: to resolve item #35 with the text
Append to the end of the second paragraph of : If there are buffered multicast or broadcast frames, the PC shall transmit these prior to any unicast frames.
Moved: Roger Durand, Darwin Engwer
Passes: unanimous
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18. Motion #9 Moved: to resolve item #29 with the text
March 2005
Moved: to resolve item #29 with the text
In the last sentence of , replace "us" with "symbols“ and delete “for PHYs of 1 Mb/s, or greater”.
Moved: Roger Durand, Darwin Engwer
Passes: unanimous
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19. Interpretation Request
March 2005
It's unclear from the said specification (802.11h) how the following condition is to be handled: Suppose you wanted a periodic quiet period after EVERY Beacon. What should appear in Quiet Count in the Quiet Element that is in each Beacon?
According to the specification, a value of "1" would indicate that the quiet period is after the NEXT Beacon; and a value of 0 is reserved (not allowed). Hence the question.
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20. Interpretation Response (Motion #10)
March 2005
Moved: Resolved that the task group considers the interpretation request is a request for consultation on the use of h and not a valid request for interpretation of the standard. We believe that it is possible to accomplish what the questioner asked using the mechanisms and values currently defined in the standard. We request the WG chair to respond appropriately to the requester.
Moved: Andrew Myles, Roger Durand
Passes: unanimous
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21. Motion #11
March 2005
Moved: to adopt the text in document 05/262r1 and incorporate it into the REV-ma draft.
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Dorothy Stanley
Passes: 3-0-1
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22. Motion #12
March 2005
Moved: to update the resolution to item 13a by adopting the text in document 05/69r2 and incorporate it into the REV-ma draft
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Roger Durand
Passes: unanimous
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23. Motion #13
March 2005
Moved: to direct the editor to incorporate the material adopted by the task group in this session into REV-ma draft 1.0.
Moved: Andrew Myles, Dorothy Stanley
Passes: unanimous
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24. Motion #14
March 2005
Moved: Believing the draft to be complete and free of unresolved technical issues, Task Group m resolves to forward REV-ma draft 1.0 to the working group for the purpose of conducting a 40-day working group letter ballot. The purpose of the working group letter ballot is to forward the draft to sponsor ballot.
The text of the motion to be presented to the working group will be “To conduct a 40-day working group letter ballot for the purpose of forwarding REV-ma draft 1.0 to sponsor ballot.”
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Andrew Myles
Passes: unanimous
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25. Motion #15
March 2005
Moved: request the IEEE Working Group chair to make the IEEE REV-ma draft 1.0 available for purchase.
Moved: Darwin Engwer, Dorothy Stanley
Passes: unanimous
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26. Work completed Adopted resolutions to 6 work items March 2005
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27. *one previous item updated *these items closed: unaddressed
Summary
March 2005
Work Items at start 8
Work Items added
Work Items assigned
Work Items closed 5
Work Items to Editor 6*
*one previous item updated
Work Items remaining 3*
*these items closed: unaddressed
Percentage completion (117 items)
97.4%
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28. Output Documents 05/0205r0: This report
March 2005
05/0205r0: This report
05/22r2: Tracking list of work items
802.11ma-d0.6: current working draft on server
802.11REVma-d1.0: to be available soon
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29. Goals for May Process comments from WG ballot
March 2005
Process comments from WG ballot
Issue new draft to working group recirculation ballot (stretch)
Process any interpretation requests received
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30. Adjourn Meeting adjourned at 3:30pm on March 17, 2005 March 2005
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