1. Report to LMSC EC on IEEE 802.11 TGai dominance allegation
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0051r2
November 2016
Report to LMSC EC on IEEE TGai dominance allegation
Date:
Authors:
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

2. November 2016
Purpose
This submission is a report out from the WG chair on the outcome of the task group ai (TGai) dominance allegation investigation
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

3. November 2016
History
An allegation of dominance in TGai was received in June 2016
The allegation was investigated using a process described to the EC and discussed in the July 2016 opening EC plenary.
James Gilb kindly offered to be the EC observer/participant. He attended all interviews and co-authored the report.
The report was delivered to in Sept 2016
Errors were thus discovered, and an updated report prepared for the Nov 2016 session
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

4. Findings (from 11-16/1187r2) November 2016
The outcome of the DILS topic is that this feature remained in the draft standard, but as an optional feature. Under alternative voting regimes, the DILS feature would have been removed. If there was evidence of coercion, the outcome of motion 302 would have been a clear demonstration of dominant behaviour.
The outcome of the State Machine topic is that state 5 was removed. The alleged dominant behaviour might have delayed its removal.
AES-SIV remains as the only authenticated-encryption scheme in the draft standard. Any alleged dominant behaviour had no effect on this outcome.
Questionable behaviour was displayed by Huawei affiliates in the Geneva meeting (July 2013). This did not repeat.
There was no evidence of coercion
There was evidence that individuals were voting when they were not sufficiently expert so to do
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation