1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 1 May 2015 802.11 Session Supplementary Material Date: 2015-05-10 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report Introduction This report provides supplementary material related to attending the May 2015 802.11 plenary meetings. Refer to the agenda: 11-15/482r May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 2

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report MONDAY May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 3

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report M2.3.1 Summary of new and ongoing Liaisons and Status Ongoing –NGMN Liaison and Whitepaper - Owned by REG SCLiaisonWhitepaper –Liaison from 3GPP (March 2015), Regarding Coexistence of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) and IEEE 802 – Owned by REG SCLiaison Liaison from 3GPP, Regarding Study on LTE Support for V2X ServicesLiaison “3GPP TSG SA would like to inform ETSI ITS, US SAE, US ITSA, Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, GSMA Connected Living and IEEE that V2X study has been started in SA WG1 to identify use cases and requirements for LTE V2X (V2V, V2I, and V2P).” May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 4

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report Invitation from 802.19 Chair to 3GPP to present on LTE-LAA Havish Koorapaty (Ericsson), from 3GPP, will be coming to give a presentation on this topic The timeslot is Tuesday pm2 in Georgia B (2 nd Floor). Room will hold 50. M2.3.1 – Liaison in person from 3GPP in 802.19 May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 5

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit Joint Meetings –Thu am1: TGak, 802.1Qbz, 802.1AC, and ARC Reciprocal credit is provided to 802.11 voters for attendance at: 802.18, 802.19, 802.24, 802.1 and Privacy ECSG –Reciprocal credit for 802.19 is for Coexistence in Unlicensed Bands Study Group –Reciprocal credit for 802.1 is for 801.1Qbz, 802.1CF and 802c (Local MAC address) Study Group May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 6

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report M3.10 Topics for Wednesday plenary Response from the IEEE-SA Standards Board on request sent by WG related to 802.11ah Edgar Figueroa, CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance will address us Discussion on how TG chairs should be determined Information on Email exchange with the RAC on ANA May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 7

8. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report M3.11 802 EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions PARS –P802.11ay (http://www.ieee802.org/11/PARs/P802.11ay.pdf) was approved at the March IEEE SASB meeting.http://www.ieee802.org/11/PARs/P802.11ay.pdf Approval of draft standards –None May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 8

9. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report WEDNESDAY May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 9

10. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report 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 May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 10

11. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report Leaders of 802.11 Task Groups, Study Groups and Standing Committees (or their nominee) should attend the Thursday CAC at 7:30pm. The purpose of the CAC is: –To prepare the agenda and material for the closing WG plenary –To create room requests for the next session –To advise and support the chair in his responsibilities as an EC member W2.3 – Thursday CAC reminder May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 11

12. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report There is a conflict between what the rules say and what I perceive to be our recent practice. The 802 WG P&P states: “7.3 Subgroups of the WG The WG may, from time to time, form subgroups for the conduct of its business. … The WG Chair shall appoint the chair of the subgroup. “ The 802.11 OM states: “4.2Task Group Chair The TG Chair shall be appointed by the WG Chair and confirmed by a WG majority approval. The TG Chair is re-affirmed every 2 years: one session after the WG Chair is elected.” What we actually do: Each TG holds an election, and the WG affirms the TG’s choice W5.2 – How the TG chair should be determined May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 12

13. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report This is part of continuous process improvement – managing the WG effectively is the primary job responsibility of the WG chair. I have consulted with other WG chairs, the 802.11 officers and the CAC to determine what is best practice and how we should respond. I will in future ask TGs to produce a recommendation for TG chair, and will share the qualifications I am looking for with the TG. Why change anything / what will change? May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 13

14. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report The prospective TG chair should indicate that their employer will support their attendance at all 802.11 sessions, and that they will normally be present to run TG meetings at those sessions. The main qualification sought is demonstrated competency in a job carrying a management responsibility in 802.11; such as: Task or study group chair or vice chair, ad-hoc chair –Note, we are looking for a manager, not a leader. TG chair qualifications May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 14

15. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report The IEEE “RAC” is the registration authority for IEEE standards They coordinate use of resources created in IEEE standards They are a significant source of income for IEEE-SA The following was an enquiry from the RAC on entry of P802.11 (Revision MC) to sponsor ballot, prompted by the existence of flags and explanatory editors notes. W5.3 – Exchange with IEEE RAC May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 15

16. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report "IEEE Std 802.11, front matter, p. v, Participants — Per IEEE-SA rules, the Registration Authority has right of first refusal for all registration activities. Please explain why the WG has (or had) an Assigned Number Authority, and what numbers that authority was administering, and why those numbers are not appropriate as an IEEE RA registry. (Other standards have code points in various protocols that they specify (and reserve for future specification) without objection of the RAC, so this is just a request for additional information. (That title for a WG responsibility acted as a red flag.)" W5.3 – Email from RAC 2015-04-28 May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 16

17. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report The 802.11 ANA is an organizational convenience for 802.11 standards. We have had times when there were 6 simultaneous amendments all amending the same table specifying things like Element IDs. We needed a mechanism to take control of this situation. We have done that by creating a database identifying controlled resources (those likely to be updated by more than one amendment at a time). A controlled resource can only be used by requesting assignment from the 802.11 ANA. We have a review process that checks that an amendment uses only numbers assigned to it from the 802.11 ANA. W5.3 – Reply from WG chair 2015-04-28 May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 17

18. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report Notwithstanding this, it is the published standard or amendment that is definitive. For example, we had an amendment that published an value of a controlled resource that had not been assigned to it, and we therefore had to shuffle up previously assigned resources in in-development amendments to make room for it. The flag “ ” is not allowed in the published standard or amendment, it is a placeholder during development of the document only. There have been two exceptions to the “internal to 802.11” purpose. Firstly, we record the use of controlled resources by third parties without the consent of 802.11 in order to avoid collision. Examples are various manufacturers, and the Chinese in their WAPI protocol. Secondly, we have allocated a number to 802.15 because they have chosen to adopt a ciphersuite identifier table from 802.11, but wanted to make an addition of their own. [snip] W5.3 – Reply from WG chair 2015-04-28 - II May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 18

19. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report (From RAC IEEE-SA staff administrator) I have received confirmation from Bob Grow that he is satisfied with your response and that the RAC has no problems with the WG defining and reserving unused protocol code points, handling management arcs under their assignments, and defining appropriate for them structures for coordination between multiple projects. The RAC years ago passed on managing 802.3 selector field values used in Ethernet auto negotiation even though they were being allocated to other standards (and even in one case appropriated). The cyber suite number seems to be similarly acceptable for WG management, even if it bridges a few standards. If the RAC can be of assistance in management of any of the external number issues, we are available to help, but see no reason why this would be a registry issue of concern to the IEEE- SA BOG. W5.3 – Response from RAC 2015-04-29 May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 19

20. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report FRIDAY May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 20

21. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report 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 May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 21

22. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report F2.4 Administrative Reminders Next Full WG Session: July 12-17 1 st CAC telecon – June 8 th 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. 2 nd CAC telecon – June 29 th at noon ET (-2 weeks) –Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon. –This meeting is being held a week early to avoid clash with USA holday May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 22

23. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is herehere 5 requests for LoA pending**: –Qualcomm (802.11ah), –Broadcom (802.11ai), –Texas A&M University System (802.11n,.11ac,.11ad) –Intel Corporation (REVmc) Key: New this session Data as of 2015-03-12 ** i.e. Chair has not received a substantive response May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 23

24. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 24 F2.6 Availability of documents- Jan 2015 Publication Draft in TechStreet Draft in Members Area Published in Get 802Get 802? Published by ISO? IEEE P802.11REVmcD4.0 $600 pdfD4.0 IEEE P802.11aiD4.0 $165 pdfD4.2 IEEE P802.11ahD4.0 $433 pdfD5.0 IEEE Std 802.11af-2013$201 printYes IEEE Std 802.11ac-2013$309 printYes IEEE Std 802.11ad-2012$371 printYes IEEE Std 802.11ae-2012$108 printYes IEEE Std 802.11aa-2012$185 printYes IEEE Std 802.11-2012$556 printYes IEEE Std 802.11 : b, k, i, n, p, y, r, w, u, v, z, s $100 - $309 Last updated: 2014-10

25. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report F2.7 802.11 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 No comments outstanding May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 25

26. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report F7.1 802 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. May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 26

27. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/484r0 Report F7.2 Next Meeting – 802 Plenary July 12-17, Hilton Waikoloa, HI, USA –IEEE 802 Plenary –All 802.11 groups meeting –Will include a our 25 th anniversary celebration –Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are Open For information and registration links, see http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html May 2015 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 27