November 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1340r0

IEEE P802.11 Wireless LANs

Task Group U Meeting Minutes for November 2010 Meeting, Dallas, TX, USA

Date: 2010-11-09

Author(s): Name Affiliation Address Phone email Stephen Research in Motion 200 Bath Road, Slough, +44 1753 667099 [email protected] McCann UK Ltd Berkshire, SL1 3XE, UK

Abstract Minutes for Task Group u (Interworking with External Networks) meeting held in November 2010 in Dallas, TX, USA.

Minutes page 1 Stephen McCann, RIM November 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1340r0

Tuesday, 9 November, 2010, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Chair: Stephen McCann (Research in Motion - RIM) Secretary: Stephen McCann Started meeting at 13:30 CET The Chair reminded those present to use the attendance server. The Chair presented the agenda, 11-10-1211r0. The Chair presented the IEEE patent policy and requested attendees to read the slide on “Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform”. The Chair requested information on essential patents, patent claims, and pending patent applications and called for letters of assurance from the group. No response was made to the call. The Chair presented other guidelines and resources for the meeting from the agenda presentation. Agenda The Chair reviewed the agenda for today’s TGu meeting. The Chair asked for approval of the agenda as contained in 11-10-1211r0 as today’s agenda by unanimous consent; no objections were raised. The Chair announced the agenda is approved.

September 2010 Summary (11-10-1165r0) September 2010 meeting summarised.

September 2010 Minutes (11-10-1115r0) No matters arising. Motion: September 2010 minutes were approved by unanimous consent

Drafts Chair will arrange for D13.0 to be made available for sale by IEEE

Changes from Draft D12.0 to D13.0 Chair explained the necessary change from Draft D12 to D13 summarised in document 11-10-1285r0 and the reasoning behind the 5th re-circulation sponsor ballot. Question: Can you please clarify the changes to the MLME-REASSOCIATE.request primitive. Answer: Yes, this was just an editorial error in Draft D12 and does not change any technical aspects.

Documents for ExCom meeting Conditional RevCom approval from July 2010 expires this week, so this has to be asked for again at Friday’s ExCom meeting. The following documents were presented by the chair: 1) 11-10-1286-00-000u-d12-0-4th-recirc-comments-spreadsheet.xls No comments Move that IEEE 802.11u approves document 11-10-1286-00-000u-d12-0-4th-recirc- comments-spreadsheet.xls. Moved: Richard Kennedy, 2nd: Andrew Myles Result: 4/0/0, motion passes

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2) 11-10-0912-01-000u-sponsor-ballot-unsatisfied-comments.xls No comments This document does not require approval as it appears within the ExCom report in 3) below, 3) 11-10-0872-03-000u-TGu-EC-report-for-RevCom.ppt No comments Move that IEEE 802.11u approves document 11-10-0872-03-000u-TGu-EC-report-for- RevCom.ppt and authorises the IEEE 802.11 TGu chair to make appropriate editorial and factual changes as directed by the IEEE 802.11 WG chair. Moved: Roger Durand, 2nd: Andrew Myles Result: 4/0/0, motion passes The chair will now take these documents to ExCom on Friday.

Teleconferences Chair will schedule teleconferences just in case there is some business on 1 December 2010 and 12 January 2011 at 11:00 ET

Timeline The Chair showed on screen the TGu timeline from the IEEE website. The Chair asked if there were any questions or changes related to the timeline chart. It was decided to change the following dates: Final 802.11 WG approval: Nov 2010 Conditional ExCom approval: Nov 2010 RevCom approval: Jan 2011

Preparaton for January 2011 meeting Chair stated that he will arrange one slot

Adjourn The Chair asked if there was any objection to adjourning for the week. No objections were raised. The Chair adjourned TGu at 14:00 CET.

Minutes page 3 Stephen McCann, RIM November 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.11-10/1340r0

Wednesday, 10 November, 2010, 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Chair: Stephen McCann (Research in Motion - RIM) Secretary: Stephen McCann Started meeting at 13:30 CET The Chair reminded those present to use the attendance server. The Chair explained that he forgot to present a motion about starting the 5th re-circulation sponsor ballot during the Tuesday meeting and that is why an extra meeting has been scheduled for today. Agenda The Chair reviewed the agenda for today’s TGu meeting in 11-10-1211r2 The Chair asked for approval of the agenda as contained in 11-10-1211r2 as today’s agenda by unanimous consent; no objections were raised. The Chair announced the agenda is approved.

The Chair presented the IEEE patent policy and requested attendees to read the slide on “Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform”. The Chair requested information on essential patents, patent claims, and pending patent applications and called for letters of assurance from the group. No response was made to the call.

Motion to start 5th re-circulation sponsor ballot Having approved comment resolutions for all of the comments received from 4th Sponsor Ballot on IEEE 802.11u Draft 12.0 as contained in document 11-10-1286-00-000u-d12-0-4th-recirc- comments-spreadsheet.xls; Instruct the editor to prepare Draft 13.0 incorporating these resolutions and, approve a 10 day Sponsor Recirculation Ballot asking the question “Should IEEE 802.11u Draft 13.0 be forwarded to RevCom?” Moved by: Marc Emmelmann, 2nd Roger Durand Result: 4/0/0, motion passes

AoB Q: Has the group seen and approved the report that will go to ExCom on Friday. Chair: Yes, and it was approved yesterday, also allowing the chair to make any minor editorial corrections.

Adjourn The Chair asked if there was any objection to adjourning for the week. No objections were raised. The Chair adjourned TGu at 13:37 CET.

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