Minutes Were Taken by Stephen Rayment, Secretary, and Edited by Donald Eastlake 3Rd, Chair

December 2008

IEEE P802.11 Wireless LANs

December 17th 2008 TGs Telecon Minutes

Date: 2008-12-18

Author(s): Name Affiliation Address Phone email 603 March Road BelAir +1 613 254 7070 Stephen G. Rayment Kanata ON [email protected] Networks x112 Canada K2K2M5

Abstract Minutes and participants list for a teleconference of the IEEE 802.11 TGs held on December 17th 2008, hosted by TGs Chairman Donald Eastlake 3rd of Motorola.

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Minutes

Minutes were taken by Stephen Rayment, Secretary, and edited by Donald Eastlake 3rd, Chair.

The Chair convened the call at 17:05 EDT.

The telecon announcement included the following informational pointers: IEEE Patent Policy http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Patent FAQ http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf LoA Form http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf Affiliation FAQ http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Anti-Trust FAQ http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf Ethics http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/about/CoE_poster.pdf IEEE 802.11 Working Group Policies and Procedures https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/public-file/07/11-07-0360-04-0000-802-11-policies-and-procedures.doc

The Chair reminded everyone that we are operating under the IEEE Patent Policy. The Chair inquired if anyone on the call was personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of TGs and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: Such persons must either speak up now or provide the Chair with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or cause an LOA to be submitted.

In response, no one spoke up.

The Chair reviewed the proposed Agenda: 1. Attendance 2. IPR and other relevant IEEE policies (see pointers above) 3. Agenda for this call. Upcoming meetings and calls 4. Status of TGs Draft D2.04, comment resolution spreadsheet (11-08/493r30) 5. Upcoming meetings 5.a Los Angeles CA meeting 11-08/1443r0 6. Comment Resolution 6.a Discussion of CIDs 159, 277, 279, 327, 361, 386, 873, 955, 968, 1048, 1052, 1282, 1287, 1591, 1760, 1761, 1796, 1843, and 1865 which were believed to have been resolved at the Kaua'i ad hoc but whose resolutions in the spreadsheet are incomplete or not sufficiently detailed for the Editor to incorporate into the Draft. 6.b Congestion Control comments resolution 11-08/1463r0 8. Adjourn

There were no objections or suggested additions to the Agenda.

4. Status of TGs Draft D2.04, comment resolution spreadsheet (11-08/0493r30) Kaz reported that Draft 2.04 has most of the comment resolutions from the September meeting. It does not incorporate the CIDs listed above in Agenda item 6a. The Comment Resolution spreadsheet 11- 08/493r30 is aligned with this Draft Kaz is now editing Draft 2.05 will include all changes from the November meeting. Terminology changes will be included later.

5.a Los Angeles, California, Meeting 11-08/1443r0 Agenda update r1 has the room name and some typos fixed. We still have the same number of slots. The structure is the same as other meetings. Note that the first meeting on Monday is in the evening.

6.a: Discussion of CIDs 159, 277, 279, 327, 361, 386, 873, 955, 968, 1048, 1052, 1282, 1287, 1591, 1760, 1761, 1796, 1843, and 1865 Most of the problem is in the resolutions from Kaua'i that were in 11-08/1033r2. Moving the resolutions into the main spreadsheet caused data to get truncated (eg. the resolution notes). Kaz will send the latest spreadsheet to Donald and Donald will correct all the changes from 11-08/1033r2. CIDs 159 and 1591 both have reference problems. We will check with Meiyuan Zhao regarding these. CID 277 is about PICS. Donald volunteered to make a list of all items referenced. * is used in the TGn Draft to mark PICS items in column one that are later used in conditionals. CID 279 Kaz to delete all occurrences of IEEE 802.11 (about 6) in the referenced section.

7. Congestion Control comments resolution 11-08/1463r0 (Intel) went through her presentation. There were no comments or discussion. The Chair suggested this, along with the corresponding be on the Agenda for review on the January 7th call. Questions / comments . . .  Is it possible to collect feedback prior to the call and approve the changes on the call? It’s OK to get feedback and we can do a poll during the call, but approval needs to be from a recorded vote in a face-to-face meeting if it makes technical changes. This can happen more easily if the changes have been reviewed on a call, especially if you can report that those on the call were unanimously in favour of the comment resolution.  What if a change is required to a previously approved resolution? Just have a motion to set the comment resolution noting that it changes a previous resolution of that comment.

The Chair reminded everyone about the date of the next call – January 7th – and to make submissions as appropriate.

The Chair adjourned the call at 17:40

Participants

1. Donald E. Eastlake 3rd – Motorola 2. Yoko Omuri – NEC 3. Stephen G. Rayment – BelAir Networks 4. – Intel 5. Kazuyuki Sakoda – Sony 6. Lily Yang – Intel 7. Liwen Chu – STMicroelectronics 8. Guido Hiertz – Philips

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