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Detailed agenda and important guidelines for the upcoming IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networking Task Group meeting in Munich, Germany. Topics include process discussions, patent policies, and participant obligations.
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December 2010 Mesh Meeting Agenda Authors: Date: 2010-11-30 Dee Denteneer; Philips
IEEE 802.11s:Mesh NetworkingTask Group TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Munich, Germany December 7-9, 2010 Chair: Dee Denteneer (Philips) Vice Chair: Guido Hiertz (Philips) Technical Editor: Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) Secretary: Guenael Strutt (Motorola) Dee Denteneer; Philips
General Flow of the TGs Meeting • Tuesday • Administrivia • Assignments of comments • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • Wednesday • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • Thursday • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • Recirculation motion • TGs Process Discussion • Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes Dee Denteneer; Philips
Miscellaneous Announcements • Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! • The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. • Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! • Individual membership • In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. • Photographs and Recordings • No sound recordings are permitted at 802.11 WG or TG meetings. • No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. • Media – Press and Analyst briefings • Only the 802.11/.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group. Dee Denteneer; Philips
Important Stuff • Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. • Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html • Anti-Trust: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf • IEEE Ethics: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html • Letter of Assurance Form: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf • IEEE Patent Committee: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html • IEEE Patent Policy: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt • Patent FAQ: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf Dee Denteneer; Philips
Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform • All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: • “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents • “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents orpatent claims • “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) • The above does not apply if the patentclaim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group • Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 • Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged • No duty to perform a patent search Dee Denteneer; Philips
Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html This slide set is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Dee Denteneer; Philips
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 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings • All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. • Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. • Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. • Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. • Technical considerations remain primary focus • Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. • Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. • Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. • --------------------------------------------------------------- • See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Dee Denteneer; Philips
Automated Attendance Recording • Go to http://newton/11/attendance • https://murphy.events.ieee.org/imat/ (Documents: http://802server.events.ieee.org/ or 172.16.0.10 or just http://newton) • Sign-in • Claim attendance credit for each session. • Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT“sign-in” for others. • You have to log in every session! Dee Denteneer; Philips
Presentation queue • 11-10/1402r2: Link metric comment resolution text, Kaz • 11-10/1400r0: security-comment-resolution, Dan • 11-10/1414r2: Proxy interworking comment resolution text, Kaz • 11-10/1415r1: Mesh gate interworking comment resolution text, Kaz • 11-10-1421r0: MCCAOP Advertisements motivation discussion, Dee • 11-10-1366r1: DTIM comments, Dee • 11-10-:1423r0: Resolutions to some editorial comments, Dee • 11-10-1418r0: sb-comment-resolutions: Guido • 11-10-1422r0: g-def-g-base-comments-Guido • Congestion control comments, Barbara Staehle Dee Denteneer; Philips
Tuesday, 7 December 20109:00-18:00 • Secretary selection • Call Meeting to Order • Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. • Miscellaneous Announcements • Meeting Agenda • Get on 1 page • Status update: timeline, • Presentations • 11-10/1400r0: security-comment-resolution, Dan • Security Issues • CIDs: 264 and 267 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Tuesday, 7 December 20109:00-18:00 • Presentations • Mesh gate discussion, following up on CIDs 32 and 90 • 11-10/1414r2: Proxy interworking comment resolution text, Kaz • Assignments • Revisit open mandatory comments and review the assignments • All comments are equal but some are more equal than others • Presentations • 11-10-1421r0: MCCAOP Advertisements motivation discussion, Dee • 11-10-1366r1: DTIM comments, Dee • Presentations • Resolution of comments • Recess until wednesday Dee Denteneer; Philips
Wednesday, 8 December 20109:00-18:00 • Michael: Proxy update • 11-10/1402r2: Link metric comment resolution text, Kaz • 11-10/1400r1: security-comment-resolution, Dan Break for lunch • 11-10/1429r0: Barabara Staehle Congestion Notification changes • 11-10-1428r0 : Michael: Bahr: Text for resolution to Congestion Control CIDs • Kaz: 11-10/1415r2: Mesh gate interworking comment resolution text • Dee: Suggested resolutions to CIDs 72, 128, 279 and 236, and 307 • Dan: prsented 11-10/1400r1 to additionally resolve CIDs 94 and 95 • Dee: 11-10/1366r2: DTIM comments • Kaz: 11-10/1414r3: Proxy interworking comment resolution text Dee Denteneer; Philips
Wednesday, 8 December 20109:00-18:00 • Discussion; motions are planned for contributions • Security comments: 11-10/1400r2 (Dan) • Link metric: 11-10/1402r2 (Kaz, will be updated) • Mesh Proxy 11-10/1414r3 (Kaz, will be updated) • Mesh gate: 11-10/1415r3 (Kaz) • Resolutions to some comments: 11-10/1430r0 (Dee) • Resolutions to some editorial comments 11-10-1423r0 (Dee) • SB comment resolution, 11-10-1414r0 (Guido) • G-Def & G-Base comments, 11-10-1422r0 (Guido) • Reopen resolutions to CIDs 17, 42, and 301 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Wednesday, 8 December 20109:00-18:00 • Gaps • Congestion Control (Dan) • MCCA (Dee) • FWD and HWMP (Michael) • Security: reject the 802.1x • Recess until Thursday 9:00 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR • Agenda discussion • Kaz: presented Suggested resolutions to CID 128, 197, 278, and 299 • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 20, Moved to direct the editor to incorporate changes specified in document 11-10/1400r2 into the draft, resolving comments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 94, 95, 96, 130, 131, 158, 159, 231, 250, 251, 252, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292, 296, 297, 298 and 302 with a resolution of "accept". • Mover Seconder • YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 21, moved to Reject comments 264 and 267 with resolution of "Reject: the task group believes more discussion on this topic is necessary to reach a conclusion on their necessity." Mover, Seconder YNA Motion 22, moved to Reject comment 7 with resolution of "Reject: the clause in mention was reviewed and the task group invites more review from the commenter.“ Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 • Motion 23, moved to accept the text changes in 10-11/1402r3, “Link metric comment resolution text” , to resolve the CIDs 82 and 237 with resolution code and Resolution Note as included in 11-10/1283r8 P802.11 sponsor ballot comments and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 24, Moved to accept the text changes in 10-1/1414r4, “Proxy, interworking comment resolution text” , to resolve the CID79, 206, 207, 208, 219, and 259 with resolution code "Principle" and Resolution Note "Resolved by submission 11-10/1414r4" and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 25, Moved to accept the text changes in 11-0/1415r5, “Mesh gate, interworking comment resolution text” , to resolve the CID31, 32, 70, 89, 90, 133, 134, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, and 223 with resolution code "Principle" and Resolution Note "Resolved by submission 11-10/1415r5" and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. . Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 26, to accept the comment resolutions in 11-10/1283r8 with column Y equals to "done" and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Motion 27, to accept the comment resolutions in 11-10/1283r8 with column X equals to "doc1423" and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 28, to accept the comment resolutions in 11-10/1430r0 “Resolutions to some comments” with column Y equals to “DD0812-assignments" and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Motion 29, to accept the comment resolutions in 11-10/1437r0 “MCCA comments excel” with column AD equals to “MCCA0912-DD " and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 30 to accept the comment resolutions in 11-10/1422r0 “g-def-g-base comments” with column Y equals to “grh-2010-12-06 " and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Note, this references text in document 11-10/1418r0 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 31 to accept the resolutions to the comments listed in 11-10/1439r0 “hwmp comment resolutions” and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 32 to accept the resolutions to the comments listed in 11-10/1440r0 “Resolutions to forwarding comments” and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 33 to reopen CIDs 17, 42, and 302 and to change their resolutions to “Reject” with Resolution Note “The current Draft is based on REVmb 4.0; the Draft will be rebased to either REVmb 6.0 (or later) or IEEE 802.11-2007 when the appropriate timeline for TG s has been decided on.” Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 20109:00-18:00 Motion 34 to accept the text changes in document 11-10/1428r2 “Text for resolution to Congestion Control CIDs” to resolve the CIDs in 11-10/1283r8 identified by label “M-CC” in column S “Issue ID” and direct the Editor to incorporate the changes into the Draft. Mover, Seconder YNA Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 2010 16:00 – 18:00 • Moved, to direct the Editor to produce one or more revisions of the Draft so as to incorporate all changes and comment resolutions adopted before the end of this session. • Mover: Seconder: • Yes: No: Abstain: Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 2010 16:00 – 17:00 • Motion: • Having approved comment resolutions for all of the comments received from the first Sponsor Ballot on P802.11s Draft 7.0 as contained in document 11-10/1283TBD, • Instruct the editor to prepare Draft 8.0 incorporating these resolutions and, • Approve a 15 day Working Group Recirculation Ballot asking the question “Should P802.11s Draft 8.0 be forwarded to Sponsor Ballot?” • Moved by <name> on behalf of TGs • TGs vote: • Moved: <name>, Seconded: <name>, Result: y-n-a Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 9 December 2010 • Adjourn sine die • TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Dee Denteneer; Philips
[Reference Information] • Updated PAR at http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/802-11s.pdf. • Original PAR for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/54r2. Original Five Criteria for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/56r1. • Comment Resolution Spreadsheet: • 11-10/ 32r3 Resolution of Letter Ballot #159 Comments Dee Denteneer; Philips
[Reference Information] • TGs Chairmen • Dee Denteneer, • Guido R. Hiertz (temporary Chairman), September 2009 • Stuart J. Kerry (temporary Chairman), June 2009 • Donald Eastlake 3rd, May 2004 – December 2009 • TGs Technical Editors: • Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony), Draft 2.03 … D3.0 … • Anthony Maida (3eTI), Drafts 2.01 & D2.02 • Avinash Joshi (Motorola), Drafts 1.09 … D2.0 • W. Steven Conner (Intel). Drafts 0.01 … D1.08(also chair of the first Mesh Study Group Session) Dee Denteneer; Philips
[Earlier Meeting Minutes] • Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes • January 2010, Los Angeles, CA, 11-10/102r0 • November 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-09/1223/0 • September 2009, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11-09/1016r0 • December 2009, San Francisco, California, 11-09/902r0 • May 2009, Montreal, Quebec, 11-09/595r0 • March 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, 11-09/312r0 • January 2009, Los Angeles, California, 11-09/110r0 • November 2008, Dallas, Texas, 11-08/1431r0 • September 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 11-08/1078r0 • September 2008, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-08/1038r0 • December 2008, Denver, Colorado, 11-08/835r0 Dee Denteneer; Philips