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802.11 ARC Standing Committee

This document provides the agenda, working document, report, and minutes for the IEEE P802.11 ARC SC Meeting in March 2009 in Vancouver. Topics discussed include attendance, IP policy, advice requests, MIBs, MAC model development, and future session planning.

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802.11 ARC Standing Committee

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  1. 802.11 ARC Standing Committee Authors: Date: 2009-03-09 David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  2. Abstract Agenda, working document, report and minutes for ARC SC, Mar 2009, Vancouver David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  3. IEEE P802.11 Architecture Standing Committee Agenda, working document & report for Mar 2009 sessions. David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  4. ARC Agenda – Mar 2009 • Admin • Attendance • Policies • Meeting goals • Advice requests • MIBs • Continue work on MAC model • Summary of work from Telecons • Continued model development • Future session planning David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  5. Attendance • Reminder to attendees to sign in for .11 attendance credit David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  6. IP policy • A SC is covered by the WG IP policy announcements. • Even though we don’t have to read the policy to SC attendees, all attendees are reminded that the policies are in effect and apply to SC sessions. David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  7. Advice Request • MIBs • Topic prompted by email from Adrian Stephens • Email fwd’d to Arc list • Discussion • Adrian gave intro to issues he sees. • Some historical perspective given by Darwin • ASN1 in annex D used to define MIB vars (.1 influence) • Unclear rules around what MIB vars are needed and why as amendments were created. Resulted in a mix of assumptions being used by diff TGs. • Read / write vs static/dynamic variables/capabilities (ex: rx STBC) • Make internal vars not = MIB vars? Split into diff category? • Current spec readers assume all mibs vars are interfaces to an entity… David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  8. MIBs (continued) • Exercises which might help • Classify mib vars into capability, status, control knob, “confused/mixed perceptions” • Internal/external to an entity (entity is a block in a pic in the std) • Int/ext to what entity? • Ext => there is a protocol that communicates this between entities. • Issue: “implicit vars”; ex: tgn:” sta whose last xmitted ht op element had field x set to value Y….” • No deterministic relation between get/set of mib var and some associated action internal to an entity. • (ex: frag threshold) • This all will begin to beg for a definition of the SME and what it does…. David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  9. MAC breakdown work • Short recap of Telecons since last session. • Mindomo generated snapshots • Continuation of MAC breakdown work • Brought new participants up to date • Worked on diagram David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  10. ARC Mar ‘09 Summary Report • Jan -> Mar: • Continued MAC breakdown work • 3 tele confs extended model; • Shifting from component to functional orientation • Mar F2F sessions • Advice request re MIBs • Usage and inconsistency issues • Possible recommendation in development re MIB usage & SAP sequence data flows • Proposal: Classification of mib vars into • capability, status, control knob, “confused/mixed perceptions” • Internal/external to an entity • MAC Functional Model Status • Updated snapshot in 9/118 “r latest” (will be updated after this week) David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  11. ARC Planning for Mar -> May • Conf Calls • Mar 31 18:00-19:00 ET • Apr 14, Apr 28, 13:00-14:00 ET • Next F2F sessions in May In Montreal David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  12. Arc Mar ‘09 Minutes • Chair called group to order • Agenda approved • No formal actions taken during the week • Session adjourned David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

  13. Mar session adjourned David Bagby, Calypso Ventures, Inc.

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