March 2016 802.11 Session Supplementary Material

1. March 2016 802.11 SessionSupplementary Material Authors: Date: 2016-03-14 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

2. This report provides supplementary material related to attending the March 2016 802.11 WG plenary meetings. • Refer to the agenda: 11-16/215r<latest> Introduction Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

3. Monday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

4. The WG chair is due for election in this meeting. • Nominations close with this agenda item. • Nominations: • Adrian Stephens M5.1 – Call for nominations for the WG Chair Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

5. The two WG vice chairs are due for election in this meeting. • Nominations close with this agenda item. • Nominations: • Jon Rosdahl • Dorothy Stanley M5.3 – Call for nominations for 2 WG vice chairs Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

6. Wednesday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

7. 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 W2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

8. Leaders of 802.11 Task Groups, Study Groups, Topic Interest 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 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

9. The IEEE LMSC (802) EC held a workshop on Friday 22nd Jan and Saturday 23rd Jan after the Atlanta plenary. • The purpose of the workshop was to give the EC time to discuss in depth on topics of mutual interest related to the operation of the LMSC. • No decisions were made at the meeting. However, decisions were taken by EC email ballot after the meeting related to content in the meeting. • See: http://ieee802.org/minutes/2016_01/2016-01-22-minutes-v0.pdf W5.2 – Report out on EC workshop (Jan 2016) Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

10. Substantial discussion on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s session included briefing material on what it means to be an IMT technology, and the processes to be followed to get there. • The EC determined to create a SC as follows: • The scope of the IEEE 802 5G/IMT­2020 standing committee (Type 2) To provide a report on the following items to the EC: • Costs and benefits of creating an IEEE 5G specification • Costs and benefits of providing a proposal for IMT­2020, considering possible models of a proposal: • as a single technology, • as a set of technologies, • or as one or more technologies within a proposal from external bodies (e.g., 3GPP) • During its lifetime, to act as the communication point with other IEEE organizations on this topic. Organization: The committee is chartered for 6 months as an  EC SC (i.e.,  due at the July 2016 plenary session).  Any 802 WG voting  member can vote in the EC SC. • (The SC will be meeting Mon and Tue evening. Glenn Parsons, Chair 802.1, will be its chair.) W5.2 (cont.) - 5G, IMT-2020 and 802 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

11. The WG chair reported out on the survey and discussion in 802.11 recently. • The EC discussed possible options. • In the end, the consensus of the EC was that nothing should be changed, as shown in this straw poll: • 1. Do nothing ­ 14 • 2. Tweak the parameters of the existing rules ­ 0 • 3. More trust/less attendee overhead – 8.5 • 4. More accuracy – 2 W5.2 (cont.) - Attendance requirements Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

12. The EC debated how best to progress an improvement in the organization of regulatory. They determined to keep the 802.18 TAG, but with an updated mission statement, and its formal meetings kept to 2 well-known slots a session, to enable other WG members to build up voting status in 802.18. W5.2 (cont.) - Regulatory Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

13. Many of our projects have one or more special interest groups (SIGs) operating in the background. Under what conditions does such a group display dominant behaviour? What are the conditions under which block voting should be recognised? What tools are available for correction? The WG chair is responsible for recognizing block voting and will bring any such recognition to the EC for remedy, which might include counting all those associated with such a block as a single vote in the WG. Based on the discussion in the workshop, there is no need for immediate action in the WG. The WG chair will bring advice on this topic to the WG in a later meeting (probably May). W5.2 (cont.) - Discussion on domination, block voting and SIGs Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

14. There are two WG vice-chair vacancies • Roles and responsibilities will be distributed by the WG chair once the successful candidates are known • The following have been nominated: • Jon Rosdahl – Qualcomm • Dorothy Stanley – HPE • Process (down-selection to 2 candidates) – if required • Round(s) of voting. Each voting member has 2 votes in each round. Candidate with least votes will be eliminated at each round. • Individual confirmation votes of 2 surviving candidates • 50% WG approval required W5.6 – Election of WG Vice Chairs Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

15. friday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

16. 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 F2.2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

17. Next Full WG Session: March 13-19 • 1st CAC telecon – April 11th 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. • 2nd CAC telecon – May 9th at noon ET (-1 week) • Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon. F2.4 Administrative Reminders Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

18. F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is here • Open LoA requests (i.e., those that the WG chair is pursuing) • Nokia (802.11ai) • Microsoft (802.11ai) • Detailed status is here: • https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1489-04-0000-register-of-loa-requests.docx Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

19. F2.6 Availability of documents- Nov 2015 ** = request pending Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

20. 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 REVmc D5.0 will be liaised when Sponsor Recirc completes F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Supplementary Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

21. 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. F7.1 802 Wireless Chairs meeting Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

22. 2016-05-15 to 2016-05-20 at Hilton Waikoloa Village, HI, USA • IEEE Wireless Interim • Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are open For information and registration links, see http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html F7.2 Next Meeting – LMSC Interim Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation