Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

1. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title:StG 4r March 2014 sessions Date Submitted: March 2014 • Source:SS Dietmar Eggert, Atmel KoenigsbrueckerStr. 61, Dresden, Germany Abstract:Opening and support of session Purpose: Overview of activities during the meeting Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P802.15.

2. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Beijing, China March 2014 Opening and Summary of SG 4r Sessions

3. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Attendance • Record your attendance • https://imat.ieee.org

4. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Meeting Protocol • Please announce your affiliation when you first address the group during a meeting slot

5. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel 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

6. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel 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/develop/policies/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/materials.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/index.html This slide set is available at https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.ppt

7. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel 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

8. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel 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.

9. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Approval of Meeting Minutes from Los Angeles, January 2014 • Document ID:15-14-0067-00-004r-sg4r-minutes-january-2014.docx • Moved: Tom Herbst • Second: Liang Li • No Objections, unanimous consent

10. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Approval of Agenda for Beijing, March 2014 • 15-14-0150-00-004r-aenda-for-sg4r-in-beijing.xls • Moved: Ben Rolfe • Second: Phil Beecher • No objections, unanimous consent

11. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Discussion of comments to PAR and CSD • Comments: 11-14-0319-00-0000-802-11-proposed-par-review-march-2014.pptx • Proposed Resolutions:15-14-0181-00-004r-ParCommentResponses.ppt

12. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel SG Motion • SG Motion: request that the resolutions to comments on PAR and CSD contained in document 15-14-0181-00-004r-ParCommentResponses.ppt be approved for submission to the WG for its approval and that the EC be requested to forward the PAR to NesCom • Moved: Phil Beecher • Second: Tom Herbst • No objections, unanimous consent • . 

13. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel SG Motion • SG Motion:  request that the PAR and CSD contained in documents 15-14-0075-04 and 15-14-0076-04, respectively, be approved for submission to the WG for its approval and that the EC be requested to forward the PAR to NesCom. • Moved: Ben Rolfe • Second: Tim Harrington • In Favor: 11 • Against: 0 • Abstain: 0 • Motion carries • . 

14. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel WG Motion • WGMotion: request that the PAR and CSD contained in documents 15-14-0075-04 and 15-14-0076-04, respectively, be approved by the 802.15 WG and that the 802 EC be requested to forward the revised PAR to NesCom. The 802.15 working group chair and technical editor are authorized to make additional modifications to the PAR and CSD as needed to reflect EC discussion at its closing meeting. • Moved: Dietmar Eggert • Second: Ben Rolfe • For: • Against: • Abstain:

15. Dietmar Eggert, Atmel Meeting Summary • Tue March 18 PM3: • Attendees: 8 • Discussion to comments on PAR and CSD • Assigned Ben Rolfe, Dietmar Eggert to consolidate a resolution to the comments for discussion in the group on Wed at AM1 • Wed Mar 19 AM1: • Attendees: 15 • Discussion of proposed resolution of comments on PAR and CSD • St Group Motions to approve resolutions to comments on PAR and CSD contained in document 15-14-0181-00-004r-ParCommentResponses.ppt and suggest the document 15-14-0181-00-004r-ParCommentResponses.ppt and revised PAR and CSD 15-14-0075-04 and 15-14-0076-04 to the WG for approval and that the EC be requested to forward the PAR to NesCom. • Motions carried with unanimous consent