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September 2014 802.11 Session Supplementary Material

September 2014 802.11 Session Supplementary Material. Authors:. Date: 2014-09-17. This report provides supplementary material related to attending the September 2014 802.11 interims. Refer to the agenda: 11-14/997 (Athens Wireless Interim) 11-14/996 (Chengdu, China 802.11 Interim).

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September 2014 802.11 Session Supplementary Material

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  1. September 2014 802.11 SessionSupplementary Material Authors: Date: 2014-09-17 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  2. This report provides supplementary material related to attending the September 2014 802.11 interims. • Refer to the agenda: • 11-14/997 (Athens Wireless Interim) • 11-14/996 (Chengdu, China 802.11 Interim) Introduction Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  3. Monday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  4. New • Second liaison on non-OFDM use cases from WFA • https://mentor.ieee.org/02.11/dcn/14/11-14-1141-00-0000-second-liaison-statement-from-wi-fi-alliance-on-non-ofdm-use-cases.pdf • Ongoing • WBA request for clarification on location fields 11-14.706r1. Owner: Stephen McCann • Stephen is looking to generate a reply with substantive comment. • WFA liaison response on “Non-OFDM Use Cases”. Owner: Dorothy Stanley. https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0905-00-0000-liaison-statement-from-wi-fi-alliance-on-non-ofdm-use-cases.ppt M2.3.1 Summary of Liaisons and Status Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  5. Internal Joint Meetings • TGaq / TGai (Tue pm1) • TGak / ARC (Thu am1) • External • None • Reciprocal credit is provided to 802.11 voters for attendance at: 802.18, 802.19, 802.24 • Reciproal credit is being considered for 802.1 M3.2 Joint meetings and Reciprocal Credit Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  6. “802 EC Privacy Recommendation SG” – Juan Carlos Zuniga 802.19 3GPP activities – Stephen Shellhammer “Make Wi-Fi fast” – David That M3.10 Topics for Wednesday plenary Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  7. PARS • The IEEE 802 EC approved the P802.11ah & P802.11ai PAR Extension requests during its closing plenary, July 2014. • P802.11ah & P802.11ai PAR Extension requests were submitted to myProject on 21st July. • They are currently on the NesCom continuing process agenda (October). • Approval of draft standards • None M3.11 802 EC and IEEE-SA Standards Board decisions Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  8. Wednesday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  9. 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

  10. After TGah ANA allocations, which include 27 Element IDs, 802.11 has 19 unused and 6 reserved (was allocated) values. • Current “large” projects need to be aware that they might not have enough element IDs. • Should we create an “escape format” now? • Element ID (1 octet, value = 255) • Length (1 octet) • Element ID extension (1 or more octets TBD) • Element body W6.5 ANA – Element ID exhaustion Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  11. Should TGmc create an “element id” escape mechanism now? Yes 84 No 0 Don’t care / don’t know 1 Straw Poll Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  12. friday Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  13. 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

  14. Next Session: 2-7 November • 1st CAC telecon – 29th Sept 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 – 27th Oct at noon ET (-1 week) • Snapshots to be send to Dorothy Stanley before this telecon. F2.4 Administrative Reminders Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  15. F2.5 Letters of Assurance Database is here • 15 Entries have 2014 submission dates • 8 Request for LoAs sent out since October 2013 • 3 requests pending**: Marvell (802.11ai), Qualcomm (802.11ah), Broadcom (802.11ai) • 1 new request received at this session (Texas A&M University System) Data as of 2014-08-12 ** i.e. Chair has not received a substantive response Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  16. F2.6 IEEE Store Contents - July 2014 Last updated: 2014-06 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  17. 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 P802.11REVmc D3 LB202 (June 2014) F2.7 802.11 drafts to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  18. There is a continuing interest in being able to access early 802.11 submissions. • The submissions on the server are not necessarily accessible: • Some submissions were never uploaded • Some submissions are in word processor formats that are no longer generally available. • Vic Hayes, former chair, has a large paper archive of early submissions. He has obtained funding and has scanned this archive. WG chair has these. F2.9 Early 802.11 Documentation Project Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  19. The IEEE-SA has employed an intern on a part-time basis to work on making the documentation accessible. • The tasks involve • Merging, splitting and renaming the scanned pdf files • Checking that nothing is missing from the scans. • Updating a database of document numbers, revisions and files. • It is hoped that the work will be completed this year. F2.9 Early Documentation - continued Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

  20. 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

  21. November 2-7, San Antonio, Tx, USA • At the Hyatt Regency • Meeting Registration and Hotel Registration are open • Standard registration deadline: October 24th 2014. • Hotel reservation deadline: October 18th. For information and registration links, see http://www.ieee802.org/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html F7.2 Next Meeting – IEEE 802 Plenary Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation

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