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November 2010 Mesh Meeting Agenda. Authors:. Date: 2010-11-07. IEEE 802.11s: Mesh Networking Task Group. TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Dallas, Texas November 8-12, 2010 Chair: Dee Denteneer (Philips)
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November 2010 Mesh Meeting Agenda Authors: Date: 2010-11-07 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. Dallas, Texas November 8-12, 2010 Chair: Dee Denteneer (Philips) Vice Chair: Guido Hiertz (Philips) Technical Editor: Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) Secretary: Guenael Strutt (Power Save Technologies) Dee Denteneer; Philips
General Flow of the TGs Meeting • Monday • Administrivia • Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process • Tuesday • Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process • Wednesday • Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process • Thursday • Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process • 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 • Stephen McCann; ESR bit sponsor ballot comment resolution, 11-10-1224r0 (Wednesday) Dee Denteneer; Philips
Monday, 8 November 201016:00-18:00 • Secretary selection • Call Meeting to Order • Miscellaneous Announcements • Automated attendance reminder • Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. • Meeting Agenda • Approval of Minutes: • Waikaloa meeting minutes: 11-10/1148r0 • Teleconference minutes: • November 4: 11-10/1249r0: • October 14: 11-10/1213r0 • September 30: 11-10/1188r0 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Monday, 8 November 201016:00-18:00 • Get on 1 page • Status update: Sponsor Ballot • Status update: professional editing process • Status update rebasing on REVmb 6.0 • Comment resolution guidelines (11-08/513r0) • Resolution of Comments • Recess until Tuesday 8:00 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Tuesday, 9 November 20108:00-10:00 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolution of Comments • Recess until Tuesday 10:30 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Tuesday, 9 November 201010:30-12:30 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolution of Comments • Recess until Wednesday, 8:00 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Wednesday, 10 November 20108:00-10:00 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolution of Comments • Recess until Wednesday 16:00 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Wednesday, 10 November 201016:00-18:00 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Presentation by Stepehn McCann • Resolution of Comments • Recess until Thursday 8:00 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 11 November 20108:00-10:00 (TBD) • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolution of Comments • Recess until 16:00 Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 15 November 201016:00-18:00 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 15 November 201016:00-18:00 Telcons: thursdays, • Motion, moved to schedule TGs teleconferences on … at 10:00 ET for a maximum duration of 90 minutes. • Mover:, Seconder: Dee Denteneer; Philips
Thursday, 11 November 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), November 2009 • Stuart J. Kerry (temporary Chairman), June 2009 • Donald Eastlake 3rd, May 2004 – July 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 • November 2009, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11-09/1016r0 • July 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 • November 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 11-08/1078r0 • November 2008, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-08/1038r0 • July 2008, Denver, Colorado, 11-08/835r0 Dee Denteneer; Philips