May 2008 TGs ad hoc Agenda

1. May 2008TGs ad hoc Agenda Authors: Date: 2008-05-09 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

2. 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. Santa Clara, California 8-10 May, 2008 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd., Motorola Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com +1-508-786-7554 Temporary Technical Editor: Avinash Joshi, Motorola Temporary Secretary: Jan Kruys, Cisco Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

3. Venue Intel Corporation, Building SC12, 3600 Juliette LaneSanta Clara, California Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

4. Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:00-17:00 • Call meeting to Order • Manual Attendance Recording • Selection of Temporary Secretary: Jan Kruys • Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. • Agenda Approved by unanimous consent • Miscellaneous Announcements • Status of TGs Draft and Letter Ballot • Draft D2.0 • “Resolution of comments received during IEEE 802.11 Letter Ballot 126” Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

5. 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 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

6. Miscellaneous Announcements • Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! • The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. • 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 groups Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

7. Affiliation • It is defined in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws, 5.2.1.5 as: “An individual is deemed “affiliated” with any individual or entity that has been, or will be, financially or materially supporting that individual’s participation in a particular IEEE standards activity. This includes, but is not limited to, his or her employer and any individual or entity that has or will have, either directly or indirectly, requested, paid for, or otherwise sponsored his or her participation. • Revision: Feb 2006 Standards Board Bylaw 5.2.1.1 • Openness is defined as the quality of being not restricted to a particular type or category of participants. All meetings involving standards development an all IEEE Sponsor ballots shall be open to all interested parties. Each individual participant in IEEE Standards activities shall disclose his or her affiliations when requested. A person who knows or reasonably should know, that a participant’s disclosure is materially incomplete or incorrect should report that fact to the Secretary of the IEEE-SA Standards Board and the appropriate Sponsors. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

8. Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:00-17:00 • Organization and Classification of Comments • Add new column to 11-08/493 between G & H for Topic Category. • Sort by CID, then by Original Clause • Divide into two Subgroups • SubGroup 1: CIDs 1+: Michelle Gong coordinator – categorizing comments • SubGroup 2: CIDs 1053+: Guenael Strutt coordinator – categorizing and entering tentative resolutions • Continue to work through Lunch • SubGroup 1 completed categorization and we proceded as follows • SubGroup 1: Enterning tentative resolutions for non-security comments with CIDs 1-1052. • SubGroup 2: CIDs 1053+: Guenael Strutt coordinator – categorizing and entering tentative resolutions • Security SubGroup: Dan Harkins coordinator – entering tentative resolutions for security comments with CIDs 1-1052. • Recombine and Recess until 09:00 Friday Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

9. Friday, 9 May 2008 09:00-17:00 • Call meeting to Order • IPR and Manual Attendance Recording Reminder • Further work in two SubGroups to categorize all comments • Work through Lunch • The task group unanimously approved having a picture taken of the meeting for non-commercial purposes. (WG Chair permission had previously been obtained.) • Further work in two SubGroups. Succeeded in categorizing all comments. • Review Agenda for next week’s meeting in Jacksonville. • Adjourn • TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

10. [Reference Information] • Updated PAR athttp://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 Spreadsheets: • 11-08/493r2: Resolution of Letter Ballot 126 Comments • 11-07/23r55: Resolution of comments received during IEEE 802.11 Letter Ballot 93 • Confirmed Proposal on which Draft D0.01 was based: • 11-06/328r0: Joint SEE-Mesh/Wi-Mesh Proposal to 802.11 TGs • 11-06/329r3: Joint SEE-Mesh/Wi-Mesh Proposal to 802.11 TGs Overview • TGs Technical Editors: • W. Steven Conner, Intel, Drafts 0.01 through D1.08 (also Chair of the first Mesh Study Group Session) • Avinash Joshi, Motorola, Drafts 1.09 through D2.0 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

11. [Earlier Meeting Minutes] • Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes • March 2008, Orlando, Florida, 11-08/424r0 (not yet approved) • January 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-08/170r2 • November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-07/2826r1 • September 2007, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11-07/2495r0 • September 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-07/2413r0 • July 2007, San Francisco, California, 11-07/2277r0 • June 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11-07/2009r0 • May 2007, Montreal, Quebec, 11-07/746r0 • April 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 11-07/559r1 • March 2007, Orlando, Florida, 11-07/413r0 • February 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11-07/240r0 • January 2007, London, England, 11-07/92r0 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola