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Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 1

802.11 2nd Vice Chair’s ReportJanuary 2014

Date: 2014-01-22

Name Company Address Phone email Adrian Stephens Intel

Corporation [email protected]

Authors:

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Introduction

• This presentation is a status update on attendance, membership, balloting and documentation matters.

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Network Credentials

• Only a secure network is being run at this meeting using WPA2 PSK

• SSID: Verilan-secure• Password: ieeeieee

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ANA Status• The latest database is 11-11/0270r19 (Jan 2014)• Changes since last meeting:

– TGmc allocations (Fine Timing Measurement + MIB)

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Current Membership Status

Data as of 2014-01-14

Definitions: Aspirant: a member who has attended 1 qualifying meetingPotential Voter: a member who has attended 2 qualifying meetings and will become a voter at the start of the next plenary they attend

Status NumberAspirant 121

Potential Voter 27Voter 330

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Recent voting member history

Date Event Gained Lost # Voters2011-11-11 After Nov plenary 27 25 3002012-01-19 LB187 2 2982012-03-20 After Mar plenary 36 40 2942012-07-20 After July plenary 35 29 3002012-08-20 LB189 5 2952012-09-26 Inaugral China Interim 29 324

2012-10 Death of member 1 3232012-11-16 After Nov plenary 24 23 3242013-01-19 New Liaison added 1 3252014-03-04 LB193 4 3212014-03-22 After Mar plenary 18 16 3232013-07-19 After July plenary 28 18 333

2013-09 Voting rights re-instated on appeal 1 3342013-09-16 LB198 11 3232013-11-10 LB200 16 3072013-11-15 After Nov plenary 37 14 330

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Recording Attendance• It is a requirement that attendees record their participation at an 802.11

session and declare their affiliation. This record is usually made using the IMAT attendance system.– If you wish to participate without recording attendance, send an email per session

to the WG 2nd vice chair declaring your participation and affiliation. You cannot gain or maintain 802.11 voting membership using this method.

• You must record 75% attendance of eligible 802.11 slots in a session for that session to count towards gaining or maintaining 802.11 voting membership– You need a single IEEE-SA web account

• The IEEE SA web account requires a working email address• do not remove your email address from the account

– Use the email address associated with that web account when registering attendance• If you change email addresses, update the web account, don’t create a new web

account, or your membership status may not be calculated properly– Record attendance using this URL:

https://imat.ieee.org/attendance

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I shouldn’t need to say this• Only record attendance for meetings you have

substantially attended (i.e. 75% of that meeting’s active duration).

• Recording attendance for meetings you have not attended is a breach of our rules, and a breach of your professional ethics.

• From time to time, I perform cross-checks between those claiming credit and those present at meetings.

• I usually find a number of people who have broken our rules and are not meeting their ethical obligations.

• I take corrective action in these cases.

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Session graphic – Jan 2014• 18 Normal slots• 4 extra slots

– Sunday CAC– Monday evening – Tuesday editor’s Meeting– Tuesday evening– Thursday CAC

• 75% attendance requires 14 slots attended• Closing plenary requires only 1 registration for 2 slot credit

Source: 11-13/1484r1

TIME SUNDAY (19)

08:00-08:3008:30-09:0009:00-09:3009:30-10:0010:00-10:3010:30-11:0011:00-11:3011:30-12:0012:00-12:3012:30-13:0013:00-13:30

13:30-14:0014:00-14:3014:30-15:0015:00-15:30

15:30-16:0016:00-16:3016:30-17:0017:00-17:3017:30-18:0018:00-18:3018:30-19:0019:00-19:3019:30-20:0020:00-20:3020:30-21:0021:00-21:3021:30-22:0022:00-22:30 `

Please note: Neither Lunch or Dinner is provided under your registration fee at this WG Session. Please make your own personal arrangements.

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with WG Inter-Change Included

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07:00-08:00 802.11 WG, TG, SG, SC EDITORS MEETING

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802.11 WG CHAIRs ADVISORY COMMITTEEPreparation Meeting

IEEE 802.11 WG CLOSING PLENARY

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Extra Credit 802.11 Session Attendance Extra Credit Slots One per Evening

802.11 Session Attendance Base Slot

802.11 Session Attendance Extra Credit Slots One per Evening

Register once

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Online Calendar

• This session’s meetings are also shown on the 802.11 calendar on the 802.11 home page (http://www.ieee802.org/11).

• This is a Google calendar “[email protected]”• There are multiple ways of accessing this information,

for example from a cell-phone, or as a remote calendar.

• Note: the schedule on this calendar will be updated, but any room changes will probably not be. Room changes will be posted on rooms.

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Documentation

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Local File Document Server information

Local FTP server: ftp://griffin.events.ieee.org (anonymous)External Document Server https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents

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Synchronizing while at the meeting• Particularly important when external bandwidth is

limited and unreliable• Use anonymous ftp

– Host: ftp://griffin.events.ieee.org– User: anonymous– Password: <your-email-address-here>– Destination directory: /802.11/13

• Freeware tools are available, for example search for “syncback free” **

** Other tools are available. The IEEE does not endorse the use of any particular tool.

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Email Reflectors• There is an email reflector for the working group, plus one

for each task group.• Write access to the reflectors allowed for those who are

members with status: aspirant, nearly-voter, potential-voter, voter.

• To make a request, visit the reflector request page:http://www.ieee802.org/11/Reflector.html

– Gathers information and sends an email to Vice Chair• If you change email address – please let me know. I will

perform a global change to the list servers.• Public read access to all reflectors is available via the

802.11 home page http://www.ieee802.org/11 on the “WG Email” menu.

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Reference

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802.11 Assigned Numbers Authority (ANA)

• The 802.11 ANA is Adrian Stephens• The purpose of the ANA is to ensure we have no

conflicts for numbers between parallel 802.11 developments. Such a conflict has the potential to create interoperability problems.

• The ANA Process: – Request by TG Editor (or TG chair) to ANA– ANA checks for conflicts with TG Editors– ANA issues revised spreadsheet showing any changes

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WG Balloting - ePoll• Each WG letter ballot sequence (i.e., task group) has its own

voting pool set to the voting members of 802.11 at the time the ballot first reaches 75% approval.

– I get asked all the time “should I vote on this ballot”– The answer is “go check the voters list published with each and every

ballot”. There’s a link on the 802.11 home page during the ballot.

• The mechanism we will use to collect votes/comments is the ePoll mechanism provided by the IEEE-SA.

– Use either individual comments or the template .csv spreadsheet provided.– Can also supply comments using .xls format– You will need to sign in using your IEEE-SA web account– Last ballot (LB187) was successful – people seem to be getting

used to the technology quickly.

• If you are new to writing comments or comment resolutions, please see document 11-11/1625.

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Reciprocal Credit• An 802.11 voting member will get attendance credit for

attending any of the following groups:– 802.18 (Radio Regulatory TAG)– 802.19 (Coexistence WG)– OmniRAN ECSG SG– 802.24 (Smart Grid TAG)

• Note that this means you can maintain 802.11 voting status while attending these groups, but you cannot gain 802.11 voting status.

• For 802.18 / 802.19 / ECSG SG attendance – There should be an option under IMAT to record reciprocal credit.

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Meeting attendance – last 11 years

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Membership by Country and RegionJanuary 2014


Voter Potential Voter Aspirant Grand TotalGAR 147 20 22 189

US 138 18 19 175CA 9 2 3 14

APAC 124 21 30 175CN 40 5 8 53KR 30 9 11 50JP 33 5 6 44SG 12 2 14TW 6 5 11AU 2 2NZ 1 1

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TGah chair election

• Final call for nominations• Close nomination• Nominees:

– Dr. Yongho Seok (LG Electronics)

• If one candidate, will be elected by acclamation• If more than one candidate, will be elected by vote

– Runoff elections if necessary– Successful candidate requires majority approval

• TGah’s choice of chair will be approved by acclamation in the WG

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Telecons – Webex trial

• We have used IEEE-SA supplied Webex sessions for roughly half the 802.11 telecons over the last two months– Includes REG ad-hoc and HEW SG “large” telecons

• A few issues with the setting up resulted in some groups using their own coordinates.

• IEEE-SA have indicated that the trial has ended, and no further IEEE-SA supplied Webex sessions will be provided until further notice.

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TGac drafts

• Because TGac has been approved, the TGac drafts will be removed from the local server and the TGac private area will be removed from the 802.11website.

• This removal will happen after this meeting.

• If you want a copy of the TGac drafts, for posterity, as a treatment for insomnia, or <insert your own reason here>, act now.

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Convention on document access• Currently our operations manual states that write access to the

mentor file server is limited to active participants (aspirants, potential voters, voters).

• A reason to not allow public write access is that contributors need to have been informed about IEEE rules on IP & copyright and to follow 802.11 documentation guidelines.

• Someone who was involved in a project who stops coming and loses membership can no longer post documents.

• This is a hindrance if we ask somebody to help with maintenance, e.g. 802.11ad members contributing to REVmc.

• Proposal: to allow formerly-active members write access to mentor.

• By the same logic: allow formerly-active members to join reflectors.

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Backup

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TGaj Inaugral voters• 29 members attended the TGaj inaugural meeting

(Sept 2012).• Non-voters were granted immediate voting status – i.e.,

they are treated as an exception to the normal rules requiring “2 of 4 plenaries”.

• This exception will be removed after the March 2014 Plenary.

• This means they must meet the “2 of 4 plenaries” rule after March to maintain voting membership.

• Attendance at the January China Interim and March China Plenary suffices to maintain voting membership.

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