January 2001

David BagbySlide 1

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

802.11F Meeting Report

Jan 2001

January 2001

David BagbySlide 2

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

Jan 2001 802.11 F Agenda

• Administration Stuff• Status / Goals for Mtg• Old business

– Dec Ad-Hoc mtg review & adoption– Text drafting

• New business– Other Papers & discussion

• Adjournment

January 2001

David BagbySlide 3

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

Admin Stuff

• Secretary: Jessie volunteers– (for this mtg only).– January minutes are doc 2001-83

January 2001

David BagbySlide 4

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

Admin Stuff

• Approval of minutes from Sept & Nov– Sept

• Moved: Bob O’Hara Approve Sept minutes

• Second: Matt

• Vote: no objection

– Nov• Moved: Matt – approve Nov minutes

• Second: Bob

• Vote: no objection

January 2001

David BagbySlide 5

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

Agenda for rest of 802.11F sessions this week:

• Start up; admin; Ad-Hoc review; ad-hoc work adoption decision– Mon 1-5:30– Other papers? None.– 3:00 break – 3:30 text drafting starting

• Text drafting– Tues 3:30-5:30; 6:30-9:30; Wed 8-10

• Text drafting, possible Review & draft adoption– Thurs 8-12 (last F session for the week)– Review/discussion of draft– Adoption of 1st draft vote

• Will need to ratify in 11 plenary

January 2001

David BagbySlide 6

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

802.11F work recovery plan from Nov 2000 mtg

• Step 1: Attempt recovery by offering interested parties a venue for an Ad Hoc (non-binding) session to work out a base proposal/draft. Resulting draft to be brought to Jan mtg for consideration as candidate for first (internal) LB.– Tentative Mtg target week 12/3 (2 days?); location TBD; will be

announced on reflector; mtg facilities will be provided; on your own for hotel

• If step 1 successful, proceed to LB in Jan/Mar with Ad-Hoc mtg draft (if approved in Jan)– Mtg was held and resulted in good progress

• If step 1 not successful, recognize that re have people resource conflicts and re-sched work to be dependent on 11e settling down and freeing people up (schedule impact unknown at this date).

January 2001

David BagbySlide 7

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

Revised 802.11F Schedule (Approved Nov 2000 given ad-hoc mtg progress)

• 1st TG mtg, IAPP history review, task framing – May 2001

• Functional determination, proposals – July 2001• Cut off for additional DS environment inclusion. – Jan

2001

• Ad-Hoc drafting recovery mtg Dec 2001• 1st Draft available, review starts – Jan 2001• First internal .11 ballot – Mar 2001• Schedule fork issue decision – May 2001

– Hold for 11E progress or start external ballots…?

January 2001

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Submission

Jan Goals/Progress

• Review Ad-Hoc mtg progress– Ratified Ad-Hoc mtg recommendations

• Create 1st draft text based on Ad-Hoc proposals– Work to date in 2001-102

– Close – significant text created, but text does not yet have formal draft status.

– Review & comments solicited before March mtg

• (maybe) first internal .11 ballot after Jan mtg– Not accomplished, more text writing required

January 2001

David BagbySlide 10

doc.: IEEE 802.11-01/101

Submission

Goals for March

• Review comments resulting from 2001-102 (Jan output document)

• Consider submissions to fill in holes from 2001-102

• Adopt resulting merged text (2001-102 + filler submissions) as official first draft RP.

January 2001

David BagbySlide 11

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Submission

End of report

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