September 2007

Terry Cole (AMD)

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WG Technical Editor’s Closing Report

Date: 2007-09-21

Name Company Address Phone email Terry Cole AMD 9500 Arboretum

Blvd, Ste 400 Autin, TX 78759

+1 512 602 2454

terry.cole@amd.com

Authors:

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Abstract

• Announcements– Editors’ Conference Calls

– 802.11 Assigned Numbers Authority

• IEEE Publication Status

• Editors’ Meeting

• Draft Development Snapshot

• Streamlining Projects Status

• Editor Contacts

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Editors’ Conference Call Announcement

• Announced via Administrative Calendar link on 802.11 web site http://www.ieee802.org/11/ – No changes to published schedules

– Call #1 for Atlanta: Monday Oct 1• noon ET / 9am PT

• Will announce logistics on editors reflector

• Will use audio conference and webex

– Call #2 for Atlanta: Monday Oct 29

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ANA Announcements• Current ANA announced to group is 07/1942r9.

– All new requests received by end of meeting will be uploaded as 07/1942r10 and announced via 802.11 WG reflector next week after this meeting

• Several requests have been received directly from editors this week and acted on in preparation for publishing next version.

• Others as may arise before close of WG meeting will be included in 07/1942r10.

• Guidance– ANA assignments should be done at the time of moving from WG LB to

Sponsor ballot.

– If a resource number is not in the ANA Database, please use <ANA> in drafts!

– Editors to replace any ANA controlled resources numbers with <ANA> upon incorporation of material into drafts.

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IEEE Publication Status

• IEEE 802.11-2007 published and for sale on IEEE web– Published in Jun 2007

– On-time for the schedule negotiated with IEEE staff!

– Combines all existing amendments and includes maintenance work by TGma

• No other publications pending (that have been approved by REVCOM)

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Editor’s Meeting• Reviewed inter-editor coordination and timelines

– No new problems identified

– Reviewed and coordinated renumbering project of drafts to align with IEEE 802.11-2007. Expect this to complete shortly after the close of this meeting. All baseline references should now be to IEEE 802.11-2007.

– Reviewed timeline order. See separate slide.

• Discussed Stable Numbering Proposals– See separate slide.

• Prioritized new tasks that would streamline editorial processes– See separate slide.

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Amendment Ordering• Data as of Sept 21 from chairs; official project

timelines to be updated to the web– See http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/802.11_Timelines.htm

Amendment numbering is editorial! No need to make ballot comments on these dynamic numbers!

Amendment Number Task Group REVCOM Date

802.11 Amendment 1 TGk Dec 2007 (was Oct)

802.11 Amendment 2 TGr Mar 2008

802.11 Amendment 3 TGy Mar 2008

802.11 Amendment 4 TGn Sep 2008

802.11 Amendment 5 TGw Mar 2009 (was Sep 08)

802.11 Amendment 6 (was 7) TGp Mar 2009

802.11 Amendment 7 (was 6) TGu May 2009 (was Jan)

802.11 Amendment 8 TGs Aug 2009 (was Jun)

802.11.2 TGT Aug 2009 (was Jun)

802.11 Amendment 9 TGv Sep 2009

802.11 Amendment 10 TGz Feb 2010

802.11 Revision 802.11mb Mar 2011

Changes from last report shown in red.

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Draft Development SnapshotTG Rev Baseline Docs Source MEC Style Guide Editor Snapshot Date

TGk D9.0 802.11-2007 Frame 7.2 Done 2006 Joe Kwak 18-Sept

TGr D7.0 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D7.0 Frame 7.1 Done 2005 Bill Marshall

18-Sept

TGy D5.0 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D9.0 + P802.11r D7.0

Frame 7.2 Done 2007 Peter Ecclesine

21-Sept

TGn D2.07 P802.11ma D9.0 + P802.11k D7.0 + P802.11r D6.0 + P802.11y D4.0

Frame 7.2 No 2007 Adrian Stephens

18-Sept

TGu D1.06 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D7.0 + P802.11y D2.0 + P802.11nD2.02 + P802.11wD2.0

Word No 2007 Necati Canpolat

18-Sept

TGw D3.0 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D8.0 + P802.11r D7.0 + P802.11y D4.0 + P802.11n D2.07

Frame 7.2 No 2007 Nancy Cam-Winget

18-Sept

TGp D3.0 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D7.0 + P802.11r D6.0

Frame 7.2 No 2007 Wayne Fisher

18-Sept

TGs D1.06 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D7.0 + P802.11r D5.0 + P802.11y D2.0 + P802.11n D2.02 + P802.11w D2.0

Frame 7.1 No 2007 Steven Conner

07-Aug

TGT D1.0 n/a (standalone) Frame 6 No 2005 Tom Alexander

18-Sept

TGv D1.01 802.11-2007 + P802.11k D8.0 + P802.11r D5.0 + 802.11y D4.0 + P802.11n D2.05 + 802.11w D2.0

Frame 7.2 No 2005 Emily Qi 18-Sept

TGz and TGmb do not yet have drafts. Changes from last report shown in red.

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Editorial Streamlining (1)• Focus is on consistency across all TGs:

– Stable Sub-Clause Numbering• We started with 3 proposals. See 07/2308r1.

• We had discussion and debate and established many criteria for evaluation: reader and voter clarity, REVCOM approval risks, editor labor

• We down selected from 3 candidate proposals to 2: “correct” and “sticky”.

• Goal is to select method in November.– We will continue to develop the details and implications at conference calls and in

November.

– We may required additional time to develop efficient and acceptable implementation procedures.

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Editorial Streamlining (2)• Focus is on consistency across all TGs:

– Done• Streamlined ANA processes – 07/0827r0• Consistent format for REDLINE contributions across TGs – 07/0788r0 • Consistent process for editorial comment resolution across TGs (WG &

Sponsor) – 07/2050r0– Guideline for technical vs. editorial, sample editorial comment responses

• Format for comment reporting across TGs (WG & Sponsor) – 07/1990r0 (tool in 07/2116r0)

– Under Construction (in priority order)1. Method for stable numbering of draft clauses to streamline

2. Recover the editor’s guideline (now requested by chair in Word)

3. Draft templates for FRAME (no Word) to help train new editors more rapidly

4. MIB element numbering and compiling

5. Guideline on non-technical front matter

6. Guideline describing expected editorial development and maturity of draft through stages in 802.11 for consistency across TGs

7. Guidelines for primitives

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Volunteer Editor Contacts• TGk – Joe Kwak– joekwak@sbcglobal.net• TGn – Adrian Stephens – adrian.p.stephens@intel.com• TGp – Wayne Fisher – wfisher@arinc.com• TGr – Bill Marshall – wtm@research.att.com• TGs – Steven Conner – w.steven.conner@intel.com

– Stepping down. Many thanks to Steve!

• TGT – Tom Alexander – tom@veriwave.com• TGu – Necati Canpolat – necati.canpolat@intel.com • TGv – Emily Qi – emily.h.qi@intel.com• TGw – Nancy Cam-Winget – ncamwing@cisco.com • TGy – Peter Ecclesine – pecclesi@cisco.com• TGz – Not yet determined

• TGmb – Not yet determined