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802.11 TGafteleconference July12th2011 Minutes
Date: 2011-07-12
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / Email
Rich Kennedy / Research In Motion Corporation / 7305 Napiet Trail
Austin, TX 78729 / +1-972-207-3554 /
Peter Ecclesine / Cisco Systems / 170 W. Tasman Dr., San Jose, CA 95134-1706 / +1-408-527-0815 /
Zhou Lan / NICT / 3-4, Hikarino-oka, Yokosuka, 239-0847, Japan / +81-46-847-5097 /

July12th, 2011 PM 22:00-AM0:43 ET,13 in attendance

Agenda refer to

  1. Richard Kennedy (RIM) is the chair of the group. Peter Ecclesine (Cisco) is the vice-chair of the group. Chair called meeting to order: 22:05pm ET.
  1. Agenda of the teleconference in 11-11-0946-00-00af-july-12th-teleconference-plan-and-agenda.pptis reviewed and approved by unanimous consent.
  2. Peter Ecclesine requested to add 802.11-11/917r2 to the agenda.
  1. Introduction
  2. Chair welcomed participants to the Task Groupteleconference.
  3. Chair introduced the officers of the group.
  4. Chair: Rich Kennedy (Research In Motion)
  5. Vice-chair, Technical Editor and Webex Facilitator: Peter Ecclesine (Cisco)
  6. Recording Secretary: Zhou Lan (NICT)
  7. Chair reminded participants to record their attendance by sending mails to , and .
  1. Administrative items
  2. Chair presented the links for the documents related with the administrative items.
  3. Chair reviewed the patent policy and meeting guideline slides. Is there anyone who is not familiar with the IEEE Patent Policy? None.
  4. Chair asked: Are there any patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) that the participant believes may be essential for the use of that standard? None.
  5. Chair reviewed other guidelines for IEEE WG meetings.
  6. Chair reviewed the TG chair function.
  1. Peter Ecclesine presented the revision of 802.11-11/ 0921r2 for terminology related comments.
  1. Peter Ecclesine presented the revision of 802.11-11/ 0844r1for aligning TGaf with REVmb.
  1. Peter Ecclesine presented the revision of 802.11-11/ 940r1for general, MLME and MIB related comments.
  2. Eunsun Kim (LGE) commented TGaf should not limit itself not to support TDLS.
  3. Peter Ecclesine responded if extended channel switch is prohibited, TDLS cannot be supported.
  4. Peter Ecclesine commented CPM supports changing frequency and power together, which cannot be supported by extended channel switch.
  5. Padam Kafle (Nokia) asked whether CPM supports non-contiguous channels if ac is adopted.
  6. Peter Ecclesine responded that CPM is extensible and supports non-contiguous channel changes with simultaneous channel power changes.
  1. Peter Ecclesine proposed to change ad hoc owning group of some comments.
  2. Change CID 1165 from CAQ to EDITOR, all MAC TLV CIDS to EDITOR.
  3. Other changes per Eunsen Kim email to TGaf list Tue 7/12/2011 9:19 AM EDT – CID 169 from CPM to WSM, CIDs 8 and 951 from Clause 4 to General, CID 742 from General to MAC OCS, CID 977 from MIBs to MAC WSM, CID 1145 from PICs to MAC DSE and CID 1146from PICs to MAC NCC.
  4. No objection was received.
  1. Peter Ecclesine presented revision of 802.11-11/ 0917r 2for aligning TGaf Reg and PHY to REVmb.
  1. Zhou Lan(NICT) presented document 802.11-11/0918r1 for CSM MLME related comments.
  1. Zhou Lan presented document 802.11-11/0919r1 for CSM MLME procedure related comments.
  2. Chen Sun(NICT) presented document 802.11-11/716r4 for NCC SAP related comments.
  3. Eunsun Kim asked for clarification on which type of STA is allowed to send NCC.
  4. Chen Sun responded this fine tuning can be done in a later stage.
  1. Rich Kennedy called for volunteers on comment resolution.
  2. Yohannes (NICT) volunteered to work on basic report related comments.
  3. Yongho Seok (LGE) volunteered to work on CPM related comments.
  4. Eunsun Kim volunteered to work on WSM.
  5. Padam Kafle volunteered to work on CAQ, DSE and enabling.
  1. Chair asked if there is any other business, hearing none, we are adjourned at 0:43 amET.

Attendees:

Name (affiliation) [email]

Richard Kennedy, chair (RIM) [

Peter Ecclesine, Vice-chair (Cisco Systems) [

Zhou Lan, Secretary (NICT) [

Padam Kafle (Nokia)[

Chen Sun(NICT) [

C.S. Sum(NICT) [

Ha-Nguyen Tran (NICT)[

Yohannes Alemseged(NICT)[

Winston Caldwell (Fox) [

Eunsun Kim (LGE)[

Yongho Seok(LGE) [

Jihyun Lee(LGE) [

SantoshAbraham(Qualcomm)[

Steve Shellhammer(Qualcomm) [

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