February 2011doc.: IEEE 11-11-0234-00-000s

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

Meeting minutes of the IEEE 802.11s ad hoc meeting in Eindhoven, February 2011
Date: 2011-02-09
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / email
Guido R. Hiertz / Philips / Riedel Communications GmbH & Co. KG, Uellendahler Str. 353, 42109 Wuppertal / +49-202-292-9987 /

IEEE 802.11s ad hoc meeting: 2011-02-07 to 2011-02-09

Day 1

Attendees present:

  • Dee Denteneer (Philips)
  • Michael Bahr (Siemens)
  • Guido R. Hiertz (Philips)

The great Chairman Dee Denteneer calls the meeting to order at 2011-02-07T13:32+01:00.The Chairman reminds all present to state their name and affiliation before they speak.

The Chairmancalls for potential essential patents. No one responds to the call (2011-02-07T13:33+01:00) and no claims are brought forward.

The Chairman presents the agenda for this meeting. The group discusses the agenda. The following topics are most important for this week:

•Resolution of all MCCA related comments

•Resolution of all RFI related comments

•Discussion about the tutorial

The group works on the MCCA and RFI comments and discusses text to be voted on by the whole task group during this Thursday’s teleconference.

Chairman recesses at 2011-02-07T18:40+01:00

Day 2

Attendees present:

  • Dee Denteneer (Philips)
  • Michael Bahr (Siemens)
  • Guido R. Hiertz (Philips)

The great Chairman Dee Denteneer calls the meeting to order at 2011-02-08T09:20+01:00.The Chairman reminds all present to state their name and affiliation before they speak.

The Chairmancalls for potential essential patents. No one responds to the call (2011-02-08T09:21+01:00) and no claims are brought forward.

The group resolves comments.

The Chairman recesses the session at 2011-02-08T18:30+01:00.

Day 3

Attendees present:

  • Dee Denteneer (Philips)
  • Michael Bahr (Siemens)
  • Guido R. Hiertz (Philips)

The great Chairman Dee Denteneer calls the meeting to order at 2011-02-09T09:01+01:00.The Chairman reminds all present to state their name and affiliation before they speak.

The Chairmancalls for potential essential patents. No one responds to the call (2011-02-09T09:03+01:00) and no claims are brought forward.

The Chairman discusses the agenda for today. He proposes that the group works before noon on

•Post agenda including motions for tomorrow’s teleconference and send e-mail to Comment Resolution Committee

•Upload RFI comment resolutions

•Check & upload MCCA related comment resolutions

•Check Dan Harkins’ contribution resolving security related comments

•Check for orphaned CIDs

•Finalize the comment spread sheet

For the afternoon, the Chairman proposes that the group works on

•Review of MCCA related comment resolution

•MIB variables need to be checked

•Shall the MCCA Overview element be optionally present?

•Rename the “Advertisements Set Elements Indicator” as “Advertisements Set Elements bitmap”

•Global search and replace of plural with singular in case of MCCA field names (aka Advertisements vs. Advertisement)

•Discussion and work on tutorial slides

The group agrees with the Chairman’s proposed schedule for today and works on the according documents.

The Chairman adjournes the meeting at 2011-02-09T17:20+01:00.

Submissionpage 1Guido R. Hiertz, Philips