October 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/1401r0

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

802.11 TGaf teleconference October 11th 2011 Minutes
Date: 2011-10-11
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 /


October 11th , 2011 21:08-22:22 ET 9 attendees,

Agenda refer to https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/11/11-11-1371-00-00af-october-11th-teleconference-plan-and-agenda.ppt .

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: 21:00 pm ET.

2.  Agenda of the teleconference in 11-11-1371-00-00af-october-11th -teleconference-plan-and-agenda.ppt is reviewed and approved by unanimous consent.

3.  Introduction

3.1.  Chair welcomed participants to the Task Group teleconference.

3.2.  Chair introduced the officers of the group.

3.3.  Chair: Rich Kennedy (Research In Motion)

3.4.  Vice-chair, Technical Editor and Webex Facilitator: Peter Ecclesine (Cisco)

3.5.  Task Group Secretary: Zhou Lan (NICT).

3.6.  Chair reminded participants to record their attendance by sending mails to , and .

4.  Administrative items

4.1.  Chair presented the links for the documents related with the administrative items.

4.2.  Chair reviewed the patent policy and meeting guideline slides. Is there anyone who is not familiar with the IEEE Patent Policy? None.

4.3.  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.

4.4.  Chair reviewed other guidelines for IEEE WG meetings.

4.5.  Chair reviewed the TG chair function.

5.  Rich Kennedy reviewed the current issues of TGaf

5.1.  Rich Kennedy mentioned there will be a section in TGaf draft for the TGac PHY.

5.2.  Rich Kennedy said the current focus is still comment resolution.

6.  Peter Ecclesine reviewed the editing status of the TGaf.

6.1.  Peter Ecclesine said he is preparing a draft text that attempts to solve the indexical problems.

6.2.  Peter Ecclesine 246 comments are still waiting for resolutions.

6.3.  Peter proposed to change the owning group of the following comment CIDs.

6.3.1.  CID 34 changes from MAC RLQP to EDITOR (editing instruction)

6.3.2.  CID 174 changes from MAC CPM to EDITOR (IE length correction)

6.3.3.  CID 387 changes from to General (support 11s mesh, like CID 708)

6.3.4.  CID 394 changes from MLME, CVS to CSM (is CSM comment, not CVS)

6.3.5.  CID 1116 changes from MLME, DSE to CSM, NCC (Protected dual brittle)

6.3.6.  CID 1117 changes from MAC DSE to CSM, NCC (Protected dual brittle)

6.3.7. CID 1145 changes from MAC DSE to EDITOR (PICS CF15)

6.3.8. Peter asked if there is any objection to make the transfer. No objections were received.

6.4.  Peter proposed to change the owning group of the following comment CIDs.

6.4.1.  CID 1173 changes from MAC Security to CAQ (authoritative list of channels)

6.4.2.  CID 1175 changes from MAC RLQP to CAQ (authoritative list of channels)

6.4.3.  CID 1185 changes from MAC RLQP to CAQ (authoritative list of channels)

6.4.4.  CID 1186 changes from MAC Security to CAQ (authoritative channels)

6.4.5. Peter asked if there is any objection to make the transfer.

6.4.5.1.  Padam Kafle (Nokia) responded more time is needed for reviewing the comments and deciding to move them to CAQ.

7.  Discussions on the TLV format for spectrum mask.

7.1.  Peter Ecclesine mentioned EIRP power is more useful to a database than conducted power.

7.2.  Peter Ecclesine proposed to add a general spectrum mask that gives more precise shape of the spectrum mask.

7.3.  Eunsun Kim asked to where the spectrum mask should be reported.

7.4.  Peter Ecclesine responded the rules on this respect have not completed yet. It might be needed for the client to report the mask as an optional function.

7.5.  Chen Sun (NICT) commented start and end frequency are not needed because the systems when they report they have the start frequency and end frequency reported in different container.

7.6.  Padam Kafle asked what are linear interpolated.

7.7.  Peter Ecclesine responded the output EIRP will be linearly interpolated between the points that are reported.

7.8.  Vinko Erceg (Broadcom) asked whether the start frequency and end frequency are for the mask itself or for the channel.

7.9.  Peter Ecclesine responded they are for the mask itself.

8.  Rich Kennedy suggested changing next week meeting instead of cancelling it even though it maybe overlaps with other face to face discussions, because there are only three conference calls till November meeting .

9.  Chair asked if there is any other business, hearing none. The conference call was adjourned at 22:22ET.

Attendees:

Name (affiliation) [email]

Rich Kennedy, chair (RIM)[

Peter Ecclesine, Vice-chair (Cisco Systems) [

Zhou Lan, Secretary (NICT) [

Chen Sun (NICT) [

Yohannes Alemseged(NICT) [

Ha Nguyen Tran (NICT) [

Padam Kafle (Nokia) [

Eunsun Kim(LGE)[

Vinko Erceg (Broadcom) [

Minutes page 3 Zhou Lan (NICT)