May, 2008 IEEE P802.15-<15-08-0285-00-0000>

IEEE P802.15

Wireless Personal Area Networks

Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
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Date Submitted / [15 May, 2008]
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IEEE 802.15 Interim Meeting – Session #54

Hyatt Regency, Jacksonville, FL

May 12th-15th, 2008

Monday, 12 May 2008

8:15 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, 802.20, 802.21, and 802.22 Chairs called the joint meeting to order. IEEE 802.15 attendance is included as Annex A.

Announcements:

·  Session is being run by Face-Face Events

·  Attendance will be collected via the IMAT

Straw Poll of new attendees: 11

IEEE patent policy

802.15 WG chair displayed the five slides explaining patent policy and informed the attendees that additional information could be found on the patcom web site.

Chair asked participants to identify 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, there were no responses.

8:23 Financial report by John Barr, (11-08-xxx-00) (15-08-263-00)

·  14 Mar 08 balance was $222,547.51

·  11 May 08 balance was $197,911.85

o  Domain name registration -$20.00

·  Taipei status:

o  361 attendees

o  Net deficit $24,636

·  Jacksonville

o  Budget estimate $216,200

o  Registration Income: $231,570

8:31 Wireless announcements:

Wireless Network Updates by Rick Alfvin (15-08-283-01)

·  Newton.events.ieee.org (docs and attendance links)

·  IEEE.1x is available

IMAT by Christina Sahr ()

·  To get an IEEE web account http://www.ieee.org/go/create_web_account and follow directions

·  Enter activity profile in myProject

·  Register with IMAT

·  Uses IEEE web account

·  Register with IMAT once per week

8:30 Review Interim meetings

·  7-12 Sept Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island

·  18-23 January 2009, Hyatt Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA,

·  10-15 May 2009, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montreal, CA

·  20-25 September 2009, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI, USA

·  7-22 Jan or 16-21 May 2010 Pacific Rim location

·  12-17 Sep 2010, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI, USA

8:35 Task Group Updates

·  802.11 (Agenda – 08/449r2)

WNG: call for topics – multi-radio coexistence

VHT SG: working on PAR and 5C

TGaa: Video Transport Settings is just beginning

IMT adhoc: planning through 2008

Other TGs: comment resolution

802.15

WNG: one presentation

TG3c: completing drafting towards letter ballot

TG4c: letter ballot completed with 100% approval

TG4d: completing draft towards letter ballot in July

TG4e: defining terms and draft CFP

TG5: Going to recirculation

TG6 (BAN): finalizing application matrix

RFID SG: move process forward

TerraHz IG: looking for opportunities

VLC SG: defining basic elements in PAR

NAN IG: just started looking at Neighborhood Area Networking

802.18

·  60 GHz

·  Hearing Aid change

·  Draft CFC for Q4 ITU

802.20

Review and resolve sponsor ballot comments from recirculation

Development of PARs for future projects of 802.20

802.21

Wrapping up comment resolutions from Sponsor Ballot

Two new SGs security signaling in handover, multi radio power conservation management

802.22

·  Recirc on 802.22.1

·  Letter ballot on 802.11

8:51 joint meeting adjourned

9:35 B Heile (ZigBee Alliance), WG chair called the 802.15 WG plenary to order

Highlights of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards

Chair displayed the IEEE-SA patent policy presentation slides 0-5 and reading the instructions for the WG Chair. (http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt).

Chair asked participants to identify 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, there were no responses.

Approve/modify joint opening agenda (15-08-0217-02-0000)

·  Moved by A Astrin, seconded by I Reede. Following neither discussion nor dissent the agenda was approved.

Review and approve joint minutes from the Orlando meeting (15-08-0136-00-0000)

·  Moved by A Astrin, seconded by J Gilb. Upon neither discussion nor objection the joint minutes were approved.

9:46 Voter Status

·  168 voters, 22 nearly, 107 aspirants.

·  Chair informed group that the voter list on the web site will be changed to contain information as to whether that person voted in the last two letter ballots

9:50 WG recessed

Wednesday 14 May 2008

802.15 mid-session plenary meeting

The chair displayed document number 08-217r2 on the overhead.

10:32 Bob Heile called the meeting to order.

Announcements:

10:36 Mid-week status updates

802.18 by J Barr

·  no major actions

·  802.16 co-location initiative – 802.11 doesn’t want formal effort but attendance from 802.16 is welcomed

·  802.11n is still including banding at 2.4 GHz that will cause issues with 802.15 2.4 GHz devices

TG3c by R Fisher

·  37 out of 145 technical comments still remain

·  looking to go to letter ballot at end of week

TG4c by Clint Powell (15-08-309-00-004c)

·  19 editorial comments from Letter Ballot are being resolved

·  Recirculation with resolutions before July session

Motion:

That the 802.15 WG approves the draft amendment P802-15-4c-D3_Draft_Amendment.pdf resulting from applying the comment resolutions of doc. # 15-08-0338-00-004c to P802-15-4c-D2_Draft_Amendment.pdf and requests that the WG go to 1st Letter Ballot Recirculation if needed and if recirculation is not needed then P802-15-4c-D3_Draft_Amendment.pdf ” will be used in the motion to go to sponsor ballot at the July mtg.

Moved by C Powell; and seconded by Art Astrin

Upon neither discussion nor objection the motion carries.

TG4d by P Beecher

Heard two proposals and will plan out next steps

TG4e by P Kinney

Heard 8 presentations and reviewed definitions.

TG5 by M Lee

Resolving comments and plan to ask for recirc from WG on Thursday

TG6 (BAN) by A Astrin

Several presentations have been heard, planning to draft a TG call for proposals and determine a schedule for the remainder of the year.

RFID SG by M McInnis

There were 25 attendees at its first meeting this session. The SG reviewed its direction and revised its Call for Contributions for March session.

SG VLC by Eun Tae Won

Drafting the PAR and 5C

IGTHZ by R Roberts doc (15-08-0330)

There were three contributions presented. This IG agreed to schedule meetings only at plenary meetings.

802.11 WNG by R Roberts (15-08-327)

3 contributions: segregated services, consolidated Power Line Communications, presence information in large networks

NAN IG by Ed Callaway (15-08-344)

Motion: that the Working Group seek authorization to form a study group to develop the PAR and 5c documents for the smart utility grid (neighborhood area network) application

Moved by Clint Powell and seconded by Ben Rolfe

Following no discussion the vote was taken with the results of 32/0/5, the motion carries

WNG by P Kinney

There will be two presentations at the following meeting.

AoB none

11:04 Recessed until Thursday at 18:30

Thursday, 15 May 2008

18:33 WG chair called the meeting to order (agenda 15-08-0217-03)

802.19 Liaison report by Cheung Lee

·  60 GHz claim of interference to satellite reception has been challenged due to errors in calculations

802.18 Liaison report by J Barr (15-08-384-00-0000)

·  Liaison letter to 802.16 drafted by participants of 802.11, 802.15

·  Motion to approve sending of the letter drafted by ad hoc committee of 802.11, 802.15 and 802.19 members to chairperson of 802.16

o  Moved by Barr and seconded by J Gilb

o  Upon neither discussion nor objection the motion carries with unanimous consent.

Finance by J Barr (08/263r1)

·  Budget estimate $216,200

·  Registration income $258,350

·  Meeting expense $219,144

·  Surplus $42,206

Bluetooth SIG by J Barr

·  Nothing new to report

19:00 TG3c by R Fisher (15-08-377-01-003c)

Motion: Authorize the draft standard P802.15-3c-DF3_Draft_Amendment.pdf for 802.15 working group for Letter Ballot with the condition that it is first amended with the resolutions in 15-08-255-09-003c—DF3_issue_tracking.xls

Moved by R Fisher and seconded by J Gilb.

Discussion:

o  Comment made that draft was not ready for letter ballot since all comments had not been sufficiently resolved to the satisfaction of all of the TG3c membership.

·  Vote was taken with the results of 53/1/1, motion carries

19:05 TG4d by P Beecher (15-08-379-00-004d)

Motion: That the 802.15 WG approves the draft amendment

P802-15-4d-D1_Draft_Amendment.pdf, to be constructed from the pre draft amendment P802-15-4d-D0.2_Draft_Amendment and the instructions to the editors doc. # 0375 rev. 0 and subject to the approval of the review committee, to go to Letter Ballot.

Moved by P Beecher, C Powell

Upon neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent.

19:10 TG4e by P Kinney (15-08-314-00-004e)

19:17 TG5 by Myung Lee (15-08-380-00-0005)

·  Motion Task Group 802.15.5 seeks Working Group approval to start a recirculation ballot based upon the draft d3P802-15-5_Draft_standard.pdf and the comments resolved in d3P802.15.5draft_standard_comment _sheet.xls

Moved by M Lee and seconded by J Gilb

Upon neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent.

19:19 TG6 by A Astrin (15-08-366-00-0ban)

19:22VLC by Eun Tae Won (15-08-385-00-0vlc)

19:24 IG NAN closing report by E Callaway (15-08-383-00-0000)

19:28 WNG closing report by P Kinney

·  Two reports:

o  Jeff Solum of Starkey Laboratories

§  Requesting change of 15.247 at 900MHz to allow narrower bandwidth

o  David Davidson of GE Medical

§  Requesting change of FCC to allow medical band at 2360 – 2400 MHz

19:30 RFIDSG by M McInnis (15-08-350-00-rfid)

19:33 TG11n by J Gilb

·  Looking to go to Sponsor ballot in November

·  Coexistence issue due to 40 MHz channels in the 2.4 GHz band

19:38 VHT Liaison report by J Gilb (15-08-382-01-0000)

19:47 TGs Liaison report by Michael Bahr (15-08-0386-00-0000)

ZigBee Alliance by R Heile

·  First 7 Smart Energy products received certification today

ISA100 liaison report by P Kinney

·  ISA100.11a has posted a draft of its standard on its ftp site, please go to www.isa.org for further details

·  Released draft is expected by end of year

19:53 Open Discussion/Next Steps

·  Denver graphic was displayed (15-08-371-00-0000)

19:55 AoB

19:55 A motion to adjourn was made by J Gilb, seconded by R Fisher, upon no objection the motion carried, the session is adjourned.

Annex A Attendance = 154

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Last Name / First Name
Alfvin / Richard
An / Xizhi
Arita / Takashi
Astrin / Arthur
Bae / Taehan
Bahr / Michael
Bain / Jay
Banerjea / Raja
Bar / Vered
Basson / Gal
Batra / Anuj
Beecher / Philip
Bhatti / Ghulam
Bosco / Bruce
Bourdoux / Andre
Britz / David
Bynam / Kiran
Callaway / Edgar
Casas / Eduardo
Chang / Kuor-Hsin
Chebbo / Hind
Choe / Soo
Choi / Chang-Soon
Cooke / Matthew
Davenport / David
De Ruijter / Hendricus
Dixon / Paul
Driesen / Bas
Ekbal / Amal
Enns / Frederick
Farserotu / John
Fisher / Reed
Flammer / George
Floyd / Brian
Fukui / Kiyoshi
Fukunaga / Shigeru
Funada / Ryuhei
Gaffney / Brian
Gilb / James
Goodall / David
Gowans / Andrew
Grodzinsky / Mark
Gutierrez / Jose
Hansen / C
Hara / Shinsuke
Harada / Hiroshi
Heile / Robert
Heo / Jun
Hernandez / Marco
Ho / Jin-Meng
Hong / Seung
Hong / Wei
Huang / Tian-Wei
Hwang / Jung-Hwan
Hyun / Seok
Ida / Ichirou
Ikegami / Tetsushi
Jalfon / Marc
Jeon / Young
Joo / Seong-Soon
Jung / Heewon
Kang / Noh-Gyoung
Kang / Sungweon
Kang / Tae-Gyu
Karaoguz / Jeyhan
Kasher / Assaf
Kato / Shuzo
Kawamoto / Yasutaka
Kim / Jaehwa
Kim / Jaehwan
Kim / Kihong
Kim / Seokho
Kim / Seong
Kim / Yongsun
Kinney / Patrick
Knudsen / Christopher
Ko / Young-Chai
Kondou / Keitarou
Kwon / Edwin
Kwon / Hyoungjin
Kwon / Hyukchoon
Lakkis / Ismail
Lampe / John
Lee / Jae
Lee / Jeong
Lee / Myung
Lee / Seong-Hee
Lee / Tae
Lei / Zhongding
Lewis / Daniel
Li / Changle
Li / Huan-Bang
Livneh / Noam
Macmullan / Samuel
Mathew / Abbie
Mcinnis / Michael
Miniutti / Dino
Moorti / Rajendra
Munaka / Tatsuji
Nabar / Rohit
Nagai / Yukimasa
Nakamura / Tetsuya
Ngo / Chiu
Noda / Makoto
Oh / Jisung
Omeni / Okundu
Pace / James
Park / Hyung-Il
Park / Jahng
Park / Taerim
Patel / Maulin
Patro / Ranjeet
Petrick / Al
Powell / Clinton
Quan / Wang
Rahman / Mohammad
Ramasastry / Jayaram
Reede / Ivan
Roberts / Richard
Roblot / Sandrine
Rolfe / Benjamin
Ryu / Jaeyoung
Sadri / Ali
Sahinoglu / Zafer
Sayrafian / Kamran
Schultz / Don
Schwoerer / Jean
Shah / Divyesh
Shao / Huairong
Shu / Feng
Sim / Michael
Singh / Harkirat
Solum / Jeffrey
Son / Jaeseung
Strauch / Paul
Suzuki / Shuji
Takahashi / Kazuaki
Takizawa / Kenichi
Thomas / Charles
Trainin / Solomon
Umehira / Masahiro
Walewski / Joachim
Wang / Chao

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