• The results of the email letter ballot for TGg that followed the January meeting were reaffirmed by a vote of 98:6:14.
• Upcoming Interim meeting locations were announced:
• May 2002 - Sydney, Australia, at the Wentworth Rydges Hotel
• September 2002 - Monterey, California, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey
• January 2003 - Ft Lauterdale, Florida
• May 2003 - Sophia Antipolis, France

• Updates to the Working Group Rules have been posted in document 01/331r3. The official vote to adopt these rules will take place at the next meeting in May during the Monday opening plenary session.
• The officers of 802.11 (Stuart Kerry, Chair; Al Petrick, Vice Chair; Harry Worstell, Vice Chair; Tim Godfrey, Secretary) were re-elected by unanimous acclamation.
• The Working Group moved to officially request the 802 SEC to establish a Regulatory TAG (Technical Advisory Group).
• The Working Group passed a motion to enable Task Group E to issue a Letter Ballot from the May meeting by a vote of 85:13:4.
• Task Group F announced an interim meeting for the task group in April to complete comment resolution and issue a new draft. TGf will conduct an email letter ballot to enable a recirculation ballot of 802.11f, and if successful, will then conduct a recirculation ballot. The Working Group passed two motions on behalf of TGf, requesting changes to the 802.11 standard needed by the 802.11f Recommended Practice.
• Task Group G resolved comments on Letter Ballot 33, and will generate a new draft at the May meeting. The working group passed a motion to pre-authorize a TGg letter ballot at the May meeting by a vote of 85:7:12.
• The Working Group passed a motion on behalf of Task Group I to conduct a working group letter ballot to forward 802.11i-D2 to sponsor ballot. The WG motion passed 100:3:6. The WG also passed a motion to empower TGi to conduct business at the May interim.
• The Working Group passed a motion on behalf of the Wireless Next Generation (WNG) Standing Committee to form a liaison with CableLabs.
• A motion was passed on behalf of the Radio Regulatory committee to authorize the chair of 802.11 to support changes in the Charter of the Radio Regulatory TAG. A motion was passed to request SEC approval to file the contents of RR-02-043r0 with the FCC.
• A motion was passed on behalf of the Coexistence committee to authorize the 802.11 chair to recommend continuance of the Coexistence Study Group until the July 2002 Plenary.
• The Working Group passed a motion to direct the WG chair to vote to decline to forward 802.16a to sponsor ballot until 802.16a addresses coexistence in the unlicensed bands. The vote was 33:16:33.
• The Working Group passed a motion to send IEEE 802.15.2 Draft version D05 to working group letter ballot by a vote of 64:0:15.
• The Working Group passed a motion to establish a liaison to JEDEC JC-61 by a vote of 25:22:26.
• The Working Group passed a motion that all 802.11 email reflectors be closed to allow submissions only from members of the reflector by a vote of 47:6:9.
• A special task group, led by Duncan Kitchin was convened to solve the problem of maintaining the SDL description of the MAC in Annex C of the 802.11 standard. The task groups recommendation, with the support of the Task Group editors, was to delete the SDL in Annex C from the standard, and have each Task Group provide state machine descriptions in the language and format they find appropriate.

• Project 802.11e,  MAC Enhancements for Quality of Service
• Project 802.11f,   IAPP Inter Access Point Protocol
• Project 802.11g,  Higher Rate Extension to 802.11b
• Project 802.11h,  SMa - Spectrum Managed 802.11a
• Project 802.11i,   MAC Enhancements for Security
• WNG,                    Wireless LAN Next Generation Standing Committee
• Publicity,              Ad Hoc Group
• Regulatory activities

Meeting Schedule:

The next meeting of 802.11 will take place at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis, MO, USA,  the week of  March 10st-15th, 2002. See IEEE 802.11 Meeting Plan for details.

USEFUL LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

IEEE P802.11 WLANs RELATED

• FTP Site Archive
• E-mail Reflectors Archives ( Members Only)

OTHER SITES

• IEEE P802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC)
• IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

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