Our January 2003 meeting was held at the Marina Marriott, Ft Lauderdale, Florida, USA. There were 180 people present at the (joint) opening plenary session, with 24 new participants. As of  this week, there are 320 voters, with 109 nearly voters.

These Letter Ballots closed in the weeks preceding this meeting.

• LB50 on 802.11g-D5.0 passed 256 : 34 : 18, 96% return, 88% approval.
• LB51 on 802.11e-D4.0 passed 228 : 47 : 21, 92% return, 83% approval 
• LB52 on 802.11i-D3.0 passed 209 : 65: 21, 92% return, 76% approval
• LB53 on 802.15.2 D07 passed 184 : 22 : 58, 77% return, 89% approval

New Letter Ballots:

 The working group passed a motion on behalf of TGg to conduct a 15-day Working Group recirculation ballot on Draft 6.1 of IEEE 802.11g with an opening date of January 20, 2003 and a closing date of February 6, 2003. The WG voted to conduct a Sponsor Ballot on Draft 6.1 of IEEE 802.11g targeted starting date of February 7, 2003, following the successful completion of the 15-day Letter Ballot.

The working group passed a motion on behalf of the High Throughput Study Group to conduct a WG Letter ballot to approve 02-798r2 (PAR) and 02-799r2 (5 Criteria).

Other WG activities:

• Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
• May 12-16, 2003, in Singapore. Hosted by Cisco.
• September 2003 – Location TBD. Considering Ottawa, Canada
• January 2004 – Vancouver Hotel.

• The working group passed a motion to request an 802 ExCom e-mail ballot on the question of conditional approval to forward to sponsor ballot (Procedure 10) Draft 6.1 of IEEE 802.11g..
• The working group passed a motion to request publication of draft 6.1 of IEEE 802.11g immediately following the January 2003 session.

• The reaffirmation Sponsor ballot on 802.11-1999 passed 68 yes, 2 no, 5 abstain, 97% approval
• The working group passed a motion to accept the resolutions on the reaffirmation Ballot as found in doc 03-117. This motion also initiated a recirculation Sponsor Ballot, and put the reaffirmation on the March RevCom agenda.

The reports for the individual task groups are linked below:
 

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

Project 802.11j,   4.9 GHz - 5 GHz Operation in Japan

Project 802.11k,  Radio Resource Measurement of Wireless LANs

High Throughput Study Group,

WNG,                     Wireless LAN Next Generation Standing Committee

Publicity               Ad Hoc Group

Meeting Schedule:

The next meeting of 802.11 will take place at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport,  the week of  March 9, 2003. 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)
• IEEE P802.18 Regulatory TAG
• IEEE P802.19 Coexistence TAG

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