Our May 2003 meeting was held at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport, Dallas / Ft. Worth, Texas, USA. There were 185 people present at the (joint) opening plenary session, with 500 registered for the meeting. As of this meeting, the 802.11 membership consists of 397 voters and 117 Nearly Voters.This Letter Ballot closed in the weeks preceding this meeting.
- LB56: Letter Ballot for Task Group-j Draft 1.0. It passed with a vote of 172 : 45 : 28. The ballot had 62% return and 79% approval.
New Letter Ballots:
- LB57: The working group passed a motion to conduct a Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11i Draft 4.0
Other WG activities:
- Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
- September 14th-19th, 2003 – Swissôtel The Stamford, Singapore
- January 11th-16th, 2004 – The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- May 2004 - considering Baltimore, MD, Europe, Alaska, and Korea.
The reports for the individual task groups are linked below:
- IEEE 802.11g Draft 8.2 was forwarded to the 802 ExCom and subsequently to RevCom for final approval as an IEEE standard.
- Changes to the Working Group Operating Rules have been incorporated into document 00/331r6, which has been on the server. These will be voted on in the July Plenary.
- The working group affirmed final changes to the 802.11-1999 (2003 edition) update, which was forwarded to IEEE Standards for publication.
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 July 20th-25th, 2003, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
See IEEE
802.11 Meeting Plan for details.
USEFUL LINKS TO OTHER SITES:
IEEE P802.11 WLANs RELATED OTHER SITES
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