Our September 2003 meeting was held at the Swissôtel The Stamford, Singapore. As of this meeting, 802.11 membership consists of 447 voting members, and 107 nearly voters.

These Letter Ballots closed in the weeks preceding this meeting:

• LB59: Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11e Draft 5.0. It passed with a vote of  240 : 24 : 26. The ballot had a 93% return and 88% approval.
  
• LB60: Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11i Draft 5.0. It passed with a vote of 243 : 36 : 20. The ballot had a 93% return and 87% approval.
  

New Letter Ballot:

• LB61: The working group passed a motion to conduct a Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11i Draft 6.0

Other WG activities:

• Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
• January 11th-16th, 2004 – The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• May 2004 - Options under consideration: Seoul, Korea, and Berlin, Germany.

• The DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) Study Group met for the first time. Lee Armstrong was appointed as SG chair.
  
• Two Interpretation Responses (03-752r0 and 03-754r0) were drafted by TGm, and approved by the working group.
  
• A motion to approve the PAR and 5 Criteria for the 802.11 Mesh task group was brought forward. The motion was tabled.
• A motion to approve the PAR and 5 Criteria for the DSRC task group was brought forward. The motion was tabled.
• In response to the network problems caused by computers infected with viruses, a motion was made to require members to employ effective virus protection. After much discussion, the motion was tabled, and the issue was referred to the CAC and network providers to resolve.
  

The reports for the individual task groups are linked below:
 

Project 802.11e,  MAC Enhancements for Quality of Service

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

Project 802.11m, Maintenance PAR

Project 802.11n,  High Througput

WNG,                     Wireless LAN Next Generation Standing Committee

Publicity               Publicity Committee

Meeting Schedule:

The next meeting of 802.11 will take place November 10 - 14, 2003 – Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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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