Our July 2004 meeting was held at the Portland Hilton, Portland, Oregon, USA. As of this meeting, 802.11 membership consists of 350 voting members, and 146 nearly voters.

These Letter Ballots closed in the weeks preceding this meeting:

• LB69: Affirmation of WG Plenary vote to approve WPP SG PAR and 5C. It passed with a vote of  329 : 18 : 27. The ballot had a 68% return and 95% approval.
• LB70: Affirmation of WG Plenary vote to approve WAVE SG PAR and 5C. It passed with a vote of  330 : 24 : 20. The ballot had a 68% return and 93% approval.

New Ballots:

• The working group approved forwarding of 802.11e D9.0 to sponsor recirculation ballot .
• The working group approved forwarding of 802.11j D1.6 to sponsor recirculation ballot.
• The working group approved forwarding 802.11k D1.0 to WG letter ballot.
  

Completed Work:

• 802.11i was approved by the IEEE Standards Board on June 24th, 2004.
  

Other WG activities:

• The Working Group approved the new Policies and Procedures document 04/510r0.
  
• The working group reaffirmed the vote from May to form a new study group on Access Point Functional Descriptions.
• The working group approved the formation of a new study group on Management and Control Frame Protection Functions.
• The working group approved motions by TGe and TGj to conduct meetings to resolve comments on their respective sponsor recirculation ballots. These meetings will be announced on the reflector.
  
• Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
• September 12-17, 2004 - Berlin, Germany  (Registration now open)
  
• January 16 - 21, 2005 - Monterey California.
• May 15-20 - Sydney, Australia
• September 19-23, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts

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 Throughput

Project 802.11p,  Wireless Access in the Vehicular Environment (Study Group)

Project 802.11r,   Fast Roaming Fast Handoff

Project 802.11s,  Mesh Networking

Project 802.11t,  Wireless Performance Prediction

WNG,                     Wireless LAN Next Generation Standing Committee

Publicity               Publicity Committee

WIEN SG              Wireless Interworking With External Networks Study Group

WNM SG               Wireless Network Management Study Group

Meeting Schedule:

The next meeting of 802.11 will take place September 12th-17th, 2004 at the Estrel Hotel,  Berlin, Germany
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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