Our March 2004 meeting was held at the Hilton Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. As of this meeting, 802.11 membership consists of 403 voting members, and 145 nearly voters.

These Letter Ballots closed in the weeks preceding this meeting:

• LB65: Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11e Draft 7.0. It passed with a vote of 258 : 19 : 24. The ballot had a 94% return and 93% approval.
• LB66: Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11j Draft 1.3. It passed with a vote of  258 : 17 : 27. The ballot had a 65% return and 94% approval.
• LB67: Recirculation Letter Ballot for 802.11e Draft 8.0. It passed with a vote of 262 : 16 : 22. The ballot had a 94% return and 94% approval.

New Ballots:

• The working group approved forwarding of 802.11e D8.0 to sponsor ballot.
• The working group approved forwarding of  802.11i D9.0 to sponsor recirculation ballot.
• The working group approved forwarding of 802.11j D1.4 to working group recirculation ballot. This was issued as LB 68. The use of procedure 10 was requested to enable forwarding the draft directly to sponsor ballot.

Other WG activities:

• The officers of the 802.11 Working Group were re-affirmed.
  
• The Working Group Policies and Procedures have been updated in document 00/331r8.
  
• Lee Armstrong was elected chair of the TGp (WAVE) Task Group.
• Clint Chaplin was elected chair of the TGr (Fast Roaming) Task Group
  
• Donald Eastlake was elected chair of the TGs (Wireless Performance Prediction) Task Group
• Steven McCann was elected chair of the WIEN (Wireless Interworking with External Networks ) Study Group
• Harry Worstell was elected chair of the WNM (Wireless Network Management) Study Group
  
• Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
• May 9-14, 2004 -Anaheim, California
• September 12-17, 2004 - Berlin, Germany
• January 16 - 21, 2005 - considering Monterey California..
  

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

WNG,                     Wireless LAN Next Generation Standing Committee

Publicity               Publicity Committee

Meeting Schedule:

The next meeting of 802.11 will take place March 15 - 19, 2004 – a the Hilton Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 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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