Our September 2004 meeting was held at the Estrel Hotel, Berlin, Germany. As of September 10th, the 802.11 membership consists of 411 voting members, 122 nearly voters, 349 aspirant members.This Letter Ballot closed in the weeks preceding this meeting:
- LB71: Letter Ballot to approve 802.11k D1.0. It failed with a vote of 211 : 74 : 32. The ballot had a 77% return and 74% approval.
New Ballots:
- The working group approved forwarding of 802.11e D10.0 to sponsor recirculation ballot, and a subsequent sponsor recirculation of 802.11e D11.0 .
- The working group approved conducting a letter ballot LB72 to approve the WNM (Wireless Network Management) PAR and Five Criteria..
Other WG activities:
The reports for the individual task groups are linked below:
- The Access Point Functionality (APF) Study Group brought forward a motion to change APF to an Ad-Hoc committee. The APF committee will provide the text describing Access Point Functionality in the form of a submission to TGm.
- The WG passed a motion to establish email reflectors for each Task Group.
- Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
- January 16 - 21, 2005 - Monterey California.
- May 15-20 - Sydney, Australia
- September 19-23, 2005, Considering Alaska, St Louis, New York City
- January 2006 - Considering Hawaii or Cancun
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 November 15th-19th, 2004
at the Hyatt Regency, San Antonio, Texax. See IEEE
802.11 Meeting Plan for details.
USEFUL LINKS TO OTHER SITES:
IEEE P802.11 WLANs RELATED OTHER SITES
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