Our March 2006 meeting was held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. As of this meeting, the 802.11 membership consists of 419 voting members.These Ballots concluded since the prior meeting:
- Letter Ballot 81 on P802.11p-D1.0 was opened March 2, 2006 and closed April 11, 2006. The ballot failed with 59% approval (167 approve, 117 disapprove, 63 abstain)
- Recirculation Letter Ballot 82 on P802.11r-D2.0 was opened March 15, 2006, and closed April 4, 2006. It passed with 88% approval (316 approve, 44 disapprove, 69 abstain).
- Recirculation Letter Ballot 83 on P802.11k-D4.0 was opened March 16, 2006 and closed March 31, 2006. It passed with 81% approval (308 approve, 73 disapprove, 44 abstain).
- Letter ballot 84 on P802.11n-D1.0 was opened March 19, 2006 and closed April 29, 2006. It failed with 47% approval. (149 approve, 171 disapprove, 32 abstain)
- A sponsor recirculation ballot on 802.11REV-ma draft 6.0 opened April 10, 2006 and closed May 10, 2006. It passed with 90% approval. (95 approve, 10 disapprove, 9 abstain)
These new Ballots were initiated from this meeting:
- The working group approved sending 802.11REV-ma draft 7.0 to sponsor recirculation ballot.
Other WG activities:
The consolidated working group and task group minutes for this meeting are available here.
- The 802.11 Policies and Procedures document is under revision. An overview of changes can be found in document 06/811r0. The updated document with revision marks is available as 06/812r1. This document will be approved with a working group vote in the July meeting.
- The working group approved sending a reply to the liaison letter from TIA TR41.4. The approved response is in document 06/0796r2.
- The working group approved a motion to change the duration of letter ballots from 40 days to 30 days. This will allow the task group editors time to incorporate approved changes into a draft following a meeting, conduct a letter ballot to approve a letter ballot on the revised draft, and then conduct a letter ballot on the draft. With this change, it will be possible to complete this process in the time between meetings of the working group. This change will be incorporated into the revision of the policies and procedures, scheduled for an approval vote in July.
- Upcoming Interim meeting locations were discussed:
- September 17 - 21, 2006: Melbourne, Australia. Registration will be available May 22, 2006.
- January 14-19 2007: Hilton London Metropole
- May 2007: Montreal, Canada
- September 2007: Hawaii, Hilton Waikoloa Village.
The reports for the individual task groups are linked below:
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
Project 802.11r, Fast Roaming Fast Handoff Project 802.11s, Mesh Networking
Project 802.11T, Wireless Performance Prediction Project 802.11u, Wireless Interworking With External Networks
Project 802.11v, Wireless Network Management Project 802.11w, Protected Management Frames
Project 802.11y, Contention Based Protocol Study Group WNG, Wireless LAN Next Generation Standing Committee
Meeting Schedule:
The next meeting of 802.11 will take place July 16-21, 2006, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA, USA. -See IEEE 802.11 Meeting Plan for details.
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