Task Group m (TGm) met in Waikoloa, Hawaii in September 2009.

1. LB149 status. TGm has approved comment resolutions for 518 comments received in LB149, and has 187 remaining comments to resolve.


Output documents:
Minutes - 11-09/1010r0

Task Group m (TGm) met in San Francisco, California in July 2009.

1. Adopted process for handling comments from LB149
2. Adopted process for deprecating features in IEEE Std 802.11
3. Addressed issues requiring editorial coordination with other 802.11 task groups
4. Approved resolutions for 13 comments received from LB149


Output documents:
Minutes - 11-09/0777r0

Task Group m (TGm) met in Montreal, Quebec in May 2009.

1. Initial letter ballot. TGm completed comment processing, produced an initial draft, and voted to send the initial revision draft to letter ballot.
2. Interpretation request. TGm processed one interpretation request regarding power saving functionality.


Output documents:
Minutes - 11-09/0564r0
Interpretation response - 11-09/0531r0

Task Group m (TGm) met in Vancouver, British Columbia in March 2009.

1. Officers. Adrian Stephens was elected as technical editor.
2. Plan of record. With a technical editor, a new plan of record was adopted. The first draft for letter ballot is expected in May 2009, with the completion of the project by March 2011.
3. Call for comments. Further processing of comments received in November 2008 continued.


Output documents:
Minutes - 11-09/0325r0
Current issues list - 11-08/1127r13

Task Group m (TGm) met in Waikaloa, HI, at the Waikaloa Hilton Hotel.  We had 2 time blocks.

Some of the Task Group officers remain open -- Jon Rosdahl (CSR) continues as Chair Pro Tem, and Mike Montemurro (RIM) was elected Vice Chair.

A PAR Revision was created and approved for submission for approval by 802 EC.

Goals for Sept.

1.  Elect TG Officers      
2.  Process new interpretation requests
3.  Review Plan of Record and Timeline status
4.  Review and process work items for maintenance/revision of the Standard
5.  Planning for Nov 2008 plenary session

1. Elect TG Officers: Mike Montemurro (RIM) was elected as Vice Chair
2.  No Interpretation Requests were received
3. No change to Plan of Record
4. Issues were added to issues tracking document.  Call for Input reissued on Sept. 10, 2008.

5. Goals for Nov:

o        Missing TG Officers Election/appointment

o        Process new interpretation requests

o        Review and process work items for maintenance/revision of the Standard

o        Listen to presentations on proposed changes to new revision (Need to have 4-6 slot times)

o        Respond to any EC comments on PAR modification.

o        Planning for Jan 2009 Interim session

Output Documents:

11-08-10375-00-000m-TGmb Agenda and Report Sept 2008

11-08-0917-01-000m-TGmb comment template

11-08-1114-00-000m-September 2008 interim meeting minutes (Kona, Hawai'i)

11-08-1149-01-0000-Revision-Par-Proposal-802-11-2007

11-08-1127-02-000m-TGmb Issues List

Task Group m (TGm) met in Denver CO, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.  We had two time blocks.  

Three interpretation requests were processed.  
The Timeline and plan of record was reviewed and a second call for input was issued on Thursday, July 17, 2008.

Goals for July 2008

o        Elect TG Officers

o        Process new interpretation requests

o        Review and process work items for maintenance/revision of the Standard

o        Planning for Sept 2008 Interim session

3 Interpretation requests were processed:

1. Multiple BSSID and proper spacing
2. Section 7.3.1.17  -- Max SP Length subfield of the QoS Info Field question
3. Section 7.3.2.20 -- Minimum PHY Rate field of the TSPEC IE  question

Goals for Sept.

o        Elect TG Officers

o        Process new interpretation requests

o        Review Plan of Record and Timeline status

o        Review and process work items for maintenance/revision of the Standard

o        Planning for Nov 2008 plenary session

Output Docs:

11-08-0795-00-000m-Agenda and Reports

11-08-0872-03-000m-minutes July08

11-08-917 TGmb comment template

 11-08-930-00-0000 3 responses to Interpretation Requests July 2008

Task Group m met in Jacksonville, FL at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.  We had one time block and followed the Goals for May:

Goals for May 2008

1. Elect a TG Chair/Secretary/Editor/Issue Tracker
2. Process new interpretation requests
3. Review and process work items for maintenance/revision of the Standard
4.  Review and revise Timeline
5.  Planning for July 2008 plenary session

1. Officer Elections:

Call for Nominations -- no nominations -- 

Jon Rosdahl to be Chair Pro Tem

          Nominations to be opened next session again.

2. Interpretation Requests:

•  The Interpretation Request that was processed was not officially possed to the IEEE, so we will wait on officially processing the request until it has been proper posted to the IEEE.

4. Created TGmb Plan of Record

• May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input
•  July 2008 – begin process input and old Interpretation requests
•             Acknowledge previous Task Group referrals
•  Sept 2008 – Start PAR Revision process
• Nov 2008 – close receipt of new input
• Nov 2008 – WG/EC approval of PAR Revision
• Dec 2008 – NesCom/SASB approval PAR Revision
• Mar/May 2009 first WG Letter ballot 
•  (includes All published Amendments as of Mar/May 2009)
•  July/Sept 2009 Recirc start
• Sept 2009 – Form Sponsor Pool
•  Nov 2009 – Sponsor Ballot Start
•   (Include all published amendments as of Nov 2009)
•  Mar 2010 – Sponsor Recirc
•  Nov 2010 – WG/EC Final Approval
•  Mar 2011 – RevCom/SASB Approval

     CALL FOR COMMENT/INPUT

 TGmb is requesting Comment/Input on the 802.11-2007 plus approved RevCom amendments.

 Input period is from May 2008 until Nov 2008.

 Presentations of proposed resolutions are expected to be posted to IEEE Mentor server, and notification sent to the 802.11m listserv reflector.

 Notice was sent out on the 802.11 WG Reflector on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

5. Goals for July

•  Elect TG Officers
•  TGmb Chair     ---     TGmb Secretary
• TGmb Editor    ---     TGmb Comment Tracker
• Process new interpretation requests
•  Review and process work items for maintenance/revision of the Standard
•  Planning for Sept 2008 plenary session

Output Docs:

11-08-0588-02-000m-TGmb Agenda and Report May 2008

11-08-0622-00-000m-minutes-may-2008

             
   

Task Group m (TGm) met in Orlando at the Caribe-Royal Resort. The task group held one meeting and focused on completing the response to a interpretation request Transmit Power Control (TPC) in reference to EIRP in reference to P802.11-2007 Clause 7.3.2.18.

TBm completed and approved of the items in the interpretation request and created doc: 08/0375r0 as the approved response by the working group.

The relavent documents for this session were: 08/0390r0, 08/391r0, and 08/375r0.

Goals for May 2008

1) Process any new incoming interpretation requests

2) Begin outlining requirements for the next revision of the P802.11 standard (including TGr, TGk, TGn) for target completion by 2011

 

Task Group m (Tgm) did not meet at the January interim session in Taipei, Taiwan. TGMb will resume meeting at the March 2008 plenary session in Orlando, Florida. The tentative goals for the group at the March 2008 session are as follows:

Goals for March 2008

1) Complete interpretation request on the subject of TPC (transmit power control) in Clause 7.3.2.18

2) Process request on the usage of "shall" in Clause 10.0

3) Process any new interpretations requests from the IEEE

 

Task Group m (Tgm) met in Atlanta at the Hyatt Regency. The task group held one meeting and focused on completing the response to a interpretation request on TCLAS Element from 802.11e-2005 in doc: 07/2248r0. Tgmb completed and approved of the items in the interpretation request and created doc: 07/2248r1.

The relavent documents for this session were: 07/2248r1, 07/2922r0, and 07/2920r0.

Goals for January 2008

1) Process interpretation request on the subject of TPC (transmit power control) in Clause 7.3.2.18

 

Task Group m (Tgm) did not meet at the September interim session in Hawaii. TGMb will resume meeting at the November 2007 plenary session in Atlanta, GA. The tentative goals for the group at the November 2007 session are as follows:

Goals for November 2007

1) Complete interpretation response on TCLAS Element held over from July 2007

2) Process interpretation request on the subject of TPC (transmit power control) in Clause 7.3.2.18

3) Process request on the usage of "shall" in Clause 10.0

 

Task Group m (Tgm) met in San Francisco at the Hyatt Regency. The task group held two meetings and focused on responding to a interpretation request on TCLAS Element from 802.11e-2005. Tgm complete 50% of the items in the interpretation request. The relavent documents for this session were: 07/2248r0, 07-2151r0, and 07/2251.

Goals for September 2007

1) Complete interpretation response on TCLAS Element

 

The task group finished its work as TGma the January 2007 session. Task Group m (Tgm) met in Montreal, Canada as TGmb. The task group held two meetings and focus on gathering unresolved comments from the 802.11REV-ma sponsor ballot that were considered "out-of-scope" of the standard. In addition the task group started gathering interpretation requests that resolved around channel numbering. The task group produced a document that combined the comments and requests that will be resovled at the next 802.11 session in July 2007.

Goals for July 2007

1) Begin work on resolving (out-of-scope) comments from 802.11REV-maD9.0

2) Resolve interpretation requests from January 2007

 

Task Group m met in London, UK. The task group considered a request for interpretation of the standard on the subject of an indecipherable sentence in clause 17.  The task group produced a response that was approved by the 802.11 working group.

The task group also produced a proposal for a PAR for further maintenance of the standard.  This was also approved by the working group and forwarded for the consideration of the 802 Executive Committee.

Unless the consideration of the 802.11REV-ma draft by the IEEE-SA Standards Board Review committee does not go well, this is the last report of TGma, as it will be dissolved upon approval of that draft by the IEEE-SA Standards Board.

Task Group m met in Dallas, TX. The result of the fourth sponsor recirculation ballot on 802.11REV-ma that concluded shortly before the November 2006 session was successful, meeting the requirements of the LMSC Executive Committee for conditional forwarding to RevCom.  The editor will produce a clean draft that accepts the marked changes.  The draft and the results of the sponsor balloting process will be submitted to RevCom for their Early Consideration agenda that begins after their meeting in December.

The task group also responded to one interpretation request submitted on the subject of the replay protection mechanism used by the TKIP cipher suite.

The goals for the January 2007 session are:

Task Group m met in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to process the comments received from the third sponsor recirculation ballot that concluded shortly before the September 2006 session.  The recirculation ballot resulted in 41 comments to be addressed.  The task group responded to all of the comments.  The working group approved the comment resolutions.  The editor was directed to produce an updated draft.  A third sponsor recirculation ballot will begin shortly after the close of the session.

The task group also responded to two interpretation requests submitted on the subjects of unknown values in a received information element and conflict between clause 9 and annex C on the use of rery counters.

The goals for the November 2006 session are:

Task Group m met in San Diego, California to process the comments received from the second sponsor recirculation ballot that concluded immediately before the July 2006 session.  The recirculation ballot resulted in 90 comments to be addressed.  The task group responded to all of the comments.  The working group approved the comment resolutions.  A third sponsor recirculation ballot will begin shortly after the close of the session.

The task group also responded to an interpretation request submitted on the subject of RTS/CTS usage during interrupted fragment bursts.

The goals for the September 2006 session are:

• Process the comments received from the third sponsor recirculation ballot
• Create a new draft and send it to a fourth sponsor recirculation ballot, if necessary
• Forward the draft to RevCom for approval, if possible
• Process any interpretation requests received

Task Group m met in Jacksonville, Florida to process the comments received from the first sponsor recirculation ballot that concluded immediately before the May 2006 session.  The recirculation ballot resulted in 156 comments to be addressed.  The task group responded to all of the comments.  The working group approved the comment resolutions.  A second sponsor recirculation ballot will begin shortly after the close of the session.

The goals for the July 2006 session are:

• Process the comments received from the second sponsor recirculation ballot
• Create a new draft and send it to a third sponsor recirculation ballot, if necessary
• Forward the draft to RevCom for approval, if possible
• Process any interpretation requests received

Task Group m met in Denver, Colorado to complete processing the comments received from the sponsor ballot that concluded after the November 2005 session.  The task group responded to all of the remaining comments  The working group approved the comment resolutions.  A sponsor recirculation ballot will begin shortly after the close of the session.

The goals for the May 2006 session are:

• Process the comments received from the sponsor recirculation ballot
• Create a new draft and send it to a second sponsor recirculation ballot
• Process any interpretation requests received

Task Group m met in beautiful Waikoloa, Hawai'i to process the comments received from the sponsor ballot that concluded after the November 2005 session.  Nearly all of the technical comments were discussed and resolutions adopted.  Completion of the comment processing is expected in the March 2006 session, with a sponsor recirculation ballot to follow shortly after the close of that session.

The goals for the March 2006 session are:

• Complete processing of the comments received on the sponsor ballot
• Send a draft to sponsor recirculation ballot
• Process any interpretation requests received
  

 

Task Group m met in Vancouver, B.C., Canada to process the comments received to date on the sponsor ballot that was still in progress.  A significant number of the comments were discussed and resolutions proposed.  No comment resolutions were adopted, pending the closure of the sponsor ballot.

The goals for the January 2006 session are:

• Process the comments received on the sponsor ballot
• Send a draft to sponsor recirculation ballot
• Process any interpretation requests received
  

 

Task Group m met in Garden Grove, CA to process the comments received with the ballots on working group recirculation ballot 77.  The comments received on recirculation ballot 76 were dealt with in August at an authorized comment resolution meeting..  The letter ballot passed, with more than 96% approval.

The task group completed resolving all comments.  No changes were made to the draft (802.11REV-ma D4.0).  At the meeting of the 802 Executive Committee in July, conditional approval was granted to forward 802.11REV-ma to sponsor ballot upon meeting the conditions described in the LMSC Policies and Procedures.  Theses conditions were met with the passing of ballot 77 and were documented to the Executive Committee.  802.11REV-ma will now be sent for sponsor ballot, the next step toward approval by the IEEE Standards Association as the new 802.11 standard.

The goals for the November 2005 session are:

• Process the comments received on the sponsor ballot
• Send a draft to sponsor recirculation ballot
• Process any interpretation requests received
  

 

Task Group m met in San Francisco, CA to process the comments received with the ballots on working group recirculation ballot 75.  The letter ballot passed, with more than 93% approval..

The task group completed resolving all comments and directed the editor to create a new draft, incorporating all comment resolutions.  The new draft will be constructed and sent for a working group recirculation ballot.  This recirculation ballot will conclude in time to receive the comments and process them in a comment resolution meeting in August.  Following resolution of comments at the comment resolution meeting, a new draft will be created.  If necessary, this new draft will be sent to a second working group recirculation ballot.  If needed, a second comment resolution meeting will be held and a subsequent draft created.

The task group also requested conditional approval to send the draft to sponsor ballot, after completing all requirements in the LMSC Policies and Procedures.

The goals for the September 2005 session are:

• Process the comments received on the recirculation ballot, if such is necessary
• Send a draft to Sponsor Ballot, if it such a ballot has not already begun
• Process any interpretation requests received
  

 

Task Group m met in Cairns, Queensland, Australia to process the comments received with the ballots on working group letter ballot 74.  The letter ballot passed, with more than 90% approval..

The task group began processing the technical comments, completing proposed resolutions to 89% of those technical comments.  The remaining technical comments will be addressed at an ad hoc meeting that will be announced to occur during the week of either 20 June or 27 June 2005.  Once all comments, both technical and editorial, are addressed, the new draft will be constructed and sent for a working group recirculation ballot.  This recirculation ballot will conclude in time to receive the comments and process them at the July plenary session in San Francisco.

The goals for the July 2005 session are:

• Process the comments received on the recirculation ballot
• Create a new draft and issue it for a final recirculation ballot
• Process any interpretation requests received
  

 

Task Group m met in Atlanta, GA to continue the work of completing a revision of the 802.11 standard and its amendments, as well as to address an interpretation request.  The interpretation request was determined to be a request for consulting and rejected.

The AP Functional Description group delivered their material to incorporate into the revision draft for the first working group ballot.  The task group accepted this material and incorporated it into the draft.

The work on the draft of the 802.11 revision was completed and the draft was forwarded to the working group for consideration via a letter ballot.  It is anticipated that this letter ballot will be completed prior to the May session in Cairns, where the task group will take up the work of resolving the comments received from the ballot.

The goals for the May 2005 session are:

• Process the comments received on the letter ballot
• Create a new draft and issue it for a recirculation ballot (this is a stretch goal)
• Process any interpretation requests received
  

 

Task Group m met in Monterey, CA to continue the work of completing a revision of the 802.11 standard and its amendments, as well as to address an interpretation request.  The interpretation request, on the use of reserved bits in the Service field of the PLCP header, was examined and a response was generated.  The interpretation response, as approved by the 802.11 working group, is in document 05/1648r0.  This document can be obtained from the 802.11 interpretation response page and also from the 802.11 document archive.

The AP Functional Description group also reported to the task group on their progress toward having material to incorporate into the revision draft for the first working group ballot. 

The work on the draft of the 802.11 revision progressed well, leaving very few work items that have been identified in previous submissions to the 802.11 working group that have not yet been addressed. The work accomplished during this session is consonant with the goal of the task group to send its draft to working group letter ballot in March 2005.

 

Task Group m met in San Antonio to continue the work of completing a revision of the 802.11 standard and its amendments, as well as to address an interpretation request.  The interpretation request, on the accuracy of some material in Annex G, was examined and a response was generated.  The interpretation response, as approved by the 802.11 working group, is in document 04/1454r0.  This document can be obtained from the 802.11 interpretation response page and also from the 802.11 document archive.

The work on the draft of the 802.11 revision progressed well, with the addressing a number of the work items that have been identified in previous submissions to the 802.11 working group. The work accomplished during this session is consonant with the goal of the task group to send its draft to working group letter ballot in March 2005.

Task Group m met in Berlin to continue the work of completing a revision of the 802.11 standard and its amendments. This work progressed well, with the adoption of submissions to specify operation where regulatory agencies hold no sway and to address issues with multirate operation introduced with 802.11g. The task group also addressed a number of the work items that have been identified in previous submissions to the 802.11 working group. The work accomplished during this session is consonant with the goal of the task group to send its draft to working group letter ballot in March 2005.

Task Group M met in Portland and completed many work items this week.  Three submissions were received and adopted for inclusion into the draft.  The first submission dealt with a change in terminology from "broadcast SSID" to "wildcard SSID" (04/759).  The second submission dealt with the definition of active scanning (04/795).  The third submission dealt with new requirements for both APs and stations relating to the use of status and reason codes (04/698).  The task group is approximately half way through the work items that are tracked in 04/801.

The goals of TGm for the Berlin meeting in September are to address any interpretation requests received, consider any submissions made to the task group, continue to work on the items listed in the issue tracking document, and potentially, to adopt the first draft of the revision to the standard in the task group.

Task Group M met in Anaheim and completed several work items this week.  A submission on the definition and use of a vendor-specific format for an information element was adopted.  The adopted content is available in document 04/522r1.  Several items of work from the issue tracking document (03/619r3) were completed, as well.  As a result, the task group directed the editor to produce a draft of the revision of the standard, including 802.11-1999, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11b-Cor1, 802.11d, 802.11g, and 802.11h, as well as the items completed during the meeting.

The goals of TGm for the Portland meeting in July are to address any interpretation requests received, consider any submissions made to the task group, continue to work on the items listed in the issue tracking document, and potentially, to adopt the first draft of the revision to the standard in the task group.

Task Group M met in Albuquerque to respond to the interpretation request received and to work on items to correct editorial and technical issues in the standard.  The response to the interpretation request is available in document 03/875.  The members of the task group began working on items contained in document 03/619 .

The goals for the next meeting of Task Group m in Vancouver are to respond to any interpretation requests received and to continue working on the items listed in document 03/619."

During the meeting held in San Francisco, Task Group M considered one interpretation request and submitted a response (document 03-576r1) to the working group.  The task group also continued to review the other documents that had been submitted to the working group, regarding inconsistencies and errors in the 802.11 standard and its approved amendments.  The task group has been accumulating work items in a tracking document (document 03-619).  At the September meeting in Singapore, the task group intends to review and respond to any interpretation requests received and resume its review of other documents that have been submitted.  The goal of the task group is to complete this review of other documents and to determine a final list of work items.  If time permits, work will begin on the work items identified.