September 2012
doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0038r4
802.11 2nd Vice Chair’s Report – Sept 2012
Date: 2012-09-17
Authors:
Name
Company
Adrian Stephens
Intel
Corporation
Report
Address
Phone
email
[email protected]
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0038r4
Introduction
• This presentation is a status update on attendance,
membership, balloting and documentation matters.
• If you are new to 802.11,
– read document 11-12/0628
– read the reference section at the end of this presentation
• 11-12/0628 covers material every 802.11 member
needs to know: Places to look for information, Policies
and Procedures, Patent Policy, WG Guidelines, Network,
Attendance, Membership, Documentation, Reflectors
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
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Guest Room Internet Access
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
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ANA Status
• The latest database is 11-11/0270r11 (Aug 2012)
• Changes since last meeting:
– Allocation of a WNM-Notification type for WFA use
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
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Meeting Registration
Working
Number
Group
Data collected:
2012-09-16
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802.11
802.15
none
802.18
802.xx
802.16
802.21
802.19
802.22
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175
77
5
5
8
21
8
9
8
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0038r4
Current Membership Status
Status
Aspirant
Potential Voter
Voter
Number
105
34
295
Definitions:
Aspirant: a member who has attended 1 qualifying meeting
Potential Voter: a member who has attended 2 qualifying meetings and will
become a voter at the start of the next plenary they attend
Data as of 2012-09-04
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
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Recent voting member history
Date
2011-03-18
2011-06-28
2011-07-22
2011-09-23
2011-11-11
2012-01-19
2012-03-20
2012-07-20
2012-08-20
Report
Event
After Mar plenary
LB178
After July plenary
Adjustment
After Nov plenary
LB187
After Mar plenary
After July plenary
LB189
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Gained
40
26
27
36
35
Lost
8
13
29
1
25
2
40
29
5
# Voters
315
302
299
298
300
298
294
300
295
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
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Recording Attendance
• It is a requirement that attendees record their participation at an
802.11 session and declare their affiliation. This record is usually made
using the IMAT attendance system.
– If you wish to participate without recording attendance, send an email per
session to the WG 2nd vice chair declaring your participation and affiliation.
You cannot gain or maintain 802.11 voting membership using this method.
• You must record 75% attendance of eligible 802.11 slots in a session for
that session to count towards gaining or maintaining 802.11 voting
membership
– You need a single IEEE-SA web account
• The IEEE SA web account requires a working email address
• do not remove your email address from the account
– Use the email address associated with that web account when registering
attendance
• If you change email addresses, update the web account, don’t create a new
web account, or your membership status may not be calculated properly
– Record attendance using this URL:
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https://imat.ieee.org/attendance
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0038r4
Session graphic Sept 2012
•
•
•
Register once
18 Normal slots, 2 Extra slots
75% attendance requires 14 slots attended
Closing plenary requires only 1 registration for 2 slot credit
TIME
SUNDAY (15th)
Monday (16th)
TUESDAY (17th)
WEDNESDAY (18th)
THURSDAY (19th)
FRIDAY (20th)
07:00-08:00
R0
R0
802.11 WG, TG, SG, SC EDITORS MEETING
R0
R0
R0
08:00-08:30
08:30-09:00
09:00-09:30
09:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30
JOINT WIRELESS MEETING
NM
AC
AF
MC
AF
AC
1/2
AI
PAD
AC
1/2
802.11 WG CHAIRs
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(CAC)
802.11 Session
Extra Credit
PAD
AC
1/2
AH
ARC
AC
1/2
AI
AD
MC
Smart
Grid
REG AC
Dinner Break
AH AI 1/2
AC
1/2
AI
AF
AI
AH
1/2
AH
PAD
MID-SESSION PLENARY
with WG Inter-Change Included
Lunch Break
AI
MC
AC
1/2
Smart
Grid
AC
1/2
AF AI 1/2
AH
AI
AH
MC
IEEE 802.11 WORKING GROUP
CLOSING PLENARY
Break
GLK
IEEE 802.11 WG
CLOSING PLENARY
(Continued)
Lunch Break
Break
GLK
AF
Break
IEEE 802.11 WORKING GROUP
Break
GLK
AF
Break
Lunch Break
Break
WIRELESS LEADERSHIP
MEETING
AF
Break
Lunch Break
13:30-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30
18:30-19:00
19:00-19:30
19:30-20:00
20:00-20:30
20:30-21:00
21:00-21:30
21:30-22:00
22:00-22:30
WNG
SC
IEEE 802.11 WG
OPENING PLENARY
Break
AF
12:00 Hard Stop Time
AI
Break
AI
Smart
Grid
Dinner Break
AC
AH
AI
Dinner Break
SOCIAL EVENING
WNG
SC
802.11 WG CHAIRs ADVISORY COMMITTEE
802.11 Session
Attendance Base Slot
PREPARATION MEETING
`
802.11 Session Attendance Extra Credit Slots One per Evening
Report
Source: 11-12/0980r0
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
September 2012
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Online Calendar
• This session’s meetings are also shown on the 802.11
calendar on the 802.11 home page
(http://www.ieee802.org/11).
• This is a Google calendar “[email protected]”
• There are multiple ways of accessing this information,
for example from a cell-phone, or as a remote calendar.
• Note: the schedule on this calendar will be updated,
but any room changes will probably not be. Room
changes will be posted on rooms.
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Documentation
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
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Local File Document Server information
Local FTP server: ftp://newton.events.ieee.org (anonymous)
External Document Server https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents
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September 2012
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Synchronizing while at the meeting
• Particularly important when external bandwidth is
limited and unreliable
• Use anonymous ftp
–
–
–
–
Host: ftp://newton.events.ieee.org
User: anonymous
Password: <your-email-address-here>
Destination directory: /802.11/12
• Freeware tools are available, for example search for
“syncback free” **
** Other tools are available. The IEEE does not endorse the use of any
particular tool.
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Email Reflectors
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
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Email Reflectors
• There is an email reflector for the working group, plus
one for each task group.
• Write access to the reflectors allowed for those who are
members with status: aspirant, nearly-voter, potentialvoter, voter.
• To make a request, visit the reflector request page:
http://www.ieee802.org/11/Reflector.html
– Gathers information and sends an email to Vice Chair
• If you change email address – please let me know. I will
perform a global change to the list servers.
• Public read access to all reflectors is available via the
802.11 home page http://www.ieee802.org/11 on the “WG
Email” menu.
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Reference
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Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation
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802.11 Assigned Numbers Authority (ANA)
• The 802.11 ANA is Adrian Stephens
• The purpose of the ANA is to ensure we have no
conflicts for numbers between parallel 802.11
developments. Such a conflict has the potential to
create interoperability problems.
• The ANA Process:
– Request by TG Editor (or TG chair) to ANA
– ANA checks for conflicts with TG Editors
– ANA issues revised spreadsheet showing any changes
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WG Balloting - ePoll
• Each WG letter ballot sequence (i.e., task group) has its own
voting pool set to the voting members of 802.11 at the time the
ballot first reaches 75% approval.
– I get asked all the time “should I vote on this ballot”
– The answer is “go check the voters list published with each and every
ballot”. There’s a link on the 802.11 home page during the ballot.
• The mechanism we will use to collect votes/comments is
the ePoll mechanism provided by the IEEE-SA.
– Use either individual comments or the template .csv spreadsheet provided.
– Can also supply comments using .xls format
– You will need to sign in using your IEEE-SA web account
– Last ballot (LB187) was successful – people seem to be getting
used to the technology quickly.
• If you are new to writing comments or comment
resolutions, please see document 11-11/1625.
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Reciprocal Credit
• An 802.11 voting member will get attendance credit for
attending any of the following groups:
– 802.18 (Coexistence WG)
– 802.19 (Radio Regulatory TAG)
– ECSG SG (Smart Grid)
• Note that this means you can maintain 802.11 voting
status while attending these groups, but you cannot
gain 802.11 voting status.
• For 802.18 / 802.19 / ECSG SG attendance – There
should be an option under IMAT to record reciprocal
credit.
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Membership – Historic Data
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
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Uploads per Meeting
Document uploads – historic data
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