Upcoming sessions
The meetings between now and the upcoming session will be held by teleconference.
Current and recent ballots and comment collections
| ID | Type | Stage | Project | Draft | Open | Close | Status |
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Recent activities
At the 2026 May interim session, 802.11 made progress in the following areas:
- The new AI Offload study group met to begin work on a project authorization request (PAR) and criteria for standards development (CSD) to facilitate the offloading of compute intense AI inference tasks to edge AI Wi-Fi Access Points and other Wi-Fi enabled edge compute devices.
- The Wireless Next Generation (WNG) standing committee continued to review submissions on the direction for the generation that follows 802.11bn (Wi-Fi 8). A study group is expected to form in July 2026.
- TGmf (Maintenance revision) continues to resolve comments from LB294 on D2.0. The group expects a WG recirc ballot on D3.0 in July 2026.
- TGbi (Enhanced Privacy Protection) has resolved all comments from its initial SA ballot on D4.0 and will be starting an SA recirc ballot on D5.0 shortly.
- TGbn (Ultra-High Reliability, aka Wi-Fi 8) has resolved around 75% of the comments from their initial ballot on D1.0. They expect to go to ballot again with D2.0 in July 2026 (a 2-month slip from the current schedule).
- TGbp (Ambient Power Communications) continues to improve their draft with an initial working group ballot on D1.0 now expected September 2026.
- TGbt (Post-Quantum Cryptography) is resolving comments from the comment collection on D0.2 and will produce a D0.3 out of the May session.
- TGbq (Integrated mmWave) continues to review technical contributions.
A more detailed report is available here.
802.11 members Jerome Henry, Brian Hart, Binita Gupta and Malcolm Smith have written a detailed guide to IEEE Std 802.11be-2024, known in the industry as Wi-Fi 7.
Recent standards approvals
IEEE Std 802.11bf™-2025 was published on September 26, 2025.
IEEE Std 802.11bk™-2025 was published on September 5, 2025.
IEEE Std 802.11be™-2024 was published on July 22, 2025.
IEEE Std 802.11bh™-2024 was published on June 3, 2025.
IEEE Std 802.11™-2024 was published on April 28, 2025.
The IEEE has made available IEEE 802 standards for free download. Under this program, a standard may be downloaded for free six months after the initial publication of the standard. All relevant IEEE 802.11 Standard, Amendments, and Recommended Practices are listed.
Access to 802.11 draft standards
Draft standards are available from a number of sources:
- If you are a voting 802.11 member, go to the members' area and log in using the 802.11 members ID and password supplied to you by the 802.11 officers. Contact Robert Stacey if you have lost this. During an 802.11 session, attendees may access 802.11 draft standards from a local fileserver, regardless of their membership status.
- If you are an active member of one of the other 802 groups, you may be able to access the 802.11 members' area using the same credentials used to access your own group. If this doesn't work, ask your group's Chair to request access from the 802.11 Chair (Robert Stacey).
- Draft IEEE standards are, from time to time, made available for purchase using the IEEE store or Techstreet.
IEEE standards development guide
The IEEE-SA has created an easy to use Online Standards Development web site that has a wealth of information that details the whole standards process flow, from creation of the initial PAR, to balloting to final draft, and beyond. It even includes, tutorials, and online forms of the various processes evolved. This site is recommended for all Members and Chairs involved.
Upcoming meetings
A google calendar (embedded below) is maintained for 802.11 meetings.
You can import the calendar as an iCal file, or use the "Add to Google Calendar" at the bottom right of the calendar below.
The 802 calendar, which contains the 802 meetings and also rolls up the working group calendars, is available here.