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Dear WG and TAG chairs,
Please remember to get your 802 News Bulletin
summaries to Karen McCabe and Mark Klerer by 6PM EST today.
EC hosts of the Tutorial Sessions--please provide
one or two sentence descriptions of the tutorials to Karen and Mark as
well.
Regards,
--Paul
Karen, Mark,
Below are the top level highlights of last week's
plenary session. If you have any questions or need clarifications, feel
free to ask.
--Paul
- This was the second largest plenary
session on record with 1379 paid attendees.
- all WGs and TAGs held officer
elections
- The EC and LMSC Chairman, Paul Nikolich was
re-elected for another 2 year term.
- The appointed members of the EC: 1st Vice Chair
Matthew Sherman, Treasurer Bill Quackenbush, Executive Secretary, Buzz Rigsbee,
and Recording Secretary, Bob O'Hara were re-elected.
- Tresurer Bill Quackenbush is able
to serve through only the July plenary session, the chair is actively
looking for Treasurer candidates, one member .
- Howard Frazier was elected to the postion of 2nd
Vice Chair, replacing Geoff Thompson, who is retiring from 802.
Congratulations Howard and thank you Geoff.
- 5 Standards were approved by the Stds Board since
the last plenary session
- 3 Projects were withdrawn by the Stds Board since
the last plenary session
- Highlight: since the 802.10
Secure Interoperable LAN Standards were withdraw, the hibernating working group
is being disbanded.
- 4 PARs were approved by the Stds Board since
the last plenary session.
Highlight: The 802.21 PAR was
approved in February, resulting in the new 802.21 Working Group on Media
Independent Handover Services
- 11 PARS were authorized by the 802 EC to be
forwarded to IEEE-SA NesCom for approval by the Standards Board
- 3 draft standards were authorized by the 802 EC
to be forward to the IEEE-SA RevCom for approval by the Standards
Board
Highlight: The 802.17 RPR WG has
completed it's first project, the RPR base standard.
- 5 new Study Groups were formed
- 5 Tutorials were held covering a wide range
of topics: Wireless Performance Metrics, Power Line Carrier Standardization,
10Gb Ethernet on Multi-mode fiber, Unlicensed Spread Spectrum Retrospective, and
the Application of mmWave Based Physical Layers in WPANs
- an Ad-Hoc 802 architecture meeting will be
held the Sunday prior to the next plenary to identify and address 802-wide
architectural items. It will be chaired by Tony Jeffree, chair of the
802.1 WG.
- Discussions were held among the EC members, the
SA Staff and SA BoG members planning for the upcoming May visit to China to
meet with the Standards Administration of China
- the next plenary session will be held July 11-16
2004 in Portland Oregon
- in summary, this was a busy, productive plenary
session for the IEEE 802 LMSC
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