This page last updated: 2015-03-17 - Adrian Stephens
This document indicates the only revisions of the IEEE 802.11 standard that are known to the IEEE 802.11 chair.
Of course, former participants may have made a copy, in which case they may retain any such copy, which was theirs by right. But their copy is still copyright by the IEEE-SA.
The existence of these early drafts is an accidental side effect of the means of distribution. They were placed in .zip files and protected with a password. Because of this protection, there was no urgency to remove such files from the 802.11 file server once the project was completed.However, there is not a complete set of drafts. So there was evidently inconsistency in the handling of them. The cause of this inconsistency is lost in the mists of time.The drafts on this server came from two sources:
The protected .zip files in http://www.ieee802.org/11/Documents/DocumentArchives/ contain some 802.11 drafts, either in source form, or as PDF. The passwords were not known by the then current IEEE 802.11 officers until 2013, at which time the .zip files from the URL cited above were examined, and all the drafts extracted . Where possible, those supplied in source form were converted to PDF.
During 2014-2015, the former and founding IEEE 802.11 chair, Vic Hayes, scanned any copies of 802.11 drafts he had personally retained. OCR was performed on these scans, retaining the original exact image, but adding searchable text.
| Name | Version | Date | Description / PDF? |
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| P802.11-93/20 | Early 1993 | Skeleton layout file for draft. 24 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
| P802.11-93/20a2 | Updates to 93/20. 22 pages. See NOTE 3. | ||
| P802.11-93/20a3 | Updates to 93/20. 26 pages. See NOTE 3. | ||
| P802.11-93/20b0 | March 1994 | Partial standard covering introduction and some MAC clauses. 98 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
| P802.11-93/20b1 | 1994 | Incremental changes to 93/20. 32 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
| P802.11-93/20b3 | 1994 | Change bar relatively complete draft. 212 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
| P802.11-94/50R2 | July 1994 | Physical Layer Draft Specification for 2.4GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Media. 28 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
| P802.11-94/50R3 | Physical Layer Draft Specification for 2.4GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Media. 28 pages. See NOTE 3. | ||
| P802.11-94/50R4 | Physical Layer Draft Specification for 2.4GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Media. 30 pages. See NOTE 3. | ||
| P802.11-94/50R5 | Physical Layer Draft Specification for 2.4GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Media. 34 pages. See NOTE 3. | ||
| P802.11-94/68r2 | July 1994 | Physical Layer Specifications for 2.4GHz Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Wireless LAN. 58 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
| P802.11-94/68r3 | August 1994 | Physical Layer Specifications for 2.4GHz Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Wireless LAN. 60 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
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80211D1 |
D1 |
1 December 1994 |
Yes, converted from original PS 2014-10-17, 302 highest page no., 322 pages inc frontmatter
See NOTE 1 |
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802.11 D1.0ocr |
D1 |
1 December 1994 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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80211D11 |
D1.1 |
10 May 1995 |
Yes, converted 2014-10-17, 277 highest page no., 297 pages inc frontmatter |
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802.11 D1.1ocr |
D1.1 |
10 May 1995 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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DRAFT11 |
1.1 |
10 May 1995 |
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6_DRFT12 |
1.2 |
10 July 1995 |
Yes, converted 2014-10-17, 250 highest page no., 266 pages inc frontmatter |
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802.11 D1.2ocr |
1.2 |
10 July 1995 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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DREFT136 |
1.3 |
28 July 1995 |
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6DRAFT13 |
1.3 |
28 July 1995 |
Yes, converted 2014-10-17, 359 highest page no., 379 pages inc frontmatter |
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802.11 D1.3ocr |
1.3 |
28 July 1995 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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DREFT206 |
2.0 |
28 July 1995 |
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6DRAFT20 |
2.0 |
28 July 1995 |
Yes, converted 2014-10-17, 308 highest page no., 326 pages inc frontmatter |
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802.11 D2.0ocr |
2.0 |
28 July 1995 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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DREFT216 |
2.1 |
4 December 1995 |
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6DRAFT21 |
2.1 |
4 December 1995 |
Yes, converted 2014-10-17, 378 pages inc frontmatter |
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802.11 D2.1ocr |
2.1 |
4 December 1995 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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802.11 D2.2ocr |
2.2 |
25 January 1996 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. See NOTE4. |
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DREFT306 |
3 |
25 January 1996 |
See NOTE 2 |
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draft 3.0 |
3 |
25 January 1996 |
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802.11 D3.0ocr |
3 |
25 January 1996 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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802.11 D3.1ocr |
3.1 |
3 April 1996 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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DREFT407 |
4 |
20 May 1996 |
See NOTE 2 |
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802.11 D4.0ocr |
4 |
20 May 1996 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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draft 4.0 |
4 |
1996 |
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802.11 D4.1ocr |
4.1 |
19 July 1996 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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802.11 D5.1ocr |
5.1 |
22 Nov 1996 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. See NOTE 5. |
| P802.11-97/1 | January 1997 | Draft of MAC Formal Description. 86 pages. See NOTE 3. | |
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802.11 D5.3ocr |
5.3 |
17 March 1997 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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802.11 D6.0ocr |
6.0 |
24 January 1997 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. See NOTE 5. |
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802.11 D6.1ocr |
6.1 |
9 May 1997 |
Yes. See NOTE 3. |
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NOTE 1 – Conversion from PS generated warnings about not being able to embed certain fonts. NOTE 2 – The files are structures as a master file and component files. While Dreft407 opens, and all the component parts are visible, an attempt to save as pdf produces an error message; an attempt to save as docx truncates before clause 8. NOTE 3 – Scanned and OCR version from former chair’s personal archive NOTE 4 – Document contains this notice: “The headers and footers are not correct. Page numbering partly made by hand” NOTE 5 – This is missing Annex “C” – the state machines. |
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| Name | Version | Date | PDF? |
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| 802.11revD2Shown as editing changes to 802.11-1997. | REV D2 | January 1998 | Yes, converted 2014-10-17 |
| 802.11revD6.2-complete | Revision D6.2 | July 1998 | Yes, original |
| P802.11-D10 | Revision D10 | 14 January 1999 | Yes, original |
| 802.11rev D10.0ocr | Revision D10 | 14 January 1999 | Yes. See NOTE 3. |
Drafts have been retained from all amendments and later revisions.
The following table outlines the sequence of documents that led to the standard versions cited above.
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Document number |
Document title |
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May 1992 |
92/64 |
IEEE P802.11 Issues Document |
Start of a loose leave document for documenting decisions with the related argumentation |
Updates a1, a2 – a9, b1, b2 |
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January 1993 |
83/20 |
First draft standard out of Issues list |
Start of loose leave draft standard collecting text from Issues list |
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May 1994 |
92/64b2 |
IEEE P802.11 Issues Document, update b2 |
Last update of issues list |
Updates a1, a2 – a9, b0, b1, b2 |
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July 1994 |
93/20b1 |
First draft standard out of Issues list, update b1 |
Last update of draft standard 93/20 |
Updates a1, a2 – a9, b0, b1 |
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November 1994 |
802.11 D1 |
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December, 5 1994 |
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30 day WG Letter Ballot on IEEE 802.11 D1 |
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February 8, 1995 |
95/18 |
Comment received on WG LB on D1 |
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April 5, 1995 |
95/78A |
30 day WG LB on changes to D1 made at March meeting and on FH result |
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May 10, 1995 |
802.11 D1.1 |
State of the resolved comment on D1 |
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May 28, 1995 |
95/128 |
Result of LB 95/78A |
between 73 and 100 % on changes on sections drafted at March meeting, between 75 and 82 % on FH motions |
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May ballot |
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95/131 |
June Ballot |
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July 1995 |
95/132 |
Result May WG LB |
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July 1995 |
95/133 |
Result June WG LB |
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July 10, 1995 |
802.11 D1.2 |
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July 28, 1995 |
802.11 D1.3 |
With change marks |
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July 28, 1995 |
802.11 D2.0 |
Same as D1.3 without change marks |
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July 1995 |
95/193 |
Submitted New Work Item to ISO with D2.0 as annex |
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July 1995 |
95/185 and 95/186 |
30 day WG LB on IEEE 802.11D2.0 |
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September 27, 1995 |
95/227 |
Report of WG LB on IEEE P802.11 D2.0 |
48 % support |
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December 4,1995 |
802.11 D2.1 |
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January 25, 1996 |
802.11 D2.2 |
With change marks |
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January 1996 |
802.11 D3.0 |
D2.2 without change marks |
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February 2, 1997 |
96/32 and 96/33 |
Third WG LB on 802.11 D3.0 |
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March 6. 1996 |
96/47 |
Report on third WG LB |
70 % support |
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April 3, 1996 |
802.11 D3.1 |
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May, 20 1996 |
802.11 D4.0 |
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May 1996 |
96/101 and 96/102 |
Fourth WG LB on 802.11 D3.0 |
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July 1996 |
96/105r2 |
Comparison IEEE 802.11 and ETSI 300 652 (HIPERLAN |
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July 24, 1996 |
96/106 |
Report on WG LB on 802.11 D4.0 |
91.5 % support ( 5 no votes) |
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July 19,1996 |
802.11 D4.1 |
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July 1966 |
96/122 and 96/123 |
First Recirculation WG LB on 802.11 D4.1 |
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July 1966 |
96/125 |
Remaining, unresolved No-vote |
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August 1996 |
802.11 D5.0 |
D4.1 without change marks |
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August 1996 |
96/128 |
Instructions and sent for 30 day Sponsor LB on 802.11 D5.0 |
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November 1996 |
96/135 |
Report of LMSC Ballot on IEEE P802.11/D5.0 |
86 % support |
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November 1996 |
96/137 |
ISO sent IEEE 802.11 D5.0 on 3 month LB as Committee Document (CD) |
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November 1996 |
96/156 |
Result from Comments on Sponsor LB |
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November 22, 1996 |
802.11 D5.1 |
Result November 1996 meeting |
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802.11 D5.2 |
Result January 1997 meeting? |
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March 1997 |
97/32r2 |
US Member vote and comments on CD 8802-11 |
Start of a race to bring ISO in line with IEEE |
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March 17, 1997 |
802.11 D5.3 |
First Recirculation Sponsor LB |
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March 1997 |
97/34r1 |
Remaining NO-comments |
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May 1997 |
97/37r1 |
Result on Ballot on 802.11 D5.3 |
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May 1997 |
97/42r1 |
IPR letters received for IEEE P802.11 |
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802.11 D5.4 |
Second Recirculation Sponsor LB, closed on June 9, 1997 |
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802.11 D5.5 |
Third Recirculation Sponsor LB, closed on June 24, 1997 |
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January 24, 1997 |
802.11 D6.0 |
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May 15, 1997 |
802.11 D6.1 |
Submitted to REVCOM |
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June 1997 |
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Approval of 802.11 D6.1 by Standards Activity Board |
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July 1997 |
97/055 |
ISO JTC1 SC6 approved D5 for DIS 8802 Part 11 |
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July 1997 |
97/56 |
Summary of Voting on Document SC 6 N 10341, ISO/IEC CD 8802-11, |
84 % support |
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October 23, 1997 |
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Proposal for maintenance 802.11 1997 |
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November 1997 |
IEEE Std 802.11-1997 |
Publication |
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December 1997 |
802.11rev D1.1 |
First 30 day WG LB |
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February 1998 |
98/004 |
PAR 802.11rev approved |
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February 1998 |
802.11rev D2.0 |
Recirculation WG Ballot |
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March 1998 |
802.11rev D4 |
Sponsor Ballot of 802.11rev D4 |
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March 1998 |
6N08252 |
US Comment on DIS 8802-11 |
To bring ISO in line with IEEE std |
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May 1998 |
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ISO editor (Vic Hayes) empowered to prepare FDIS 8802-11 to be at ISO Central Secretariat by Oct 98 |
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June 1998 |
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January 1999 |
802.11rev D10 |
Submitted to SAB |
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March 18, 1999 |
802.11rev D10 |
Approved by SAB |
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August 20, 1999 |
IEEE Std 802.11-1999 and ISO/IEC 8802-11 |
Published |
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