[STDS-802-11-CAC] Annotated agenda/minutes from our CAC call 2020-04-20

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1. Present

a. Dorothy Stanley

b. Marc Emmelmann

c. Stephen McCann

d. Carol Ansley

e. Matthew Fischer (for Alfred)

f. Jonathan Segev

g. Tony Han

h. Jon Rosdahl

i. Edward Au

j. Robert Stacey

k. Minyoung Park

l. Jim Lansford

m. Osama Aboul-Magd

n. Bo Sun

o. Mark Hamilton

p. Nikola Serafimovski

q. Joseph Levy

r. Sean Coffey

s. Peter Ecclesine

t. Hassan Yaghoobi

2. Meeting status

a. Jon – Venue status

i. July meeting: Current status – Canada border until June 30 essential only

ii. May 5: July go/no go at EC

iii. Many members have hotel registrations. However all who reserved may not be able to come.

iv. Montreal – Quebec request to close all indoor/outdoor cultural events. Check with hotel if this is considered a cultural event.

v. WG officer elections in July. TG chair elections – September.

vi. Sept Interim in Atlanta; no changes currently planned, monitoring border status

vii. November plenary (Bangkok); April 15 room block size reduction changes made

viii. January 2021 – Hotel Irvine is confirmed (New Orleans contract not successful)

b. Stephen McCann gathering all teleconference dates, see https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-0632

i. Please confirm the dates – let Stephen know of any errors

ii. Stephen’s document is used as the input to automated telecom reservation and calendar tools

c. Now using IMAT to record attendance on teleconferences, Jon to send list of attendees to subgroup chair, secretary after each call.

3. 802 EC meetings – March meetings Monday 16^th and Friday 20^th held ; EC teleconferences scheduled for April 7, 21, May 5

a. SENS SG

i. SENS SG – WG vote required to approve PAR/CSD. Approved. EC notification sent: http://www.ieee802.org/secmail/msg24497.html

ii. The SENS SG was initially approved by the EC in November 2019, and is chartered from Plenary to Plenary, the SG is still chartered until the planned July Plenary (next plenary). Conclusion: no re-chartering needed until 802 July Plenary.

iii. Re: the SASB 6 month extension, a 6 month extension is be needed by May 15, 2020 (November 15, 2019 to May 15, 2020). Conclusion: Request First SENS SG extension on May 5^th EC teleconference.

iv. SENS SG – WG vote required to approve PAR/CSD. Approved. EC notification sent: http://www.ieee802.org/secmail/msg24497.html

b. RCM SG – WG formation approved in January 2020. Extension request;

i. Welcome Carol

ii. EC approval to form SG – At April 7^th

iii. Chartered until July, request first rechartering then; first extension at October EC teleconference).

iv. 802.1 – include the 802.1 email on all of the RCM email announcements

c. Any other items for the EC?

i. P802.11ax PAR extension – currently expires in 2020. Target: EC approval in July 2020. Prepare PAR extension in 802.11ax. Post to Mentor. Notify the EC by June 12^th. WGLB prior to June 12^th. Open the WGLB this week.

ii. P802.11ba PAR extension – currently expires in 2020. Target: EC approval in July 2020. Prepare PAR extension in 802.11ba. Post to Mentor. Notify the EC by June 12^th. WGLB prior to June 12^th. Open the WGLB this week.

d. EC – What are the plans at the EC for telecom process – EC rules committee discussing changes.

4. Ballots Status, see http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/

a. WFA ANA request – Closes the 24^th. Still need more responses.

i. Subtle change: now have requests from regular number space vs vendor specific.

ii. In ANA space? In 802.11 specification? Same practice for all external organizations.

iii. Regulatory tables – India – discussing in 11md

iv. WFA staff indicate their draft spec available in May

b. P802.11bd D0.3 Comment collection – 150 comments to date

5. Teleconferences –Robert

a. Teleconference tools:

i. Chair preference to move platforms?

ii. How and when we want to transition to IEEE SA webex.

iii. Plan for the end of life on Join.Me – access to join.me ends April 30, 2020. Transition join.me mtgs to IEEE webex.

iv. 802 purchased Webex (4 seats) – current contract through August 2020. EC reviewing new Webex contract.

v. Had issue last week on IEEE SA Webex; Webex server crash. Stable otherwise.

vi. 802 Zoom?

vii. New meetings in future use SA webex (hostkey only, not username/pwd to start call)

b. Webex – polling – another brief demo – contact Robert with questions

6. Teleconference attendance recording in the minutes. The minutes need to include name and affiliation of all who attended the call. Please make sure your subgroup secretary is including this information. Using https://imat.ieee.org/attendance .

7. Discuss – Best practices when Chair presents technical material, participates in technical discussion: Hand chair over to a VC during presentation and Q&A.

8. Discuss: 11be SFD process

a. Straw poll – current practice is that all members participate in SPs

b. 11be: Why change to have voting members only participate in SPs? Need to justify.

c. SPs are to gather information

d. Concern that technical decisions being made based on SPs.

e. SPs used to influence opinions of members – one factor. Gives information to members.

f. TGmd: If consensus clear – no SP. If SP indicates a direction, then a motion is prepared reflects the indicated direction. No limit in SP to voting members.

g. Concern: electronic ballots (motion) had SP results as evidence.

h. Voting rights – impacted ONLY on WGLBs on DRAFTS (NOT SFDs, PARs, CSD)

9. Adjourn

10. CAC meetings – every 2 weeks, schedule with 10 day advance notice. Noon Eastern.

a. Monday May 4, 18

b. June 1, 15, 29

c. July 6

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Dorothy Stanley

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

dorothy.stanley@xxxxxxx

+1 630-363-1389

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[STDS-802-11-CAC] Annotated agenda/minutes from our CAC call 2020-04-20

2020-04-20 802.11 CAC-4 for March 2020 – July 2020