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[STDS-802-11-TGM] TGmc docs 1207r0 and 1010r13



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I have uploaded these docs:

 

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1207-00-000m-sb0-stephens-resolutions-part-3.doc

 

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1010-13-000m-revmc-sb0-stephens-resolutions-part-2.doc

 

They contain proposed resolutions (or sometimes a brief analysis and an “assign to commenter, submission required”) for the following:

Count of CID

Submission

 

 

Owning Ad-hoc

Comment Group

11-15/1010

11-15/1207

Grand Total

EDITOR

Editorials - assigned

1

 

1

 

General

1

1

EDITOR Total

2

 

2

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

27

 

27

GEN Total

27

 

27

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

19

1

20

 

HCF

1

1

 

(blank)

2

39

41

MAC Total

22

40

62

Grand Total

51

40

91

 

 

Submission

CID

Owning Ad-hoc

Comment Group

Comment (truncated)

Proposed Change

Resn Status

11-15/1010

5025

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"While associated with an AP or PCP, a STA overrid

Move to clause 10 somewhere relevant.

11-15/1010

5026

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"expected to communicate" - passive voice is consi

Reword to avoid the passive voice and remove any e

11-15/1010

5027

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"The Relay Capabilities element is not used in an

Remove cited sentence or move to clause 9 or 10.

11-15/1010

5029

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"Relay Usability" -- this is a poor choice of fiel

Globally change to "Relay Client".

11-15/1010

5038

EDITOR

General

The "Action field format" tables are inconsistent

Recommend that this be discussed and see if a simp

11-15/1010

5041

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"DSE Registered Location Element Body field" -- ha

Replace "Element Body" with "Information" in this

11-15/1010

5048

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

There are MIB variables left that relate to the re

Remove (or deprecate) all the *ot11Hopping* object

11-15/1010

5059

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

There are a number of placeholder clauses.

The group needs to determine whether to keep the p

11-15/1010

5061

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

The reserved range "4-220" is incorrect.

Change to "5-220"

11-15/1010

5070

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

Anything that purports to identify elements using

Create an Extended Request element, which contain

11-15/1010

5071

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"Reserved and shall be set to 0 or 3 otherwise" --

Either remove "reserved and" or remove "and shall

11-15/1010

5141

MAC

HCF

"All other channel access functions at the STA sha

Add to 9.3.2.1 a statement that the virtual carrie

11-15/1010

5310

EDITOR

Editorials - assigned

"A Yes in the Extensible column": but what is in

Replace 'A Yes in the Extensible' with 'A "Yes" in

11-15/1010

5863

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The document does not correctly include terms of c

Detailed requested changes will be provided throug

11-15/1010

6042

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

It is confusing to read about the MCCAOP Setup Req

Since the MCCAOP Setup Request element corresponds

11-15/1010

6044

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

The calculation of the value of the Length field i

The easiest resolution is to delete the sentence "

11-15/1010

6051

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The term RSNA-capable is only ever used to refer t

Change the definition to (deleting "equipment"), "

11-15/1010

6052

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The term RSNA-enabled is only ever used to refer t

Change the definition to (deleting "equipment"), "

11-15/1010

6088

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

A given DS (and therefore a given ESS) can only ha

Change "portals" to "the portal" at 10.61, 11.6, 1

11-15/1010

6098

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

Error in the Reserved values range.

Change the Reserved table entry value range from '

11-15/1010

6202

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

The term "an RSN protected frame" is used, but the

Change the cited text to "a protected frame"

11-15/1010

6226

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

It is not possible to request elements with an ele

Add words to that effect

11-15/1010

6254

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

It says "In a Beacon report or , the Antenna ID al

Add something before the comma

11-15/1010

6274

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

There are no 2-param Floor examples

Add "For example, Floor (3.3, 2) is 2 and Floor (-

11-15/1010

6297

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

It says "nontransmitted basic service set (BSS) id

Delete "Beacon" in the cited text

11-15/1010

6323

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The definition of "STSL" appears to preclude a dir

Add "or PCP" after "AP" at 43.12

11-15/1010

6396

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

"non-high throughput (non-HT) physical layer (PHY)

Make definition cover PPDUs sent by pre-HT PHYs an

11-15/1010

6410

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Use of >> on signed quantities is implementation-d

Only use unsigned values with >> (cf. e.g. p. 3511

11-15/1010

6413

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"The Channel Number field indicates the channel nu

Clarify (maybe need to say "of frequency segment 0

11-15/1010

6414

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"The Operating Class field contains an enumerated

Clarify

11-15/1010

6415

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"The Channel Number field indicates a current oper

Clarify (maybe need to say "of frequency segment 0

11-15/1010

6433

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The terms "transmit power" and "transmit power lev

Change "transmit power level" to "transmit power"

11-15/1010

6456

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

"monotonic" (/ly) (increasing, incrementing, etc.)

Examine the 45 instances of "monotonic" and replac

11-15/1010

6531

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The definition of "wireless local area network (WL

Delete the definition

11-15/1010

6532

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"Request subelement" is too generic

Change to "FMS Request subelement" throughout

11-15/1010

6533

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

"Status subelement" is too generic

Change to "FMS Response subelement" throughout

11-15/1010

6560

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The term "MMPDU" causes no end of confusion as peo

Change "MMPDU" to "MLMEPDU" throughout, defining t

11-15/1010

6565

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The relationship between PHYs is not clear (e.g. a

Clarify the relationship between PHYs, and whether

11-15/1010

6587

MAC

We need to distinguish between an MCS for a specif

Introduce the term "HT-MCS" and use that for MCSes

11-15/1010

6610

MAC

The mapping from the RCPI to the RCPI value in MMP

Put it all in one common place

11-15/1010

6667

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Add VHT to the definition of "non-high throughput

As it says in the comment

11-15/1010

6668

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

The second half in "directional multi-gigabit (DMG

As it says in the comment

11-15/1010

6669

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Definition of "40 MHz physical layer (PHY) protoco

As it says in the comment

11-15/1010

6717

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Need to make sure >> is only used for logical shif

As it says in the comment

11-15/1010

6720

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Does "non-VHT" imply "non-TVHT"?

Clarify

11-15/1010

6737

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Shouldn't have years for docs which are fully iden

As it says in the comment

11-15/1010

6747

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Does "positive" include 0 (apparently not)?

Clarify (perhaps in Subclause 1.4 or 1.5?)

11-15/1010

6756

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

"The RCPI field contains an RCPI value as specifie

Make the RCPI value mapping the same for all PHYs,

11-15/1010

6787

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

What is X in the penultimate column of Table 17-2

Clarify

11-15/1010

6789

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

Inconsistency about presence/absence of space afte

As it says in the comment

11-15/1010

6819

GEN

GEN Assigned Adrian Stephens

"individually addressed bufferable unit (BU): An i

As it says in the comment

11-15/1207

6223

MAC

Should there be a minimum fragment size? dot11Fra

Add a dot11FragmentationLimit

11-15/1207

6227

MAC

What is a "mesh TKSA"?

Change to "mesh PTKSA" throughout

11-15/1207

6234

MAC

Basic rates/MCSes are by definition a property of

Delete "BSS" (and fix subsequent capitalisation, w

11-15/1207

6236

MAC

What happens if dot11SupportedDataRatesRxTable doe

Remove either the SAP parameters or the MIB variab

11-15/1207

6245

MAC

It's not clear which non-Action frames are robust

State explicitly in Clause 11 that Disassoc and De

11-15/1207

6290

MAC

The AID is not 1-2007 for DMG STAs

Change the text at 173.20, 180.31, 187.26, 1940.30

11-15/1207

6332

MAC

Frame formats 8.4

It says "default pairwise cipher suite and
defaul

Is it referring to the case where the RSNE is trun

11-15/1207

6350

MAC

Does reassociation apply to PCPs?

Change the text where it indicates reassociation m

11-15/1207

6357

MAC

What is the difference, if any, between "neighbour

Clarify. If "peer" means some kind of peering agr

11-15/1207

6424

MAC

The concept of a "successful transmission" (or "tr

Define the concept of a successful transmisison in

11-15/1207

6430

MAC

The material related to DMG has a lot of "TXTIME"s

Add an indication of the PHY parameters (especiall

11-15/1207

6432

MAC

The spec often talks of doing things based on the

Check the use of each of the 114 instances of "rec

11-15/1207

6443

MAC

Is a frame which was not "correctly received" a fr

Deal with the miscreants as they were dealt with u

11-15/1207

6457

MAC

The GCM nonce is missing the priority

Add a priority, as for CCM

11-15/1207

6460

MAC

What exactly does "mandatory" mean in the context

Add a "NOTE---A STA is not required to include man

11-15/1207

6475

MAC

If in a U-APSD SP an AP ends the SP part-way throu

Clarify (see CID 1482)

11-15/1207

6483

MAC

The term "supported rate set" is undefined

Change throughout to "operational rate set", excep

11-15/1207

6484

MAC

Sometimes the spec refers to Association Request/R

Add "(Re)" where appropriate

11-15/1207

6485

MAC

Introduce the term PPDU Transmission Options to en

As it says in the comment

11-15/1207

6488

MAC

Non-HT BA is obsolete, as is HT-delayed BA. Their

Mark them all as so (or deprecated -- I can't reme

11-15/1207

6536

MAC

There are a bunch of "*BSS network"s, which seems

Delete the "network"s

11-15/1207

6543

MAC

References to "Clause frames" (n = 16, 17, etc

Pick one valid term and use it consistently

11-15/1207

6570

MAC

It's a bad idea to say which things X is present i

Remove all but a single normative instance of thin

11-15/1207

6572

MAC

The distinctions made in the specification w.r.t.

Make the definitions comprehensible. E.g. what do

11-15/1207

6589

MAC

Colons in MAC addresses and suchlike imply bit-rev

Change the colons to hyphens, or put an explicit n

11-15/1207

6617

MAC

Do we really have to say "Multiple Vendor Specific

Say it once at most

11-15/1207

6624

MAC

When do we say "Address 1/2" and when do we say "T

Be consistent

11-15/1207

6671

MAC

The last bullet point of NOTE 2 in Table 8-173--HT

As it says in the comment

11-15/1207

6706

MAC

Sometimes spec says "Supported Rates element" but

Add "and Extended Supported Rates element" whereve

11-15/1207

6708

MAC

DMG mixes up the operational rate set and the basi

Unmix DMG

11-15/1207

6710

MAC

"In an A-MSDU, the Mesh Control field is located i

Delete "A-MSDU or" in the cited text

11-15/1207

6765

MAC

One instance of "AES-GCMP" (all others are "AES-GC

Change the errant one to "AES-GCM"

11-15/1207

6768

MAC

Constructs like "AP's BSSID" are dubious because t

Change to "AP's MAC address" throughout

11-15/1207

6770

MAC

It says "Because the IEEE Std 802.11 null Data fra

I think it means a Null frame here

11-15/1207

6774

MAC

"The SME shall generate an MLME-ASSOCIATE.response

Change to refer to the field which gives the targe

11-15/1207

6786

MAC

"However, an acknowledgment shall be sent in respo

Add "or MMPDU" after "MSDU"

11-15/1207

6791

MAC

References to both 802.1Q-2004 and 2011 in clause

As it says in the comment

11-15/1207

6799

MAC

Table 11-8---Integrity and key-wrap algorithms top

As it says in the comment

11-15/1207

6811

MAC

"When dot11DMGOptionImplemented is true, dot11Mesh

Change as suggested in the comment

11-15/1207

6826

MAC

"The Request element field is described in 8.4.2.1

As it says in the comment

 

 

 

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Adrian P STEPHENS

 

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