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Dear 802.11, Our July session in San Diego was quite productive and I’ve provided a brief summary for those who are interested in the results of the 802 EC review of our requests during Friday afternoon . The 802 EC approved the 802.11 requests to Grant conditional approval to forward TGad to RevCom. Forward the PAR for revision project REVmc to NesCom Forward the TGac PAR extension to NesCom. Forward the TGaj (CMMW) new project PAR to NesCom. Release Press publicizing publication of 802.11aa and 802.11ae Extend two existing Study Groups: CMMW Study Group PAD (Pre-Association Discovery) Study Group (formerly called ISD Study Group) Form one new GLK Study Group (General Link for enabling the use of 802.11 (including consideration of infrastructure BSS, PBSS, and IBSS associations) as general transit links capable of supporting 802.1 bridging (Chair pro-tem will be Donald Eastlake) (an equivalent project is also being started in 802.1, chaired by Norm Finn - - - some portion of the work will be conducted during joint 802.1 & 802.11 meetings and teleconferences ) The 802 EC reviewed three proposed liaisons prepared by 802.11: The following two resulted in no EC discussion and have been sent to the intended recipients. IETF IANA Diffie-Hellman Group Liaison Motion: Request the IEEE 802.11 WG chair transmit the liaison on slide 5 of “11-12-0970-00-0000-ietf-liaison-on-diffie-hellman-groups.potx” to the IETF Security Area Directors and any persons he deems appropriate. ANA Request to Enable use of WNM-Notification Request frame by WFA Move to request the ANA to place IEEE Std 802.11™-2012 Table 8-256 “WNM-Notification type” under ANA control [reference section 8.5.14.28 “WNM-Notification Request frame format”] and Request allocation of a value, annotated as “(Reserved for use by WFA)”. Note: indication in the standard will be “Reserved”. The third liaison resulted in extensive EC discussion and a motion requesting transmission of the liaison letter be delayed until November. As a result the liaison has not yet been sent to the intended recipients. TRILL Liaison Motion: Request the IEEE 802.11 WG chair transmit the liaison on slide 21 of “11-12-0621-04-0000-alternative-path-selection-protocol.pptx” to the IETF TRILL WG and any additional persons he deems appropriate. Additionally, 802.11 approved several important items that did not require additional EC review: · CMMW Task Group logistics contained in document 12/0827r2 · CMMW Meeting Logistics and Agenda (in 12/0887r0, slides 4 & 5) for September CMMW Interim in Beijing · Call for comments on STD 802.11-2012 · ITU-R M.1801 updates for 802.11 to be sent to ITU by 802.18 · Working Group Operations Manual changes described in 11-09/0002r12 · TGac Ad Hoc Meeting on November 8-9 in the Bay Area, for the purpose of working on comment resolution. · TGaf Letter Ballot (30 day) on TGaf Draft 2.0, asking the question “Should TGaf D2.0 be forwarded to Sponsor Ballot?” Third, updated responses and agreement text regarding the IEEE 802 relationship with ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC6 were approved for submission Regards, Bruce Kraemer Chair IEEE 802.11 If you wish to be removed from this reflector, do not send your request to this reflector - it will have no effect. Instead, go to http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STDS-802-11 and then press the LEAVE button. If there is no LEAVE button here, try http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STDS-802-11-RO. Further information can be found at: http://www.ieee802.org/11/Email_Subscribe.html _______________________________________________________________________________ |