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[STDS-802-11] Proposed resolution to TGmd CID 2638 - please review

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All,

The proposed resolution to CID 2638 shown below will be brought for motion in TGmd during the upcoming September meeting (Hanoi).

Please review and let me know of any issues.

Thanks,

Dorothy
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2638

11.32.5

2451

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The "OCT Not Supported" changes will break existing implementations that do not understand them, and will try to transmit an OCT MMPDU to a device that does not support them (but does support the Multi-band element

Delete the first para of the referenced subclause

 

Proposed resolution: Reject

 

Discussion: as discussed in https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/18/11-18-1324-05-000m-fixes-to-multi-band-operations.docx, this was done to be able to deal with legacy devices that implement OCT and which assume that OCT is always supported. Therefore, with the decision to make this feature optional, this setting of this field had to be 0 (not 1) when it comes to indication of support. See also the first paragraph of (11.32.5 On-channel Tunneling (OCT) operation). Regarding existing implementations, believe this isn’t an issue in practice, as known existing implementations have already been updated to address this.

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