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Re: [STDS-802-11] 11me/D1.0 CID 1479 (Beacon frame size)



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Hi Mark,

All  frame format requirements are normative so 2304 must be supported. That has always been the case. A STA that does not support 2304 is non-compliant.

Cheers,

Mike

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 8:29 PM Mark Hamilton <mark.hamilton2152@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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All,

 

Does anyone know if there is a normative statement that 2304 must be supported, or an implied requirement to that effect, such that these implementations that don’t support it are non-compliant? If so, then I have a real problem with a Standard that lays out a bunch of requirements, but then has NOTE(s) that say “Oh, by the way, some implementations don’t meet the requirement, so your implementation (to the reader) had better adapt.” 

 

On the other hand, if there really is no such a requirement, just a hint/implication that an implementation _should_ handle this, then we are in a different direction.  If we’re in that direction, my only concern with Mark R’s proposal is the quoting of a specific size that might work better, when I’ve seen no evidence supporting that number.  I’d rather leave the number out, and just NOTE that using smaller Beacons might be beneficial due to this problem.  (However, I would still struggling internally that we don’t actually have normative text saying what is required – but I agree that would be very difficult to add at this point.)

 

Mark

 

From: Jon Rosdahl <jrosdahl@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [STDS-802-11] 11me/D1.0 CID 1479 (Beacon frame size)

 

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Mark,

Why not leave the Standard open and allow external testing and developers to identify the optimum size that they would like to use?

There is not a reason to limit this in the standard.

Kind regards,

Jon


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On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM Mark Rison <m.rison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Following discussions in TGme today, re the following comment on 11me/D1.0:

 

It is not clear that all implementations support Beacon frames that are 2304 octets long

 

I would like to propose the following change:

 

After the table in 9.2.4.8.1 add "NOTE <n>---Some implementations might not support 2304-octet Beacon or Probe Response frames.  Restricting Beacon and Probe Response frames to a maximum of 1536 octets might improve interoperability." and in the "MMPDU size" cell add "(see NOTE <n>)"

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

 

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