Invitation to Ballot, P802.11u
IEEE 802.11u is forming its Sponsor Ballot Pool. As you may know 802.11u incorporates 802.21 amendments for 802.11 air interface. Please register for the Sponsor Ballot Pool if you are interested in participating in Sponsor Ballot activity for IEEE 802.11u.
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-Vivek
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Subject: Invitation to Ballot, P802.11u
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P802.11u
Title: Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -Local and Metropolitan networks -specific requirements -Part II: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications: IEEE 802.11 Interworking with External Networks Amendment
you must enroll as a member of the ballot group by 1-Oct-2009, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
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The IEEE Computer Society Society/Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -Local and Metropolitan networks -specific requirements -Part II: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications: IEEE 802.11 Interworking with External Networks Amendment invites you to participate in the New Sponsor Ballot for:
P802.11u
Title: Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -Local and Metropolitan networks -specific requirements -Part II: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications: IEEE 802.11 Interworking with External Networks Amendment
Scope: This document amends the IEEE 802.11 MAC and PHY to support interworking with external networks.
Purpose: The purpose of this document is to provide amendments to the IEEE 802.11 PHY/MAC layers which enable interworking with other networks. This includes both enhanced protocol exchanges across the air interface and provision of primitives to support required interactions with higher layers for interworking.
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