Re: [802SEC] +++EC Motion+++ Motion to approve a Press Release for the 802.11g Award for Technical Excellence
approve as amended in the thread
At 05:42 PM 11/24/2003 -0500, Paul Nikolich wrote:
>Dear SEC members,
>
>This is a 10 day SEC email ballot to make a determination by EC motion to
>approve the below 802.11g Press Release. Please note I have placed a
>modifier on the closing time of the ballot such that it may close no
>later than 10 days after the start of the email ballot or as soon 24 hours
>after every member of the EC casts a definitive ballot (APP, DIS or
>ABS). The reason for the modifier is to allow the press release, if it is
>approved, to be issued as quickly as possible.
>
>Motion
>The LMSC executive committee approval of the below 802.11g Award press
>release.
>
>Moved by Stuart Kerry
>Seconded by Bob Heile
>
>The email ballot opens on Monday Nov 24 6PM EST and closes the sooner of
>Thursday Dec 4 6PM EST or 24 hours after every member of the EC has cast a
>ballot, whichever comes first.
>
>Please direct your responses to the EC reflector with a CC directly to me
>(<mailto:p.nikolich@ieee.org>p.nikolich@ieee.org).
>
>Regards,
>
>- Paul Nikolich
>
>Chairman, IEEE 802 LMSC
>----- Original Message -----
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>Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:11 PM
>Subject: 802.11g Award for Technical Excellence Press Release Motion
>
>
>Paul,
>
>This is the press release motion I would like to put to the 802 EC for
>consideration and approval under our LMSC P&P.
>
>I will Move, and Bob Heile will second.
>
>+++++++++
>
>Dear 802 EC Members,
>
>I have great pleasure to inform you all that 802.11 WG has won a second
>prestigious award from PC Magazine.
>
>The 20th Annual Awards for Technical Excellence
>By the Editors of PC Magazine
>November 18, 2003
>
>I am very pleased to announce that the IEEE 802.11 Working Group and the
>Wi-Fi Alliance have jointly been awarded the PC Magazine 2003 award for
>Technical Excellence in the Protocol section for the 802.11gTM amendment,
>on Monday night at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV ceremony. Stuart J.
>Kerry (IEEE 802.11 Chair) and Frank Hanzlik (Managing Director of Wi-Fi
>Alliance) were present to accept the award on behalf of our members. The
>other two finalist in our category were Serial ATA and WS-I Basic Profile.
>
>We were in very good company during this ceremony, as other awards were
>presented for "Person of the Year" - Carly Fiorina (HP) and "Lifetime
>Achievement" - Scott Cook (Intuit) amongst others.
>
>Protocols
>Winner: IEEE 802.11 Working Group and the Wi-Fi Alliance
>
>"The IEEE's 802.11g standard defines the way wireless LAN gear
>communicates at up to 54 megabits per second while remaining
>backward-compatible with 11-Mbps 802.11b. This important breakthrough
>enables streaming media, video downloads, and a greater concentration of
>users without interference. In addition to technical hurdles, the
>standards group had to overcome commercial rivalries and FCC rule changes
>to enact the standard."
>
>+++++++++
>
>Press Release for EC Motion approval, that has been worked on by IEEE,
>Paul Nikolich, and myself. We believe that this event merits a press
>release, and therefore present the text of the Draft release below:
>
>
>DRAFT PRESS RELEASE
>
>
>Contact: Stuart J. Kerry, IEEE 802.11 Working Group Chair
> +1 408 991 4854, stuart.kerry@philips.com
> or
>Karen McCabe, IEEE Senior Marketing Manager
>+1 732-562-3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
>
>
>
>HIGHER-SPEED IEEE WIRELESS LAN PROTOCOL WINS
>PC MAGAZINE AWARD FOR TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE
>
>
>PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, __ Nov. 2003 – The IEEE 802.11g™ standard for
>higher-speed wireless transmission in local area networks (LANs) has won
>the Protocol Category in PC Magazine's 20th Annual Awards for Technical
>Excellence competition. This standard was selected over two other
>finalists in the same category: Serial ATA for storage devices and WS-I
>Basic Profile for interoperable web services.
>PC Magazine chose IEEE's 802.11g because it "defines the way wireless LAN
>gear communicates at up to 54 megabits per second while remaining
>backward-compatible with 11-Mbps 802.11b™. This important breakthrough
>enables streaming media, video downloads, and a greater concentration of
>users without interference."
>Stuart J. Kerry, Chair of the IEEE 802.11™ Working Group for Wireless
>LANs, who accepted the award for the IEEE at a ceremony at the Comdex
>trade show in Las Vegas, said: "This award is all the more important to
>me because I know how technically astute the editors of PC Magazine
>are. It's also significant that this is the second time an 802.11
>standard has won this prestigious award. We received the first one for
>IEEE 802.11b-1999."
>PC Magazine's annual technical excellence awards recognize "the products
>and technologies that moved the state of the art forward, those that broke
>new ground." Winners of the current awards were selected by the magazine's
>editorial and laboratory staff from products and protocols that became
>available between September 2002 and September 2003.
>"This award provides additional recognition of the IEEE 802.11 working
>group as the preeminent wireless LAN standards development organization,"
>said Paul Nikolich, Chair of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards
>Committee. The IEEE 802.11 working group is part of this committee.
>The IEEE 802.11g amendment, which raised the data rate of IEEE 802.11b
>networks to 54 Mbps from 11 Mbps, was released in June 2003. The Wi-Fi
>Alliance then created an interoperability certification testing program
>for products based on the standard. These products have proven highly
>successful in the global wireless LAN market.
>The transmission speed added by IEEE 802.11g gives wireless networks the
>ability to serve up to four to five times more users than they could with
>IEEE 802.11b. This has opened possibilities for the use of IEEE 802.11
>networks in more demanding applications, such as wireless multimedia video
>transmission and broadcast MPEG.
>IEEE 802.11g units are able to fall back to speeds of 11 Mbps, so IEEE
>802.11b and IEEE 802.11g devices can coexist in the same network. Both
>standards apply to the 2.4 GHz frequency band.
>IEEE 802.11 standards form a family of specifications that define how WLAN
>equipment should be produced so equipment from different manufacturers can
>work together. IEEE 802.11g, "Higher Speed Physical Layer (PHY) Extension
>to IEEE 802.11b," was developed by the IEEE 802.11 Working Group, which is
>sponsored by the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee of the IEEE
>Computer Society. For further information, visit: http://www.ieee802.org/.
>
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>
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>
>+++++++++
>
>/ Stuart
>_______________________________
>
>Stuart J. Kerry
>Chair, IEEE 802.11 WLANs WG
>
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>
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>_______________________________
Bob Heile, Ph.D
Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks
Chair, ZigBee Alliance
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Attleboro, MA 02703 USA
Phone: 508-222-1393
Mobile: 781-929-4832
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