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May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 May 2008 Mesh Meeting Agenda Date: 2008 -05 -12 Authors: Name Address Affiliations Phone Email Donald Eastlake 3 rd 111 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Motorola +1 -508 -786 -7554 Donald. Eastlake@motorola. com Submission 1 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 IEEE 802. 11 s: Mesh Networking Task Group TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Jacksonville, Florida 12 -15 May, 2008 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3 rd. , Motorola Donald. Eastlake@motorola. com +1 -508 -786 -7554 Technical Editor: Anthony Maida, 3 ETI Secretary: Stephen Rayment, Bel. Air Networks Submission 2 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Venue The Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Submission 3 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 General Flow of the TGs Meeting • Monday – – Administrivia and Status TGs Process Presentation Election of TG Officers Resolution of Comments • Tuesday – Resolution of Comments • Wednesday – Resolution of Comments – Security Presentations • Thursday – – Submission Resolution of Comments TGs Process Discussion Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes Other Technical Presentations 4 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • Call meeting to Order • Miscellaneous Announcements • Selection of Temporary Secretary: – Anthony Maida (EFJ, Inc. ) • Review of IEEE 802 and 802. 11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. • Agenda approved my unanimous consent • Minutes as listed below approved by unanimous consent: – March 2008 Meeting Minutes, 11 -08/424 r 0 – May 2008 Santa Clara ad hoc Meeting Minutes, 11 -08/539 r 0 – Teleconference Minutes: • 16, 30 April 2008, 11 -08/463 r 1, 11 -08/494 r 0 Submission 5 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Miscellaneous Announcements • Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! – The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. • Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! • Individual membership – In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. • Photographs and Recordings – No sound recordings are permitted at 802. 11 WG or TG meetings. – No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. • Media – Press and Analyst briefings – Only the 802. 11/. 15/. 18/. 19/. 22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working groups Submission 6 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Important Stuff • Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. – Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: http: //standards. ieee. org/faqs/affiliation. FAQ. html – Anti-Trust: http: //standards. ieee. org/resources/antitrust-guidelines. pdf – IEEE Ethics: http: //www. ieee. org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics. html – Letter of Assurance Form: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/loa. pdf – IEEE Patent Committee: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/index. html – IEEE Patent Policy: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat-slideset. ppt – Patent FAQ: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/faq. pdf Submission 7 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: – “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents • “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim, ” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims – “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) – The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6. 2 • Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged • No duty to perform a patent search Submission 8 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws http: //standards. ieee. org/guides/bylaws/sect 6 -7. html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http: //standards. ieee. org/guides/opman/sect 6. html#6. 3 Material about the patent policy is available at http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat-material. html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee. org or visit http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/index. html This slide set is available at http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat-slideset. ppt Submission 9 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Call for Potentially Essential Patents • If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: – Either speak up now or – Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or – Cause an LOA to be submitted Submission 10 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings • All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. – Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. – Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. • Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. – Technical considerations remain primary focus – Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. – Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. – Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. -------------------------------- See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5. 3. 10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Submission 11 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Affiliation • It is defined in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws, 5. 2. 1. 5 as: “An individual is deemed “affiliated” with any individual or entity that has been, or will be, financially or materially supporting that individual’s participation in a particular IEEE standards activity. This includes, but is not limited to, his or her employer and any individual or entity that has or will have, either directly or indirectly, requested, paid for, or otherwise sponsored his or her participation. • Revision: Feb 2006 Standards Board Bylaw 5. 2. 1. 1 – Openness is defined as the quality of being not restricted to a particular type or category of participants. All meetings involving standards development an all IEEE Sponsor ballots shall be open to all interested parties. Each individual participant in IEEE Standards activities shall disclose his or her affiliations when requested. A person who knows or reasonably should know, that a participant’s disclosure is materially incomplete or incorrect should report that fact to the Secretary of the IEEE -SA Standards Board and the appropriate Sponsors. Submission 12 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Automated Attendance Recording • Go to http: //newton/11/attendance (Documents: http: //802 server. events. ieee. org/ or 172. 16. 0. 10 or just http: //newton) – Sign-in – Claim attendance credit for each session. • Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. • You have to log in every session! • Do NOT use 802 wirelessworld for anything! Submission 13 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 802. 11 P&P – TG Elections (11 -07 -0360 r 4) 3. 2 Task Group Chair The TG Chair shall be appointed by the WG Chair and confirmed by a WG majority approval. The TG Chair is re-affirmed every 2 years: one session after the WG Chair is elected. The TG Chair is required to confirm that the function of secretary is performed for each TG meetings are not allowed to function without a secretary. 3. 3 Task Group Vice-Chair TG Vice-Chair is elected by a WG majority approval. The TG Vice-Chair is reaffirmed every 2 years; one session after the WG Chair is elected. 3. 4 Task Group Secretary The TG Secretary shall be appointed by the TG Chair and confirmed by a TG motion that is approved with a minimum 50% majority. The TG Secretary is re-affirmed every 2 years; one session after the WG Chair is elected. The minutes of meetings taken by the Secretary (or designee) are to be provided to the TG Chair in time to be available to the WG Chair for publication one week after close of the session. The minutes of the meeting are to include documents produced by the voting process and document list. See IEEE® Standards Companion for details on content and form of minutes. 3. 5 Task Group Technical Editor The TG Technical Editor shall be appointed by the TG Chair and confirmed by a TG majority approval. Submission 14 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • Existing Task Group Officers – Chair: Donald Eastlake 3 rd (Motorola) – Editor: Vacant • Avinash Joshi (Motorola) filling in on a temporary basis – Secretary: Stephen Rayment (Bel. Air Networks) • Task Group Officer nominations – Recommendation of Task Group Chair to 802. 11 WG: • Donald Eastlake 3 rd (Motorola) – Election of Task Group Technical Editor: • Anthony Maida (EFJ Inc. ) – Election of Task Group Secretary: • Stephen Rayment (Bel. Air Networks) Submission 15 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • Moved, to re-affirm or elect the following Officers and to adopt the recommendation below for TGs chair: – Secretary, re-affirm: Stephen Rayment (Bel. Air Networks) – Technical Editor, elect: Anthony Maida (3 ETI) – TGs Chair, Recommendation to WG: Donald Eastlake 3 rd (Motorola) • Moved: Jan Kruys • Second: Mathilde Benveniste • Yes: 20 No: 0 Abstain: 2 Submission 16 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • Status of TGs Draft and Letter Ballot – Draft D 2. 0 – “Resolution of comments from Letter Ballot 126”, 11 -08/493 r 7 • The substance of comments 374 and 763 are not to be discussed. • Presentation and Discussion on Process – “TGs Process, May”, Donald Eastlake 3 rd, 11 -08/570 r 0 • Moved, That TGs will use TGs Draft D 2. 0 as a baseline and consider for resolution the comments submitted in 802. 11 LB#126. Moved: Guenael Strutt Seconded: Jesse Walker Yes: 20 No: 0 Abstain: 0 (passes) Submission 17 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • Resolution of Comments – Straw Poll on areas of interest: • MAC: 5 RFI: 4 Security: 8 General: 3 – Divide into subgroups: • Security, Jesse Walker coordinator • RFI, Guenael Strutt coordinator • MAC, Michelle Gong coordinator • Recombine and Recess Until 13: 30 Submission 18 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 13: 30 -15: 30, Grand 8 Room • Call meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • “Presence Information in Large Mesh Networks”, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos (MIT), 11 -08/561 r 0 • “MDA Enhancements”, Jarkko Knecht (Nokia), 1108/577 r 0 – Straw Poll: Should power save and MDA be made interoperable along the lines described in 11 -08/577 r 0? • Yes: 5 No: 0 Abstain: 16 – Straw Poll: Would a presence protocol like that in 11 -08/561 r 0 be a useful addition to mesh? • Yes: 7 No: 6 Abstain: 12 Submission 19 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 13: 30 -15: 30, Grand 8 Room • Divide into subgroups: – Security, Jesse Walker coordinator – RFI, Guenael Strutt coordinator – MAC, Michelle Gong coordinator • Recombine and Recess until 19: 30 Submission 20 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Monday, 12 May 2008 19: 30 -21: 30, Grand 8 Room • Call meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Divide into subgroups: – Security, Tony Braskich coordinator – RFI, Guenael Strutt coordinator – MAC, Michelle Gong coordinator • Recombine and Recess until 10: 30 Tuesday Submission 21 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Note: The substance of CID 1065, like CIDs 374 and 763, will not be discussed. • “Forwarding in PS mesh”, Jarkko Knecht, 11 -08/578 r 0 – Straw Poll: Is there value in Power Save aware Routing? • Yes: 9 No: 1 Abstain: 11 – Straw Poll: Should TGs provide means to communicate expected traffic characteristics? • Yes: 2 No: 0 Abstain: 20 – Straw Poll: Should TGs provide rules or guidance for how PS MPs provide forwarding? • Yes: 9 No: 3 Abstain: 11 Submission 22 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Tuesday, 13 May 2008 10: 30 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • “Scheduled service periods in wireless mesh”, Mathilde Benveniste, 11 -08/619 r 0 – Straw Poll: Is anything in 11 -08/619 r 0 of interest to you? • Yes: 7 No: 1 Abstain: 15 • “Refining the Security Architecture”, Tony Braskich, 1108/617 r 0. • Recess until 13: 30 Submission 23 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Pending Presentations • MAC, Mathilde Benveniste Submission 24 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13: 30 – 15: 30, Grand 8 Room • • Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolve Comments Recess until 16: 00 Submission 25 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16: 00 – 18: 00, Grand 8 Room • • Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolve Comments Recess until 19: 30 Submission 26 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19: 30 – 21: 30, Grand 8 Room • • Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolve Comments Recess until 13: 30 Wednesday Submission 27 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Wednesday, 14 May 2008 13: 30 – 15: 30, Grand 8 Room • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Security Presentations • “MSA Key Hierarchy Analysis and Alternatives”, 1108/501 • “Protocol Coexistence Issue in MSA Subsequent Authentication”, 11 -08/502 • “Authentication and Key Management of MP with multiple radios”, 11 -08/317 r 2 (11 -08/tbd Word) • Resolve Comments • Recess until 16: 00 Submission 28 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16: 00 – 18: 00, Grand 8 Room • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolve Comments • Recess until 08: 00 Thursday Submission 29 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Thursday, 15 May 2008 08: 00 – 12: 30, Grand 8 Room • • • IPR and Attendance recording reminder Resolve Comments Recess until 10: 30 IPR and Attendance recording reminder Resolve Comments Recess until 13: 30 Submission 30 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 Thursday, 15 May 2008 13: 30 – 15: 30, Grand 8 Room • Discussion and Votes re Process / ad hocs / teleconferences – “TGs Process, May”, Donald Eastlake 3 rd, 11 -08/570 r 1 • Moved, to direct the Editor to produce one or more revisions of the Draft so as to incorporate all changes and comment resolutions adopted before the end of this session. – Mover: Seconder: – Yes: No: Abstain: • Other Technical Presentations • Adjourn sine die • TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away Submission 31 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 [Reference Information] • Updated PAR at http: //standards. ieee. org/board/nes/projects/802 -11 s. pdf. – Original PAR for IEEE 802. 11 ESS Mesh: 11 -04/54 r 2. Original Five Criteria for IEEE 802. 11 ESS Mesh: 11 -04/56 r 1. • Comment Resolution Spreadsheets: – 11 -08/493 r 7: Resolution of Letter Ballot 126 Comments (D 2. 0) – 11 -07/23 r 55: Resolution of comments received during IEEE 802. 11 Letter Ballot 93 (D 1. 0) • TGs Technical Editors – Anthony Maida (RJF Inc. ), Drafts 2. 01 + – Avinash Joshi (Motorola), Drafts 1. 09 through D 2. 0 – W. Steven Conner (Intel). Drafts 0. 01 through D 1. 08 (also chair of the first Mesh Study Group Session) Submission 32 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

May 2008 doc. : IEEE P 802. 11 -08/462 r 7 [Earlier Meeting Minutes] • Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes – – March 2008, Orlando, Florida, 11 -08/424 r 0 January 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, 11 -08/170 r 2 November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, 11 -07/2826 r 1 September 2007, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11 -07/2495 r 0 • September 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11 -07/2413 r 0 – July 2007, San Francisco, California, 11 -07/2277 r 0 • June 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11 -07/2009 r 0 – May 2007, Montreal, Quebec, 11 -07/746 r 0 • April 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 11 -07/559 r 1 – March 2007, Orlando, Florida, 11 -07/413 r 0 • February 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11 -07/240 r 0 • Recent Teleconference Minutes • 21 November 2007, 11 -07/2934 r 0 • 9 January 2008, 11 -08/41 r 0 Submission 33 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola