March 2009 Mesh Meeting Agenda

1. March 2009Mesh Meeting Agenda Authors: Date: 2009-03-11 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

2. IEEE 802.11s:Mesh NetworkingTask Group TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Vancouver, British Columbia 9-12 March, 2009 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Motorola) d3e3e3@gmail.com +1-508-634-2066 Temporary Technical Editor: Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) Secretary: Stephen Rayment (BelAir Networks) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

3. Venue Hyatt Regency Vancouver, British Columbia Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

4. General Flow of the TGs Meeting • Monday • Administrivia and Status • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • Tuesday • Administrivia and Status • TGs Process Presentation • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • Wednesday • Security Presentations • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • Thursday • Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft • TGs Process Discussion • Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

5. Monday, 9 March20099:30–11:00, Grouse Room • Call ad hoc meeting to Order • Miscellaneous Announcements • Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. • Manual attendance recording • Ad Hoc meeting Agenda Approved • Presentations • “Clarifications for Peer Service Period”, 11-09/269r0, Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) • “PS-Poll Frame Use in Mesh”, 11-09/270r0, Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) • Strawpoll: Should usage of PS-Poll be prohibited in MBSS? • Yes: 2 No: 1 Abstain: 6 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

6. Monday, 9 March20099:30–11:00, Grouse Room • Presentations (cont.) • “Operation in Light Sleep Mode”, 11-09/271r0, Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) • “MCCA Enhancements”, 11-09/280r0, Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) • “Changes to Abbreviated Handshake”, 11-09/0283r0, Dan Harkins (Aruba Networks) • Strawpoll: I would support a motion to make these changes to the draft if a document describing them had been on the server for four hours • Agree: 1 Disagree: 0 Maybe, but needs more discussion: 10 Don’t care: 0 • Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft • Adjourn ad hoc meeting Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

7. Tuesday, 10 March 200910:30 – 12:30, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • Miscellaneous Announcements • Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. • Approval of Minutes: • Los Angeles meeting minutes: 11-09/110r0 • Approved by unanimous consent • Monday morning ad hoc meeting minutes: 11-09/310r0 • Approved by unanimous consent • Teleconference minutes: • February 4, 18, 11-09/227r0, 11-09/244r0, approved unanimously Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

8. Automated Attendance Recording • Go to http://newton/11/attendance(Documents: http://802server.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 802wirelessworld for anything! Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

9. 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 group. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

10. 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/affiliationFAQ.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/pat-slideset.ppt • Patent FAQ: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

11. 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 orpatent 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 patentclaim 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 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

12. 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/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/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/pat-slideset.ppt Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

13. 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 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

14. 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. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

15. Tuesday, 10 March 200910:30 – 12:30, Grouse Room • Status of TGs Draft 2.07 and Comment Resolutions • “Resolution of comments from Letter Ballot 126”, 11-08/493r39 • “TGs draft D2.07 status report”, 11-09/240r0, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) • Remaining Agenda Approved by unanimous consent • Presentation and Discussion on Process • “TGs Process, March”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-09/352r1 • Presentations • “SAE Test Vectors”, 11-09/0292r2, Dan Harkins (Aruba Networks) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

16. Tuesday, 10 March 200910:30 – 12:30, Grouse Room • Motion: To direct the editor to incorporate the changes in 11-09/292r0 into the Draft and update the resolutions of CIDs 956 and 375 to be Counter with a resolution note stating “Resolved by the adoption of 11-09/292r0”. • Moved: Dan Harkins Seconded: Jesse Walker • Yes: 7 No: 0 Abstain: 4 (passes > ¾) • “Final resolutions for MCCA related comments”, 11-09/320r0 (Excel: 11-09/0321r0), Guido Hiertz (Philips) • “Action frames and addressing”, 11-09/0149r2, Guenael Strutt (Motorola) • “Multi rate support for mesh STA”, 11-09/316r1, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

17. Tuesday, 10 March 200910:30 – 12:30, Grouse Room • “Some fixes to sync text”, 11-09/317r0, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) • “Some fixes to power save”, 11-09/318r0, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) • “General Editorial Comment Resolution”, 11-09/353r0, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) • Recess until 13:30 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

18. Tuesday, 10 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • Selection of Secretary • The chair served as Secretary for this session. • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Presentation: • “Proactive PREQ/P and HWMP MIB Variables”, 11-09/260r0 (Word: 11-09/261r0), Michael Bahr (Siemens) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

19. Tuesday, 10 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • Strawpoll: Subgroup interest? (number in parenthesis is number of open comments) • Security (33, Jesse Walker): 3 • RFI (16, Guenael Strutt): 2 • General (14, ): 2 • MAC (10, Michelle Gong): 6 • Divide into MAC and Security subgroups for comment resolution. • The MAC group completed and re-targeted to the General category. • Subgroups were called together and recessed until 16:00. Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

20. Tuesday, 10 March 200916:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Announcement: comment resolution spreadsheet 11-08/493r40 is available that incorporates comment resolutions adopted so far in this meeting. • Motions • Motion: Moved, to direct the Editor to incorporate the changes in 11-09/320r0 (“Final resolutions for MCCA related comments”) into the draft, updating the comment resolution spreadsheet as shown in 11-09/321r0. • Moved: Guido Hiertz Seconded: Guenael Strutt • Yes: 6 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes > ¾ ) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

21. Tuesday, 10 March 200916:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Motion: Moved, to direct the Editor to incorporate the changes in 11-09/149r2 (“Action frames and addressing ”) into the draft, updating the comment resolution spreadsheet to show CID 1096 as Counter. • Moved: Guenael Strutt Seconded: Guido Hiertz • Yes: 6 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes > ¾ ) • Motion: Moved, to direct the Editor to incorporate the changes in 11-09/316r1 (“Multi rate support for mesh STA”) into the draft. • Moved: Kazuyuki Sakoda Seconded: Guido Hiertz • Yes: 6 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes > ¾ ) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

22. Tuesday, 10 March 200916:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Motion: Moved, to direct the Editor to incorporate the changes in 11-09/317r0 (“Some fixes to sync text”) into the draft. • Moved: Kazuyuki Sakoda Seconded: Guenael Strutt • Yes: 6 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes ¾ ) • Motion: Moved, to adopt the comment resolutions in 11-09/353r0 (“General Editorial Comment Resolution”) and direct the Editor to incorporate any changes in into the draft. • Moved: Kazuyuki Sakoda Seconded: Guido Hiertz • Yes: 6 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes > ¾ ) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

23. Tuesday, 10 March 200916:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Motion: Moved, to amend the action taken in the first motion above in this session by substituting 11-09/321r1 for 11-09/321r0. • Moved: Guido Hiertz Seconded: Kazuyuki Sakoda • Yes: 5 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes > ¾ ) • “Collocated Mesh STAs”, 802.11-09/0349r0, Guenael Strutt (Motorola) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

24. Tuesday, 10 March 200916:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Motion: Moved, to direct the editor to incorporate the changes in 11-09/349r0 into the draft with “dvices” changed to “devices” and “mesh” inserted in front of the first two occurrences of “STA” in paragraph 2 of the text to be added to the draft, resolving CID 842 with Accept and 1949 with Counter. • Moved: Guenael Strutt Seconded: Guido Hiertz • Yes: 4 No: 0 Abstain: 0 • Topic: Management/Data Frames Question re subtype exhaustion • “TGs draft D2.07 status report”, 11-09/240r0, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) • Recess until Wednesday at 13:30 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

25. Wednesday, 11 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Announcement: comment resolution spreadsheet 11-08/493r41 is available that incorporates changes adopted yesterday and comment resolutions from the MAC and General subgroups. • Security Presentations • “Updated Abbreviated Handshake”, 11-09/0268r0 (normative text: 11-09/0266r0, comment spreadsheet 11-09/0267r0), Jesse Walker (Meiyuan Zhao) (Intel) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

26. Wednesday, 11 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • Security Presentations (continued) • “Mesh Peering Instance Controller”, 11-09/0288r0 (normative text: 11-09/0287r0), Jesse Walker (Meiyuan Zhao) (Intel) • Motion: To (1) adopt the changes in 11-09/287r0 and 11-09/266r0 except that Section V.5.8 is not deleted and (2) to direct the Editor to incorporate them into the Draft and (3) to adopt the comment resolutions in 11-09/267r0 and (4) to close CID 216 with “Counter” and Resolution Note “Fixed by 11-09/266r0”. • Moved: Jesse Walker Seconded: Guenael Strutt • Yes: 7 No: 0 Abstain: 1 (passes > ¾ ) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

27. Wednesday, 11 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • Motion: To adopt the comment resolutions in 11-09/0359r0 (“Security Comment Resolutions”) with Column P equal to “x” except CIDs 903, 1562, and 1563 and direct the Editor to enter the changes for those comments with Column P equal to “Accept” or “Counter” into the Draft. • Moved: Jesse Walker Seconded: Guido Hiertz • Yes: 9 No: 0 Abstain: 0 (passes > ¾ ) • Motion: To adopt the comment resolutions in 11-08/0493r41 (“LB 126 Comment Resolutions”) with Column P equal to “MAC090310PM1” or “x” and direct the Editor to enter the changes for those comments with Column P equal to “Accept” or “Counter” into the Draft. • Moved: Guido Hiertz Seconded: Jarkko Kneckt • Yes: 9 No: 0 Abstain: 0 (passes > ¾ ) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

28. Wednesday, 11 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • Presentation: “Corrected resolution for Clause 7.3.2.98.2”, 11-09/373r0, Guido Hiertz (Philips) • Motion: To adopt the changes to the Draft in 11-09/373r0 and direct the Editor to incorporate them. • Moved: Guido Hiertz Seconded: Kazuyuki Sakoda • Yes: 9 No: 0 Abstain: 0 (passes > ¾ ) • Motion: To adopt the changes to the draft in 11-09/318r2 (“Some fixes to power save”) and direct the Editor to incorporate them into the Draft. • Moved: Jarkko Kneckt Seconded: Guido Hiertz • Yes: 9 No: 0 Abstain: 0 (passes > ¾ ) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

29. Wednesday, 11 March 200913:30 – 15:30, Grouse Room • The Editor reported that there are 20 Open CIDs left, 6 in the General area and 14 in the RFI area. • Recess until 16:00 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

30. Pending Presentations/Topics • “802.11s integration into the 802.11 CFs framework ”, 11-09/381r0, Guido Hiertz • “Root Announcement Cleanup”, 11-09/385, Guenael Strutt • “Forwarding and Addressing”, 11-09/377r0, Guenael Strutt • “Proactive PREQ/P and HWMP MIB Variables ”, 11-09/260r1, Michael Bahr Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

31. Wednesday, 11 March 200916:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft • Recess until Thursday 10:30 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

32. Thursday, 12 March 2008 10:30 – 12:30, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance recording reminder • Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft • Recess until 16:00 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

33. Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft • 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: • [Motion to go to Letter Ballot. Either directly if Draft is ready or via a 15 day procedural ballot if Draft is not ready.] • Mover: Seconder: • Yes: No: Abstain: Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

34. Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:00 – 18:00, Grouse Room • Discussion and Votes re Process / ad hocs / teleconferences • “TGs Process, March”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-09/352r2 • 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 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

35. [Reference Information] • Updated PAR at http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/802-11s.pdf. • Original PAR for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/54r2. Original Five Criteria for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/56r1. • Comment Resolution Spreadsheet: • 11-08/493r39: Resolution of Letter Ballot #126 Comments • TGs Technical Editors: • Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony), Draft 2.03 … • Anthony Maida (3eTI), Drafts 2.01 and D2.02 • Avinash Joshi (Motorola), Drafts 1.09 through D2.0 • W. Steven Conner (Intel). Drafts 0.01 through D1.08(also chair of the first Mesh Study Group Session) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola

36. [Earlier Meeting Minutes] • Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes • January 2009, January 2009, Los Angeles, California, 11-09/110r0 • November 2008, Dallas, Texas, 11-08/1431r0 • September 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 11-08/1078r0 • September 2008, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-08/1038r0 • July 2008, Denver, Colorado, 11-08/835r0 • May 2008, Jacksonville, Florida, 11-08/580r2 • May 2008, ad hoc meeting, Santa Clara, California, 11-08/539r0 • March 2008, Orlando, Florida, 11-08/424r0 • January 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-08/170r2 • November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-07/2826r1 • Recent Teleconference Minutes • December 3, 17, 11-08/1449r0, 11-08/1464r0 • January 7, 11-09/16r0 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola