IEEE 802.11^™ Interpretations

Occasionally questions may arise regarding the meaning of portions of standards as they relate to specific applications. When the need for interpretations is brought to the attention of IEEE, the Institute will initiate action to prepare appropriate responses. Since IEEE Standards represent a consensus of all concerned interests, it is important to ensure that any interpretation has also received the concurrence of a balance of interests. For this reason, IEEE and the members of its societies and Standards Coordinating Committees are not able to provide an instant response to interpretation requests except in those cases where the matter has previously received formal consideration.

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Interpretations provided by IEEE P802.11^™  are available below:-

9.2.5.3, 9.2.5.7, C.3

requirements for operation of an implementation when encountering unknown values in an information element

9.2.5.2, 9.2.5.3, 9.2.5.6, 9.2.5.7, 9.2.8, 9.7

the use of the 802.1X uncontrolled port by 802.11i.

19.3.2.5 (figure 153B), 18.2.3.8

correct value for the short SYNC field in 802.11g

Conflicts with clause 17

15.2.3, 15.2.4

Reinitializing the 802.11b scrambler for header and psdu fields

3.8, 7.2.3, 7.3.2.2, 9.1.2, 10.3.3.1, 10.3.2.2, 11.1.2.2, 11.1.3, 11.1.4

Adopting beacon parameters in an IBSS

7.3.2

Definition of certain information elements

7.3.1.7,   7.3.1.9

Usage of Status and Reason Codes

7.3.2.9

Maximum transmit power level in Country information element

9.3.3.2

802.11a channel definitions

802.11 reason codes

802.11 status codes