IEEE P802.11 - TASK GROUP F - MEETING UPDATE:

Status of Project IEEE 802.11f

Recommended Practice for Inter Access Point Protocol

January 2003

Goals for January 2003 & status:

Review & process responses to Sponsor Ballot Recirculation #1
- All comments resolved
- Comment resolution document: IEEE 802-11-03/009R3

Prepare revised draft
- All comment resolutions are in Draft 5.0
- Two edits pending: one waiting for numbers from IETF and one is the member list to be inserted document just before publication

Proceed to next stage of SB process
- TGf is requesting the IEEE to conduct Sponsor Ballot Recirculation #2

March 2003 Objectives:

Do whatever is needed as a result of the Sponsor Ballot Recirculation
- Assuming the Recirculation #2 passes, TGf will submit its draft to RevCom

July 2001

Goals for July 2001 & status:

• Group to read all comments & proposed responses before July mtg.
  • Done
• Finalize/adopt LB 26 comment resolutions
  • Done
• Decide re 11e, 11i sched dependencies.
  • Done
• Create & adopt revised draft reflecting comment resolutions
  • Done
• Start new LB for revised draft
  • Done

Schedule Decision Motivation:

• Whereas
  • 11F has processed all the received LB comments and created a revised draft (2.0),
  • 11f has also added support for 802.1x authentication environments
    • which we understand will support the known needs of 11i; and no other 11i specific support requests were received in LB comments
  • No 11e specific support requests were received in LB comments
• Therefore, 11f has decided to not be lock stepped to either 11e or 11i and will go forward with a 2nd WG letter ballot in order to remain on schedule.

Key July output documents:

• 01/345 – 11F minutes for the week.
• 01/388R1 – LB 26 comment resolutions.
• Draft 2.0 for 2nd WG LB
• (and 1.3 with change bars)
• Security roaming interactions (01/251)
• Move add notify packet addressing (01/449R0)
• SLP Usage and the Registration service (01/490)

September Goals:

• Process any LB comments from LB 28 on 802.11F draft 2.0

May 2001

Letter Ballot 26 comments were partially processed, will continue in July.

• Schedule fork issue decision – was deferred to July when we’ll know what the 11e & 11i LB response looks like.

Letter Ballot 26 Results:

• Number of Voters: 186
• Num Responding: 157 (84%)
  • Valid response rate (> 50%)
• Result:      For: 50   Against: 69     Abstain: 38 (24%)
  • Valid abstention rate (< 30%)

Interim meeting for TGf :

• Month: June (between May and July)
• Location: Silicon Valley, unless someone else volunteers
• Length: a day? Not more than 2
• Goal: To complete creating comment responses for consideration by 11f at July mtg.To make a draft that matches the tentative comment resolutions. Announcement will be via email

Plans for July:

• Group to read all comments & proposed responses before July mtg.
• Finalize/adopt LB 26 comment resolutions
• Decide re 11e, 11i schedule dependencies.
• Create & adopt revised draft reflecting comment resolutions
• Start new LB for revised draft

March 2001

At the January meeting, TGf adopted document 01/102r2 as the initial draft for 802.11F. TGf passed a motion to conduct a working group letter ballot, and on approval, to forward the 802.11F draft D1 to sponsor ballot.. At the May meeting, TGf will process comments arising from the letter ballot, and consider how to extend 802.11F to provide support for 802.11E as a second phase of work.

January 2001

At the January meeting, TGf reviewed the progress and input from the Ad Hoc meeting in December. The group spent most of the time in text drafting. Significant text was generated, but the result is not at draft status yet. They expect to have first draft in March. TGf is soliciting comments and input for consideration in March.

USEFUL LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

IEEE P802.11 WLANs RELATED

• FTP Site Archive
• E-mail Reflectors Archives ( Members Only)

OTHER SITES

• IEEE P802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC)
• IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

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