Jan ‘96 MAC group Report
Jan ‘96 for Mar ‘96 mtg
•	We had one goal - Process D3 LB comments and forward D3.1 for sponsor ballot.
•	We didn’t make it, but we made a lot of progress.
Misc Subjects
•	Nov, Jan MAC minutes approved
This Week’s Work Summary.
D3 MAC Clauses LB stats:
•	Clause   #cmts	
•	C 1:		1	
•	C 2:		1	
•	C 3:		11
•	C 4:		2	
•	C 5:		59	
•	C 6:		23	
•	C 7:		119	
•	C 8:		17	
•	C 9:		168	
•	C 10:	7	
•	C 11:	117	
•	Gen & anx:128
Clause 1
•	Completed
•	All comments accepted
•	All resolutions edited into draft text.
•	MAC approval vote: 12, 0, 1
•	Plenary Vote: 23, 0, 1
Clause 2
•	Completed
•	All comments accepted
•	All resolutions edited into draft text.
•	MAC approval vote: 12, 0, 1
•	Plenary Vote: 24, 0, 0
Clause 3
•	Completed
•	One editorial comment referred to editors for style correction (c# 4 resolution in blue in file)
•	All other resolutions edited into draft text.
•	MAC approval vote: 12, 0, 2
•	Plenary Vote: 24, 0, 0
Clause 4
•	Completed
•	All comments accepted
•	All resolutions edited into draft text.
•	MAC approval vote: 14, 0, 3
•	Plenary Vote: 25, 0, 0
Clause 5
•	One comment (C#27) declined re deleting the fractal picture - author not present, ok reaction anticipated.
•	C#57 declined - requested change based on Data frame assumption re WEP MIB variables.
•	All other comments either adopted or problem identified resolved with alternative solution requested by other reviewers.
•	MAC approval vote: 12, 0, 4
•	Plenary Vote: 24,0,1
Clause 6
•	Completed
•	All comments accepted
•	All edited into draft text
•	For comments not exactly as author requested, author has agreed to delta.
•	MAC approval vote: 15, 0, 2
•	Plenary Vote: 24, 0, 1
Clause 7
•	Approx 112 comments completed
–	C#64 re cap bits
–	Separated overloaded essid field used for both ess-id and ibss-id.
•	Handled in Plenary
–	C#68: Arch comment re FH impact on MAC
»	Closed in plenary wed - declined, 24, 2, 11
Clause 7
•	8 comments declined
–	C#23,25: info elements word aligned in mgt frames
»	rec: leave as is, no pad - wed eve decison
»	One author accepts resolution, the other was not available at time of reccomendation.
–	C#48:  tolerance on duration field (maf) to compensate for FH bit stuffing.
»	author reaction not known.
–	C#78 suggests collapsing assoc and reassoc responses into single frame
–	C#75 CFP dur remaining def proposed change - author consents
–	C#60, 63, 65 WEP supported bits in CAP field, authors consent
Clause 7
•	3 open comments
–	C#72,74 supported rates - tired to multi rate comments as sub-subject
»	plenary issue
–	C#101: needs work to supply missing Challenge text element, will work on for May.
–	C#34 dependent on reference to C11 poriton of comment - clause 7 still needs text change if C11 recomendation is adopted.
•	MAC approval vote: 17, 0, 2
•	Plenary Vote: 26, 0, 0
Clause 8
•	All Comments processed
•	Comments declined:
–	WEP capability bits commnets declined, commentors all accept resolution.
•	Comments referred:
–	One request for editorial text refered to commentor and editors.
»	BIt order picture in WEP PDU diagram, info is uniquely specified, but an additinoal picture here would be convinient.
•	All other comments accepted.
•	Clause 8 text edited.
•	MAC approval vote: 17, 0, 2
•	Plenary Vote: 25, 0, 1
Clause 9
•	Approx 133 comments processed
•	Open comments
–	About 29 comments not looked at yet.
–	C#21: multi-cast reliability from Jan (multiple comments)
–	C#37,38 can one proces multiple msdu’s on xmit at same time
–	c# 102, 103: remove PS-Poll/data/ack frame sequence comment. 
•	Deferred comments:
–	C#9: multi-rate
»	dependent on evening M-R group outcome.
Clause 9
•	Accepted:
–	C#6   : frag bcasst or not?  rec = not to fragment. comment accepted.
–	#simultain msdus 6 -> 3
–	CFP duration and CF-end - exact changes declined, alternative text used instead - O’lapping BSSs CFPs may be coordinated.
–	CWMIN became dynamic.
•	MAC approval vote: 7, 0, 5
•	Plenary Vote:13 ,8, 9
cw min fallback motion
•	mac motion 12: moved to adopt dynamic mech per text in edited sec6.doc.
–	MAC vote: 12, 5, 3
–	assuming this flys in plenary, need text in C11 to match, if not fly need to back out both C9 and C11 text.
•	motion for if prev motion (mac motion 12) not adopted in plenary, then do this: adopt static value on per phy basis the FH = 15, DS=31, IR=63
–	MAC vote: 16, 0, 0
–	Plenary Vote: 18, 3, 6
Clause 10
•	All processed, all accepted, draft edited.
•	MAC approval vote: 18, 0, 1
•	Plenary Vote: 26, 0, 0
Clause 11
•	All comments processed
•	90 Accepted
•	Open comment:
–	Clause 7 C#35:    when valid to change MIB entries?
–	C#15: re bcast reliability & 96/15
–	C#17: re randomization of beacons at TBTT
–	 bcast reliability C# 14,44,59
–	6 re multi-rate 4=TT 67,92,100,102, 98,  99
–	C#43, 42 re clairification of PSP - must get, or can get data from AP
Clause 11
•	7 Declined:
–	C# 111, 115, 120 re rename of attributes
–	C#26: delete ACK timeout attrib - expected to be moot by C#138 in clause 9
•	Deferred:
–	C#67, 91, 92: re multi-rate issues
•	MAC approval vote: 7,0,0 
•	Plenary Vote: 24, 0, 4
General & Annex
•	128 comments 
•	huge portion handled by Plenary motion 8
•	Approx 28 other comments.
•	Open Comments:
•	Patents 
–	open as 802.11 has not heard from Apple re RTS/CTS. 
•	Multi-rate
–	Depends on results of Wed eve M-R group.
•	Other comments open as not looked at yet.
–	A few technical comments re PICs
–	Most editorial in nature that Editors need to look at (comments from IEEE editor etc).
•	MAC approval vote: N/A
Major anticipated contirbutions for May
•	Simon: PICS updated to match D3.1 (96/1R2)
•	MIF: updated annex state machine to match D3.1 (96/2)
•	MAC group will send out a request for all mac members to tell us if they believe we have made a net gain in satisfaction with the D3.1 work (i.e. an informal confirmation ballot) - this wil be done via email (MAC chair to email)
Goals for May 96
•	Complete processing D3 LB comments.
MAC group report 
•	That’s all for now...

in case c9 fails...
Recover C9 work
•	Moved: to adopt all the reccomndations from the MAC group re clause 9 except for those from C#78 from C9 table (Dynamic CWmin).
•	Plenary Vote:27,0,1