Guidance for progression to Standard
Adjusted for March meeting results 
Prepared by Vic Hayes, Chair
Lucent Technologies
Summary
•	This presentation gives the most important actions 802.11 have to take to progress its draft standard
•	It also gives some possible schedules for handling the ballots between the May and November meetings
•	It provides the dates for the relevant IEEE Standard Board meetings
What to do
•	At the May meeting, we need to resolve all negative votes from D3.0 ballot and send draft D4.0 to WG Letter Ballot
•	At the July plenary meeting we need to resolve all “Do NOT Approve” votes on D4.0
•	Then we need to approach the “Do NOT Approve” voters and ask them if our resolution to their comments constituting their “Do NOT Approve” vote would revert their vote to an “Approve” vote
•	Then we need to recalculate the ballot result and list the remaining “Do NOT Approve” votes
•	The remaining “Do NOT Approve” votes are either:
–	1) rejected by 802.11 with a rebuttal (these are for the report to the ExCom)
–	2) unresolved (these mean 802.11 need to do more work)
What to decide
•	If result is 1), and the number of rejects is very low, we would be able to ask the ExCom to conditionally go to Sponsor Ballot
–	if they approve, we could go to a WG Confirmation ballot.
–	with no new “Do NOT Approve” votes from the Confirmation ballot, we can go to Sponsor ballot 
•	If result is 2), we need to spend another interim meeting on the unresolved comments
•	If ExCom rejects conditional approval to go to Sponsor Ballot, we need to spend another interim to further resolve issues

1: POSSIBLE SCHEDULE FOR WG BALLOT D4.0
•	End of meeting	May 9 (Thu)
•	Editors deliver	May 16 (Thu)
•	Draft on server	May 18 (Sat)
•	All drafts mailed	May 24 (Fri)
•	All drafts received	May 28 (Tue)
•	Ballot closes	Jun 27 (Thu) (30 days from mail arrive, 40 days from ftp-server)
•	Result on server	Jul 2 (Tue)
•	Meeting start	Jul 8 (Mon)
2: POSSIBLE SCHEDULE FOR WG CONFIRMATION BALLOT D4.0
•	End of meeting	Jul 12 (Fri)
•	Editors deliver	Jul 19 (Fri)
•	Draft on server	Jul 22 (Mon) (outside of my control)
•	Mailing date	Jul 26 (Fri)
•	All drafts received	Jul 30 (Tue)
•	Ballot closes	Aug 15 (Thu) (16 days from mail arrive date, 24 days from server)
•	Result on server	Aug 20 (Mon)
•	    Aug 15 (Thu)
•	Meeting start	Aug 26 (Mon) (14 days after ballot closure)
3: POSSIBLE SCHEDULE FOR INITIAL SPONSOR BALLOT D5.0
•	End of meeting	Aug 30 (Fri)
•	Editors deliver	Sep 5 (Thu)
•	Draft on server	Sep 7 (Sat)
•	Draft at IEEE	Sep 10 (Tue)
•	All drafts mailed	Sep 20 (Fri)
•	All drafts received	Sep 24 (Tue)
•	Ballot closes	Oct 24 (Thu) (30 days from mail arrive date, 47 days from server)
•	Ballot deliveredOct 28 (Mon)
•	Result on server	Oct 31 (Mon)
•	Meeting start	Nov 11 (Mon)
STANDARD BOARD DATES
•	Standards Board meetings in 1997:
–	March 20, June 26,  September 16, December 9.
•	Proposed standard due at IEEE office: 
–	Feb 7, May 16, Aug 1, Oct 31