1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 1 802.11 TGn Editor Report March 2008 Date: 2008-03-17 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 2 Abstract This document summarises editorial activities on the TGn Draft since the Jan 2008 meeting Status of Draft Status of ad-hocs and assignments Plan for this meeting Editorial motions

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 3 Acknowledgements Working draft D3.03 review: –Bjorn Bjerke, Bruce Kraemer, Eldad Perahia, Matthew Fischer, Tomoko Adachi, Tomoya Yamaura, Vinko Erceg Speculative edits reviews: –Tomoko Adachi, Yuichi Morioka, Eldad Perahia, John Ketchum, Matthew Fischer, Hongyuan Zhang

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 4 LB115 Documents TGn DRAFT and redlines (members’ area of 802.11 website) –Draft P802.11n_D3.03.pdfDraft P802.11n_D3.03.pdf D3.04 Speculative edits –11-08-0259-00-000n-TGn speculative D3.04.pdf 11-08-0259-00-000n-TGn speculative D3.04.pdf D3.05 – D3.06 speculative edits LB115 implemented resolutions –11-07-2783-06-000n-tgn-lb115-editor-comments.xls Includes speculative edits to D3.06 LB115 composite comments (all ad-hocs) –11-07-2687-05-000n-tgn-lb115-composite-comments.xls Includes speculative edits to D3.06

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 5 Draft Numbering History (D2.0+) D2.0, February 2007 - TGn and WG approved draft for balloting D2.01-D2.02, April-May 2007 - D2.02 approved by TGn D2.03, D2.04, D2.05 June-July 2007 - D 2.05 approved by TGn D2.06, Aug 2007 - Draft for editorial panel review D2.07, Sept 2007 D3.0, Sept 2007 - Draft for Letter Ballot 115 D3.01, Nov 2007 - Draft containing speculative editorial resolutions matching 11- 07/2688r0. D3.02, Dec 2008 – Draft incorporating Nov 2007 resolutions D3.03, Feb 2008 – Draft incorporating Jan 2008 resolutions Speculative edits: –D3.04 speculative, March 2008 – Draft incorporating MAC and COEX resolutions agreed in the ad-hocs –D3.05 speculative edits: Implementation of 11-07/2900r11 from the BEAM ad-hoc. –D3.06 speculative edits: tracking changes in 11-07/2742 r10 —> r11. Plus 5 STBC-related comments in MAC. –Not on server D3.07 speculative edits: contains all remaining LB115 resolutions, approved in the TGn ad-hoc at the Orlando pre-meeting. D3.08 speculative edits: cleaned up - a potential candidate for D4.0 after renumbering.

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 6 Process for Draft D3.02 Working version D 3.03 –This working draft and the comment resolutions/edit notes were sent to review Review –A review panel of volunteers checked resolutions/edit notes against draft D3.03 and reported any defects of editing –A total of 81 defects were reported D3.03 –The defects were addressed by editing the TGn draft and updating the comment resolutions/edit notes –Unapproved Draft 3.03 was released and the edit notes in 11-07-2783-04- 000n-tgn-lb115-editor-comments.xls were published in February

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 7 Status of comments approved in January Status as in 11-07-2783-04-000n-tgn-lb115-editor-comments.xls In tab “Approved in Jan” : EI, EM and EN comments – edited in D3.02 –128 EI (edited as specified) –30 EM (edited with changes) –4 EMR (edited with changes, needs re-approval) –2 ER (no edits made, needs review and re-approval) In tab “Approved Rejects” –Cumulative approved rejects –Nothing is entered in “edit status/notes” for these comments

8. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 8 Plan for this week Goal is to: –complete resolution of all comments –approve all comments in TGn –Have a D4.0 for approval in the closing TGn slot Process: –Speculative editing has handled all remaining resolutions –I will track any changes during this session –Ideally have a tentative D4.0 Wed am for final review

9. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 9 Plan leading up to May meeting Letter ballot: 15-day working group recirculation –starting probably Wed 2008-03-26 –completing Thu 2008-04-10 Earliest date of a meeting to start comment resolution: –Wed 2008-04-16 14 working days of preparation time F2F pre-meeting –Wed 2008-05-07 to Fri 2008-05-09

10. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 10 Summary of the status of the ad-hoc groups Mar 07

11. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 11 Summary of the status of the ad-hoc groups Mar 17

12. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 12 Speculative editing Comments approved in ad-hocs before the meeting have been speculatively edited. MAC: 25 comments (D3.04 Speculative edits 1) Coex: 110 comments (D3.04 Speculative edits 2) Beam: 2 comments (D3.05 Speculative edits)

13. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 13 Summary after speculative editing

14. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 14 Current Assignees None CID 5558 needs a little bit more work (MAC ad-hoc) –During editing D3.07, some technical flaws were discovered –needs discussion and re-approval in MAC ad-hoc

15. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 15 Editorial Motion #1 Move to accept the comment resolutions in document 11-07-2783-06-000n-tgn-lb115-editor-comments.xls on the “Transferred” tab. –This is a comment transferred to the editor in the Jan meeting –Tab contains 1 comment: Reject (CID 5052)

16. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 16 Editorial Motion – #2 Move to approve IEEE P802.11n_D3.03 as the TGn draft –Yes –No –Abstain

17. doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/0275r1 Submission March 2008 Adrian Stephens, Intel CorporationSlide 17 Other Motion This is just a placeholder. Someone else might want to bring this motion. Move to instruct the TGn editor to renumber D3.08(TBD) as D4.0 and request the 802.11 working group to approve a 15-day recirculation letter ballot of P802.11n D4.0, asking for approval to forward this draft to sponsor ballot.