doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 1 September 2008 Mesh Meeting Agenda Date: Authors: NameAddressAffiliationsPhone Donald Eastlake 3 rd 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA USA

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 2 IEEE s: Mesh Networking Task Group TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Waikoloa, Hawai‘i 8-11 September, 2008 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3 rd. (Motorola) Technical Editor: Anthony Maida (3eTI) Secretary: Stephen Rayment (BelAir Networks)

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 3 Venue Hilton Waikoloa

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 4 General Flow of the TGs Meeting Monday –Administrivia and Status –TGs Process Presentation –Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft Tuesday –Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft Wednesday –Security Presentations –Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft Thursday –Resolution of Comments and Improvement of the Draft –TGs Process Discussion –Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes –Other Technical Presentations

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 5 Monday, 8 September :30 – 12:30, Queen’s 4 Room Call meeting to Order Miscellaneous Announcements Review of IEEE 802 and Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. Agenda Approved by unanimous consent Minutes Approved by unanimous consent: –Denver meeting minutes: 11-08/835r0 –Teleconference minutes: July 23, Aug 6, Aug 20, 11-08/936r0, 11-08/960r0, 11-08/989r0 –Kaua‘i ad hoc minutes: 11-08/1038r0

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 6 Miscellaneous Announcements Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! –The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! Individual membership –In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. Photographs and Recordings –No sound recordings are permitted at WG or TG meetings. –No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. Media – Press and Analyst briefings –Only the /.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group.

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 7 Important Stuff Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. –Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: –Anti-Trust: –IEEE Ethics: –Letter of Assurance Form: –IEEE Patent Committee: –IEEE Patent Policy: –Patent FAQ:

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 8 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: –“Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims –“Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) –The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 9 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual Material about the patent policy is available at If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 10 Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: –Either speak up now or –Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or –Cause an LOA to be submitted

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 11 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. –Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. –Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. –Technical considerations remain primary focus –Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. –Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. –Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details.

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 12 Automated Attendance Recording Go to (Documents: or or just –Sign-in –Claim attendance credit for each session. Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. You have to log in every session! Do NOT use 802wirelessworld for anything!

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 13 Monday, 8 September :30 – 12:30, Queen’s 4 Room Status of TGs Draft and Comment Resolutions –Draft D2.01+ –“Resolution of comments from Letter Ballot 126”, 11-08/493r18 The substance of comments 374, 763, and 1065 are not to be discussed Presentation and Discussion on Process –“TGs Process, September”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-08/1049r0 “Awake Window Handling”, 11-08/1055r0, Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) Straw Poll: s shall define a single mechanism (no matter what it is) for Awake Window and groupcast frames delivery handling ? –Yes: 5 No: 0

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 14 Monday, 8 September :30 – 12:30, Queen’s 4 Room Straw Poll: What do You consider as the best alternative for the Awake Window and the groupcast frames transmission handling? (Please vote for the most attractive alternative only) 1.Before the Awake Window 2.After the Awake Window 3.Only during the Awake Window 4.Combined Groupcast delivery and Awake Window 5.The current mode, Awake Window and groupcast delivery are two separate issues 6.Abstain / do not know / do not care –Option1: 0 Option 2: 0 Option3: 0 Option4: 4 Option5: 0 Abstain: 12 Power Aware Link Metric, 11-08/1014r0 (Word /1015r0: “Forwarding MPs in Power Save”), Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia)

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 15 Monday, 8 September :30 – 12:30, Queen’s 4 Room Straw Poll: Should the default link metric be Power Save aware? –Yes: 2 No: 4 Abstain: 9 “Normative Text for Power Save”, 11-08/1057r0, Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) “Power Save Comment Resolutions”, 11-08/1056r0 (Word: 11-08/1057r0 & 11-08/1015r0), Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia) “MDA Issues”, 11-08/635r3, 11-08/636r5, Liwen Chu (STMicrosystems)

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 16 Monday, 8 September :30 – 12:30, Queen’s 4 Room Straw Poll: Do you think the problems in 11-08/635r3 should be solved based on the methods or the updated methods in 11-08/635r3? –Yes: 1 No: 1 Do not know: 14 Recess until 16:00

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission Pending Presentations MP -> Mesh Station, Guido R. Hiertz 11-08/957r2 and 11-08/798r1, Liwen Chu (STMicrosystems) “Synchronization related comment resolution”, 11-08/1071r0 (Word: 11-08/1073r0 &11-08/1076r0) (Excel: 11-08/1077r0), Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) “Channel switch related comment resolution”, 11-08/1067r0, Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 17

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 18 Monday, 8 September :00 – 18:00, Queen’s 4 Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Straw Poll on interest in working on comment resolutions in sub-group, by category: –MAC: 5 Security: 5 RFI: 5 General: 2 Divide into subgroups for comment resolution as follows: –MAC – Michelle Gong –Security – Jesse Walker –RFI – Guenael Strutt Recombine and Recess until 19:30

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 19 Monday, 8 September :30 – 21:30, Queen’s 4 Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Divide into subgroups for comment resolution as follows: –MAC – Michelle Gong –Security – Jesse Walker –RFI – Guenael Strutt Recombine and Recess until 10:30 Tuesday

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 20 Tuesday, 9 September :30 – 13:30, Queen’s 4 Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Moved, To adopt the comment resolution in 11-08/1033r2 (Kauai ad hoc resolutions) with Resolution Status (Column P) = “Open”, Topic Category (Column H) = “General”, and Resolution Code = “Accept”, “Counter”, or “Reject”; and direct the Editor to incorporate the accepts and counters into the Draft. –Mover: Seconder: –Yes: No: Abstain: Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 13:30

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 21 Tuesday, 9 September :30 – 21:30, Queen’s 4 Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 19:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 08:00 Wednesday

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 22 Wednesday, 10 September :00 – 10:00, Queen’s 4 Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Security Presentations “Proposed Resolutions on PLM Text”, 11-08/1082r0, Jesse Walker / Meiyuan Zhao Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 13:30

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 23 Wednesday, 10 September :30 – 18:00, Queen’s 3 Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 16:00 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 08:00 Thursday

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 24 Thursday, 11 September :00 – 10:00, Queen’s 4 room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance recording reminder Resolution of comments and improvement of the Draft Recess until 13:30

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 25 Thursday, 11 September :30 – 15:30, Queen’s 4 room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance recording reminder Moved, to direct the Editor to produce one or more revisions of the Draft so as to incorporate all changes and comment resolutions adopted before the end of this session. Discussion and Votes re Process / ad hocs / teleconferences – “TGs Process, September”, Donald Eastlake 3rd, 11-08/1049r1 Other Technical Presentations Adjourn sine die TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 26 [Reference Information] Updated PAR at –Original PAR for IEEE ESS Mesh: 11-04/54r2. Original Five Criteria for IEEE ESS Mesh: 11-04/56r1. Comment Resolution Spreadsheets: –11-08/493r18: Resolution of Letter Ballot #126 Comments (D2.01) TGs Technical Editors: –Anthony Maida (3eTI), Drafts –Avinash Joshi (Motorola), Drafts 1.09 through D2.0 –W. Steven Conner (Intel). Drafts 0.01 through D1.08 (also chair of the first Mesh Study Group Session)

doc.: IEEE P /935r4 Submission September 2008 Donald Eastlake 3rd, MotorolaSlide 27 [Earlier Meeting Minutes] Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes –July 2008, Denver, Colorado, 11-08/835r0 –May 2008, Jacksonville, Florida, 11-08/580r2 May 2008, ad hoc meeting, Santa Clara, California, 11-08/539r0 –March 2008, Orlando, Florida, 11-08/424r0 –January 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, 11-08/170r2 –November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-07/2826r1 –September 2007, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11-07/2495r0 September 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-07/2413r0 –July 2007, San Francisco, California, 11-07/2277r0 June 2007, ad hoc Meeting, Hillsboro, Oregon, 11-07/2009r0 –May 2007, Montreal, Quebec, 11-07/746r0 April 2007 ad hoc Meeting, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 11-07/559r1 Recent Teleconference Minutes –May 28, June 25, July 9: 11-08/704r0, 11-08/749r0, 11-08/793r0