November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 P802.11REVmb Report to EC on meeting the terms of Conditional Approval to go to Sponsor Ballot Authors: Date: 2010-08-27 D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 Summary The IEEE 802 EC granted conditional approval to P802.11REVmb to proceed to sponsor ballot at its July 2010 closing meeting. WG 802.11 recirculation ballot on P802.11REVmb_D5.0 closed, meeting the terms of the conditional approval Details of meeting these terms is shown on the next slide, and the status of the P802.11REVmb WG ballot are shown on the following slides. WG 802.11 requests that the IEEE 802 EC approve the start of sponsor ballot on P802.11REVmb. D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Meeting the terms of conditional approval August 2010 Meeting the terms of conditional approval As per LMSC OM Clause 14: Recirculation ballot is completed. Generally, the recirculation ballot and resolution should occur in accordance with the schedule presented at the time of conditional approval. The Ballot occurred, in accordance with the schedule presented to the EC in document 11-10/0801r02. After resolution of the recirculation ballot is completed, the approval percentage is at least 75% and there are no new valid DISAPPROVE votes. The approval percentage is 92% There are no new valid disapprove votes. No technical changes, as determined by the WG Chair, were made as a result of the recirculation ballot. No technical changes were made as a result of the recirculation ballot. No new valid DISAPPROVE comments on new issues that are not resolved to the satisfaction of the submitter from existing DISAPPROVE voters There were 16 comments received, of which 7 were marked disapprove, from 3 voters. All three voters subsequently withdrew their disapprove comments. Two of the disapprove comments were received from a new no voter who changed his vote to approve on withdrawal of his comments. So there are no new disapprove comments. D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell)

Meeting the terms of conditional approval - continued August 2010 Meeting the terms of conditional approval - continued If the WG Chair determines that there is a new invalid DISAPPROVE comment or vote, the WG Chair shall promptly provide details to the Sponsor. None The WG Chair shall immediately report the results of the ballot to the Sponsor including: the date the ballot closed, vote tally and comments associated with any remaining disapproves (valid and invalid), the WG responses and the rationale for ruling any vote invalid. The Ballot closed on 2010-8-19 The comments associated with remaining disapproves and the WG responses are attached to slide 10 As indicated above, one negative vote received in the recirculation was subsequently changed by the voter to approve coincident with withdrawal of all his disapprove comments from that recirculation. D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell)

WG Letter Ballot Results November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 WG Letter Ballot Results Ballot ID Ballot Close Date Draft Number Ballot Type Pool Return %Return Abstain % Abstain Approve Disapprove %Approve 149 2009-6-27 Draft 1.0 Initial 246 207 84 29 14 155 23 87 160 2010-1-8 Draft 2.0 Recirculation 211 86 25 11.8 166 20 89 162 2010-4-25 Draft 3.0 212 167 163 2010-6-25 Draft 4.0 28 13.2 164 167* 2010-08-19 Draft 5.0 173 93 * Includes one post-ballot change of vote D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

802.11 WG Letter Ballot Comments November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 802.11 WG Letter Ballot Comments Ballot ID Ballot Close Date Draft Ballot Type Number of Comments received 149 2009-6-27 Draft 1.0 Initial 730 (491T, 239E) 160 2010-1-8 Draft 2.0 Recirculation 246 (188T, 58E) 162 2010-4-25 Draft 3.0 149 (129T, 20E) 163 2010-6-25 Draft 4.0 98 (57T, 41E) 167 2010-08-19 Draft 5.0 16 (9T, 7E) D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Unsatisfied comments by commenter November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 Unsatisfied comments by commenter Voter LB149 LB160 LB162 LB163 Total Bagby, David 4   Bajko, Gabor 5 Cam-Winget, Nancy 2 Chu, Liwen 23 7 30 Erceg, Vinko Marshall, Bill 1 Myles, Andrew Rosdahl, Jon 14 25 10 50 Stephenson, David 3 9 Vlantis, George 31 37 112 As described previously, there are no unsatisfied comments from LB 167. D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 Updates since ballot 167 3 Commenters have indicated that all their disapprove comments in LB167 are satisfied/resolved. H. Ramamurthy: “I will like to withdraw CIDs 5008, and 5011. And I hereby change my vote on P802.11REVmb to approve.“ L. Chu: ” I hereby withdraw my "part of a no vote" comments on LB167.“ G. Vlantis: ”I would like to withdraw my two ‘part of a no vote’ comments from LB167mb.“ D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 Unsatisfied comments The composite of all unsatisfied comments and the resolutions approved during working group ballot is attached. Double click on the icon to the right to open this. A copy of the unsatisfied comments presented using MyBallot access database report format is attached. D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell

Timeline Fourth recirculation (Draft 5.0) Open 2010-8-04 Close November 2008 doc.: IEEE 802.11-08/1437r1 August 2010 Timeline Fourth recirculation (Draft 5.0) Open 2010-8-04 Close 2010-8-19 Pool formation (45 days) 2010 Aug/Sept First sponsor ballot 2010-10-19 2010-11-18 Second sponsor ballot 2011-2-3 2011-2-18 Third sponsor ballot 2011-3-30 2011-4-15 Fourth sponsor ballot 2011-5-15 2011-5-30 Final Recirc (10 days) EC to RevCom 2011-6-10 2011 July RevCom to SB 2011 Sept D. Stanley (Aruba), B.Kraemer (Marvell) Bruce Kraemer, Marvell