IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-09-00xx-00-0000 Title: 802.21, Session #31, Vancouver Closing Plenary Date Submitted: Jan, 2009 Presented at IEEE 802.21 session #31 Vancouver Authors or Source(s): Vivek Gupta Abstract: Closing Report

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Closing Plenary Agenda 802.21 Specification Update 802.21 Task Group Update Teleconference update Liaison update (802.11, 802.16, IETF) Future Locations

802.21 Specification Published on Jan-21 2009

802.21 Task Group Update 802.21a Approved in Dec-08 802.21b Approved in Jan-09

802.21 Study/Ad Hoc Group Update MRPM finalized PAR/5C and submitted to 802EC ES finalized PAR/5C and submitted to 802EC ES also conducted straw poll: Should Emergency Services be part of 802.21 WG : 7 Should Emergency Services be a separate WG: 2 Those who don’t care: 2

Teleconference

Inter-operability Event 802.21 Roadmap 2009 2010 2011 2012 Security Extensions Broadcast Handover Extensions MRPM Extensions Emergency Services Standalone Specification 802.21 Deployment Recomm. Practice Inter-operability Event FMCA: 802.21 Work-Item completion WiMAX Forum: WiFi-WiMAX IWK ANDSF: 3GPP Rel-8 ANDSF: 3GPP Rel-9

WG Motions

MRPM PAR/5C Motion Motion to approve the 802.21 MRPM PAR and 5C as described in document DCN: 21-09-0021-00-mrpm and forward to 802.21 EC for approval Moved by: Anthony Chan Seconded by: Junghoon Jee Yes: 8 No: 0 Abstain: 1 Result: Motion Passes

ES PAR/5C Motion Motion to approve the Emergency Services PAR as described in document DCN: 21-08-0299-04-ES-Par and 5C as described in document DCN: 21-08-0313-03-ES-5C and forward to 802.21 EC for approval Moved by: Scott Henderson Seconded by: Clint Chaplin Yes: 12 No: 0 Abstain: 0 Result: Motion Passes

IETF Liaison Move to approve the Liaison Letter described in 21-09/0008r3 Moved by: Juan Carlos Zuniga Seconded by: Yoshihiro Ohba Yes: 11 No: 0 Abstain: 1 Motion Passes

Future Sessions

Future Sessions - 2009 Interim: May 10-15, 2009, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montreal, Canada Meeting co-located with 802.11/15/18/19/20/22 Plenary: July 12-17, 2009, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, CA Co-located with all 802 groups Interim: Sept 20-25, 2009, Hilton Waikola Village, Big Island, Hawaii Plenary: Nov 15-20, 2009, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, GA

Future Sessions - 2010 Interim: Jan, 2010 Location TBD Meeting co-located with 802.16 Plenary: March 14-19, 2010, Caribe Royale, Orlando Co-located with all 802 groups Interim: May, 2010, Location TBD Plenary: July 11-16, 2010, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA Interim: Sept, 2010 Location TBD Plenary: Nov 7-12, 2010, Hyatt Regency, Dallas, Texas