doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 1 TGmb Agenda, January 2010 Date: Authors:

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 2 Abstract Agenda for the TGmb meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA from March 15-18, 2010.

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 3 Monday PM1 15 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 Call meeting to order

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 4 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 Slide #1

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 5 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 Slide #2 If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 6 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 Slide #3

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 7 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. Slide #4

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 8 Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation – Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines – guidelines.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust- guidelines.pdf Link to IEEE Code of Ethics – s.htmlhttp:// s.html Link to IEEE Patent Policy –

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 9 Meeting Etiquette IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization Meetings are to be conducted in an orderly and professional manner in accordance with the policies and procedures governed by the organization. Individuals are to address the “Technical” content of the subject under consideration and refrain from making “personal” comments to or about the presenter.

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 10 Monday PM1 (continued) 15 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 Attendance recording procedures –See 11-09/0246r0 – –Must register before logging attendance –Must log attendance during each 2 hour session Documentation – –Use “TGm” for documents relating to the Revision PAR

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 11 Monday PM1 (continued) 15 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 Results from LB160 (REVmb-D2.0) –166 affirmative (89%), 20 negative (11%), with 25 abstentions –Change from LB 149: +11 affirmative, -3 negative, -4 abstensions –This was a recirculation ballot; all comments must be against changed text –246 comments received (195 technical), stored in 11-09/0706r7 Plan of record on next slide

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 12 Current TGmb Plan of Record May 2008 – Issue Call for Comment/Input July 2008 – begin process input and old Interpretation requests Acknowledge previous Task Group referrals Sept 2008 – PAR revision process started Nov 2008 – close receipt of new input Nov 2008 – WG/EC approval of PAR Revision Dec 2008 – NesCom/SASB approval PAR Revision May 2009 – First WG Letter ballot –(includes All published Amendments as of May 2009) Nov 2009 – Recirc start May 2010 – Form Sponsor Pool (45 days) July 2010 – Sponsor Ballot Start –(Include all published amendments as of July 2010) November 2010 – Sponsor Recirc March 2011 – WG/EC Final Approval June 2011 – RevCom/SASB Approval

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 13 Monday PM1 (continued) 15 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 Approval of minutes of prior meetings –January 2010 minutes: 11-10/0075r0 – minutes-of-tgmb-jan-2010-la-interim.doc minutes-of-tgmb-jan-2010-la-interim.doc –Teleconference minutes: 11-10/0214r january-february-march-2010-tgmb-teleconference-minutes.doc january-february-march-2010-tgmb-teleconference-minutes.doc Draft Update & Editor’s Report (Adrian Stephens)

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 14 Monday PM1 (continued) 15 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 Comment Resolution –Three ad hoc databases: GEN, MAC, and SECURITY –Comments are in 11-09/790r8 (filter on letter ballot column) CID 2092 submission – 11-10/0308r0 (Adrian Stephens) Comment Resolution

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 15 Tuesday PM1 16 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 13:30–14:15: Security Comment Resolution –OKC Clarification: 11-10/0209r0 (Dan Harkins) 14:15–15:30: Admission Control Comment Resolution (Dave Stephenson) –CIDs 2227, 2228, 2232, 2234, 2238, and 2241

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 16 Tuesday PM2 16 March 2010, 16:00 – 18:00 Approval motions for teleconference recommendations –Clause 11.3 –Security –MAC Comment Resolution

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 17 Wednesday PM1 17 March 2010, 13:30 – 15:30 Joint Regulatory Session –Discussion of LB 160 CID 2113 –Presentation: 11-10/0210r6 (Peter Ecclesine) –Motion to approve 11-10/0210r6? Additional Comment Resolution

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 18 Wednesday PM2 17 March 2010, 16:00 – 18:00 Comment Resolution

doc.: IEEE /0290r0 Submission March 2010 Matthew Gast, Trapeze NetworksSlide 19 Thursday PM2 18 March 2010, 16:00 – 18:00 Comment Resolution Letter Ballot Authorization Motion Preparation for May 2010 meeting Teleconferences/ad hocs Review Timeline (slide 13) AOB Adjourn