doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 1 TGn Meeting Report - May 09 ‘09 Date: 2009-May-09 Authors: 5488 Marvell Lane, Santa Clara, CA, Name Company Address Phone Bruce Kraemer Marvell

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 2 Welcome to Montreal, QC, CA May Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Meeting Room = Duluth One room – no parallel sessions

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 3Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 3 Meeting Protocol Please announce your affiliation when you first address the group during a meeting slot

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 4Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 4 Attendance 1.Register 2.Indicate attendance See document r0 for more details

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 5Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 5 Attendance, Voting & Document Status Make sure your badges are correct If you plan to make a submission be sure it does not contain company logos or advertising Questions on Voting status, Ballot pool, Access to Reflector, Documentation, member’s area –see Adrian Stephens – Cell Phones Silent or Off

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 6 Policies Policies and Procedures: IEEE Patent Policy - Are there any patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) that the participant believes may be essential for the use of that standard? Minute any responses that were given, specifically the patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of the patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) that were identified (if any) and by whom. Affiliation FAQ - Anti-Trust FAQ - Ethics - IEEE Policies and Procedures - and-proceedures.htm and-proceedures.htm IEEE 802 Policies and Procedures –

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 7 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 - May 08

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 8 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 – May 08 If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 9 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 – May 08

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 10 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 – May 08

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 11Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 11 TGn Minutes

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 12Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 12 TGn Minutes of March ’ r0 Executive Summary: Sponsor ballot Recirculation #1 completed with 80% approval and 77 comments Responses and draft changes for all 77 comments completed Plan to go to Sponsor Ballot Recirculation #2 as soon as Draft 9 is available

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 13Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 13 Approve Minutes Motion to approve March ‘09 (Vancouver) TGn minutes as contained in r0 Move: Jon Rosdahl Second:

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 14Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 14 TGn Quick Review of Events prior to this meeting

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 15 TGn Ad Hoc Organization Ad Hoc TopicAd hoc leaderIn Montreal? PHYVinko ErcegYes MACMatt FischerYes Coexistence Eldad PerahiaYes GENJoseph LevyYes EditorialAdrian StephensYes CA DocSheung LiYes

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 16Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 16 One Page History of TGn HTSG formed – First meeting (Sep-11-’02 Monterey) TGn formed – First meeting (Sep-15-’03 Singapore) Began call for proposals (May 17 ’04 Garden Grove) 32 First round presentations (Sep 13 ’04 Berlin) Down selected to one proposal (Mar ’05 Atlanta) –first confirm vote failed. Confirmation vote #2 failed - reset to 3 proposals -left the May ‘05 meeting with a serious deadlock. (Cairns) 3 proposal groups agreed to a joint proposal activity (Jul ’05 San Francisco) JP proposal accepted by vote of 184/0/4, editor instructed to create draft (Jan ’06 Waikoloa) Baseline specification converted into Draft 1.0 (335p). Letter ballot issued (LB84) May 20, ’06 (Denver) and closed on April 29, ‘06 (failed) Draft 1.0 Comment resolution begins (May ’06 Jacksonville) Approved 6711 editorial and 1041 technical resolutions; Created Draft 1.03 (Jul ’06 San Diego) Approved 568 technical resolutions (Sep ’06 Melbourne); Created Draft 1.06 (388p) Approved 703 technical resolutions (Nov ’06 Dallas); Created Draft 1.09 (444p) Approved 496 technical resolutions (Jan ’07 London); created D 1.10 (500p); went to WG letter ballot Feb 7, ’07 with D 2.0; closed May 9, ’07 LB97 on TGn D2.0 passed with 83.4% approval. (Mar ’07 Orlando) Began comment resolution on with target of Draft 3.0 completion and release to ballot in Sep ’07. Approved 1470 editorial resolutions and approved TGn draft Also approved 450 technical comment resolutions. (May 07 Montreal) Cumulative insertion of resolutions contained in TGn draft (494p) Approved 750 technical resolutions and approved TGn draft (July 07 San Francisco) Cumulative insertion of resolutions now contained in TGn draft (498p) Approved 507 technical resolutions and approved recirculation ballot for TGn draft 3.0 (544p). (Sep 07 Waikoloa) Recirculation passed. Approved 282 editorial resolutions and approved TGn draft Approved 97 technical resolutions. (Nov 07 Atlanta) Cumulative insertion of resolutions now contained in TGn draft (558p) Approved 313 technical comment resolutions (Jan ‘08 Taipei). Cumulative approved comments now in D3.03. Additional ad hoc comment resolutions contained in speculative edits D3.04, D3.05, D3.06. Approved 190 technical comment resolutions (Mar ’08 Orlando). Approved recirculation ballot for TGn draft 4.0 (547p). Approved 349 comment resolutions (May ’08 Jacksonville). Approved recirculation ballot (LB129) for TGn draft 5.0 (547p). Ballot closed June 12 with 1112 comments. Approved 1112 comment resolutions (July ’08 Denver). Approved recirculation ballot (LB134) for TGn draft 6.0 (557p). Ballot closed August 12 with 195 comments. Approved 195 comment resolutions (Sep ’08 Waikoloa). Approved recirculation ballot (LB136) for TGn draft 7.0 (557p). Ballot closed Sep 30 with 48 comments. Approved 48 comment resolutions resulting from LB136 (Nov ’08 Dallas). Approved recirculation ballot (LB138). Granted conditional approval to move to Sponsor ballot. Zero no votes received. Moved ahead with Sponsor ballot. Sponsor Ballot closed Jan 10 ’ comments received, 77.8 % affirmative. TGn CRC began Sponsor ballot comment resolution (Jan ’09 Los Angeles). Completed comment resolution, prepared D8.0 and began 1 st SB recirc 19 Feb 09 which closed 06 Mar Comments received % affirmative. In Completed comment resolution (Mar ’09 Vancouver) and began 2 nd sponsor recirc which closed April 04 and generated 28 Comments for which resolutions are underway.

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 17 TGn – Sponsor Ballot Recirc #1 IEEE Recirculation Sponsor Ballot #1 asked the question “Should P802.11N Draft 8.0 be forwarded to RevCom?” The official results for the 15 day Recirculation Sponsor Ballot #1 follow: Ballot Opening Date: Thursday February 19, :59 ET Ballot Closing Date: Friday March 06, :59 ET RESPONSE RATE: This ballot has met the 50% returned ballot ratio requirement This ballot has met the <30% abstention ratio requirement 277 eligible people are in this ballot group. 169 affirmative votes 42 negative votes 17 abstention votes ======= 232 votes received = 83 % valid returns = 7 % valid abstentions APPROVAL RATE: 169 affirmative votes = 80.1 % affirmative 42 total negative votes = 19.9 % negative

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 18 TGn - Sponsor Ballot Recirc #2 IEEE P802.11n 15 day Recirculation Sponsor Ballot #2 asked the question “Should P802.11n Draft 9.0 be forwarded to RevCom?” Ballot Opening Date: Thursday March 20, :59 ET Ballot Closing Date: Friday April 04, :59 ET RESPONSES: 277 eligible people are in this ballot group. 171 affirmative votes 41 negative votes 17 abstention votes ======= 229 votes received = 83 % valid returns = 7 % valid abstentions APPROVAL RATE: 171 affirmative votes = 80.7 % affirmative 41 total negative votes = 19.3 % negative

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 19 SB Recirc #2 Ad hoc Documents Ad hocCID count Resolution Spreadsheet Report (ppt)Resolutions (doc) Sunday, May 10, 1 pm Coex 0511 r1 Gen 0495 r1 BEAM + PHY 0465 r4 MAC 0455 r6 Editor Composite 0024 r8

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 20 Primary Montreal Meeting Documents SB #02 Comment Composite r8 Meeting Report r0 Editors Report r0 Closing Report r0 SB#2 Telecon minutes r5 May Meeting Minutes r0 TGn Draft 9.0 COEX presentation r1 COEX presentation r0

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doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 22 Master Schedule Plan Nov ’08 - Requested (conditional) approval for sponsor ballot –Sponsor ballot pool formed during July/August ‘08 Released Draft 7.0 to SB #0 in November ’08 Released Draft 8.0 to SB #1 recirc in Feb ‘09 Begin & Complete SB #1 comment resolution in May Release Draft 9.0 for SB #2 before April 1 Release Draft 10.0 for SB #3 by May 18 Prepare for July EC Request to go to RevCom –unconditional approval preferred

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 23 May WG11 Agenda am1 am2 pm1 pm2 lunch eve dinner

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 24 TGn CRC – May ‘09 Schedule – Topics Time MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursday am 1 8:00-10:00  Full TGn am 2 10:30-12:30  Full TGn  lunch12:30-13:30 pm 1 13:30-15:30  Full TGn  pm 2 16:00-18:00Full TGn Opening reports  Full TGn MISC eve 19:30-21:30Full TGn  May 11May 12May 13May 14

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 25Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 25 Agenda Plan and Topics Primary topic: Comment Resolution General Order – TGn Full with topics introduced by appropriate ad hoc Monday – TGn summary –Process to publication –Introduction of unresolved comment resolutions and plans for time slots during the week PHY: CID 2027 NDP MAC: CID 2012 unencrypted HT action frames for MCS feedback COEX: CIDs 2016, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2015, MHz behavior in 2.4 GHz GEN: CIDs 2002, 2007 IP Tuesday – Discussion and Votes Wednesday – Discussion and Votes Thursday - Discussion and Votes –CRC Plans from May to July Revised Teleconferences? –Timeline review Any other Business for the agenda?

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 26Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 26 Approve Work Plan Agenda Motion to approve May ’09 TGn agenda as contained on slide (with any minuted amendments) as contained in 0421 r0. Move: Second:

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission November 2008 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 27 TGn Timeline – January 19, 2009 Event NameAccepted Dates Actual Previously Approved Currently Published PAR Approved Sep ‘03 Initial WG Letter Ballot Mar ‘06 Recirculation WG Letter Ballot Oct ‘07 Form Sponsor Ballot Pool Jul ‘08 Initial Sponsor Ballot Dec ‘08Nov ‘08Jan ‘09 Recirculation Sponsor Ballot Jan ‘09May ‘09 Final WG Approval Jul ‘09Nov ‘09 Final EC Approval Jul ‘09Nov ‘09 RevCom/ Stds Board Approval Sep ‘09Jan ‘10 Publication Nov ‘09Mar ‘10

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doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 30Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 30 Agenda Plan and Topics Monday – TGn summary –Process to publication –Introduction of unresolved comment resolutions and plans for time slots during the week PHY: CID 2017 NDP MAC: CID 2012 unencrypted HT action frames for MCS feedback COEX: CIDs 2016, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2015, MHz behavior in 2.4 GHz GEN: CIDs 2002, 2007 IP

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 31Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 31 Tuesday Agenda Plan and Topics Tuesday time slots – am2, pm1, eve TGn discussion topics –Introduction of unresolved comment resolutions and plans for time slots during the week Am2 Continue PHY: CID 2017 NDP Am2 Continue COEX: SB #2 CIDs 2016, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2015, MHz behavior in 2.4 GHz Responses to SB Am2 Telcon minute approval Pm1 Begin GEN: CIDs 2002, 2007 IP

doc.: IEEE /0421r1 Submission May 2009 Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 32Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 32 Any other business?

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