1. Decoupling Regulation and Standards
July 2009
doc.: IEEE /xxxxr0
July2009
Decoupling Regulation and Standards
Date:
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Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems
Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems

2. July 2009
doc.: IEEE /xxxxr0
July2009
Abstract
A general way to address CID 1216 on the Annex J Regulatory Class extensibility.
Country Information Tables (Annex J)
Minimal Country Information and Regulatory Class
Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems
Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems

3. Country Information Tables
July2009
Country Information Tables
The regulatory class is an index into a set of values for radio operation in a regulatory domain. The regulatory class tables also contain pointers to regulatory documents for each regulatory domain wherein further transmission requirements may be found.
The channel starting frequency variable is a frequency, used together with a channel number, to calculate a channel center frequency.
Channel spacing is the frequency difference between nonoverlapping adjacent channel center frequencies when using the maximum bandwidth allowed for this regulatory class.
The channel set is the list of integer channel numbers that are legal for a regulatory domain and class.
An emissions limits set is an enumerated list each element of which points to a row in Table I.2 (Emissions limits sets) containing references to regulations where restrictions on emissions in various regulatory domains can be found.
NOTE—Specific transmit restrictions and limits are listed in I.2 (Radio performance specifications).
A behavior limits set is an enumerated list each element of which points to a row in Table I.3 (Behavior limits sets) containing behavior limits and references to regulations where behavior limits in various regulatory domains can be found.
Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems

4. Minimal Country Information and RC
July2009
Minimal Country Information and RC
Two octets - Country Identifier
One octet - table number or “ “ or “X” or “I” or “O”. Change the definitions of dot11CountryString
One octet - Regulatory Class
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5. References IEEE GET802 July2009 802.11-2007 (contains 11d, 11h, 11j)
802.11k-2007 (adds 2.4 GHz to annex I and J)
802.11y-2008 (extends 9.8, OFDM Energy Detect, Annex I and J)
the 1999 submission “Algorithmically Derived Hop Sequences,”
   91958D-Algorithmically-derived-Hop-Sequences.doc  26kB can be extracted from
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   Clauses 9.8.2, and Annex B show the specification and hop sequence values for China, North America and ETSI.
Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems