1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 1 TGaq Agenda Date: 2015-07-12 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 2 Abstract Agenda for TGaq Pre-Association Discovery meeting for July 2015, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 3 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants [Note: Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2]: –“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 –“Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of 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 Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 4 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 http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/materials.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html This slide set is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 5 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

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 6 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 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details.

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 7 Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation –http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.htmlhttp://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines –http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust- guidelines.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust- guidelines.pdf Link to IEEE Code of Ethics –http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethic s.htmlhttp://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethic s.html Link to IEEE Patent Policy –http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppthttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt

8. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 8 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.

9. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 9 Sunday Ad-Hoc 12 July 2015, 08:00 – 16:00 Room: Waikoloa 3 Call Meeting to Order Chair’s welcome Approve Agenda –11-15-0723r2 (this document) Set Objectives for Ad-Hoc Comment Resolution Discussion –CIDs: 1258, 1159, 1479 –Stephen –SK

10. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 10 Monday Ad-Hoc 13 July 2015, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Queens 4 Call Meeting to Order Chair’s welcome Approve Agenda –11-15-0723r2 (this document) Set Objectives for Ad-Hoc Continued Comment Resolution Discussion

11. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 11 Monday 13 July 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 Room: Queens 5 Call Meeting to Order Chair’s welcome

12. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 12 Approve Agenda –11-15-0723r3 (this document) Secretary Position –Nomination: Minseok Oh (Kyonggi University, Korea) –Not here this week, but in September 2015 Technical Editor May 2015 Minutes –https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0697-00-00aq-tgaq- meeting-minutes-may-2015-session.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0697-00-00aq-tgaq- meeting-minutes-may-2015-session.docx Teleconference May – July 2015 Minutes –https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0716-04-00aq-tgaq- may-to-july-teleconference-minutes.dochttps://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0716-04-00aq-tgaq- may-to-july-teleconference-minutes.doc Monday 13 July 2015, 16:00 – 18:00

13. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 13 Re-present closing report from May 2015 –https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0660-01-00aq- closing-report.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0660-01-00aq- closing-report.pptx Documentation Re-cap/Editor’s Report –Schedule and next steps –D1.2 Approved technical comments form March 2015 –Editorials which are now technical (321r6) –D1.2 Approved technical comments form May 2015 Monday 13 July 2015, 16:00 – 18:00

14. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 14 Summary of Ad-Hoc meetings –Sunday and Monday morning Letter Ballot –Motions to approve –Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot –Prepared comment resolutions Presentations Monday 13 July 2015, 16:00 – 18:00

15. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 15 Tuesday 14 July 2015, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Queens 6 Letter Ballot –Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot Presentations

16. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 16 Tuesday 14 July 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 Room: Queens 5 Letter Ballot –Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot Presentations

17. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 17 Wednesday 15 July 2015, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Queens 4 Motions Letter Ballot –Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot Presentations

18. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 18 Wednesday 14 July 2015, 13:30 – 15:30 Room: Queens 6 Presentation Motions on documents Comment Resolution

19. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 19 Thursday 16 July 2015, 10:30 – 12:30 Room: Queens 6 Presentations CID 1463 (Payam)

20. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 20 Thursday 16 July 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 Room: Queens 6 Teleconference(s) –31 July, 7, 14, 21, 28 August, 4 September 12:00 noon ET for 1.5 hour Motions Presentations Timeline update (see next slide) Preparation for September 2015 Interim –Room/Slot Allocation – 10 slots, room for 30 AOB Adjourn

21. doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0723r4 Agenda July 2015 Stephen McCann, BlackBerrySlide 21 Timeline – May 2015 (update) Approval of PAR & 5C: November 2012 Initial TG meeting: March 2013 Initial Working Group Letter Ballot: March 2015 Re-circulation Working Group Letter Ballot: July 2015 Form Sponsor Ballot Pool: November 2015 Mandatory Editorial Check: November 2015 Initial Sponsor Ballot: January 2016 Sponsor Ballot Recirculation: May 2016 Final WG/EC Approval: November 2016 RevCom/Standards Board Approval: November 2016