1. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 1 January 2011 Mesh Meeting Agenda Date: 2010-11-07 Authors: NameAddressAffiliationPhoneEmail Dee DenteneerHTC 37; 5656 AE Eindhoven; The Netherlands Philips+31 40 27 49743 Dee.Denteneer@phil ips.com

2. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 2 IEEE 802.11s: Mesh Networking Task Group TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Los Angeles, CA January 17-20, 2011 Chair: Dee Denteneer (Philips) Vice Chair: Guido Hiertz (Philips) Technical Editor: Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony) Secretary: Guenael Strutt (Power Save Technologies)

3. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 3 General Flow of the TGs Meeting Monday –Administrivia –Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process Tuesday –Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process Wednesday –Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process Thursday –Resolution of Comments & discussion of professional editing process –TGs Process Discussion –Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes

4. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 4 Miscellaneous Announcements Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! –The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! Individual membership –In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. Photographs and Recordings –No sound recordings are permitted at 802.11 WG or TG meetings. –No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. Media – Press and Analyst briefings –Only the 802.11/.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group.

5. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 5 Important Stuff Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. –Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html –Anti-Trust: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf –IEEE Ethics: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html –Letter of Assurance Form: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf –IEEE Patent Committee: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.htmlhttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html –IEEE Patent Policy: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt –Patent FAQ: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf

6. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 6 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

7. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 7 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/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.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

8. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 8 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

9. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 9 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.

10. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 10 Automated Attendance Recording Go to http://newton/11/attendancehttp://newton/11/attendance https://murphy.events.ieee.org/imat/ (Documents: http://802server.events.ieee.org/ or 172.16.0.10 or just http://newton)http://802server.events.ieee.org/http://newton –Sign-in –Claim attendance credit for each session. Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. You have to log in every session!

11. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission Presentation queue Alex Ashley January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 11

12. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 12 Monday, 17 January 2011 13:30-15:30 Secretary selection Call Meeting to Order –Miscellaneous Announcements –Automated attendance reminder –Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. Meeting Agenda Approval of Minutes: –Dallas meeting minutes: 11-10/1323r0 –Munich ad hoc meeting minutes: 11-11/0005r0 –Teleconference minutes: November 24: 11-10/1403r0: December 9: 11-11/0004r0 January 12: 11-11/xxxxr0

13. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 13 Monday, 17 January 2011 13:30-15:30 Get on 1 page –Status update: First recirculation of Sponsor Ballot –Status update: professional editing process –Status update rebasing on REVmb 6.0 –Tutorial Resolution of Comments Recess until Monday 19:30

14. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 14 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of Comments Recess until Tuesday 8:00 Monday, 17January 2011 19:30-21:30

15. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 15 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of Comments Recess until Wednesday 16:00 Tuesday, 18 January 2011 8:00-10:00

16. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 16 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of Comments Recess until Thursday 8:00 Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:00-18:00

17. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 17 Thursday, 20 January 2011 8:00-10:00 (TBD) Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of Comments Recess until 10:30

18. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 18 Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:30-12:30 (TBD) Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Resolution of Comments Recess until 16:00

19. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 19 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Thursday, 20 January 2011 16:00-18:00

20. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 20 Thursday, 20 January 2011 16:00-18:00 Telcons: thursdays, Motion, moved to schedule TGs teleconferences on … at 10:00 ET for a maximum duration of 90 minutes. Mover:, Seconder:

21. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 21 Thursday, 20 January 2011 Adjourn sine die TGs Motto: Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

22. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 22 [Reference Information] Updated PAR at http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/802-11s.pdf. http://standards.ieee.org/board/nes/projects/802-11s.pdf –Original PAR for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/54r2. Original Five Criteria for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh: 11-04/56r1. Comment Resolution Spreadsheet: –11-10/ 32r3 Resolution of Letter Ballot #159 Comments

23. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 23 [Reference Information] TGs Chairmen –Dee Denteneer, –Guido R. Hiertz (temporary Chairman), November 2009 –Stuart J. Kerry (temporary Chairman), June 2009 –Donald Eastlake 3 rd, May 2004 – July 2009 TGs Technical Editors: –Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony), Draft 2.03 … D3.0 … –Anthony Maida (3eTI), Drafts 2.01 & D2.02 –Avinash Joshi (Motorola), Drafts 1.09 … D2.0 –W. Steven Conner (Intel). Drafts 0.01 … D1.08 (also chair of the first Mesh Study Group Session)

24. doc.: IEEE P802.11-11/0010r0 Submission January 2011 Dee Denteneer; PhilipsSlide 24 [Earlier Meeting Minutes] Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes –January 2010, Los Angeles, CA, 11-10/102r0 –November 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, 11-09/1223/0 –November 2009, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, 11-09/1016r0 –July 2009, San Francisco, California, 11-09/902r0 –May 2009, Montreal, Quebec, 11-09/595r0 –March 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, 11-09/312r0 –January 2009, Los Angeles, California, 11-09/110r0 –November 2008, Dallas, Texas, 11-08/1431r0 –November 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 11-08/1078r0 November 2008, ad hoc Meeting, Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, 11-08/1038r0 –July 2008, Denver, Colorado, 11-08/835r0