1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 1 Decoupling Regulation and Standards Date: 2009-07-14 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 2 Abstract A general way to address CIDs 1059 and 1216 on the Annex J Regulatory Class extensibility. Country Information Tables (Annex J) Minimal Country Information and Regulatory Class

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 3 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.

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission Proposed resolutions CID 1059 Agree in principle. Editing instructions and text changes in 11-09/0845r1 extend the Annex J tables to use in all countries. Retain “ “, “I”, “O” and “X” for backward compatibility. CID 1216 Agree in principle. Editing instructions and text changes in 11-09/0845r1 extend the Annex J tables to use in all countries. September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 4

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 5 Minimal Country Information and RC Two octets - Country Identifier http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_co de_elements http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_co de_elements One octet - table number or “ “ or “I” or “O” or “X” –Reserve tables numbered 0x20, 0x29, 0x2f and 0x38 –Change the definitions of dot11CountryString Text changes on next slides –Change Tables J-1 to J-3 by giving them Table numbers 1-3 One octet - Regulatory Class

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission dot11CountryString Change dot11CountryString MIB description, page 1316 lines 37-56 as shown: The third octet shall be one of the following: 1. an ASCII space character, if the regulations under which the station is operating encompass all environments in the country and dot11ExtendedChannelSwitchEnabled is FALSE, 2. an ASCII 'O' character, if the regulations under which the station is operating are for an Outdoor environment only and dot11ExtendedChannelSwitchEnabled is FALSE, or 3. an ASCII 'I' character, if the regulations under which the station is operating are for an Indoor environment only and dot11ExtendedChannelSwitchEnabled is FALSE, or 4. an ASCII 'X' character, if the station is operating under a non-country entity. The first two octets of the non-country entity shall be two ASCII 'XX' characters, or 5. a table number from the tables in Annex J, for which the Regulatory Class octet is referenced, and dot11ExtendedChannelSwitchEnabled is TRUE. When dot11ExtendedChannelSwitchEnabled is TRUE, table numbers 0x20, 0x2f, 0x29 and 0x38 are reserved." September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 6

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0845r1 Submission September 2009 Peter Ecclesine, Cisco SystemsSlide 7 Annex J changes Change J.1 description, page 1493 lines 64-65 as shown: Regulatory classes for operation in the United States and for any country when using dot11CountryString Table 1 are enumerated in Table J.1 (Regulatory classes in the United States). Change J.1 description, page 1495 line 1 as shown: Regulatory classes for operation in Europe and for any country when using dot11CountryString Table 2 are enumerated in Table J.2 (Regulatory classes in Europe). Change J.1 description, page 1495 line 27 as shown: Regulatory classes for operation in Japan and for any country when using dot11CountryString Table 3 are enumerated in Table J.3 (Regulatory classes in Japan).