IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh Study Group

1. IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh Study Group Garden Grove, California 11-13 May 2004 Donald E. Eastlake 3rd <Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com> <dee3@torque.pothole.com> Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

2. Tuesday Evening11 May 2004, Grand F+G, 7:30pm-9:30pm • Call to Order • Review IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures • Intellectual Property • Voting • All Registered Meeting Attendees May Vote • All Main Motions require 75% • Attendance • Study Group Attendance List • On-line Attendance reminder Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

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5. Tuesday Evening (cont.) 11 May 2004, Grand F+G, 7:30pm-9:30pm • Officers & Minutes • Approval of Minutes of Previous Meeting, 11-04/395r2 • Approval of the Minutes of the Informal Teleconference held April 21st, 11-04/465r1 • Note: • Study Group Secretary: Tyan-Shu Jou, Janusys Networks • Study Group Technical Editor: W. Steven Conner, Intel • Task Group Secretary and Technical Editor will be chosen at first Task Group Meeting. • “Free the APs” Button Graphics: 11-04/518r0. • Approval of Agenda (a list of proposed presentations will be given so the group can order them) Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

6. Tuesday Evening (cont.) 11 May 2004, Grand F+G, 7:30pm-9:30pm • Report on the Status of the PAR and 5 Criteria • Abbreviations were expanded at the request of a NesCom member. • A NesCom member queried as to whether this overlapped any ITU or IEC standards effort. It appears that it does not. • Usage Case Presentation: • Presentation: “Defining Usage Models for 802.11 ESS Mesh”, Steven Conner, Intel Corp, 11-04/528r1 • Recess for 10 mintues for 802.11i cake • Vote of thanks to 802.11i passed unanmiously. • Usage Case Presentation: • Presentation: “A rationale for security (mis)use cases”, Jasmeet Chhabra, Intel Corp. 11-04/586 • Adjourn until Wednesday at 8am Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

7. Wednesday Morning12 May 2004, Grand F+G, 8am-10am • On-line attendance reminder • Usage Case Presentations: • Presentation: “Usage Models for ESS Mesh”, Kevin Dick, Kue Wong, Nortel Networks, 04/568r0 • Presentation: “ESS Mesh Deployment Usage Model”, Ted Kuo, Tyan-Shu Jou, Ming Sheu, Janusys Networks, 04/590 • Presentation: “Usage scenario for ESS mesh network”, Hidenori Aoki, Koji Omae and Yoichi Matsumoto, NTT DoCoMo, 04/600 • Presentation: “Mesh networks for home entertainment”, Guido R. Hiertz, Yunpeng Zang, ComNets; Jörg Habetha, Philips Research, 04/530 • Architecture and Definitions Presentation: • Presentation: “Suggested Clarification of 802.11s ESS Mesh Terminology”, Steven Conner, Intel Corp, 04/529r1 • Recess until 1:30pm Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

8. Wednesday Afternoon12 May 2004, Grand F+G, 1:30pm-3:30pm • On-line attendance reminder • Architecture and Definitions Presentations: • Presentation: “ESS-Mesh: Things That Make Me Go Hmm” Thomas Maufer, Nvidia, 04/602r4 • Presentation: “Need Clarification on The Definition of ESS Mesh”, Tricci So, Radiant Zone, 04/500r1 • Presentation: “Consideration on WDS Addressing”, Tricci So, Radiant Zone, 4/501r1 • Presentation: “Is the 802.11 MAC sufficient for wireless high speed mesh LANs?”, Guido R. Hiertz, Lothar Stibor, ComNets; Jörg Habetha, Philips Research, 04/558r2 • Recess until 4pm Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

9. Wednesday Afternoon (cont.)12 May 2004, Grand F+G, 4:00pm-6:00pm • On-line attendance reminder • Other Presentation: • “Mesh in CAPWAP and AP Functional Definitions”, Lily L. Yang, Intel; Tyan-Shu Jou, Janusys Networks, 04/595r3 • Study/Task Group Process, Take 1: • How should we proceed toward a draft? • Discussions of process, possible informal subgroups, schedule • Adjourn until 8am Thursday • Ad hoc meetings of informal Definitions and Usage Case subgroups during remainder of time slot Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

10. Thursday Morning13 May 2004, Grand D, 8am-10am • On-line attendance reminder • Other Presentations: • Presentation: “Performance Implications of the 802.11 MAC on Multi-Hop Mesh Networks”, Xingang Guo, W. Steven Conner, Lily Yang, Intel Corp., 04/577r1 • Presentation: “Is Spanning Tree Protocol Right for ESS Mesh”, Tyan-Shu Jou, Ted Kuo, Ming Sheu, Janusys Networks, 04/598r0 • Presentation: “On ESS Mesh Device Discovery”, Tyan-Shu Jou, Ted Kuo, and Ming Sheu, Janusys Networks, 04/599r0 • Recess until 10:30am Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

11. Thursday Morning13 May 2004, Grand D,10:30am-12:30pm • On-line attendance reminder • Study/Task Group Process, Take 2: • Discussion of typical process of getting to Letter Ballot. • Some present expressed interest in working together informally as subgroups on several topics as follows: Usage Cases, Definitions, Routing, Security, and Quality of Service. • There was strong interest in having a joint meeting in July with 802.11r and other groups such as CAPWAP, 802.1, or WNM. • The following possibilities for the July meeting were straw voted as follows: • Adoption of an Initial Definitions document, adopted 33-0 • Usage Cases and Functional Requirements discussion, adopted 38-0 • Architecture Presentations, adopted 31-0 • Other ad-hoc subgroup results and Presentations, adopted 16-1 • Issuing a Call for Proposals, defeated 9-19 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

12. Thursday Morning (cont.)13 May 2004, Grand D,10:30am-12:30pm • Decided on have a teleconference on the agenda for July meeting. Teleconference to be held Wednesday, 30 June, at 3pm Pacific Daylight time for discussion of the July agenda. • Adjourn sine die • ad hoc subgroup meetings for remainder of time slot Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

13. Thursday Afternoon13 May 2004, Grand D,1:30pm-3:30pm • Ad hoc meetings of subgroups Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories

14. [Reference Information] • PAR & 5 Criteria • 04/54r2, Draft PAR for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh • 04/56r1, Five Criteria for IEEE 802.11 ESS Mesh • Study Group Meeting Minutes • March 2004, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 04/395r2 • January 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, 04/110r2 • Teleconference Minutes • April 21st, 11-04/465r1 • Earlier Mesh Submissions to WNG Study Group, see 04-0047r0 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola Laboratories