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March 1st Vice Chair Report
Date: 2012-05-14
Name Affiliations Address Phone email Jon Rosdahl CSR 10871 N 5750 W
Highland, UT 84003 801-492-4023 [email protected]
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Abstract
This slide contains request reports and status from the 802.11 1st Vice-Chair:
Current Patent Slides
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Participants, Patents, and Duty to InformAll 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– “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
– Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged– No duty to perform a patent search
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Patent Related LinksAll 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 Bylawshttp://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6
IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manualhttp://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 [email protected] or visit http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/index.html
This slide set is available at https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.ppt
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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
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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.
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Current Procedures • IEEE 802 Policies & Procedures
– (link to AudCom, approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board 25 August, 2010) – http://standards.ieee.org/board/aud/LMSC.pdf
• IEEE 802 Operations Manual (effective 16 July, 2010) – http://ieee802.org/PNP/2010-07/IEEE_802_LMSC_OM_approved_100716.pdf
• IEEE 802 Working Group Policies and Procedures (effective 22 July, 2011) – http://ieee802.org/PNP/2011-07/LMSC%20WG%20P&P%20Approved%20110722%20-%20
Clean.pdf
• IEEE 802.11 Operations Manual (WG11 OM) (Effective Sept 23, 2011)
– https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents?is_dcn=2&is_year=2009
Policies and Procedures hierarchy– http://www.ieee802.org/11/Rules/rules.shtml
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Reminder for Posting Documents
• From 802.11OM –
– All submissions presented to and all minutes shall be posted to the 802.11 document server.
– Please check to ensure all documents are posted• If you have a “pending” document that is in
error, let Adrian or Jon know.
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Proposed Rule Changes to 802 LMSC P&P
• 802 LMSC P&P Changes:– Changes approved in March not yet accepted by AudCom– Subsequent changes made last night, and approved during Monday
EC Meeting rolled up for new P&P to go to AudCom on Friday.– Changes:
https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/12/ec-12-0022-01-00EC-july-pandp-suggested-changes.doc• Summary:
– Remove redundant sentence– Defined Non-voting Members of Sponsor– Clarified who needs Endorsement letter and Confirmation– Explicitly states All WG use the LMSC WG P&P– Change “Calendar Days” to “Days” and define it as 24 hours.
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Proposed Changes to 802 LMSC OM
• Some changes from March not adopted• Meeting Manager and Venue Selection clauses added• Officers allowed up to $500 for resonabe expenses
between meetings.• Removed redundant definition of Sponsor• Further discussion this week, and then final proposal to
be made on Friday.
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Proposed Changes to 802.11 OM
• Changes to the OM are to address an attendee’s presence at a meeting, and to address ANA requests from the Regulatory SC.
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Proposed Changes to 802.11 OM• 3.6.4.1
– Add Paragraph: • Occasionally an attendee may wish to record their participation at a
meeting (as required by IEEE-SA rules), but does not want (or is not entitled) to claim attendance credit. For example, the attendee may have been present for less than 75% of the slot. Such an attendee should send an email once per session to the WG Vice-Chair responsible for attendance to record the attendee’s presence.
• New clause 9.1.6 to support requests from the regulatory SC to the ANA
• Two minor edits (plural, double period).
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New: 9.1.6 ANA requests from the Regulatory SC
The ANA accepts requests for allocation of numbers from the 802.11 Regulatory (REG) SC, subject to approval by the WG. The purpose of this support is to allow the WG to track rapidly changing regulatory requirements in a controlled way.
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New: 9.1.6 (Cont-1)The process is as follows:
1. A request to the ANA from the REG SC shall be approved by motion in a meeting of the REG SC. The intent to hold a motion and the supporting documentation shall be announced to the WG on the WG reflector 4 weeks in advance of the motion being considered. Any motion in the REG SC shall be brought to the WG for confirmation.
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New: 9.1.6 (Cont-2)
2. The request shall be accompanied by a submission that can be referenced from the Description field of any allocation (i.e., entry in the ANA database) explaining how that value is used, and providing any additional information that cannot be recorded in the ANA database.– For example, a request for a new operating class would be
accompanied by all the information that would go in a draft amendment or standard associated with the value – i.e., the full table row contents.
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New: 9.16.6 (Cont-3)
3. The ANA shall circulate the requests and tentative assignments to the 802.11 editor's reflector and ask TG editors to check for any conflict. Typically the requests are generated following a session. The ANA should respond to the request within 1 week. The ANA shall reject any request that is not properly formed, i.e., does not supply all information required by the ANA form, or does not provide a reference document that fully describes the use of the requested value. The last item of any resource will never be assigned and will always automatically be designated as “escape bit/number”.
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New 9.1.6 (Cont-4)
4. After a period of 1 week has elapsed and no conflict has been reported, the assignments are confirmed and the ANA shall upload an updated database document and notify the WG reflector.
5. The REG SC can, at its option, update the cited reference document to show the allocated value(s).
6. The ANA will bring any such allocations as a proposed change to TGm when a revision project is active.
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