IEEE P802.11 Wireless LANs P802.11REVmc schedule Date: 2012-10-05 Author(s): Name Company Address Phone email Adrian Stephens Intel Corporation The chair of TGmc, Dorothy Stanley, published an initial schedule in the TGmc Sept 2012 closing report (Slide 5, doc 11-12/1182r0). This contains the following items: 20 July 2012 – 12 Sept 2012 – Call for Comment/Input 29-30 Aug 2012 – NesCom, SASB PAR Approval Sept 2012 – Begin to process input Sept 2012 – 11aa, 11ae integration TBD – First WG Letter ballot Nov or Jan, without 11ad Dec 2012 – March 2013 – 11ad integration – March/May ballot TBD – Mandatory Draft Review TBD – Form Sponsor Pool (45 days) TBD – Initial Sponsor Ballot Dec 2013 – March 2014 – 11ac integration TBD – integration of additional completed amendments (e.g. 11af) Nov 2014 – WG/EC Approval March 2015 – RevCom/SASB Approval Nov 2012 Initial WG Ballot The first schedule is based on an assumption we start WG Ballot in Nov 2012. This author has produced an initial schedule that is roughly consistent with the dates shown above. The schedule is in the form of a Microsoft Project 2010 file, plus a .pdf printout for those without Project. The key decision-points shown in this plan are: Ballot starts out of November meeting (Beginning of Dec, allowing for editing and review time) 802.11ad roll-in takes place during Initial WG ballot comment resolution period (Feb 2013), which means that D2 includes 802.11ad.
Option 2 – EC approval by ballot in Feb 2015, RevCom approval in Feb 2015. Option 2 relaxes some comment resolution timing constraints by not targeting completion of resolution to coincide with the end of 802.11 sessions. Option 3 – EC conditional approval in March 2015, RevCom approval in June 2015. Option 3 increases the time to resolve comments after the 802.11ac roll-in to match the time allowed for the 802.11ad roll-in. This requires an extra session of comment resolution. It is the opinion of the author that Option 3 is the most reasonable. Clearly there are a whole bunch of unknowns that affect the actual date, including the productivity of our commenters and those resolving comments. Option 1 The detailed dates are as follows: 20 July 2012 – 12 Sept 2012 – Call for Comment/Input 29-30 Aug 2012 – NesCom, SASB PAR Approval Sept 2012 – Begin to process input Sept 2012 – 11aa, 11ae integration Feb/Mar 2013 – First WG Letter ballot (without 802.11ad) Mar/Apr 2013 – 11ad integration Feb 2014 – Mandatory Draft Review Feb/March 2014 – Form Sponsor Pool (45 days) March 2014 – EC conditional approval to go to sponsor ballot April/May 2014 – Initial Sponsor Ballot June/July 2014 – 11ac integration Nov 2014 – EC conditional approval to go to RevCom March 2015 – RevCom/SASB Approval Option 2 The detailed are as follows: 20 July 2012 – 12 Sept 2012 – Call for 29-30 Aug 2012 – NesCom, SASB PAR Approval Sept 2012 – Begin to process input Sept 2012 – 11aa, 11ae integration Feb/Mar 2013 – First WG Letter ballot (without 802.11ad) Mar/Apr 2013 – 11ad integration Feb 2014 – Mandatory Draft Review Feb/March 2014 – Form Sponsor Pool (45 days) March 2014 – EC conditional approval to go to sponsor ballot 2014 – Initial Sponsor Ballot June/July 2014 – 11ac integration Feb 2015 – EC approval to go to RevCom March 2015 – RevCom/SASB Approval Option 3 The detailed dates are as follows: 20 July 2012 – 12 Sept 2012 – Call for Comment/Input