802 ExCom Members,
I am forwarding the attached email to you
all from a member of my Working Group (Bruce Kraemer), who raises genuine
concerns over the locations of future 802 Plenary sessions. He has addressed an
issue that has been raised that is dear to my heart in connection with our recent
ISO effort, which respect to our work as an International body, and therefore I
offer this to you in support, for your comments and views.
I also ask that you add Bruce to your
email replies as he is not on the ExCom reflector.
/ Stuart
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Stuart J. Kerry
Chair, IEEE 802.11 WLANs
WG
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From: Bruce Kraemer
[mailto:bruce.kraemer@conexant.com]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004
6:10 AM
To: p.nikolich@ieee.org
Cc: jesse.walker@intel.com;
everett.o.rigsbee@boeing.com; owner-stds-802-sec@majordomo.ieee.org; Stuart
Kerry
Subject: Plenary Meeting locations
Dear SEC,
- I was checking meeting dates
and noticed that all of the upcoming 802 Plenaries are scheduled for US
locations through 2009! (I
include Vancouver)
- I also noted the following news
article last week from China Tech News. While highly biased it does
illustrate my point.
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WAPI Proposal Finally Acknowledged By
International Organization
December 9, 2004
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After many ups and downs, the Chinese-sponsored WAPI
(Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) standard has seen a
new twist--it has finally been acknowledged by the International
Standardization Organization during the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6 session.
WAPI will be pushed within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6 along with America's IEEE
802.11i, and WAPI will be put on the agenda of the SC 6 WG1 meeting scheduled
for February 2005.
Local reports say that the Chinese delegation successfully made their bid by
forcing the US side to issue a statement that both WAPI and 802.11i can be
deployed together.
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- Although the IEEE 802 may wish
to call itself an inter-national standards body it has been pointed out
many times that such a view is not universally held. 802 needs to
seriously consider changing meeting venues as one means to back up the
rhetoric. The individual working groups have been more proactive in
distributing their meeting locations which obviously helps but is not
sufficient. Please consider including inter-national 802 plenary
locations as soon as possible.
Regards,
Bruce Kraemer
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