CID Page Clause Comment Proposed Change Resolution 9004 The IEEE 802.11ah Identify the new frame Rejected- amendment defines more sequences introduced by The commenter does not than 30 new frames and a 11ah and add an Annex G. indicate specific changes bunch of those NDP that would satisfy the frames. It is hard for me to comment. believe that no new frame exchange sequences The detailed discussion were introduced. Yet the for CID 9004 can be amendment doesn't have found from the below an Annex G. URL. Discussion: Regarding the Annex G Please refer the following discussion of REVmc. 188 Annex G does not cover Extend Annex G to cover all HT sequences. all HT sequences Otherwise deprecate it, but make sure it's not the only place where some rule or other is expressed Discussion: The 802.11n sequence are largely complete. AFAIK, it is only the aspect of Beamforming training that is not fully covered. And it may be that this is indeed covered, although I haven’t done the work to show this. We have normative references to G. In REVmb days, Annex G was for a time informative. Then we discovered the normative references, and so we made it normative. Any change to deprecate Annex G would necessarily require that it be made informative and any normative references removed. Proposed Resolution: Rejected. The commenter does not indicate specific changes that would satisfy the comment. The same concern arisen by the BRC is that the Annex G is not a requirement of any amendment. The 802.11ad and 802.11af amendments did not amend Annex G to add its frame exchanges either.
CID Page Clause Comment Proposed Change Resolution 9004 The IEEE 802.11ah amendment defines more than 30 new frames and a bunch of those NDP frames. It is hard for me to believe that no new frame exchange sequences were introduced. Yet the amendment doesn't have an Annex G. Identify the new frame sequences introduced by 11ah and add an Annex G. Rejected- The commenter does not indicate specific changes that would satisfy the comment. The detailed discussion for CID 9004 can be found from the below URL. Discussion: Regarding the Annex G Please refer the following discussion of REVmc. 188 Annex G does not cover all HT sequences Extend Annex G to cover all HT sequences. Otherwise deprecate it, but make sure it's not the only place where some rule or other is expressed Discussion: The 802.11n sequence are largely complete. AFAIK, it is only the aspect of Beamforming training that is not fully covered. And it may be that this is indeed covered, although I haven’t done the work to show this. We have normative references to G. In REVmb days, Annex G was for a time informative. Then we discovered the normative references, and so we made it normative. Any change to deprecate Annex G would necessarily require that it be made informative and any normative references removed. Proposed Resolution: Rejected. The commenter does not indicate specific changes that would satisfy the comment. The same concern arisen by the BRC is that the Annex G is not a requirement of any amendment. The 802.11ad and 802.11af amendments did not amend Annex G to add its frame exchanges either.
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