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Clear description of the referenced document:
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Name:
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IEEE 802.11-2007
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Title:
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IEEE Standard for Information technology - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems- Local and metropolitan area networks- Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications
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Status of approval:
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Approved by IEEE
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Justification for the specific reference:
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IEEE 802.11 is an essential part of Wireless LAN MAC and PHY specfication and is included as normative reference rather than including the full text.
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Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
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No known issues.
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Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
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The document is in existence, in previous versions, from 1999. It "wireless fidelity" WiFi standard defined by IEEE 802.11 is very widely used technology.
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The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
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It is an approved IEEE standard. The 2007 revision was published on March 2006. IEEE802.11 is a standard approved by IEEE SA in 2007.
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Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
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None
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Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
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ETSI EN 301 893, Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN); 5 GHz high performance RLAN; Part 2: Harmonized EN covering essential requirements of article 3.2 of the R&TTE Directive./
FIPS PUB 180-1-1995, Secure Hash Standard./
FIPS PUB 197-2001, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)./
IEEE Std 802-2001, IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture./
IEEE Std 802.1X-2004, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Port-Based Network Access Control./
IEEE Std C95.1-1991 (Reaff 1997), IEEE Standard Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz./
IETF RFC 1321, The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, April 1992 (status: informational)./
IETF RFC 2104, HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication, H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti, February 1997 (status: informational)./
IETF RFC 3394, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key Wrap Algorithm, J. Schaad, R. Housley, September 2002./
IETF RFC 3610, Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM), D. Whiting, R. Housley, N. Ferguson, September 2003./
IETF RFC 4017, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Method Requirements for Wireless LANs, D. Stanley, J. Walker, B. Aboba, March 2005 (status: informational)./
ISO/IEC 3166-1, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions—Part 1: Country codes./
ISO/IEC 7498-1:1994, Information technology—Open Systems Interconnection—Basic Reference Model: The Basic Model./
ISO/IEC 8802-2:1998, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements—Part 2: Logical link control./
ISO/IEC 8824-1:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation./
ISO/IEC 8824-2:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Information object specification./
ISO/IEC 8824-3:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Constraint specification./
ISO/IEC 8824-4:1995, Information technology—Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Parameterization of ASN.1 specifications./
ISO/IEC 8825-1:1995, Information technology—ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)./
ISO/IEC 8825-2:1996, Information technology—ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Packed Encoding Rules (PER)./
ISO/IEC Technical Report 11802-5:1997(E), Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Technical reports and guidelines—Part 5: Medium Access Control (MAC) Bridging of Ethernet V2.0 in Local Area Networks (previously known as IEEE Std 802.1H-1997 [B13])./
ISO/IEC 14977:1996, Information technology—Information technology. Syntactic Metalanguage. Extended BNF./
ISO/IEC 15802-1:1995, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Common specifications—Part 1: Medium Access Control (MAC) service definition./
ISO/IEC 15802-3, Information Technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Common specifications—Part 3: Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges./
ITU Radio Regulations, volumes 1–4./
ITU-T Recommendation V.41 (11/88), Code-independent error-control system./
ITU-T Recommendation Z.100 (03/93), CCITT specification and description language (SDL)./
ITU-T Recommendation Z.105 (03/95), SDL combined with ASN.1 (SDL/ASN.1)./
ITU-T Recommendation Z.120 (2004), Programming Languages—Formal Description Techniques (FDT)—Message Sequence Chart (MSC).
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Qualification of
IEEE:
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The IEEE was recognized under the provisions of ITU-T Recommendation A.5 on 1 November 1999. Qualifying information is on file with TSB.
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Other (for any supplementary information):
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None
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