This is very good news:
The IEEE working group dedicated to the next-generation 802.11n standard has settled on a single proposal, TGn Sync, members said late Thursday night.
The proposal, which is backed by Atheros, Intel, Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and others, must now garner a 75 percent “supermajority” vote at the next IEEE meeting in May. The TGn Sync won in a head-to-head vote against the WWiSE proposal, led by a collection of communications companies including Airgo Networks, Broadcom, Conexant, Motorola, Nokia, and Texas Instruments.
The vote makes the TGn Sync proposal all but certain to win the IEEE’s approval as the next IEEE 802.11n standard sometime in 2006 or 2007. If approved by the supermajority vote, the proposal would then move forward as the draft standard and then as the final specification.
The 75% hurdle can sometimes be a tough one, as it’s been for UWB, but there’s no doubt that the better proposal won this round.
Thanks to the good guys, my work here is done.
H/T Dana Blankenhorn.