A SaaS wireless team is asked who wrote the 802.11ax amendment that their Wi-Fi 6 access points implement. Which body wrote that amendment?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Wi-Fi 6 is the name on the box. The amendment underneath it, 802.11ax, was written by the IEEE 802.11 working group. Your regulator decides where you may transmit, and it did not author that amendment.
Full Explanation
IEEE 802.11 is the standards body that writes the radio amendments. 802.11ax is one of those amendments, and Wi-Fi 6 access points implement it. The working group is who wrote the amendment the team was asked about. The Wi-Fi Alliance did not write 802.11ax. It certifies interoperability and publishes the generation name Wi-Fi 6 for products that pass its 802.11ax program. The national spectrum regulator decides channels and power. It does not draft the frame formats or the PHY in an 802.11 amendment. The controller RRM algorithm assigns channels and power inside a network. It is software on the controller, not a standards body, and it did not write 802.11ax. Exam caveat: a product can implement an amendment poorly and still be asked about the amendment's author. Implementation quality is a vendor question. Authorship of 802.11ax is IEEE. Operational check: when a design cites a PHY feature such as OFDMA, trace it to the 802.11ax amendment, and treat the Wi-Fi 6 logo as the certification name rather than the source of the spec.