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"we" = the authors of this paper:

http://www.sss-mag.com/pdf/97_mmlan.pdf

Percival is an inventor on one of the fundamental WLAN patents (recently in the news):

http://www.google.com/patents/US5487069

Skellern and Weste were the founders of Radiata Communications, which was first to market with 802.11a, before being bought by Cisco.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/75649/cisco_acquires...

I'm one of the other authors. Maybe I'm wrong, in that the written history tells it differently, but I'm recalling what was said around the meeting table and across the office partition. I might be a bit loose with the terminology, but to me it's not packaged up neatly into standards, as it was a non-linear development process when I was dealing with it. --- Edit: fix URL + name