WiFi Alphabet Soup

After the dot-com boom of 2000 it appears to be the dot-11 boom of 2006.
IEEE has come up with an alphabet soup for the wireless standards in the unlicensed band.

Wikipedia has a good summary of the alphabet soup

• IEEE 802.11 - The original 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz RF and IR standard (1999)
• IEEE 802.11a - 54 Mbit/s, 5 GHz standard (1999, shipping products in 2001)
• IEEE 802.11b - Enhancements to 802.11 to support 5.5 and 11 Mbit/s (1999)
• IEEE 802.11c - Bridge operation procedures; included in the IEEE 802.1D standard (2001)
• IEEE 802.11d - International (country-to-country) roaming extensions (2001)
• IEEE 802.11e - Enhancements: QoS, including packet bursting (2005)
• IEEE 802.11F - Inter-Access Point Protocol (2003) Withdrawn February 2006
• IEEE 802.11g - 54 Mbit/s, 2.4 GHz standard (backwards compatible with b) (2003)
• IEEE 802.11h - Spectrum Managed 802.11a (5 GHz) for European compatibility (2004)
• IEEE 802.11i - Enhanced security (2004)
• IEEE 802.11j - Extensions for Japan (2004)
• IEEE 802.11k - Radio resource measurement enhancements
• IEEE 802.11l - (reserved and will not be used)
• IEEE 802.11m - Maintenance of the standard; odds and ends.
• IEEE 802.11n - Higher throughput improvements
• IEEE 802.11o - (reserved and will not be used)
• IEEE 802.11p - WAVE - Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (such as ambulances and passenger cars)
• IEEE 802.11q - (reserved and will not be used, can be confused with 802.1Q VLAN trunking)
• IEEE 802.11r - Fast roaming
• IEEE 802.11s - ESS Mesh Networking
• IEEE 802.11T - Wireless Performance Prediction (WPP) - test methods and metrics
• IEEE 802.11u - Interworking with non-802 networks (for example, cellular)
• IEEE 802.11v - Wireless network management
• IEEE 802.11w - Protected Management Frames
• IEEE 802.11x - (reserved and will not be used)
• IEEE 802.11y - 3650-3700 Operation in USA