IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG Status Report to IEEE 802 WGs 2019-01-16

IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG Resources OmniRAN TG page reflecting its status and achievements https://1.ieee802.org/omniran/ Also showing meeting announcements and conference call dial-in information OmniRAN filespace on mentor is used for contributions and meeting documents https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/documents Final P802.1CF D3.1 draft is available by http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/cf-drafts/d3/802-1cf-d3-1.pdf P802.1CQ PAR … No draft yet.

OmniRAN TG Achievements Hiroshima, Japan meeting, January 14th – 16th P802.1CF – Sponsor ballot concluded in December 2018 Forwarding to REVCOM for REVCOM meeting on March 20th Plan established for initial socialization of specification IEEE Communications Standards Magazine Introductory slide set, potentially also press release Further activities under consideration P802.1CQ – Local address assignment protocol Security threats of dynamic local address assignment protocol Discussion together with 802.1 Security TG chair Conclusion that dynamic assignment does not create threats in addition to the threats caused by the additional network functions (DoS attacks, …) 802.1 position on MAC randomization Review of liaison of WBA and response of IEEE 802.11 LAAP protocol should provide functions to avoid the presented issues Agreed on creation of contributions to capture results in the specification Future topics in OmniRAN TG Presentation and discussion on a generic data characterization model

Looking forward to next session in Vancouver, Canada, March 11-14, 2019 Envisioned topics: P802.1CQ Requirements and scenarios document, security threats Interaction with IEEE 802.11 on solution for WLAN Continue discussions on potential data characerization model standardization in OmniRAN Upcoming conference calls: Feb 6th, 2019, 09:00AM ET 1hr Feb 27th, 2019, 09:00AM ET 1hr Mainly covering .1CQ contributions