doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 1 November 2012 General Link Agenda Date: Authors: NameAddressAffiliationsPhone Donald Eastlake Huawei Technologies 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA USA

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 2 IEEE GLK: General Link Study Group San Antonio, Texas November, 2012 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3 rd., Huawei Secretary : Vacant Joint mailing list with SG:

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 3 Venue Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 4 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 Call meeting to Order Temporary Secretary Selection Review of IEEE 802 and Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. Attendance Recording Reminder Study Group Voting Approval of Agenda Approval of the Minutes of the GLK Meeting in Indian Wells. (Thanks to Mark Hamilton.) –Approve r1 as the minutes of the September GLK Meeting. Approved by unanimous consent.

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 5 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 (cont.) Approve Minutes of Joint Teleconferences with IEEE SG: –1 October 2012, “GLK Telecon Minutes ”, 12/1206r1 –15 October 2012, “GLK Telecon Minutes ”, 12/1231r1 –29 October 2012, “GLK Telecon Minutes ”, 12/1254r0 Approved by unanimous consent. Request the IEEE 802 LMSC to extend the IEEE GLK Study Group. –GLK: Moved: Mark Hamilton Seconded: Ian Sherlock Yes: 13 No: 0 Abstain: 0 Note: this is to allow further work to finalize the PAR and 5 Criteria documents in the case they are not approved.

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 6 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 (cont.) Consideration of PAR and 5 Criteria Comments Comments from Paul Nikolich, Chair of 802: –I have the following comment on the Amendment: Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks draft PAR. –In section 5.5 Need for Project, some of the language is ambiguous and difficult to parse, specifically "These developments raise a demand for bridging of IEEE media to the same level as other media can be bridged: as media internal to the network as well as media offering access to the network.” –For example, what does "bridging of media to the same level as other media" mean? Is there a particular function or parameter that is implied whose "same level" is the target of that sentence?

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 7 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 (cont.) Paul Nikolich comments (continued) –I can't offer alternate language because I don't understand what you are trying to convey with that sentence. Please explain or consider rewording it for clarity. –Regards, –--Paul

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 8 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 (cont.) Motion: –In response to Paul Nikolich’s comments, change the last sentence of Section 5.5 of the ak draft PAR as follows: –“These developments raise a demand for the bridging of IEEE media with the same bridging services to the same level as other media can be bridged: as media internal to the network as well as media offering access to the network.” –Moved: Chris Williams Seconded: Mark Hamilton –Yes: 17 No: 0 Abstain: 1

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 9 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 (cont.) Believing that the PAR contained in the document referenced below meets IEEE-SA guidelines, Request that the PAR contained in r1 be posted to the IEEE 802 Executive Committee (EC) agenda for WG 802 preview and EC approval to submit to NesCom. WG: [Moved by on behalf of GLK vote: Moved: Ian Sherlock, Seconded: Mark Hamilton, Result: 18 – 0 – 0

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 10 Tuesday, 13 November :30-21:30 (cont.) Presentation and Discussion of Submissions –None. Recess until 08:00 Wednesday (Seguin A)

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: l “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents l “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims l “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) l The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 l Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged l No duty to perform a patent search November 2012 Slide 11Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual Material about the patent policy is available at If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at November 2012 Slide 12Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: –Either speak up now or –Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or –Cause an LOA to be submitted November 2012 Slide 13Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 14 Other Documents and WebPages to Review Please review the documents at the following links: - IEEE Patent Policy - slideset.ppt - Patent FAQ LoA Form Affiliation FAQ slideset.ppt Anti-Trust FAQ - guidelines.pdf - Ethics IEEE Working Group OM - operations-manual.doc guidelines.pdf operations-manual.doc New 802 WG P&P: EC-draft-lmsc-wg-p-p.pdf EC-draft-lmsc-wg-p-p.pdf New 802 LMSC P&P: EC-draft-revised-lmsc-p-p-for-wg-p-p-ballot.pdf EC-draft-revised-lmsc-p-p-for-wg-p-p-ballot.pdf New 802 LMSC OM: EC-draft-revision-of-the-lmsc-om-for-wg-p-p.pdf EC-draft-revision-of-the-lmsc-om-for-wg-p-p.pdf

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings l All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. l Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. l Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. l Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. l Technical considerations remain primary focus l Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. l Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. l Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. November 2012 Slide 15Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 16 Wednesday, 14 November :00-10:00 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder (Consideration of PAR and 5 Criterion Comments from other 802 Working Groups) Presentation and Discussion of Submissions –“SG Presentation: CSN and BSS Bridging”, r0, Philippe Klein Teleconferences: –Moved, to authorize 1-hour bi-weekly teleconferences through the January Interim jointly with the corresponding Study Group … Recess until 08:00 Thursday

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 17 Thursday, 15 November :00-10:00 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Presentations and Discussion Joint meeting with Adjourn sine die

doc.: IEEE P /1264r4 Submission November 2012 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 18 [Reference Information] GLK Study Group Creation Motion: –12/873r0, “Minutes of the IEEE P Full Working Group”, Item : –Motion: Request approval by IEEE 802 LMSC to form a Study Group on enabling the use of (including consideration of infrastructure BSS, PBSS, and IBSS associations) as general transit links capable of supporting bridging, with the intent of creating a PAR and five criteria. –The above motion was approved by the Working Group and by LMSC (the LAN/MAN Standards Committee) Draft PAR and Five Criterion –12/1207r0, “ GLK Draft PAR” –12/1208r0, “ GLK Draft 5C”