1. OmniRAN EC SG February 26th, 2014 Conference Call
Max Riegel
(OmniRAN SG Chair)

2. September 2012
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Meeting
Date: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014  Time: 10:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) 
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Stephen McCann, RIM

3. Guidelines for IEEE-SA Meetings
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Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims.
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4. Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
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Resources – URLs
Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines
Link to IEEE Code of Ethics
Link to IEEE Patent Policy
Clint Chaplin, Chair (Samsung)

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Meeting Etiquette
IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization
Meetings are to be conducted in an orderly and professional manner in accordance with the policies and procedures governed by the organization.
Individuals are to address the “technical” content of the subject under consideration and refrain from making “personal” comments to or about the presenter.
The Copyright Act of 1976 made a dramatic change to U.S. copyright law. Copyright was now deemed to exist from the moment of creation. Thus anything that is created is deemed to be owned by its creator. Additionally, a work no longer needs to be published in order to be protected. Therefore, even your scribbles on a piece of note paper constitute copyrighted material that you own and control.
The NII (National Information Infrastructure) and the GII (Global Information Infrastructure) are causing lawmakers and copyright owners to assess the ability of current copyright law to protect owners rights in a digital environment. While at this point the changes being talked about are not significant, they will make it clear that copyright protection is afforded to owners in the digital environment making it a requirement to honor the rights accorded to owners.
It is a requirement under the IEEE Bylaws that copyright ownership of all material published by the IEEE resides with the IEEE. The Standards Department accomplishes the transfer of copyright ownership from the volunteer authors to the Institute via the Project Authorization Request (PAR) form.
Stephen McCann, RIM

6. LMSC Operations Manual
4.3 Study groups
4.3.1 Study group operation
Progress of each Study Group shall be presented at the closing Sponsor meeting of each IEEE 802 LMSC plenary session by the appropriate WG, TAG, or ECSG Chair. Study Groups may elect officers other than the Chair, if necessary, and will follow the general operating procedures for WGs specified in the IEEE 802 LMSC WG P&P. Because of the limited time duration of a Study Group, no letter ballots are permitted.
4.3.2 Voting at study group meetings
Any person attending a Study Group meeting may vote on all motions (including recommending approval of a PAR). A vote is carried by 75% of those present and voting “Approve” or “Disapprove.”

7. Agenda Proposal Wednesday, February 26th, 10:00am ET
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Agenda Proposal Wednesday, February 26th, 10:00am ET
Approval of minutes of Jan ’14 session
Reports
SDN Update
Initial text proposal on Network Detection and Selection
Agenda and plans for March plenary in Beijing
AOB
Adjourn
Stephen McCann, RIM

8. Business#1 Call Meeting to Order Secretary position
Meeting called to order by chair at
Secretary position
No volunteer yet. Position remains open.
Appointment of recording secretary:
Roger Marks will take notes for this conference call.
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
NSN
Yonggang Fang
ZTE
Juan Carlos Zuniga
Interdigital
Daniel Corujo
IT Aveiro
Antonio de la Oliva
UC3M
Paul Congdon
TALLAC Networks
Roger Marks
EthAirNet Assoc.
Walter Pienciak
IEEE SA
Behcet Sarikaya
Huawei

9. Business #2 Approval of agenda Approval of minutes Reports SDN Update
approved, but mistake regards doc# in header line to be corrected
Reports
no reports
SDN Update
Antonio providing verbal update on current activities
ToC Update Proposal
Discussion on ToC will be continued in Beijing F2F; update of contribution expected.
Initial text proposal on Network Detection and Selection
A couple of refinements proposed; updated version expected for Beijing F2F
The following document was not brought in the call.
Agenda and plans for March plenary in Beijing
see following slide; Thursday AM1 meeting will become joint OmniRAN/Wireless SDN BOF session
remote participation will be enabled for all OmniRAN meetings including Wireless SDN BOF session
agreement on agenda proposal reached
AOB
ITU-R WP 5D liaison (Max)
OmniRAN will discuss in Beijing whether and how to contribute to an IEEE 802 response
ITU-T JCA SDN Liaison (Roger)
Initial submission deadline missed, however submission for upcoming JCA SDN meeting possible
Potential response will be discussed in Wireless SDN BOF session in Beijing
Adjourn

10. Mar 2014 Agenda Graphics Mon 3/17 Tue 3/18 Wed 3/19 Thu 3/20 Fri 3/21
08:00
10:00
EC Opening Plenary
10:30
12:30
802.11/ Mid-week Plenary
Opening Ceremony
EC Closing Plenary
13:30
15:30
802.1 Opening Plenary
802.1 Closing Plenary
16:00
18:00

11. Business #3 Agenda proposal for Mar ‘14 session Approval of minutes
Reports
Example contributions to the intended specification
Outline of the intended specification
Organization of the work
Cooperation with the other IEEE 802 WGs
Operation within IEEE 802.1
Location of May 2014 session
Conference calls until May 2014 session
Motion to extend the ECSG until July 2014
Liaison report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB