1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG September 26th, 2017 Conference Call
Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs
(TG Chair)

2. Conference Call Tuesday, September 26th , 2017 at 09:30-11:00am ET
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Conference Call
Tuesday, September 26th , 2017 at 09:30-11:00am ET
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Stephen McCann, RIM

3. Agenda proposal Minutes Reports
September 2012
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Agenda proposal
Minutes
Reports
Progress and agree on information model for Access network and User service
Follow-up on actions defined during the editorial review at St. John's F2F
Discuss and review text proposal for adoption of TSN in Chap 7.5 & 7.6
AOB
Stephen McCann, RIM

4. Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform
All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy.
Participants [Note: Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2]:
“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
“Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of 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)
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
Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged
No duty to perform a patent search

5. 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

6. 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

7. Participation in IEEE 802 Meetings
Dorothy Stanley, HP Enterprise
November 2016
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Participation in IEEE 802 Meetings
All participation in IEEE 802 Working Group meetings is on an individual basis
Participants in the IEEE standards development individual process shall act based on their qualifications and experience. ( section 5.2.1)
IEEE 802 Working Group membership is by individual; “Working Group members shall participate in the consensus process in a manner consistent with their professional expert opinion as individuals, and not as organizational representatives”. ( section 4.2.1)
You have an obligation to act and vote as an individual and not under the direction of any other individual or group. Your obligation to act and vote as an individual applies in all cases, regardless of any external commitments, agreements, contracts, or orders.
You shall not direct the actions or votes of any other member of an IEEE 802 Working Group or retaliate against any other member for their actions or votes within IEEE 802 Working Group meetings, see
section and
section 3.4.1, list item x
By participating in IEEE 802 meetings, you accept these requirements. If you do not agree to these policies then you shall not participate.

8. Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings
All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws.
Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims.
Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions.
Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings.
Technical considerations remain primary focus
Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets.
Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation.
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.

9. Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
September 2012
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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)

10. Business#1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call
Meeting called to order by chair at 09:37 AM ET
Minutes taker:
Hao is taking notes
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia
Walter Pienciak
IEEE SA
Wang Hao
Fujitsu
Antonio de la Oliva
UC3M

11. 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
Nothing brought up.

12. Agenda Minutes Reports
September 2012
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Agenda
Minutes
Reports …
Progress and agree on information model for Access network and User service
Follow-up on actions defined during the editorial review at St. John's F2F
Max: Definition of unlicensed and authorized spectrum at the begin of chapter 7.1
Max: Amend text at the beginning of NDS section to explain figure 30
Max: Introduce the role of NMS in the chapter 7.5 Data path
Captured in TSN revision of Chap 7.5 & 7.6
Max: Provide a short introduction to the restructured chapter 8
Max: Amend chapter 4.2 with an explanation of the UML notation used in the document. Inheritance will be added to the capabilities
Hao: Review and revise chapter to remove overlap with section 7.2 including fig 57
Discuss and review text proposal for adoption of TSN in Chap 7.5 & 7.6
Contribution pending.
AOB
Stephen McCann, RIM

13. Business #2 Review of minutes Reports
No issues raised.
Reports
Max announced extended plenary schedules of with closing plenary on Friday, AM2
Chair proposed to start with the review of the submissions providing text to resolve the editorial clean up, to first introduce notation of information modeling before discussing the revised information model proposal.
Group was fine with re-ordering of agenda items.
Follow-up on actions defined during the editorial review at St. John's F2F
Max: Definition of unlicensed and authorized spectrum at the begin of chapter 7.1
Accepted as provided.
Max: Amend text at the beginning of NDS section to explain figure 30
Max: Introduce the role of NMS in the chapter 7.5 Data path
Captured in TSN revision of Chap 7.5 & 7.6
Max: Provide a short introduction to the restructured chapter 8
A revision was created during the call cleaning up the text in the second paragraph. Revision was accepted for inclusion into next draft.

14. Business #3
Hao: Review and revise chapter to remove overlap with section 7.2 including fig 57
Accepted as provided.
Max: Amend chapter 4.2 with an explanation of the UML notation used in the document. Inheritance will be added to the capabilities
Progress and agree on information model for Access network and User service
Max introduced the revision of his contribution of the St. John’s interim, and pointed out that it mainly contains a refinement of the service information model.
The slides show how the two kind of models rely to the specification; the structural model is closely aligned to the NRM, while the service model follows the functional phases documented in chapter 7.
Hao agrees with the approach to structure the service model but would ask for addition of a class for fault diagnostic and maintenance. Max agrees and offered to add such a class. It may require further thinking to align the class to the service model.
Hao asked about the intention when structuring the information model. The structural information model shows the structure of the NRM, however some other arrangement of the classes may better suit the requirements of real network management. Max agreed that the information models should be aimed for real use and should try to arrange the information such it fits well real network operation. He asked Hao to provide a proposal how to re-arrange the structural model for the next conference call on October 10th.
Max proposed to split up the work on the information model with Hao taking the lead on the structural model, while he would focus on the service model refinements.
Based on the slideset, Max will provide a text contribution for the next conference call proposing introductory text for the information model subchapter.

15. Discuss and review text proposal for adoption of TSN in Chap 7.5 & 7.6
Business #3
Discuss and review text proposal for adoption of TSN in Chap 7.5 & 7.6
Contribution pending.
AoB
none
Adjourned by chair at 10:45 AM ET