1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG July 2017 F2F Meeting Berlin, Germany
Max Riegel, Nokia BellLabs
(TG Chair)

2. July 2017 F2F Meeting Venue: OmniRAN TG sessions:
Estrel Berlin Sonnenallee Berlin, Germany
Hotel Information Website:
OmniRAN TG sessions:
Mon, Jul 10th, 16:00-18:00
Meeting room: ECC Room 5
Tue, Jul 11th, 16:00-17:00
Wed, Jul 12th, 13:30-17:30
Thu, Jul 13th , 10:30-12:30
Meeting room: 30210

3. Agenda proposal for July 2017 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.5
New content for P802.1CF
7.9 Data model
Amendments to existing chapters
Plan for going WG ballot w/ 802.1CF-D0.6 draft
Potential input to Industry Connections
Conference calls until Sept F2F
Motions to closing plenary
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

4. July 2017 Agenda Graphics Mon 7/10 Tue 7/11 Wed 7/12 Thu 7/13 Fri 7/14
08:00
10:00
802 EC Opening
WNG
ARC
Closing
10:30
12:30
802.1 Opening Plenary
802.11/ Mid-week Plenaries
OmniRAN closing
802 EC Closing
13:30
15:30
802.1 Closing Plenary
16:00
18:00
OmniRAN opening
Tutorials
Joint 802.1/802.15
ICA Kick off

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Participation in IEEE 802 Meetings
Dorothy Stanley, HP Enterprise
November 2016
doc.: ec EC
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.

9. 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.

10. Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
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)

11. Business #1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call
Chair called meeting to order at 16:00
Minutes taker:
Hao is taking notes.
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia Networks
Nader Zein
NEC
Hao Wang
Fujitsu
Yonggang Fang
ZTE TX
Hajime Koto
NICT
Xiaojing Fan
Tomoki Ohsawa
Hermann Brand
IEEE
Satoko Itaya
Walter Pienciak
Kenichi Maruhashi
Patrick Slaats
Fumihide Kojima

12. 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.

13. Agenda proposal for July 2017 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.5
New content for P802.1CF
7.9 Information model
Amendments to existing chapters
Plan for going WG ballot w/ 802.1CF-D0.6 draft
Potential input to Industry Connections
Conference calls until Sept F2F
Motions to closing plenary
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

14. Schedules Mon Tue Wed Thu Review of minutes Reports
Reports
Potential input to Industry Connections
Tue
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.5
Wed
Thu
New content for P802.1CF
7.9 Data model
Amendments to existing chapters
Plan for going WG ballot w/ 802.1CF-D0.6 draft
Conference calls until Sept F2F
Motions to closing plenary
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

15. Business#2 Review of minutes Reports
No comments
Reports
New website
Development version under
Will go live until next F2F meeting
Potential input to Industry Connections
Presentation well received. Discussion provided multiple hints how to enhance presentation for the Tuesday evening presentation

16. Business #3 Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.5
Discussion on CID#17 led to conclusion to collocate ID definitions in chapt. 6.8 and remove references in subsection 2 throughout whole chapter 7.
Intermediate results of comment resolution captured in
Max submitted revision of chapt. 6.8 containing definition of all IDs used in the specification
Hao submitted revised text in chapt. 7.8 to move Element Manager into ANC. Necessary modifications captured in
The contributions were reviewed and accepted in the following session.

17. Business #4 Potential input to 802.1 Industry Connections
Contribution was presented and discussed. It was recommended to add about 2 slides to the end providing further technical content indicating potential solutions to entertain technical discussions towards link layer solutions.
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.5, cont.
Remaining comments were discussed and resolved. Results are captured in revision of the comments spreadsheet
Yonggang provided a revision of the documents with his comments inserted, which was used for discussion:
Several modifications were applied to the text revision proposal to accommodate comments from Yonggang and others. Final conclusion is contained in
New content for P802.1CF
7.9 Data model
Max explained about the difference between data model and information model and presented his thoughts about creation of the section 7.9 Information Model. The group agreed to the proposed principles but wondered how the solution might look like. Max proposed to modify approach during the course of the development as needed.
Amendments to existing chapters
Max shortly presented the slides, which were not presented to TSN due to running out of time. Nevertheless, a joint meeting is planned with TSN at the next interim meeting to discuss the solution in the P802.1CF document.

18. Business #5 Plan for going WG ballot w/ 802.1CF-D0.6 draft
The group agreed that D0.6 incorporating the comment resolution of D0.5 still misses essential content on Information Modeling and TSN and is not yet suited for WG ballot.
Nevertheless, Walter offered to create a D0.6 for a further TG ballot and as base for performing comprehensive editorial clean up at St. John’s interim as well as for adding the missing content.
Conference calls until Sept F2F
The group decided to have one conference call on Tue, July 25th, 2017, 09:30-11:00AM ET for editorial review of D0.6 and further discussions on Information Modeling
Motions to closing plenary
The chair brought up the single motion of OmniRAN for the closing plenary on approval of conference calls. Conference calls after the September interim will be announced with 10 days prior notice on the mailing list (see next slide).
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
The chair drafted a short summary of the report of the meeting and the group jointly introduced refinements for final conclusion and acceptance. The agreed document is uploaded under
AOB
Hao reported about presentations in the WNG session on Wednesday showing use case scenarios closely related to the presentation on Layer 2 virtualized networking to the IC NEND.
Adjourn
The chair adjourned the meeting at 12:29.

19. Motion Approve OmniRAN TG conference calls: Moved: Max Riegel,
July 25th , 09:30 AM ET, 90mins
Between the September 2017 interim and the November 2017 plenary with at least 10 days prior notice to the mailing list.
Agenda and call-in details will be announced at least 10 days prior on the mailing list and be made available on
Moved: Max Riegel,
Second: Hao Wang