1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG July 2016 F2F Meeting San Diego, CA
Max Riegel, Nokia
(TG Chair)

2. July 2016 F2F Meeting Venue: Meeting room: Sessions:
Manchester Grand Hyatt
1 Market Place San Diego, CA USA Information Tel: 
Meeting room:
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu: Hillcrest C
Sessions:
Mon, Mar 25th, 16:00-18:00
Tue, July 26th, 13:30-15:30 special session on 5G
Tue, Mar 26th, 16:00-18:00
Wed, Mar 27th, 16:00-18:00
Thu, Mar 28th, 10:30-12:30

3. Agenda proposal for July 2016 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
Review of 802.1CF-D0.1 editor’s draft
Contributions addressing issues of 802.1CF–D0.1
Revised and new P802.1CF contributions
Contributions proposing new content
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.2 draft
Bug fixes
New content
Timeline and plan for initial TG ballot
Project planning
Timeline
External reviewers of 802.1CF-D0.2
Contributions to 5G SC
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

4. July 2016 Agenda Graphics Mon 07/25 Tue 07/26 Wed 07/27 Thu 07/28
Fri 07/29
08:00
10:00
802 EC Opening
WNG
ARC
PRIV ECSG
Closing
10:30
12:30
802.1 Opening Plenary
802.11ARC
802.11/ Mid-week Plenaries
OmniRAN closing
802 EC Closing
13:30
14:00
15:30
OmniRAN special session on WP-5A/ RLAN approach for 5G SC
802.1 Closing Plenary
16:00
18:00
OmniRAN opening
Joint 802.1/802.15
5G SC meeting

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

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Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims.
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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
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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
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)

10. Business #1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call
Chair called meeting to order at 16:04
Minutes taker:
Wang Hao is taking notes.
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia Networks
Wang Hao
Fujitsu
Roger Marks
EthAirNet Assoc.
Yonggang Fang
ZTETX
Juan Carlos Zuniga
SIGFOX
Liang Jin
Spirent Comm.
Fulei Liu
ZTE

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 for March 2016 F2F Review of minutes Reports
Review of 802.1CF-D0.1 editor’s draft
Contributions addressing issues of 802.1CF–D0.1
Revised and new P802.1CF contributions
Contributions proposing new content
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.2 draft
Bug fixes
New content
Timeline and plan for initial TG ballot
Project planning
Timeline
External reviewers of 802.1CF-D0.2
Contributions to 5G SC
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

13. Schedules Mon Tue Wed Thu Revised and new P802.1CF contributions
Tue
Review of minutes
Reports
Wed
Review of 802.1CF-D0.1 editor’s draft
Thu
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.2 draft
Bug fixes
New content
Timeline and plan for initial TG ballot
Project planning
Timeline
External reviewers of 802.1CF-D0.2
Contributions to 5G SC
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

14. Business #2 Revised and new P802.1CF contributions
Text proposal for section Network initialization, which was uploaded shortly after the last conference call, was reviewed and terminology was jointly cleaned up to align with the definitions introduced in the latest revision of the NRM.
According to the agreement in the Budapest meeting, text for section Network instantiation was removed and the text ready for inclusion into of the next draft D0.2 was uploaded to mentor under
Discussion about the future location of the text proposed for led to the conclusion to extend the scope of chapter 8 to ‘Network virtualization functions’ with subsections 8.1 ‘SDN functional decomposition’, 8.2 ‘Network Function Virtualization’, and 8.3 ‘Network instantiation’

15. Business #3 Review of minutes Reports
No comments raised on the minutes
Reports
Status and plans 5G SC
Chair provided short overview about 5G SC activities during the week as well as a verbal update on the outcome of the OmniRAN special session on WP5A.
IEEE SDN Whitepaper
Chair shortly introduced the white paper and asked for review by the group.
No other reports

16. Business #4 Revised and new P802.1CF contributions, cont.
Proposed text was reviewed and several small issues were detected which are up for correction by Wang Hao.
Overall the text looked fine and seems to be ready for inclusion when the issues are corrected. A revised version was invited and shortly reviewed in the session on Thursday. All issues were resolved.
Max presented his initial thoughts, which only addressed the very basic features of QoS and policy control.
Most of the content was agreed by the group, however some of the more advanced features for dynamic service flow management caused discussions and did not yet lead to fully aligned views.
Max will create a text contribution until latest the Thursday session, which will be reviewed for inclusion into D0.2. Recommendation was given to focus mainly on the introductory aspects.

17. Business #5 Review of 802.1CF-D0.1 editor’s draft
The comments were combined into a common working document. All comments were reviewed and resolved. The conclusion of the review of the D0.1 draft is captured in
There were two contributions attached to the comments of Wang Hao, which were both accepted.
Revised and new P802.1CF contributions, cont.
Max introduced his proposed text on association, which is mainly aligned to the behavior. In a subsequent effort the difference of the IEEE 802 technologies to the described behavior has to be documented in the ‘Mapping to IEEE 802 section’.

18. Business #6 Revised and new P802.1CF contributions, cont.
The proposed text was presented and a number of issues were detected during the review.
In particular the figures in the contribution hardly fit to the P802.1CF design and structure.
During an ad-hoc session an updated version of the contribution was jointly edited and the figures cleaned up. The output of the effort was regarded as appropriate for inclusion into the draft 0.2
Max presented his proposed text based on the content and outcome of the presentation on Tuesday. The text focuses on the generic concepts and does not contain detailed procedures which raised contentious discussions on Tuesday. No issues were detected in the text and the document was accepted for inclusion into draft 0.2
Max went through the document and introduced the high level approach to address the topic. Discussions came up on some of the stated requirements and Max invited to submit comments, if requirement statements have to be modified. Adoption of the text to the draft 0.2 was agreed.

19. Business #7 Plan for 802.1CF-D0.2 draft Bug fixes New content
New content
Timeline and plan for initial TG ballot
TG ballot start on Aug 9th, end on Sept 8th

20. Business #8 Project planning Contributions to 5G SC
Timeline
Plan to have P802.1CF roughly complete in Jul 2016 was met. The begin of the WG ballot and SB was postponed by one meeting to allow for a recirculation in the TG balloting.
External reviewers of 802.1CF-D0.2
Announcement to IEEE-IETF coordination will be done to allow IETF to participate in ballot
September interim meeting location
Warsaw, PL; motion drafted and submitted to WG
Plans for York
Single day session on Sept 12th to meet with commenters from 802.1
Contributions to 5G SC
Special meeting took place on Tuesday
Report amended to the meeting slides and presented in 5G SC meeting on Tuesday evening
Special session planned for Warsaw to progress Industry Connection activities for Action A
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB
Nothing brought up
Adjourned by chair at 12:40pm