1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG February 13th, 2018 Conference Call
Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs
(TG Chair)

2. Conference Call Tuesday, February 13th , 2018 at 09:30-11:00am ET
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Conference Call
Tuesday, February 13th , 2018 at 09:30-11:00am ET
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Stephen McCann, RIM

3. Agenda proposal Minutes Reports
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Agenda proposal
Minutes
Reports
Procedural review of P802.1CF/D1.0 WG ballot
Action item list of Geneva comment resolution
Official documentation of comment resolution
Searchable figures
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
March 2018 F2F planning
Next meeting
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

4. Participants have a duty to inform the IEEE
Participants 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
Participants should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed) of the identity of any other holders of potential Essential Patent Claims
Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is encouraged

5. Ways to inform IEEE
Cause an LOA to be submitted to the IEEE-SA 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
Speak up now and respond to this 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, please respond at this time by providing relevant information to the WG Chair.

6. 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 of different technical approaches that include relative costs of patent licensing terms may be discussed in standards development meetings.
Technical considerations remain the 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.
For more details, see IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and Antitrust and Competition Policy: What You Need to Know at

7. Patent-related information
The patent policy and the procedures used to execute that policy are documented in the:
IEEE-SA Standards Board 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

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. Business #1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Mandatory slides
Chair called meeting to order at 09:30AM ET
Minutes taker:
Hao is taking notes.
Mandatory slides
Mandatory slides were presented, no announcements came up.
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia
Hao Wang
Fujitsu
Walter Pienciak
IEEE
Antonio de la Oliva
UC3M

10. Agenda Minutes Reports Procedural review of P802.1CF/D1.0 WG ballot
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Agenda
Minutes
Reports
Procedural review of P802.1CF/D1.0 WG ballot
Action item list of Geneva comment resolution
Official documentation of comment resolution
Searchable figures
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
March 2018 F2F planning
Next meeting
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

11. Business #2 Minutes Reports
Review postponed to Mar F2F
Reports
Nothing reported in addition to agenda items
Procedural review of P802.1CF/D1.0 WG ballot
Slides presented references to the basic rules for comment resolution and recirculation of the WG ballot
Walter recommended to provide full 30days review period for recirculation as full draft text is open for commenting and a few responders indicated that they couldn’t provide comments due to lack of time.
Action item list of Geneva comment resolution
Walter is asked to review implementation of the accepted and revised comments, as it is not obvious from the table whether there is sufficient information for changes to the text given.

12. Business #3 Official documentation of comment resolution
Max will trial use Java-based tool for handling comments with first results for review in next confcall.
Searchable figures
Walter experimented and svg is recommended.
MS Visio can create svg, as well as Omni Graffle
Max will provide most difficult PPTX figures to Walter for experimenting with conversion tools.
Antonio recommended to provide both, Visio should be provided both in native and in .svg
Conclusion about the final procedures in the next call.
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
Max asked for being for specific when replacing .3ah and .1ag
Max provided hint to structure capabilities and configuration information under one common label ‘Capabilities and configurations’ with each information element amended with the network element, it belongs to, e.g. NAFDMCapabilities
Hao will bring up revised text in next call for final review.

13. Business #4 March 2018 F2F planning Next meeting AOB
Meeting outline and proposed agenda on the following two slides.
Some of the meeting slots may be converted into sessions for editorial work. Technical contributions may not require 7-8 slots for discussion.
Proposed outline and agenda proposal fine for public announcement.
Next meeting
Conference call on Feb 27th, AM ET
AOB
Nothing brought up.
Adjourned by chair at 10:59 AM ET

14. Mar 2018 Agenda Graphics Mon 03/05 Tue 03/06 Wed 03/07 Thu 03/08
Fri 03/09
08:00
10:00
802 EC Opening
WNG
Closing Plenary
10:30
12:30
802.1 Opening Plenary
802.11/ Mid-week Plenaries
802.1 Closing Plenary
802.1 TF chairs meeting
802 EC Closing
13:30
15:30
OmniRAN opening
802.1 Midweek Plenary
OmniRAN closing
16:00
18:00
Potential overflow time if needed
Tutorials
Joint 802.1/802.15
ICA NEND

15. Agenda proposal for Mar 2018 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
IC NEND contributions review
Status of P802.1CF D1.0 comment resolution
Documentation of P802.1CF D1.0 comment resolution
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
Plan for 802.1CF-D1.1 draft and recirculation ballot
Conference calls until Jul 2018 F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
Next meeting
AOB