1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG March 2018 F2F Meeting Rosemont, IL
Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs
(TG Chair)

2. January 2018 F2F Meeting Venue: OmniRAN TG sessions:
Hyatt Regency O’Hare
9300 W Bryn Mawr Avenue Rosemont IL 60018 USA
OmniRAN TG sessions:
Mon, Mar 5th, 13:30-18:00
Meeting room: Sky Harbor A - Entry
Tue, Mar 6th, 13:30-18:00
Wed, Mar 7th, 16:00-18:00
Meeting room: Logan - Lobby
Thu, Mar 8th, 10:30-12:30
Meeting room: Logan – Lobby
Thu, Mar 8th, 13:30-15:30
Meeting room: Midway – Lobby
No OmniRAN meeting on Fri, Closing plenary 10:30 – 12:00

3. Meeting map Sky Harbor A on Mon, and Tue

4. Meeting map Logan, Midway on Wed, and Thu

5. 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

6. 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
Tutorials
Joint 802.1/802.15
ICA NEND

7. 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

8. 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.

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 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. Business #1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Mandatory slides
Chair called meeting to order at 13:45
Meeting start was delayed to accommodate the late end of the preceding plenary session.
Minutes taker:
Hao volunteered to take notes.
Mandatory slides
Mandatory slides were presented, no announcements came up.
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia
Nader Zein
NEC
Hao Wang
Fujitsu
Glenn Parsons
Ericsson
Hajime Koto
NICT
Walter Pienciak
IEEE
Tomoki Ohsawa
Fumiko Ohori
Akio Hasegawa
ATR
Ryoko Matsuo
Toshiba
Kenichi Maruhashi
Harry Bims
Bims Labs. Inc.
Roger Marks
EthAirNet Assoc.
Paul Bottorf
Aruba HP
Radhakrishna Canchi
Koyocera
Larry McMillan
Western Digital
Yonggang Fang
ZTE TX
Paul Congdon
Huawei

13. Agenda 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

14. Schedules Mon Tue Wed Thu Review of minutes Reports
IC NEND contributions review
Status of P802.1CF D1.0 comment resolution
Tue
Documentation of P802.1CF D1.0 comment resolution
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
Wed
Editor ad-hoc session: review of editorial issues of comment resolution
Thu
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

15. Business #2 Agenda approval Review of minutes Reports
Agenda as proposed agreed
Review of minutes
Chair introduced minutes to group explaining main achievements of the meetings.
Minutes were accepted without comments.
Reports
News were already shared in the IEEE opening plenary.
No further information provided.

16. Business #3 IC NEND contributions review
Presentation of basic concepts by Kenichi Maruhashi. Group provided feedback on a number of aspects.
Nader walked through the document with comprehensive discussion of the content and partially also the wording. Group provided feedback on content and potential ways to further evolve the document.
Status of P802.1CF D1.0 comment resolution
Chair showed the roughly 20 open comments, which should be addressed and resolved during the meeting.

17. Business #4 Documentation of P802.1CF D1.0 comment resolution
Chair briefly introduced the Java tool containing all the received comments on .1CF D1.0
Java tool will be used to officially document the outcome of the comment resolution process as it generates the required reporting.
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
Final redrawing necessary, but otherwise accepted.
Max will create further revision containing updated figure.
Accepted.
Deployment scenario was briefly introduced to group. No immediate comments came up, but final conclusion on acceptance of document was postponed to upcoming confcall to allow participants more thorough review.
No update submitted for meeting, the pending revision will be provided after the conclusion on the comments on information model in clause 8.1
Accepted. Final conclusion contained in revision -01

18. Business #5
Review of contributions addressing unresolved P802.1CF/D1.0 comments
Discussion led to revision containing several text edits:
Figures may be outdated and the edits were made based on a previous version of the text. Therefore the editor is asked to apply the edits highlighted in the contribution to the latest version of the SDN clause.
Conclusion was made in the group to move SDN and NFV sections into annex as both chapters provide further background information to the specification, but do not directly add to the core content.
A first proposal on how to restructure the information model was discussed and agreed. The conclusions of the discussion are captured in a revision of the presentation:
Concepts shown in revision accepted for creation of revision text to clause 8.1
Revision accepted for inclusion into the next revision
Plan for 802.1CF-D1.1 draft and recirculation ballot
Next draft numbered 2.0 due to the major changes introduced
A full 30days WG ballot will be performed to accommodate sufficient review of the many major changes and to ensure consistency across the specification.
Next WG ballot should close just before May interim to allow for comment resolution at the interim meeting in Pittsburgh
Conference calls until Jul 2018 F2F
Agreed to run 3 conference calls on March 20, April 3 and April 13 for preparation of the D2.0 draft
Further calls after Pittsburgh interim announced on mailing list with 10days notice.
Motion slide prepared (attached) for approval by the closing plenary.

19. Business #6 Status report to IEEE 802 WGs Next meeting AOB
Status report drafted by chair and reviewed by group. Agreed report uploaded to mentor.
Next meeting
Conference call on March 20th, 09:30AM ET
AOB
A final check of the status of D1.0 comment resolution was performed: no further open issues than the well-known opens were detected.
Meeting adjourned by chair at 15:00.

20. Motion: Conference calls
Approve OmniRAN TG conference calls:
March 20th, 09:30 AM ET, 90mins
April 3rd, 09:30 AM ET, 90mins
April 13th, 09:30 AM ET, 90mins
Between the May 2018 interim and the July 2018 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: Walter Pienciak