1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG April 3rd , 2018 Conference Call
Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs
(TG Chair)

2. Conference Call Tuesday, April 3rd , 2018 at 09:30-11:00am ET
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Conference Call
Tuesday, April 3rd , 2018 at 09:30-11:00am ET
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Stephen McCann, RIM

3. Agenda proposal Minutes Reports P802.1CF-D1.0 comment resolution
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Agenda proposal
Minutes
Reports
P802.1CF-D1.0 comment resolution
Open issues of implementation of remedies
Review and completion of documentation of proposed disposition
Review of revisions of clauses 7.1, 7.7, 7.8, and 8.1
Review of smaller textual amendments
Clarification of implementation of CID 9
Process of swapping figures to .svg
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 09:32 AM 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
self
Antonio de la Oliva
UC3M

10. Agenda Minutes Reports P802.1CF-D1.0 comment resolution Next meeting
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Agenda
Minutes
Reports
P802.1CF-D1.0 comment resolution
Review of open comments
Open issues of implementation of remedies
Review and completion of documentation of proposed disposition
Review of revisions of clauses 7.1, 7.7, 7.8, and 8.1
Review of smaller textual amendments
Clarification of implementation of CID 9
Process of swapping figures to .svg
Next meeting
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

11. Business #2 Minutes Reports
Acceptance postponed to the next F2F
Reports
Max informed about conference call for transfer of P802.1CQ into OmniRAN TG on March 28th
.1CQ discussions will continue at the Pittsburgh interim meeting.
Antonio asked for scheduling the discussions on May 21st in the morning to allow him to remotely participate
Walter informed that he was let go from IEEE on March 29th after 25years of service. He is willing to continue as editor of P802.1CF and bring the specification to completion, but he may not be able anymore to attend F2F meetings. Walter can now be reached at
Max thanked Walter very much for the willingness to continue as editor of P802.1CF and offered to organize the remaining work to enable remote participation for all the final work.
The chair emphasized that he would continue according to the established plan, i.e. run another WG ballot starting on April 19th with a closing date right before the May F2F in Pittsburgh.

12. Business #3 Review of open comments and action plan
Open comments were reviewed. In addition to the comments related to the information model, there is still CID 70 of Paul Congdon listed, requiring to provide content for clause 4. Conformance.
To check how other IEEE 802 recommended practices handled conformance statements, the chair asked for references. Hao pointed to IEEE and IEEE , which both do not have such clause.
The group agreed to follow the examples of IEEE and completely remove clause 4 from the specification. The chair will set the status of CID 70 to revised explaining the proposed solution. In addition to removing clause 4, all occurrences of ‘shall’ statements will be rephrased to avoid comments regarding the use of ‘shall’ in recommended practices.
Open issues of implementation of remedies
Nothing brought up. Walter has to re-establish his FrameMaker environment to be able to continue the implementation of remedies.
Documentation of proposed disposition
The Java database in a shared DropBox folder works fine with both, the chair and the editor being able to access and amend.
Review of revisions of clauses 7.1, 7.7, 7.8, and 8.1
Agreed to include proposal into next revision. Remaining comments addressed according to new chapter 8.1
Result code of link establishment may require amendment to attributes of that section.

13. Business #4 Review of smaller textual amendments
CID 9: s/flow/stream only in very few locations
Change was introduced in editorial session in Rosemont F2F
Remaining textual adjustments to align functional description to revised information model will be prepared by Max and Hao. Max will identify necessary modifications in clause 7.1 and clause 7.3, while Hao will address clause 7.7 and 7.8
Plan for swapping to searchable figures (.svg)
Once Walter has re-established his FrameMaker work environment, the .png figures should be swapped to searchable .svg figures.
Max and Hao to prepare .svg files of their figures. Hao will provide the .svg figures of clause 8.1 Information model
Next meeting
Conference call on April 13th , 09:30 – 11:00 AM ET for review of the draft D2.0
Max will invite Walter for a call to clarify all remaining editorial amendments to the specification when Walter has re-established his working environment.
AoB
Hao offered to step in as editor in the case that Walter could not continue. The chair thanked Hao but expressed that the highly preferred solution would be to complete 802.1CF together with Walter to avoid bigger delays.
Adjourned by chair at 10:50 AM ET