1. Company Address Phone email
Author’s Name
Company
Address
Phone
Oliver Holland
King’s College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
00 44 (0)
Document Title: Washington Meeting 2013, Closing Report
Document Date: 10 Jan 2013
Document No.: DCN sc MTNG
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2. Progress in Meeting
received a number of comments in its sponsor ballot process which are related to normative parts of terms/definitions of the other 1900.X WGs
can’t make changes in response to such comments so had to reject the comments for procedural reasons
Must be consistent with the terms and definitions of the other 1900.X WGs
Cannot change the other WGs terms/definitions on their behalf
In this meeting, has reviewed all of these comments and has developed an Excel sheet with suggested recommendations to be sent to the affected 1900.X WGs’ Chairs: , , and
Proposes IEEE DySPAN-SC to establish suitable procedures for such updates forwarded by to other WGs to be considered during their respective amendment/revision processes. This should be done at the DySPAN-SC level, not by

3. Progress in Meeting
Has reviewed the PAR and (more quickly so) the 5C for the revision
Has maintained agreement on the topics that are considered in the PAR
Discussed duration of the project, and agreed that default duration assumption (4 years) remains appropriate
Has approved the PAR for submission to DySPAN-SC for consideration of submission to NESCOM
Needs to submit by 24 January to meet the NESCOM deadline for inclusion in their March meeting, hence submission to NESCOM must be approved by DySPAN-SC during this meeting

4. Meeting Schedule Web conferences (GoToMeeting)
Thu , 05:00hrs UTC (non-committal proposal/placeholder only)
Thu , 13:00hrs UTC (non-committal proposal/placeholder only)
Thu , 21:00hrs UTC (non-committal proposal/placeholder only)
Face-to-face meeting schedule
or , KCL (tentative), or NICT (tentative)
As decided in the DySPAN-SC Plenary

5. Membership After this meeting, voting membership is as follows
Bernd Bochow
Michael Gundlach
Oliver Holland
Darcy Swain-Walsh
Masayuki Ariyoshi
Venkatesha Prasad
Gained membership
None
Lost membership
Lee Pucker
Dongming Li

6. Attachment 1: Straw Polls and Motions

7. Straw poll (1/3) Straw poll 1: to approve the Agenda Result
Approve: Oliver, Michael, Darcy, Stanislav, Hoang
Disapprove: None
Abstain: None

8. Straw poll (2/3)
Motion 2: to approve the Minutes of the Conference Call on December 06, 2012 ( )
Deferred as a motion to next meeting at which we have quorum, as opposed to holding straw poll here

9. Straw poll (3/3)
Straw poll 3: Do you approve of DCN r0 being sent by the Chair to other 1900.x WG Chairs as feedback from the a sponsor ballot process. Other 1900.x Chairs should consider possible changes to their terms and definitions based on this feedback
Yes: Michael, Darcy, Stanislav, Oliver
No: None
Abstain: None

10. Motion 1/3
Approve of DCN r0 for submission to DySPAN-SC as the revision PAR
Moved: Darcy
Seconded: Lee
Approve: 4
Disapprove: 0
Abstain: 0

11. Motion 2/3
Approve meeting schedule as shown in slide 21 of DCN r1
Moved: Lee
Seconded: Darcy
Approve: 4
Disapprove: 0
Abstain: 0

12. Motion 3/3
To cancel Thursday’s and Friday’s sessions of this meeting, and adjourn
Moved: Darcy
Seconded: Michael
Approve: 3
Disapprove: 0
Abstain: 1