1. 2017-09-05 Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs (TG Chair)
IEEE OmniRAN TG September 2017 F2F Meeting St. John’s, NL, Canada
Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs
(TG Chair)

2. Sep 2017 F2F Meeting Venue: Sessions:
Murray Premises Hotel 5 Beck's Cove St. John's, NL, Canada
Sessions:
Tue, May 15th, 13:30-16:00
Meeting room: Gypsy Room
Wed, May 16th, 13:30-18:00
Thu, May 17th, 13:30-16:00
Editorial sessions: Tue, Wed, Thu: 09:00-12:30

3. Agenda proposal for Sep 2017 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6
New content for P802.1CF
Chapter 7.9 Information Model
Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN
Other amendments
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft
IC NEND contributions review
Conference calls until Nov F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

4. Sep 2017 Agenda Graphics Mon 9/4 Tue 9/5 Wed 9/6 Thu 9/7 Fri 9/8 08:00
10:00
Labor Day
P802.1CF
editorial session
P802.1CF editorial session
10:30
12:30
13:30
15:30
OmniRAN opening
Joint TSN & OmniRAN session
OmniRAN closing
16:00
18:00
Social Cabot Tower
Reception

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

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. 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, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings.
Technical considerations remain 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.
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.

10. 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)

11. Business #1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call
Chair called meeting to order at 13:30
Minutes taker:
Hao is taking notes.
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia Networks
Nader Zein
NEC
Hao Wang
Fujitsu
Yonggang Fang
ZTE TX
Hajime Koto
NICT
Tomoki Ohsawa
Walter Pienciak
IEEE
Paul Nicolich
IEEE 802
Satoko Itaya
Kenichi Maruhashi
Fumihide Kojima

12. 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 was brought up.

13. Sep 2017 F2F agenda Review of minutes Reports
Reports
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6
New content for P802.1CF
Chapter 7.9 Information Model
Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN
Pending: Chapter 7.5 & 7.6 text amendment
Other amendments
Pending: <<Hao>>
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft
IC NEND contributions review
No contributions for this meeting
Conference calls until Nov F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

14. Schedules Tue Wed Thu Review of minutes Reports
Reports
Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN
Wed
Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6
Chapter 7.9 Information Model
Other amendments
Pending: <<Hao>>
Thu
Pending: Chapter 7.5 & 7.6 text amendment
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft
Conference calls until Nov F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB

15. Business #2 Review of minutes Reports
No issues raised.
Walter appreciated that in the minutes not only plain decisions are kept, but also the essential flow of the discussions.
Reports
New IEEE website
OmniRAN content up-to-date, but no official release announced yet.
Max will maintain for time being both OmniRAN websites
Creation of D0.6 was delayed, however document will be used as base for internal editorial clean-up and further amendments
Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN
Max presented his slides in preparation of the joint TSN-OmniRAN meeting on Wednesday, 13:30. When comparing the configuration and control models,
Hao pointed out that even the fully distributed configuration model could be represented through the NRM. As OmniRAN is mainly about centrailized access network control, it was agreed to focus on the centralized models in the joint meeting on Wednesday.
The QoS and policy control architecture of OmniRAN provides additional functionality compared to the two centralized TSN configuration models. The additional capabilities of the OmniRAN architecture should be brought up in the joint meeting to retrieve feedback about the potential acceptance by TSN.
Max lined out the compact slideset he would create for the joint meeting explaining hardly anything about TSN architecture but providing much more background on P802.1CF NRM capabilities and options.

16. Business #3 Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6
Chapter 7.9 Information Model
Other amendments ??
IC NEND contributions review

17. Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft
Business #4
Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN
Pending: Chapter 7.5 & 7.6 text amendment
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft
Conference calls until Nov F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB