1. TGaq Agenda Date: 2015-05-11 Authors: May 2015 May 2015
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TGaq Agenda
Date:
Authors:
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Abstract
Agenda for TGaq Pre-Association Discovery meeting for May 2015, Vancouver, Canada
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3. Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30 Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
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Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30
Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
Call Meeting to Order
Chair’s welcome
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4. Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform
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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
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5. Patent Related Links Patent Policy is stated in these sources:
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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
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6. Call for Potentially Essential Patents
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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
Slide #3
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7. Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings
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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.
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8. Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
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Resources – URLs
Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines
Link to IEEE Code of Ethics
Link to IEEE Patent Policy
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9. IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization
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Meeting Etiquette
IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization
Meetings are to be conducted in an orderly and professional manner in accordance with the policies and procedures governed by the organization.
Individuals are to address the “Technical” content of the subject under consideration and refrain from making “personal” comments to or about the presenter.
The Copyright Act of 1976 made a dramatic change to U.S. copyright law. Copyright was now deemed to exist from the moment of creation. Thus anything that is created is deemed to be owned by its creator. Additionally, a work no longer needs to be published in order to be protected. Therefore, even your scribbles on a piece of note paper constitute copyrighted material that you own and control.
The NII (National Information Infrastructure) and the GII (Global Information Infrastructure) are causing lawmakers and copyright owners to assess the ability of current copyright law to protect owners rights in a digital environment. While at this point the changes being talked about are not significant, they will make it clear that copyright protection is afforded to owners in the digital environment making it a requirement to honor the rights accorded to owners.
It is a requirement under the IEEE Bylaws that copyright ownership of all material published by the IEEE resides with the IEEE. The Standards Department accomplishes the transfer of copyright ownership from the volunteer authors to the Institute via the Project Authorization Request (PAR) form.
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10. Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30 Approve Agenda Secretary Position
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Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30
Approve Agenda
r3 (this document)
Secretary Position
March 2015 Minutes
Teleconference March – May 2015 Minutes
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11. May 2015
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Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30
Re-present closing report from March 2015
Documentation Re-cap/Editor’s Report
Schedule and next steps
D1.1 Editorial comments from March 2015
D1.2 Approved technical comments form March 2015
Editorials which are now technical (321r6)
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12. Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30 Letter Ballot Presentations
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Monday 11 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
Presentations
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

13. Monday 11 May 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
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Monday 11 May 2015, 16:00 – 18:00
Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
Presentations
Clause [SK]
Clause [SK]
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

14. Tuesday 12 May 2015, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
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Tuesday 12 May 2015, 08:00 – 10:00
Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
Presentations
r1 (Clause )
Editorial comment resolutions [Dan]
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

15. Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
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Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00 – 18:00
Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
Wednesday AM1 chair
Ad-Hoc meeting [Dan]
Discussion about an ad-hoc before the July 2015 meeting
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
Presentations
r0 (Clause )
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

16. Wednesday 13 May 2015, 08:00 – 10:00 Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
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Wednesday 13 May 2015, 08:00 – 10:00
Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
Presentations
r0 (Clauses , , and )
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

17. Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30 Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
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Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30
Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
Extra TGaq session (Thurs PM1)
Ad-Hoc
Presentation
r1 [Donald]
Motions on documents r4 r1 r1
Comment Resolution
r0, r3
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

18. Thursday 14 May 2015, 10:30 – 12:30 Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
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Thursday 14 May 2015, 10:30 – 12:30
Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
ULP encapsulation r0
Motion
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
“Vancouver ” tab motion
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

19. Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30 Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
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Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:30 – 15:30
Room: Balmoral, 3rd Floor
Ad-Hoc straw polls
Letter Ballot
Continuation of analysis of comments from D1.0 letter ballot
Presentations
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

20. Thursday 14 May 2015, 16:00 – 18:00 Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
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Thursday 14 May 2015, 16:00 – 18:00
Room: Regency B, 3rd Floor
Teleconference(s)
22, 29 May, 6, 19, 26 June 12:00 noon ET for 1.5 hour
Motions
Presentations
Timeline update (see next slide)
Preparation for July 2015 Plenary
Room/Slot Allocation – 10 slots, room for 30
AOB
Adjourn
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Stephen McCann, BlackBerry

21. Timeline – May 2015 (update)
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Timeline – May 2015 (update)
Approval of PAR & 5C: November 2012
Initial TG meeting: March 2013
Initial Working Group Letter Ballot: March 2015
Re-circulation Working Group Letter Ballot: July 2015
Form Sponsor Ballot Pool: November 2015
Mandatory Editorial Check: November 2015
Initial Sponsor Ballot: January 2016
Sponsor Ballot Recirculation: May 2016
Final WG/EC Approval: November 2016
RevCom/Standards Board Approval: November 2016
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22. May 2015
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Motion
Move to authorise a TGaq ad-hoc on Sunday July in Waikoloa, Hawai‘i, for the purposes of comment resolution preparation.
Moved: Dan Gal
2nd: Yunsong Yang
Y: 3, N: 0, A: 2
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