1. IEEE 802.18 RR-TAG Teleconference Agenda
Month Year
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21 March 2019
IEEE RR-TAG Teleconference Agenda
Date: 21 March 19
Authors:
Jay Holcomb (Itron)
John Doe, Some Company

2. Call to Order / Administrative Items
21 March 2019
Call to Order / Administrative Items
Officers for the RR-TAG / IEEE :
Chair is Jay Holcomb (Itron)
Vice-chair, looking for someone
Secretary, looking for someone
Voters: 44 (9 on EC); Nearly Voters: 0; Aspirant members: 14 (into the Plenary)
A quorum is met since this meeting was announced more then 45 days ago.
IEEE 802 Required notices:
Affiliation FAQ -
> Be sure to announce you name, affiliation, employer and clients the first time you speak.
Anti-Trust FAQ -
Ethics -
IEEE 802 WG Policies and Procedures -
The 4 administration slides, reminder from your WG opening plenary  new 02jan18
(note: call for essential patents is n/a, as the RR-TAG does not do standards)
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

3. Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings
September 2016
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21 March 2019
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
Jay Holcomb (Itron) 3
Dorothy Stanley (HP Enterprise)

4. Participation in IEEE 802 Meetings
21 March 2019
Participation in IEEE 802 Meetings
Participation in any IEEE 802 meeting (Sponsor, Sponsor subgroup, Working Group, Working Group subgroup, etc.) 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”. (subclause “Establishment”, of the IEEE 802 LMSC Working Group Policies and Procedures)
Participants have an obligation to act and vote as an individual and not under the direction of any other individual or group. A Participant’s obligation to act and vote as an individual applies in all cases, regardless of any external commitments, agreements, contracts, or orders.
Participants 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 the IEEE 802 LMSC Working Group Policies and Procedures, subclause “Chair”, 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. (and please leave the call or meeting.)
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

5. Agenda for teleconference
21 March 2019
Agenda for teleconference
Call to Order
Attendance server is open
Administrative items
Need a recording secretary, Peter E.
Approve agenda & last minutes
looking for an Vice-Chair.
Discussion items
EU Items
Ofcom Consultation on enabling opportunities for innovation,
NPRM Expanding Broadband to the 896 / 935 MHz PLMR Band
General Discussion Items
Actions required
Ofcom Consultation
FCC NPRM at 895/935
Anything new today
AOB and Adjourn
Discussion items, few more details:
EU Items
General items, ETSI, CEPT, etc.
Ofcom Consultation on enabling opportunities for innovation,
Includes MHz
NPRM Expanding Broadband to the 896 / 935 MHz PLMR Band
Adjacent to MHz
General discussion items:
Amendment for Japan’s Regulations for Radio Equipment
FCC NPRM , 6 GHz
E911 location accuracy
TVWS location accuracy
Agenda
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

6. Administrative – Motions and more
21 March 2019
Administrative – Motions and more
Motion: To approve the agenda as presented on previous slide
Moved by: Peter
Seconded by: Vijay
Discussion? None
Vote: Unanimous consent
Motion: To approve the minutes from the IEEE teleconference 07 March 2019 in document: rrtag-teleconference.docx Posted: 09-Mar :14:34 ET
Seconded by: Jay
RR-TAG is in need of a vice-chair and secretary, is there anyone that can help? ________
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

7. EU items to share -1 21 March 2019
General EU info: <ojeu> <HStds>
ETSI – <BRAN> next meeting #102, June, Sophia Antipolis ,
Nothing of note this week
ETSI - ERM - <TG-11> next meeting #55, June, Sophia Antipolis
There is a new WI coming up, an SR Doc for the 2.4 GHz band for a new Harmonized Standard.
Need to watch this one.
ETSI – ERM - <TG-UWB> next meeting #49, May, Leinfelden DE
Nothing of note today.
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

8. EU items to share -2 21 March 2019 CEPT – ECC <SE24>
Month Year
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21 March 2019
EU items to share -2
CEPT – ECC <SE24>
Nothing of note this week.
CEPT – ECC <SE45> next meeting #7, Apr, Copenhagen 
Public consultation ECC Report 302 is in process, its due date confirmed to be 01 April
CEPT – ECC <FM57> next meetings #6, 26 Apr, Copenhagen and #7, May, Copenhagen
Work was generally positive and kept fact based.
Much of the meeting was focused on merging 4 contributions from Germany, France, WFA and SES/Intelsat keeping in mind guidance from WGFM.
There was some agreement on the technical feasibility for Very Low Power, Low Power Indoor and High Power Outdoor and is detailed in the updated Executive Summary however further work needed on Report A and later in Report B.
The section on Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) still needs further work at later meetings when more information will be available from CEPT Report 71 and consultation feedback on draft ECC Report 302.
Link to a snapshot of ECC report 302 that results of consultation will be reviewed at the FM57 meeting 26 April.
Watch for updates on the CEPT website.
There are sections on RLAN, e.g. w/duty cycle items …, all should look at these.
Document TEMP 006 will be on server soon with details and results of the meeting.
Jay Holcomb (Itron)
John Doe, Some Company

9. Ofcom_Enabling-opportunities-for-innovation_2.4 GHz
21 March 2019
Ofcom_Enabling-opportunities-for-innovation_2.4 GHz
OFCOM asked the industry to respond to:
Response were due by March 12th, completed using  consultation responses form (RTF, 1.5 MB).
The MHz discussion starts around page 35
Handsets 23 dBm, base stations to 42 dBm, some other IOT considerations
Annex 6. Interference risk assessment in 2300 MHz shared spectrum, page 103.
Question 19: (Section 8) Do you have any other comments on our proposal?
1) We are in an adjacent channel and we question analysis in Annex 6.
2) e.g. need to consider .11ax is coming
3) The receive performance that Ofcom pushed for is going to be a problem.
4) Should speak to Zigbee and g ….
5) BT is there also.
6) Need to consider economic value of bottom of 2.4 GHz band / channel 1.
7) Added this week, why tie this 10 MHz to this opportunity?
Chair has some text to start discussions with. It will be uploaded to Mentor in the next few days, for all to review and feedback inputs.
Take away on timing: let’s get some points together and filing sooner is better than depth on the points.
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

10. FCC NPRM Expanding Broadband to the 896/935 MHz pair
21 March 2019
FCC NPRM Expanding Broadband to the 896/935 MHz pair
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes to reconfigure the 900 MHz band to create a broadband segment to facilitate technologies and services for a wide variety of businesses, including critical infrastructure, as well as seek comment on various transition mechanisms to achieve this goal. (WT Docket No )
Final: broadband-to mhz.pdf < r01 is the highlighted version)>
The proceeding: &sort=date_disseminated,DESC
This is for the / MHz land mobile licenses band today.
Some want the FCC to reorganize spectrum so they can have 3 MHz paired for private LTE, moving existing LMR users elsewhere.
and both have standards in between this pair, as well as all the road tolling is also in between.
We will look further and maybe do comments and review in upcoming teleconferences. No deadlines are set just yet.
Today: Would we need to focus on the ‘use’ of the band in recent years, since the rules have been higher power in this band all along.
To-do: 1. Look at the other filings 2. Compare power levels from today’s rules.
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

11. General Discussion Items
21 March 2019
General Discussion Items
Amendment for Japan’s Regulations for Radio Equipment
Japan needs to improve efficiency of Wireless LAN (WLAN) connections, considering the current increased traffic of the mobile communications in Japan. To meet these demands, Japan will arrange the technical regulations of the WLAN System for the expansion of use the WLAN system with IEEE ax support.
See: proposed-amendment-to-ministerial-ordinance.pdf
FCC NPRM , 6 GHz
Comments in: &sort=date_disseminated,DESC
Anything to share this week: Looks like AFC is on the way.
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

12. General Discussion Items
21 March 2019
General Discussion Items
E911 location accuracy
Mobile service part 20, for accuracy in height, +/- 3 meters
TVWS location accuracy
Dropping down to more accurate reporting.
Key is the trend is for more accuracy where ever.
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

13. Actions Required 21 March 2019
Review and feedback inputs on Ofcom Consultation comments.
Continue to review FCC NPRM for possible IEEE 802 comments and look at what is in the filing and on the record and compare power in the rules today and proposed.
Info:
Latest Cisco VNI networking trends, updated 21Feb vni/white-paper-c pdf
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

14. 21 March 2019
Any Other Business
None
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

15. 21 March 2019
Adjourn
Next teleconference: 28 Mar 2019 – 15:00 – <15:55 ET
Call in info: teleconference-call-in-info.pptx (or latest)
Note: If the call-in link doesn’t work send the Chair an right away.
All changes/cancellations will be sent out to the list server.
Adjourn:
Agenda complete, any objection to Adjourn.
None heard, we are Adjourned at 15:53 ET
The next face to face meeting of the RR-TAG will be at the IEEE 802, – 16 Wireless Interim in Atlanta, GA, USA at the Grand Hyatt in Buckhead
Time slots, Tuesday AM2 and Thursday AM1
Thank You
Jay Holcomb (Itron)

16. Thank You Back up and/or previous slides follow 21 March 2019
Jay Holcomb (Itron)