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OmniRAN EC SG
Agenda and Meeting Slides
January 2014, Los Angeles, CA
2014-01-21
Max Riegel
NSN
(ECSG Chair)
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Meetings
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Tuesday, Jan 21st,
Tuesday, Jan 21st,
Wednesday, Jan 22nd,
Thursday, Jan 23rd,
10:30 – 12:30
13:30 – 15:30
13:30 – 15:30
10:30 – 12:30
Meeting Room:
• Directors 1+2
Wi-Fi:
SSID: Verilan-secure
WPA2-PSK Password: ieeeieee
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Agenda proposal for Jan 2014 F2F
• Approval of minutes
• Reports
– Summary documentation of OmniRAN
– Report on ONF status and activities
• Outline of the intended specification
– Intentions and tentative ToC
– Technical contributions
– Tenets of IEEE 802 Access Network
• Organization of the work
– Cooperation with the other IEEE 802 WGs
• Liaisons, inbound and outbound
– Operation within IEEE 802.1
• Conference calls until March 2014 session
• Liaison report to IEEE 802 WGs
• AOB
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Guidelines for IEEE-SA Meetings
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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.
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Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches
may be discussed in standards development meetings.
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Technical considerations remain primary focus
Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers,
or division of sales markets.
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Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation.
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Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed… do formally object.
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If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at
patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/index.html
See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation:
What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for
more details.
This slide set is available
at https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.ppt
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Resources – URLs
• Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
– http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html
• Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines
– http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrustguidelines.pdf
• Link to IEEE Code of Ethics
– http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code
_ethics.html
• Link to IEEE Patent Policy
– http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/patslideset.ppt
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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.
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LMSC Operations Manual
4.3 Study groups
4.3.1 Study group operation
Progress of each Study Group shall be presented at the
closing Sponsor meeting of each IEEE 802 LMSC plenary
session by the appropriate WG, TAG, or ECSG Chair. Study
Groups may elect officers other than the Chair, if necessary,
and will follow the general operating procedures for WGs
specified in the IEEE 802 LMSC WG P&P. Because of the
limited time duration of a Study Group, no letter ballots are
permitted.
4.3.2 Voting at study group meetings
Any person attending a Study Group meeting may vote on all
motions (including recommending approval of a PAR). A vote
is carried by 75% of those present and voting “Approve” or
“Disapprove.”
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OmniRAN ECSG
Resources
• Website:
http://www.ieee802.org/OmniRANsg/
• Document Archive on mentor:
https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/documents
• Email reflector:
ecsg-802-omniran@listserv.ieee.org
• Email archive:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/OmniRANsg/email/
• Attendance:
Paper list (normative) + IMAT
– IMAT mandatory for participants seeking attendence
credits
– Reciprocal rights for most WGs
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Business #1
• Call Meeting to Order
– Chair called the meeting to order at 10:30
• Attendance recording
– Done on sign-in paper sheets; IMAT supplementary to gain
reciprocal attendence credit
• Secretary position
– Nobody showed up volunteering for secretary
– Juan Carlos will take minutes
• Approval of agenda
– Agenda approved without objections as amended on following
slide
• Approval of minutes
– https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0097-00ecsg-meeting-minutes-for-nov-2013-dallas-f2f.docx
• Approved without objections
– https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0098-00ecsg-meeting-minutes-december-11th-confcall.docx
• Approved without objections
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Jan 2014 Agenda
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Approval of minutes
Reports
– Summary documentation of OmniRAN
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Outline of the intended specification
– Intentions and tentative ToC
– Technical contributions
– Tenets of IEEE 802 Access Network
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SDN Use Case Topics
– Report on ONF status and activities
– ToC proposal
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Organization of the work
– Cooperation with the other IEEE 802 WGs
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NDS Hands-on example
Liaisons, inbound and outbound
– Operation within IEEE 802.1
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Conference calls until March 2014 session
Liaison report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB
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Jan 2014 Agenda Graphics
Mon 1/20
Tue 1/21
Wed 1/22
08:00
Thu 1/23
Fri 1/24
Wireless SDN BOF
10:00
10:30
OmniRAN Opening
Meeting
• Reports
OmniRAN Closing
Meeting
• Organization within
IEEE 802 & 802.1
12:30
13:30
Technical
Presentations
SDN and relation to
ONF
Slides for SDN BOF
15:30
16:00
18:00
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Business#2
(Tue AM2)
• Reports
– Summary documentation of OmniRAN
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0099-00-0000-briefintroduction-into-omniran-p802-1cf.pptx
– Study group agreed to make the document an ECSG document for reference
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0100-00-0000omniran-results-and-proposals.pptx
– Document should also contain the Wi-Fi roaming use case to show potential
benefits of IEEE 802 attributes on R5
– Author asked to amend document with related material and resubmit document for
final approval
• Outline of the intended specification
– Intentions and tentative ToC
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0004-00-0000-toccomments.pptx
• ToC unfortunately based on old revision; latest revision does not
mention ‘OmniRAN’ anymore
• Author asked to elaborate more on configuration section in particular
addressing the inclusion of IEEE 802.19.1
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Business #3
(Tue PM1)
– Technical contributions
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0002-000000-sdn-based-control-plane-and-data-plane-separation-inomniran-network-reference-model.pptx
• No final agreement on the necessity to spell out separately the
data plane on reference points
• Author asked to provide more details on the dataplane interface
part to allow better justification of providing separate label for
the data path.
– Tenets of IEEE 802 Access Network
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0006-000000-thoughts-about-the-tenets-in-802-1cf.pptx
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0005-000000-examples-for-the-802-1cf-tenets.docx
• Tenets should go into an informative annex; text should be
tweaked to show that statements belong to the development of
the specification.
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Business #4
(Wed PM1)
• SDN Use Case Topics
– Report on ONF status and activities
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0009-000000-onf-wireless-and-mobile-wg-status-update.pptx
• Document clearly explains approach and status of work in ONF
• Roger invited to show this presentation in the SDN BoF on
Thursday morning
– ToC proposal
• https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0007-000000-sdn-use-case-toc.pptx
• Document was revised to capture the outcome of the discussion.
• An amended version was created for presentation of OmniRAN
SDN status in the SDN BoF on Thursday morning.
– https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0011-00-ecsgomniran-update-on-sdn-use-case-for-bof-session.pptx
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Business #5
(Thu AM2)
Organization of the work
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Cooperation with the other IEEE 802 WGs
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Discussion was guided by slideset shown in the EC workshop in November 2013
https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0094-00-ecsg-considerations-for-cooperation-with-802wgs.pptx
Agreement to invite SME from other WGs as agreed with 802.19.1 on Thursday afternoon
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NDS Hands-on example
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Wed, Feb 26th, 10am ET, about 90mins
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https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0008-00-ecsg-omniran-es-sg-liaison-reportjanuary-2014.pptx
Multiple amendments added based of comments received from discussion
Concluded without any objections against presented content
AOB
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Topics: Text for NDS, SDN update, Agenda and plans for Beijing, Update of table of content
Liaison report to IEEE 802 WGs
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Operation as task group following the usual working procedures of 802.1 for balloting
Conference calls until March 2014 session
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Not a generic approach; will be established according to need and possibilities
Operation within IEEE 802.1
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https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0010-00-0000-network-detection-selection-textexample.docx
Text shows composition of sections containing common section and technology specific additions; will be used
for extended technical discussions in the March 2013 session
Liaisons, inbound and outbound
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802.19.1 will create architectural description of 802.19.1 protocol for inclusion into 802.1CF until March
No conclusion yet about location of May interim; either Waikoloa, HI (wireless interim) or Norfolk,
VA (802.1/802.3) depending on need for technical discussions
Adjourned
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