1. 802.21 Liaison Report Date: 2008-01-16 Author: Jan 2008 Month Year
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Liaison Report
Date:
Author:
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David Hunter, Panasonic

2. 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH)
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Media Independent Handover (MIH)
Charter
Develop standards to enable handover and interoperability between heterogeneous networks, including both 802 and non-802 networks
Transition glue between and other network technologies
Including: 802.3, , cellular
Overview
Introductory tutorial from July 2006 IEEE 802 plenary session
Planning new tutorials for March 2008 IEEE 802 plenary session
Security
DVB
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David Hunter, Panasonic

3. P802.21 Sponsor Ballot Progress
Jan 2008
P Sponsor Ballot Progress
Initial Sponsor Ballot Aug 2007
165 Sponsor Members
Much larger than WG (currently 73 WG voters)
Ballot Progress
Initial SB completed Sept 2007; 62% approval; 650 comments
Second SB completed Dec 2007; 83% approval; 330 comments
Comments
170 editorial / 160 technical comments
After December ad-hoc and this week’s meeting, only 15 remain
21 disapprove voters – 9 of which are outside the WG
During this session 4 external have changed their votes to approve
Negative voters inside the WG will be polled tomorrow
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4. 802.21 Internal Current Tasks
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Internal Current Tasks
Recirculation Sponsor Ballot
Probably day recirc on Draft D9.0 in January-February
Ad-Hoc meeting scheduled at end of February, probably Bay Area
Work on PARs for Amendments to
Security Signaling Study Group
Chair: Yoshiro Ohba (Toshiba)
Expected to become TG in March (SG PAR meeting this afternoon)
New DVB Study Group forming this week
Chair: to be elected
May become TG in March (PAR is pretty clear)
Multi-Radio Power Conservation Management Study Group
Chair: Behcet Sarikaya (Huawei)
Expected to become TG in March or July (SG PAR mtg tomorrow)
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David Hunter, Panasonic

5. 802.21 Standards Interfaces Jan 2008 Month Year
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Standards Interfaces
802.1
Comments indicated a number of issues with LinkSec group
and have a joint teleconference this evening  NOTE
802.11u
and TGu coordinated joint meeting this morning
802.11u is still providing excellent support of MIH
Resolving Sponsor Ballot comments asking for even more integration of .11 functionality
One complication: how can refer to u functions when u is not even in Sponsor Ballot yet
Suggestions of informative appendices, possible amendment to , etc.
802.16
Working closely with m
3GPP
3GPP SA2 and RAN both working with
The Information Server (IS) model is now part of the 3GPP architecture
3GPP completed document TR that includes interface
Current proposal (this week) in 3GPP SA2 to use MIH as primary interface for WiMAX – 3GPP handovers
work item phase this year
DVB
New SG likely to form after this session
IMT Advanced
November 2007: submitted requirements to ITU through
IETF MIPSHOP
MIH Problem Statement draft has been approved as an Informational RFC (number TBD)
MIH Solutions draft has been adopted as a MIPSHOP WG draft; perhaps last call in June meeting
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David Hunter, Panasonic

6. P802.21 Current State and Timeline
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P Current State and Timeline
Initial Sponsor Ballot completed Sept 2007
Second Sponsor Ballot completed Dec 2007
Third Sponsor Ballot probably completed Feb 2008
Depending on comments in the third SB, *possible* to Submit to RevCom after March 2008 LMSC
Key: is close to finishing
So get your comments in during the next Sponsor Ballot
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David Hunter, Panasonic

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