1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG February 7th , 2017 Conference Call
Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs
(TG Chair)

2. Conference Call Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 at 09:30-11:00am ET
September 2012
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Conference Call
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 at 09:30-11:00am ET
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Stephen McCann, RIM

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation
September 2012
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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
Clint Chaplin, Chair (Samsung)

8. Agenda proposal Review of minutes Reports
September 2012
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Agenda proposal
Review of minutes
Atlanta F2F minutes
Jan 31st Confcall minutes
Reports
ICAID conclusions and going forward
Resolution of editorial issues of P802.1CF D0.4
Plans for the Mar '17 Vancouver meeting
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

9. Business#1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call
Meeting called to order by chair at 09:32 AM ET
Minutes taker:
Walter is taking notes
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia
Walter Pienciak
IEEE SA
Wang Hao
Fujitsu

10. 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 brought up.

11. Agenda Review of minutes Reports ICAID conclusions and going forward
September 2012
doc.: IEEE /0996r3
Agenda
Review of minutes
Atlanta F2F minutes
Jan 31st Confcall minutes
Reports ?
ICAID conclusions and going forward
Resolution of editorial issues of P802.1CF D0.4
Draft 0.4 presented by Walter
Plans for the Mar '17 Vancouver meeting
Last slides in this document
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

12. Business #2 Review of minutes Atlanta F2F minutes
Jan 31st Confcall minutes
Chair announced availability of the minutes for both the Atlanta F2F, as well as the Jan 31st conference call. As only a few participant are on the call, he will bring up the minutes again at the Vancouver F2F.
When asking, no comments were raised.

13. Business #3 Reports ICAID conclusions and going forward
Chair reported about the status of the P802.1CF action item in the IETF-IEEE802 leadership call. Information was provided prior to the call to Pat Thaler and Dan Romascanu that access to the draft document was enabled to IETF through presentation in the Nov 2016 IETF meeting and providing links to get access to the document.
No information available whether access was requested and granted to anyone in IETF. The minutes of the call mention that IETF leaders will be triggered to share the possibility for access more widely.
ICAID conclusions and going forward
Max provided a short update on the status and plans of ICAID. The ICAID was finalized in the call on January 31st finally also setting the name to ‘IEEE 802 network enhancements for the next decade’.
It is now the turn of Glenn Parsons to inform the EC about the request to approve the ICAID at the March plenary, and to pre-submit the ICAID to the Iccom to be on the agenda for the next meeting on March 21st.
The ICAID further requires the approval of the working group. Max will present the ICAID at the opening plenary supported by a couple of slides, and will ask for approval. As ICAID is like setting up a study group, simple majority approvals are sufficient.

14. Business #4 Resolution of editorial issues of P802.1CF D0.4
The fresh preliminary Draft 0.4 document was presented by Walter, and he went through the document asking for clarifications for the roughly 10 locations, where some text smithing was necessary.
The group jointly created remedies during the call. Hao Wang made also reference to an , he send on Jan 24th to Walter and the chair, proposing enhancements for a few editorial issues.
Walter explained, that the landscape orientation for some of the tables is pending due to missing guidance from the IEEE professional editors.
Max introduced the modified figure 58, to address the note captured at the Atlanta meeting. The new figure resolves the issues and allows for the note to be removed.
Walter will complete the editing process in the next couple of days and will upload the D0.4 to the drafts archive.
As agreed in the Atlanta meeting, Max will then announce the TG ballot recirculation on the mailing list with submission deadline of March 9th.

15. Business #5 Agenda for the upcoming F2F meeting AOB
Next F2F meeting in Vancouver, CA-BC on March 13th -17th, 2017
Agenda proposal and session graphics on next two slides
The chair presented the agenda graphics explaining that a total of 5 meeting slots is planned for OmniRAN. The allocated meeting time might be sufficient to address the comments received on D0.5, as the documents matures and only a limited number of comments are expected.
When explaining the agenda proposal, the chair mentioned that going forward with the WG ballot would be a valid option for P802.1CF-D0.5.
The group agreed with both, the planned allocation of meeting slots as well as with the draft agenda.
AOB
Walter asked about the meeting locations for the OmniRAN TG interims in May and September. Max explained that the chair would prefer to meet together with the groups in Stuttgart and St. John’s, respectively, to enable better interactions with the participants in the other TGs for achieving involvement and finally a high approval rate in the upcoming WG balloting phase.
Meeting adjourned by chair at 10:37AM ET.

16. Mar 2017 Agenda Graphics Mon 3/13 Tue 3/14 Wed 3/015 Thu 3/16 Fri 3/17
08:00
10:00
802 EC Opening
WNG
ARC
Closing
10:30
12:30
802.1 Opening Plenary
802.11/ Mid-week Plenaries
OmniRAN closing
802 EC Closing
13:30
15:30
802.1 Closing Plenary
16:00
18:00
OmniRAN opening
OmniRAN
ICAID Special Session
Newcomers Intro
Joint 802.1/802.15
Privacy Open Mtg

17. Agenda proposal for March 2017 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
Industry Connections activity
Comments’ resolution on P802.1CF-D0.4
Revised and new P802.1CF contributions
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.5 draft
Conference calls until Jul F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB