1. IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG December 13th , 2016 Conference Call
Max Riegel, Nokia BellLabs
(TG Chair)

2. Conference Call Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 at 09:30-11:00am ET
September 2012
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Conference Call
Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 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. Comment resolution of 802.1CF-D0.3
September 2012
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Agenda proposal
Review of minutes
San Antonio F2F minutes
Reports
Comment resolution of 802.1CF-D0.3
New or revised contributions to 802.1CF
Plans for the Jan '17 Atlanta meeting
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

9. Business#1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call
Meeting called to order by chair at 09:37 AM ET
Minutes taker:
Hao Wang is taking notes
Roll Call
Name
Affiliation
Max Riegel
Nokia
Walter Pienciak
IEEE SA
Wang Hao
Fujitsu
Antonio de la Oliva
UC3M
Su Yi

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 Comment resolution of 802.1CF-D0.3
September 2012
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Agenda
Review of minutes
San Antonio F2F minutes
Reports
Comment resolution of 802.1CF-D0.3
New or revised contributions to 802.1CF
Plans for the Jan '17 Atlanta meeting
Schedules, agenda
AoB
Stephen McCann, RIM

12. Business #2
To accommodate the time restrictions of Antonio, the meeting directly stepped into discussion of the revised text on SDN and into the comment resolution of the open comments on chapter 8.1 on SDN.
The following agenda items were skipped and will be covered in the upcoming meeting.
Review of minutes
San Antonio F2F minutes
Reports
OmniRAN 5G status and plans
External review of P802.1CF
IETF-97 feedback
Other reports

13. Business #3 New or revised contributions to 802.1CF
The edits of Antonio addressing the comments on D0.2 were reviewed and confirmed.
Comment resolution of 802.1CF-D0.3
Results of the comment resolution are captured in an revision of the spreadsheet
Antonio offered to provide a new revision of the SDN specification text addressing the resolved comments for the next F2F meeting in January.

14. Business #4 New or revised contributions to 802.1CF
Hao Wang presented his slides explaining the functional content of af and for operation in TVWS (shared spectrum).
802.11af contains a subset of the functions of on top of default behavior.
Spectrum sensing is specific to ; af does not comprise such functions.
There was consensus that revised chapter 7.1 should mainly focus on af and Full coverage of seems not to be necessary and might be left to a contribution of an expert.
Max announce to submit the restructured text of section 7.1 before end of the year to enable the creation of submissions of revised text for the upcoming F2F meeting.

15. Business #5 Agenda for the upcoming F2F meeting AOB
Atlanta, GA on January 16th -19th, 2017
Agenda proposal and session graphics on next two slides
Schedules and agenda topics were reviewed and accepted without any modifications.
AOB
Hao Wang asked about the approval of the ICAID by the closing plenary at the January meeting.
The chair explained that there are no plenary sessions at the interim meetings. However there is already approval by that the chair can forward the draft ICAID to the EC for considerations.
Hao Wang reported about the discussions in the ARC conference call the day before. ARC considers to create YANG models of the MIB, but received concerns of the participants.
Max offered to re-arrange the OmniRAN sessions in the January meeting to allow OmniRAN participants to attend the ARC sessions.
Meeting adjourned by chair at 11:01AM ET

16. Jan 2017 Agenda Graphics Mon 1/16 Tue 1/17 Wed 1/18 Thu 1/19 Fri 1/20
08:00
10:00
WNG
ARC
Closing
10:30
12:30
802.11/ Opening plenaries
802.11AANI
802.11/ Mid-week Plenaries
OmniRAN closing
13:30
15:30
OmniRAN opening
16:00
18:00
OmniRAN
5G Special Session
Newcomer’s session

17. Agenda proposal for January 2017 F2F
Review of minutes
Reports
Contributions to Industry Connections activity
Comments’ resolution on P802.1CF-D0.3
Revised and new P802.1CF contributions
Contributions proposing new content
Plan for 802.1CF-D0.4 draft
Plan and timeline for next revision
Conference calls until Mar F2F
Status report to IEEE 802 WGs
AOB