1. ETSI-BRAN #29 Interworking Group Liaison Report to IEEE 802.11 WNG
July 2002
ETSI-BRAN #29 Interworking Group Liaison Report to IEEE WNG
Erwin Noble Philips
Erwin Noble, Philips

2. Issues To Be Resolved Prior To WIG#1
July 2002
Issues To Be Resolved Prior To WIG#1
Meeting sessions
Where, when, and how long
Meeting Fee?
Meeting Registration?
Who can participate?
How are the organizations invited?
Which group within IEEE hosts WIG?
Erwin Noble, Philips

3. July 2002
GOAL for the First WIG
Agree on scope and organizational working methods in addition to the production of a work plan.
Erwin Noble, Philips

4. WIG Agenda Welcoming Election of Chairman and Secretary
July 2002
WIG Agenda
Welcoming
Election of Chairman and Secretary
Status of WLAN/WWAN Work
ETSI-BRAN/MMAC HSWA
WIG Scope
Input from BRAN/HSWA
Input from
WIG Administration & Organizational Issues
Rules of the Group
Meeting rules
Approval rules
IPR Rules
Meeting Schedule
Time and Location
Chairmanship
Internal (IEEE/MMAC/ETSI) Interfaces
How to exchange documents
How to communicate internally
External Interfaces
How to communicate with other bodies
Planning of Work Items for WIG
Content & Milestones
Production of Official Statements
Erwin Noble, Philips

5. July 2002
WIG Scope
Draft proposal (The wording is by no means the final proposal)
To be an integral part in the production of a generically applicable interworking standard for WWAN and other public networks. The standard is to be applicable for IEEE family, MMAC HiSWAN family, and ETSI HiperLAN/2
To be the point of resolution for ETSI, IEEE and MMAC on issues related to interworking with WWAN and other public networks.
To be the single point of contact for the above mentioned WLAN standards on questions related to interworking with WWAN and other public networks.
Erwin Noble, Philips

6. Status of WWAN/WLAN Work
July 2002
Status of WWAN/WLAN Work
A Presentation from ETSI BRAN & MMAC HSWA
Scope
Achievements
Open Issues
Erwin Noble, Philips

7. Rules of the Group Meeting Rules Approval Rules IPR Rules
July 2002
Rules of the Group
Meeting Rules
Gentlemen’s agreement (Achieve consensus)
Approval Rules
Approvals should be achieved at the separate standardisation groups.
All approved items are distributed to other participating groups.
IPR Rules
All docs will be subject to the existing IPR in all Standards Organizations.
(e.g. an IPR Claim in WIG will be necessary to make the claim to IEEE, ETSI, and MMAC)
Erwin Noble, Philips

8. Meeting Schedule BRAN#28 Apr 16-19 HSWA#7 802.11#74 May 13-17 HSWA#8
July 2002
Meeting Schedule
Tokyo
BRAN#28 Apr 16-19
Sophia Antipolis
HSWA#7
Apr 3-4
802.11#74 May 13-17
Sydney
Tokyo
HSWA#8
Jun 17-21
BRAN#29 Jul 2-5
Sophia Antipolis
802.11#75 Jul 8-12
Vancouver
Tokyo
HSWA#9
Sep 24-27
802.11#76 Sep 9-13
Monterey
WIG#1
Monterey
BRAN#30 Oct 1-4
Sophia Antipolis
HSWA#10 Nov 25-29
Tokyo
802.11#77 Nov 11-15
Kauai
BRAN#31 Dec 10-13
Sophia Antipolis
HSWA#11 Jan/Feb???
WIG#2
Tokyo
802.11#78 Jan ?
????
BRAN#32 Feb ?
Sophia Antipolis
Erwin Noble, Philips

9. Chairmanship The chairmanship is owned by the hosting committee
July 2002
Chairmanship
The chairmanship is owned by the hosting committee
Erwin Noble, Philips

10. Internal Interfaces How to exchange documents?
July 2002
Internal Interfaces
How to exchange documents?
All organizations must have access to each others documents. (This is possible today)
Lists of available and existing docs needs to be announced on .
How to communicate internally?
Necessary to deploy a joint reflector
ETSI volunteers to host this?
Erwin Noble, Philips

11. External Interface How to communicate with other bodies?
July 2002
External Interface
How to communicate with other bodies?
The group needs a mandate given from each separate Standards Body to approve and issue statements on behalf of itself at any given time depending on approval through correspondence.
on the joint reflector
Announcement must be made 5 working days prior to approval.
Erwin Noble, Philips

12. Planning of Work Item for WIG
July 2002
Planning of Work Item for WIG
It will be necessary for the group to identify areas that needs to be resolved with an associated timeline.
Contributions are strongly encouraged from all participants.
Erwin Noble, Philips

13. Production of Official Statements
July 2002
Production of Official Statements
It must be the intention of the group to inform anybody, that may be interested in the work performed by WIG, that the establishment of this has taken place.
The bodies that it are necessary to inform are:
3GPP
3GPP2
Wi-Fi Alliance
WISPr
H2GF
GSM Association
PASS ONE
Erwin Noble, Philips

14. Issues to be resolved prior to WIG#1
July 2002
Issues to be resolved prior to WIG#1
Meeting sessions
Where, When and how Long
First time: Main session on Sunday, possibly a short session later in order to be able to resolve stuff offline. Total amount of time: 8 hours.
Meeting Fee? ,Meeting Registration?
IEEE regular registration
Who can participate?
Everybody
How are the organisations invited?
On regularly
First time: Invitation to MMAC & ETSI members sent from IEEE onto the ETSI Interworking reflector (exploder)
AP:Erwin
Which group within IEEE holds WIG?
WNG (definitely for the first time)
Pre WIG teleconference
AP: Thomas to organise
Erwin Noble, Philips