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OmniRAN EC SG December 11th, 2013

Conference Call

2013-12-10Max Riegel

(OmniRAN SG Chair)

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Meeting

• Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Meeting Number: 741 069 717 Meeting Password: OmniRAN 

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Guidelines for IEEE-SA 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.

--------------------------------------------------------------- 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/antitrust-guidelines.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/pat-slideset.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 operationProgress 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 meetingsAny 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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AgendaWednesday, December 11th, 11:00am ET

• Approval of minutes• Reports

– EC Closing Plenary in Dallas– Contribution to EC Workshop– other reports

• Plans for January Interim and beyond• AOB• Adjourn

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Business#1

• Call Meeting to Order– Meeting called to order by chair at

• Secretary position– ..

• Appointment of recording secretary:– ..

• Roll CallName Affiliation Name Affiliation

Max Riegel NSN Yonggang Fang ZTE

Juan Carlos Zuniga Interdigital

Antonio de la Oliva UC3M

Paul Congdon TALLAC Networks

Roger Marks Consensii

Walter Pienciak IEEE SA

Behcet Sarikaya Huawei

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Business #2

• Approval of agenda– Approval of minutes

• ??

– Reports• EC Closing Plenary in Dallas

– https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0093-01-ecsg-nov-2013-ec-closing-report.pptx

• Contribution to EC Workshop– https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0094-00-ecsg-consideratio

ns-for-cooperation-with-802-wgs.pptx

• other reports– ??

– Plans for January Interim and beyond• see following slides

– AOB– Adjourn

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Business #3

• Plans for January Interim and beyond– Agenda proposal for Jan ‘14 session

• Approval of minutes• Reports• 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