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Project / IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Working Group <http://ieee802.org/16Title / IEEE 802.16 Working Group Minutes of Session #85
Date Submitted / 2013-05-24
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Re: / IEEE 802.16 Session #85 (Waikoloa, USA)
Abstract / Draft IEEE 802.16 Session #85 Minutes
Purpose / To record the minutes of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group Opening and Closing Plenary meetings at Session #85. For approval at Session #86
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IEEE 802.16 Working Group Minutes of Session #85
IEEE 802.16 Working Group
Hilton Waikoloa Village
Waikoloa Village, HI
May 13-16, 2013
IEEE 802.16 Session #85 Opening Plenary Meeting
Monday May 13, 2013, 13:35 – 14:59 hours.
Opening
The Working Group (WG) meeting was called to order by Roger Marks at 13:37 hours local time. He welcomed the Working Group to Waikoloa for Session #85 of the IEEE 802.16 WG.
Dr. Roger Marks began by introducing himself as the Chair of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group (the “WG”) and stated his affiliation with Consensii LLC, WiMAX Forum, and Mobile Pulse, Inc. Dr. Harry Bims, affiliated with Bims Laboratories, introduced himself as WG Vice Chair and WG Secretary. He noted that the WG Treasurer is Tim Godfrey.
Roger noted the online location of the IEEE 802.16 webpage <http://wirelessman.org>, where official information about the IEEE 802.16 Working Group can be found, and the online location where the Session #85 meeting schedule and plans for the week are presented.
Roger noted the location of the agendas for the opening and closing plenary, and presented an overview of the Opening Plenary agenda.
Roger explained how to access Working Group documents using the local server online documents system through the link http://griffin.events.ieee.org/docs/802.16/. Roger recommended to the WG to use the http://docii.wirelessman.org to view the document assignments within the Working Group.
Membership and Voting
The Working Group Chair explained that at the beginning of this Session there were 30 Members (<http://ieee802.org/16/members.html>) of the Working Group. Potential Members (<http://ieee802.org/16/members_pot.html>) were also noted. Voting members of the WG were advised they should have a voting token (a purple square that says “M.16”) appearing on their registration badge verify that their registration badge correctly indicated their membership as a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group.
Attendance
The attendees were informed that acquiring and retaining Membership in the Working Group depends on logging attendance correctly in the IEEE Automated Meeting Attendance Tool (“IMAT”). The WG Chair demonstrated the method of registering in the IMAT system by following the link <http://attendance.wirelessman.org>. The attendance webpage contains an “Affiliation” field where each attendee is expected to designate their Affiliation per IEEE-SA affiliation disclosure requirements (see reference <http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html>). The indicated affiliation will be publicly reported.
The attendees were informed that in order to register attendance for the meetings it is required to access the online attendance system using the provided wireless network.
Attendees were advised that they must record at least 75% of the possible credit hours in the IMAT attendance system in order to ensure “Participation” status for the session. Attendees were further advised that for this session, there are 28 hours worth of meetings, so 21 hours of attendance are required to reach 75%.
Opening Plenary Agenda
The WG Chair reviewed the IEEE 802.16 Session #85 Opening Plenary Agenda, which was available at http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg85/agenda.html. The Chair requested comments from the Working Group regarding the agenda. None were received. The agenda was approved by unanimous consent at 13:47 h.
The minutes of Session #84 were presented to the group for comments. None were received.
Motion (13:48 h): “To approve the Minutes of Session #84 (Document IEEE 802.16-13-0078-02).”
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh, seconded by Jaesun Cha.
Motion approved by unanimous consent.
Working Group Chair’s Administrative Report
The WG Chair displayed and presented Document IEEE 802.16-12-0573-00-Gdoc, the Chair’s IEEE 802.16 Administrative Report.
The WG Chair explained legal and administrative information regarding IEEE 802.16 for Disclosure of Affiliation, the Ethics policy, Patents, and Copyrights, also found at the link <http://ieee802.org/16/legal.html>. The WG Chair presented each of the Patent Policy Slides for Standards Development Meetings, found at the link <https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.pdf>. The WG Chair instructed the WG Secretary to record in the minutes that slides 0-4 were shown, and that an opportunity was given to the attendants to respond, and that no response was provided.
The WG Chair explained that contributions must conform to the contribution procedures described at the link <http://WirelessMAN.org/submit.html>, and that submittals that violate these procedures would not be accepted. Roger also presented the location of the IEEE 802 Rules document, the role of the Working Group Chair, and explained that any concerns should be brought to the immediate attention of the Working Group Chair.
Prior Session Report
Roger noted the Session #84 Meeting Report (located at <http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg84/report.html>). There was no discussion.
Roger mentioned that the group should review to better prepare themselves for this session. Roger mentioned that for this session there will be overlap between the 802.16 Working Group meetings and the OmniRAN meetings.
Working Group Chair’s Status Report
The WG Chair presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0099, the IEEE 802.16 Status Report for Session #85.
Schedule for the Week
Roger presented the schedule for the week and noted that there are some meeting slot cancellations that will be posted to an updated schedule. He also mentioned the lack of IEEE 802 tutorials taking place in the Monday evening time slots.
IEEE P802.16q Opening Report:
P802.16q Chair Harry Bims presented the meeting schedule time for the project, and mentioned that there are 10 input contributions covering 6 topic areas.
IEEE P802.16r Opening Report:
P802.16r Acting Chair Ching-Tarng Hsieh presented the P802.16r Agenda for Session #84 and Roger pointed out a number of input contributions on the server.
IEEE P802.16.3 Opening Report:
P802.16.3 Acting Chair Roger Marks presented the input documents to this session for the project. He mentioned the assigned time slots, and recommended that the group not meet during the Wednesday AM1 time slot. The recommendation was accepted without objection.
Project Planning Committee (PPC) Opening Report:
PPC Acting Chair Harry Bims presented the plan for the Project Planning Committee. He mentioned that the only agendized item is to approve the minutes from Session #84. Given the overlap of the time slot for this activity with an OmniRAN study group meeting, he recommended that the group not meet during this session, and that the minutes from Session #84 be approved at a future session. The recommendation was accepted without objection.
ITU-R Liaison Group Opening Report:
ITU-R Liaison Acting Chair Roger Marks reported that the ITU-R Liaison Group had met earlier in the day, as scheduled. He reported that the group had recommended an update to Document 0056 based upon a comment that was received for editorial changes to the document. Roger explained the proposed editorial changes. Further discussion was held regarding some confusion to the naming of the annexes.
Motion (14:38 h): “To approve revision 7 of Updated Cont. to ITU-R WP 5D- Update of WirelessMAN-Advanced RIT of Rec. ITU-R M.2012 (Meeting Y+2) (Document IEEE 802.16-13-0056-07) , with Annexes renamed as Appendicies.”
There was some discussion.
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh, seconded by Eunkyung Kim.
Motion approved by unanimous consent.
Roger described Document IEEE 802.16-13-0105-00.
Ching-Tarng Hsieh presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0100 which proposes that ITRI become a member of WATO. That request had been reviewed by the ITU-R Liaison Group and incorporated in IEEE 802.16-13-0105-00.
Motion (14:52 h): “To approve Draft M.2012-1 Certification B for ITU-R (Document IEEE 802.16-13-0105).”
There was some discussion.
Moved by Jaesun Cha, seconded by Eunkyung Kim.
Motion approved by unanimous consent.
Meeting Logistics and Reporting:
Future Sessions
Roger mentioned once again that there are no official hotels for the Session #86 meeting, so participants are on their own to find a hotel. Roger mentioned the remaining sessions shown on the agenda.
AOB
None.
Adjournment
Without objection, the meeting was adjourned at 14:59 hours.
IEEE 802.16 Session #85 Closing Plenary Meeting
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 10:39 – 13:06 hours.
Opening
The WG Chair of the 802.16 WG called the meeting to order at 10:39 hours local time.
Closing Plenary Agenda
Roger Marks reviewed the 802.16 Session #85 Closing Plenary agenda, posted online at <http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg85/agenda.html>.
Roger asked the attendants if they had any questions concerning the agenda, and there was some discussion.
Motion (13:50 h): “To approve Closing Plenary agenda”.
Moved by Eunkyung Kim, seconded by Jaesun Cha.
The motion was approved without objection.
Patent Policy
Roger presented the patent policy slides, and asked if there were any comments relating to the patent policy. There were none received.
Subgroup Reports
OmniRAN Study Group report
Roger reported that the closing meeting for OmniRAN will take place at 4pm.
P802.16q Closing Report:
P802.16q Chair Harry Bims presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0109-00-Gdoc, the “Session #85 - P802.16q Closing Plenary Report”.
Harry presented the P802.16q summary of activities for the week, and proposed actions following Session #85, including Revision 1 updates to the SRD and AWD documents.
Harry mentioned that the group voted Jaesun Cha to be the Project Editor. Jaesun will update the SRD and AWD documents to the server by May 21.
Harry presented the Call for Contributions on the SRD and AWD towards Session #86. There was some discussion about the Call for Contributions and a Revision 1 was created.
Motion (14:02 h): “To approve the ‘Call for Contributions toward P802.16q Activities at Session #85’ (802.16-13-0108-01-000q)”.
Moved by Harry Bims; seconded by Eunkyung Kim.
Discussion: There was no discussion.
The motion passed by unanimous consent.
P802.16r Closing Report:
P802.16r Chair Ching-Tarng Hsieh presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0117-01, the “802.16 Small Cell Backhaul Closing Report - Session #85”.
Ching-Tarng presented the summary of meeting sessions, the input contributions summary, the P802.16r Chair’s summary of discussions, and documents recommended for Plenary Approval.
There was some discussion about the Call for Contributions.
Motion (14:18 h): “To approve the ‘Call for Contributions on Application Requirements for Session #85’ (802.16-13-0115-01-000r)”.
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh. Seconded by Jaesun Cha.
Discussion: There was no discussion.
The motion passed by unanimous consent.
Motion (14:22 h): “To approve the Draft LS to ONF: Interest of IEEE 802.16 Working Group in Wireless OpenFlow’ (802.16-13-0116-00-000r)”.
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh. Seconded by Harry Bims.
Discussion: There was some discussion on the content of the statement.
The motion was approved without objection.
P802.16.3 Closing Report:
P802.16.3 Acting Chair Roger Marks gave an oral report, and promised to file a written report.
Roger mentioned the discussion of liaison statements that were received by the group from the Broadband Forum and the Australian Communications Alliance. He mentioned the output document liaison statements to the IETF LMAP, the Broadband Forum, both of which were copied to the FCC. In addition, Roger mentioned the group completed a Call for Contributions toward Session #86, which is Document 802.16-13-0111-00-03R0.
Motion (14:30 h): “To approve the following documents and authorize the WG Chair to forward them to their recipients subject to any editorial corrections:
1) Document IEEE 802.16-13-0110-03R0 - Draft LS to Broadband Forum: Initial Response to IEEE 802.16-13-0091-03R0;
2) Document IEEE 802.16.13-0111-03R0 - IEEE P802.16.3 Call for Contributions toward Session #86”.
Moved by Eunkyung Kim seconded by Jaesun Cha.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion was approved without objection.
ITU-R Liaison Group Report:
ITU-R Liaison Group Acting Chair Roger Marks presented the closing report for the Liaison Group. There was some discussion about motions made at the Opening Plenary for certain output documents of the Liaison Group.
Motion (14:45 h): “To approve the following documents and authorize the WG Chair to forward them to their recipients subject to any editorial corrections:
1) Document IEEE 802.16-13-0107-00 - IMT-2000 M.1457 Exceptional Form A;
2) Document IEEE 802.16.13-0112-00 – Proposed LS to WiMAX Forum regarding IMT-2000 Exceptional Form A;
3) Document IEEE 802.16-13-0113-00 – Proposed Followup LS to WATO- Meeting Y+2B Contribution toward M.2012-1”.
Moved by Eunkyung Kim seconded by Ching-Tarng Hsieh.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion was approved without objection.
Future Sessions
The WG Chair discussed the time and location of Session #86, along with preliminary information regarding meeting logistics.
There was discussion about the required time slots for the activities of the working group at Session #86.
There was some discussion about the possibility of hosting teleconferences between Session #86 and Session #88, due to the absence of Session #87.
AOB
There was a review and discussion concerning Document IEEE 802.18-13-0066.
Motion (15:43 h): “To approve Document IEEE 802.18-13-0066-00 and to grant authorization to the WG Chair, at the Chair’s discretion, to forward it for approval subject to any editorial corrections”.
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh; seconded by Jaesun Cha.
Discussion: There was none.
Motion passed: 4 in favor, 0 opposed, 0 abstains.
Adjournment
Motion (15:45 h): “To adjourn”.
Moved by Eunkyung Kim; seconded by Ching-Tarng Hsieh.
Discussion: There was none.
Motion passed without objection.
The meeting was adjourned at 15:45pm.
The IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards
IEEE 802.16 Members
Updated: 2013-05-22 accounting for Session #85.
Number of members: 30
Next scheduled update: following Session #86.