OmniRAN EC SG Agenda and Meeting Slides January 2014, Los Angeles, CA

1. OmniRAN EC SG Agenda and Meeting SlidesJanuary 2014, Los Angeles, CA 2014-01-21Max Riegel NSN (ECSG Chair)

2. Tuesday, Jan 21st, 10:30 – 12:30 Tuesday, Jan 21st, 13:30 – 15:30 Wednesday, Jan 22nd, 13:30 – 15:30 Thursday, Jan 23rd, 10:30 – 12:30 Meeting Room: Directors 1+2 Wi-Fi: SSID: Verilan-secure WPA2-PSK Password: ieeeieee Meetings

3. Agenda proposal for Jan 2014 F2F • Approval of minutes • Reports • Summary documentation of OmniRAN • Report on ONF status and activities • 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

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8. OmniRAN ECSGResources • Website:http://www.ieee802.org/OmniRANsg/ • Document Archive on mentor: https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/documents • Email reflector: ecsg-802-omniran@listserv.ieee.org • Email archive: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/OmniRANsg/email/ • Attendance:Paper list (normative) + IMAT • IMAT mandatory for participants seeking attendence credits • Reciprocal rights for most WGs

9. Call Meeting to Order Chair called the meeting to order at 10:30 Attendance recording Done on sign-in paper sheets; IMAT supplementary to gain reciprocal attendence credit Secretary position Nobody showed up volunteering for secretary Juan Carlos will take minutes Approval of agenda Agenda approved without objections as amended on following slide Approval of minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0097-00-ecsg-meeting-minutes-for-nov-2013-dallas-f2f.docx Approved without objections https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0098-00-ecsg-meeting-minutes-december-11th-confcall.docx Approved without objections Business #1

10. Jan 2014 Agenda • Approval of minutes • Reports • Summary documentation of OmniRAN • Outline of the intended specification • Intentions and tentative ToC • Technical contributions • Tenets of IEEE 802 Access Network • SDN Use Case Topics • Report on ONF status and activities • ToC proposal • Organization of the work • Cooperation with the other IEEE 802 WGs • NDS Hands-on example • Liaisons, inbound and outbound • Operation within IEEE 802.1 • Conference calls until March 2014 session • Liaison report to IEEE 802 WGs • AOB

11. Jan 2014 Agenda Graphics

12. Business#2(Tue AM2) • Reports • Summary documentation of OmniRAN • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0099-00-0000-brief-introduction-into-omniran-p802-1cf.pptx • Study group agreed to make the document an ECSG document for reference • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0100-00-0000-omniran-results-and-proposals.pptx • Document should also contain the Wi-Fi roaming use case to show potential benefits of IEEE 802 attributes on R5 • Author asked to amend document with related material and resubmit document for final approval • Outline of the intended specification • Intentions and tentative ToC • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0004-00-0000-toc-comments.pptx • ToC unfortunately based on old revision; latest revision does not mention ‘OmniRAN’ anymore • Author asked to elaborate more on configuration section in particular addressing the inclusion of IEEE 802.19.1

13. Business #3(Tue PM1) • Technical contributions • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0002-00-0000-sdn-based-control-plane-and-data-plane-separation-in-omniran-network-reference-model.pptx • No final agreement on the necessity to spell out separately the data plane on reference points • Author asked to provide more details on the dataplane interface part to allow better justification of providing separate label for the data path. • Tenets of IEEE 802 Access Network • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0006-00-0000-thoughts-about-the-tenets-in-802-1cf.pptx • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0005-00-0000-examples-for-the-802-1cf-tenets.docx • Tenets should go into an informative annex; text should be tweaked to show that statements belong to the development of the specification.

14. Business #4(Wed PM1) • SDN Use Case Topics • Report on ONF status and activities • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0009-00-0000-onf-wireless-and-mobile-wg-status-update.pptx • Document clearly explains approach and status of work in ONF • Roger invited to show this presentation in the SDN BoF on Thursday morning • ToC proposal • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0007-00-0000-sdn-use-case-toc.pptx • Document was revised to capture the outcome of the discussion. • An amended version was created for presentation of OmniRAN SDN status in the SDN BoF on Thursday morning. • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0011-00-ecsg-omniran-update-on-sdn-use-case-for-bof-session.pptx

15. Business #5(Thu AM2) • Organization of the work • Cooperation with the other IEEE 802 WGs • Discussion was guided by slideset shown in the EC workshop in November 2013 • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran-13-0094-00-ecsg-considerations-for-cooperation-with-802-wgs.pptx • Agreement to invite SME from other WGs as agreed with 802.19.1 on Thursday afternoon • 802.19.1 will create architectural description of 802.19.1 protocol for inclusion into 802.1CF until March • NDS Hands-on example • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0010-00-0000-network-detection-selection-text-example.docx • Text shows composition of sections containing common section and technology specific additions; will be used for extended technical discussions in the March 2013 session • Liaisons, inbound and outbound • Not a generic approach; will be established according to need and possibilities • Operation within IEEE 802.1 • Operation as task group following the usual working procedures of 802.1 for balloting • Conference calls until March 2014 session • Wed, Feb 26th, 10am ET, about 90mins • Topics: Text for NDS, SDN update, Agenda and plans for Beijing, Update of table of content • Liaison report to IEEE 802 WGs • https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0008-00-ecsg-omniran-es-sg-liaison-report-january-2014.pptx • Multiple amendments added based of comments received from discussion • Concluded without any objections against presented content • AOB • No conclusion yet about location of May interim; either Waikoloa, HI (wireless interim) or Norfolk, VA (802.1/802.3) depending on need for technical discussions • Adjourned