21-06-0743-00-0000-WGsession16_opening_notes.ppt September 2006 Vivek Gupta, Chair, 802.21Slide 1 IEEE 802.21 Session #16 Melbourne, Australia Opening

September 2006

Vivek Gupta, Chair, 802.21Slide 1

21-06-0743-00-0000-WGsession16_opening_notes.ppt

IEEE 802.21Session #16

Melbourne, AustraliaOpening Plenary

Vivek Gupta

[email protected]

September 2006



WG OfficersOffice OfficerChair Vivek Gupta

Vice Chair Michael Williams

Secretary Xiaoyu Liu

Editor Qiaobing Xie

802.11 Liaison David Hunter

802.16 Liaison Peretz Feder

IETF Liaison Yoshihiro Ohba

• The WG has 72 voting members as of this meeting

September 2006



IEEE 802.21Meeting Server Details

External website: http://www.ieee802.org/21

Local: Meeting website: http://802server/21 Meeting website: http://10.128.0.11/21

During meetings post documents at local serverGet DCNs from Chair:

September 2006



Attendance• Electronic and Manual Attendance• Electronic Attendance (on trial)

– http://thunderdome.ieee.org/cgi-bin/harry/attendance/802.21– Enter your personal information and profile– Mark attendance during every session

• Manual attendance (still mandatory for this session)• Total number of sessions: 14 • 11 sessions for 75% attendance to be counted towards voting

membership• Room reserved for evening sessions:

– 7:30 – 9:30 pm or later in case we need to use it• All attendance records on the 802.21 website

– Please check the attendance records for any manual errors

September 2006



Voting Membership• 802.21 Voting Membership described in

– DCN#: 21-06-0075-02-0000

• Maintenance of Voting Membership– Two Plenary sessions out of four consecutive Plenary

sessions on a moving window basis– One out of the two Plenary session requirement could be

substituted by an Interim session

• Attendance credit policy with other 802 WG– 802.16 - only during Joint LMSC Plenary sessions– 802.20 - both during Interim and Joint LMSC Plenary

sessions (currently suspended)– To get credit for attendance in the above WG meetings

send email to the Vice-Chair with a copy to Chair

September 2006



WG Letter Ballot

• IEEE 802 Rules specify:– Working Group Membership shall be lost if

two consecutive, or two of any three consecutive, Working Group letter ballots are not returned or are returned with an abstention other than for 'lack of technical expertise

September 2006



Miscellaneous Meeting Logistics

• Breaks– For Melbourne, Australia meeting 802.21

WG would break as follows:• AM Coffee break: 10:00-10:30 am• Lunch:12.00 noon until 1.00 pm• PM Coffee break: 3:00 – 3:30 pm

• Wednesday Evening Social– 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm

http://ieee802.face2face-events.com/wireless/attendee.html

September 2006



Registration and Media Recording

• Each Attendee must provide contact information and pay conference fee

• Conference fee has to be paid through the registration desk at the hotel or through sponsor

• Failure to pay conference fee results in loss of credit for voting rights

• Photography not permitted unless approved by WG Chair

• Audio taping of IEEE 802.21 meetings is NOT allowed

• Media – Press and Analyst briefings– Only the 802.21 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chair are allowed

to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of the IEEE 802.21 working group

September 2006



Membership & Anti-Trust

• Individual membership– In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is

by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization.

• Anti-Trust laws– The Anti-Trust laws forbid the discussion of

prices within our meetings.

September 2006



• Advise the WG membership that: – The IEEE’s patent policy is consistent with the ANSI patent policy and is

described in Clause 6 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws;– Early disclosure of patents which may be essential for the use of standards

under development is encouraged; – Disclosures made of such patents may not be exhaustive of all patents that

may be essential for the use of standards under development, and that neither the IEEE, the WG, nor the WG Chairman ensure the accuracy or completeness of any disclosure or whether any disclosure is of a patent that, in fact, may be essential for the use of standards under development.

• Instruct the WG Secretary to record in the minutes of the relevant WG meeting:

– That the foregoing advice was provided and the two slides were shown; – That an opportunity was provided for WG members to identify or disclose

patents that the WG member believes may be essential for the use of that standard;

– Any responses that were given, specifically the patents and patent applications that were identified (if any) and by whom

• Show to the WG the two slides that follow:

"At Each Meeting, the Working Group Chair shall:"

Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – March 2003 (Revised December 2004)

September 2006



6. Patents

IEEE standards may include the known use of essential patents and patent applications provided the IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder or applicant with respect to patents whose infringement is, or in the case of patent applications, potential future infringement the applicant asserts will be, unavoidable in a compliant implementation of either mandatory or optional portions of the standard [essential patents]. This assurance shall be provided without coercion and prior to approval of the standard (or reaffirmation when a patent or patent application becomes known after initial approval of the standard). This assurance shall be a letter that is in the form of either:

a) A general disclaimer to the effect that the patentee will not enforce any of its present or future patent(s) whose use would be required to implement either mandatory or optional portions of the proposed IEEE standard against any person or entity complying with the standard; or

b) A statement that a license for such implementation will be made available without compensation or under reasonable rates, with reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination.

This assurance shall apply, at a minimum, from the date of the standard's approval to the date of the standard's withdrawal and is irrevocable during that period.

IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards


September 2006



Inappropriate Topics for IEEE WG Meetings

• Don’t discuss licensing terms or conditions

• Don’t discuss product pricing, territorial restrictions, or market share

• Don’t discuss ongoing litigation 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 [email protected] or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html

This slide set (last three slides) is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt


September 2006



Copyright• Under the current US copyright law — the

author of information is deemed to own the copyright from the moment of creation

• The IEEE Bylaws require copyright of all material to be held by the IEEE– Must consult with IEEE for re-use of copyright

material

• The IEEE Standards accomplishes transfer of copyright ownership through the Project Authorization Request (PAR) process

September 2006



New Members• New Member Count =

September 2006



Objectives for the September Meeting• Complete LB #1 Comment Resolution

– Technical Comment Resolution– Discuss submitted contributions– Plan for draft re-circulation at end of Sept. meeting

• Discussion on future WG activities– Pre-authentication– Multi-radio Paging

• Interaction with other 802 groups and external SDOs– Joint sessions with 802.11 (mostly TGu)– Update from IETF– 3GPP next steps discussion– Ambient Networks Activities

September 2006



Future Sessions - 2006• Plenary: Nov 12th – 17th, Hyatt Regency

– Dallas, TX, USA. Co-located with all 802 groups

September 2006



Future Sessions - 2007

• Interim: Jan 14th – 19th, 2007 London, UK. – Meeting co-located with 802.11/15/18/19/20/22

• Plenary: March 11th – 16th ,2007, Orlando Florida– Co-located with all 802 groups

• Interim: May 13th – 18th, 2007 Montreal, Canada– Meeting co-located with 802.11/15/18/19/20/22

• Plenary: July 15th – 20th,2007, San Francisco– Co-located with all 802 groups

• Interim: Sept 16th – 21st,2007, Hawaii, Big Island– Meeting co-located with 802.11/15/18/19/20/22

• Plenary: Nov 11th – 16th,2007, Atlanta– Co-located with all 802 groups

September 2006



Future Sessions - 2008• Interim: Jan , 2008 (Sydney/Kaula Laumpur?)

– Meeting co-located with all 802 groups

• Plenary: March 16th – 21st ,2008, New Orleans– Co-located with all 802 groups

• Interim: May , 2008 (Jacksonville?)– Meeting co-located with 802.11/15/18/19/20/22

• Plenary: July 13th – 18th,2008, Denver, Colorado– Co-located with all 802 groups

• Interim: Sept ,2008, (Monterey?)– Meeting co-located with 802.11/15/18/19/20/22

• Plenary: Nov 9th – 14th,2008, Dallas, TX– Co-located with all 802 groups

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21-06-0743-00-0000-WGsession16_opening_notes.ppt September 2006 Vivek Gupta, Chair, 802.21Slide 1 IEEE 802.21 Session #16 Melbourne, Australia Opening