April 11, 12, 2013 doc.: IEEE 802.18-13/051r0
IEEE P802.18 Radio Regulatory-TAG
[Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group Minutes]
Date: 12 April 2013
Author(s): Name Affiliation(s) Address Phone email Notor Research John Notor Silver Spring San Jose, CA 408-799-2738 [email protected] Networks Jay Holcomb Itron Liberty Lake, WA 509-979-3625 [email protected]
Abstract [Minutes of the RR-TAG conference call meeting on April 11, 12, 2013]
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These are the minutes of IEEE 802.18 Telephone Conference Call held on 11 April and continued on 12 April 2013.
The teleconference was called to create/edit/approve a response to the EU RSPG Consultation (18- 13/042r0) from IEEE 802, the agenda was posted by the Vice Chair on 26 March, 2013.
Thursday, 11 April 2013
1. The Chair called the meeting to order at 12:10 PM CDT. 2. The Vice Chair verified that a quorum was met. 3. The Chair summarized the IEEE 802 patent policy. 4. The meeting was delayed because of technical problems with the meeting bridge, the host had logged in and was not available to change the presentator. 5. Due to an oversight, this meeting schedule overlapped the 802.11 Regulatory Standing Committee meeting, which was still in the process of editing the response to the EU RSPG Consultation. 6. The teleconference was recessed at 12:20 PM CDT until Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM CDT.
Friday, 12 April 2013
7. The Chair reconvened the meeting at 12:12 PM CDT. 8. The Chair, noting that Jay Holcomb, the Secretary for the RR-TAG, was not able to make the meeting, appointed John Notor as acting secretary. 9. The Vice Chair asked attendees to email the Chair and Vice Chair their name and affiliation to establish attendance. 10. The Vice Chair verified that a quorum was on the call. 11. The Chair summarized the IEEE 802 patent policy. 12. The Vice Chair displayed the agenda, 18-13/044r1, and asked if there were any changes to the agenda. 13. The Chair asked if there were any objections to approving the agenda 18-13/044r1. Hearing no objections, the agenda was approved by unanimous consent. 14. The Chair opened the discussion of the document, 18-13/47r4, Draft Response to EU RSPG Consultation. Peter Ecclesine (CISCO) acted as editor of the draft document. 15. Peter Ecclesine presented the document, reviewing the changes. 16. There was a discussion of the insertion of a request for consideration of spectrum below 1 GHz, and there was some objection to the request for spectrum in the 921-925 MHz. There was discussion of this issue. The principle objection is that the topic of the consultation is wireless broadband, and the request for 921-925 MHz spectrum is not a request for wireless broadband. Others felt that the request was within the broad scope. 17. The Vice Chair suggested moving on and coming back to this later in the meeting. 18. Peter continued through the document, requesting comment on the various sections. 19. There was some additional discussion of changes made to 18-13/47r3 on the way to 18-13/47r4. 20. Agreement on final text was reached in the section under review. 21. There were additional edits to the text proposed, some incorporated, and some rejected. 22. There was a question from Ron Porat (Broadcom) about whether we should address other frequency band.
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23. There was considerable discussion about the inclusion of additional bands beyond addressing just the 5 GHz spectrum. Some proposed that adding additional spectrum is appropriate, some suggested that it is inappropriate. 24. There were additional comments about other changes, perhaps to recommendations of output power level changes. 25. The Vice Chair pointed out the need to close out this document on this call due to the short time frame, the comment due date being April 29, 2013. 26. Ron Porat proposed text to include a request for rules that would permit license exempt operation in the 3800-4200 MHz. There was considerable discussion about the merits of this. 27. A final sentence was added to the draft to address sharing studies in the 3800-4200 MHz. Peter Ecclesine uploaded the document as 18-13/47r5. 28. There was additional discussion about the recommendation regarding 921-925 MHz, one objector suggesting that the recommendation is outside of the focus of the consultation.
Motion: To approve 18-13/47r6, Draft Response to EU RSPG Consultation, for review by the EC and forwarding to the EU RSPG, authorizing the Chair of 802.18 to create a cover letter, and to make editorial changes as necessary.
Move by: John Notor Second by: Peter Ecclesine Discussion: None Vote: 7 Yes 0 No 0 Abstain Motion: Passed
29. The Chair adjourned the meeting at 1:32 PM CDT.
Meeting Attendance:
Name Affiliation Email Address Voters Michael Lynch MJ Lynch Associates, LLC [email protected] John Notor Silver Spring Networks, [email protected] Notor Research Vijay Auluck Intel [email protected] Peter Ecclesine Cisco [email protected] Richard Kennedy Black Berry [email protected] Jim Ragsdale Ericsson [email protected] Ron Porat Broadcom [email protected] Bruce Kraemer Marvell [email protected]
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