September 2007 doc.: IEEE 802.22-07/0438r0

IEEE P802.22
Wireless RANs

DRAFT Minutes of the TG1 Conference Call Held on 9-04-07
Date: 2007-09-04
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1.  Attendance

Greg Buchwald

Soo-Young Chang

Bill Rose

Jerry Kalke

Monique Brown

Gerald Chouinard

Baowei Ji

Steve Kuffner

Ed Callaway

  1. Review Patent Policy for any attendees not already familiar with it.
    Everyone was familiar with the policy.
  2. Introductions were made
  3. Review and Approve Agenda
    Added new item 5, Discuss issue of TG1 Scope. Corrected date of the minutes to be approved from 8/4/07 to 8/28/07.

4.  Approve minutes from 8/28/07 conference call.
The minutes were not approved. Several people hadn’t received the minutes.
Action Item: Bill Rose to redistribute the minutes.

  1. Discuss issue of TG1 Scope
    There was a discussion on TG1’s scope and if we can work on layers other than the MAC and PHY. Ed Callaway noted that TG1 is bound by the scope of .22 in this respect.
    Action Item: Bill Rose to send a request to Carl for clarification and to explain how we are proceeding.
    It was agreed that we can proceed with adding an informative annex for the NHL and Upper Layer behaviors. Gerald asked (in comments 199, 200, 201) if the specifying the addition of the MAC address at manufacture is out of scope for the PHY/MAC. Bill noted he felt that since it is a MAC address, we can specify it is placed into the device at manufacture in such a way that it cannot be altered in the field and it would be in scope. However, how the security keys are obtained and tied to the device/MAC address and Part 74 license is out of scope and should be in the informative annex. Gerald agreed with this approach.
  2. Review Steve Kuffner’s contribution regarding comments # 214, 39, 408, 208, 70, 171, and 354 (see attached).
    Steve Kuffner reviewed his contribution. He noted Bill distributed revision 0. It is in revision 1. The only change was a missing reference (The reference should be “See <Figure 1>” at the end of first paragraph on page 3.
    We agreed to redefine “adjacent channel” to “next usable microphone subchannel”.
    Action Item: Confirm the location of the next usable microphone subchannel with Chris Clanton.
  3. Review Gerald Chouinard’s comments: 199, 200, 201 and 205.
    See agenda item # 5 above for resolution to comments 199. 200, 201.
    Bill Rose had to leave the call at this point (7:00 PM EDT). It was agreed by all on the call to continue the call. Monique Brown agreed to take notes for the minutes.
    #205 - Gerald said he is against the alternate resolution listed in the resolution box of the comment database. The alternate resolution is to remove the text. However, he is notfamiliar with aparticularindustry standard method for EIRP measurement. ACTION - Gerald will send an email to the group asking if anyone is familiar with such a standard.
  4. Review open comments time permitting
    #209 - This does not require a change to the 802.22.1 draft. No action will be taken. Comment closed.
  5. Due to time constraints, the balance of the agenda was not covered except for next meetings.
  6. Next Meetings:
  7. Tuesday 9/11/07. 6:00 PM EDT (last call before Face to Face in Kona)
  8. Face to Face: Kona, Hawaii; 8/17-8/21
  9. Adjourn
    The meeting adjourned at approximately 7:15 PM EDT.

Submission page 1 William Rose, WJR Consulting Inc.