802.16 Task Group 1: Session #10.5

December 12-14, 2000: La Jolla, California, USA

The meeting was hosted by Jay Klein of Ensemble Communications, which served as corporate host and absorbed the meeting costs.

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Informal Report

Summary
This was a productive meeting and a lot of fun.

1. Yair Bourlas, Ensemble Communications Inc.
2. Carl Eklund, Nokia Research Center
3. Andy Ickowicz, IEEE Standards Activities
4. Robert Johnson, Ensemble Communications Inc.
5. Brian Kiernan, InterDigital Communications Corp.
6. Jay Klein, Ensemble Communications Inc.
7. Don Leimer, WirelessHome
8. Sergio Licardie, DMC Stratex Networks, Inc.
9. John Liebetreu, Intersil Corporation
10. Roger Marks, NIST
11. Ronald Meyer, Crosspan Network Access Technologies
12. Glen Sater, Motorola Inc.
13. Andy Schiltz, Ensemble Communications Inc.
14. Ken Stanwood, Ensemble Communications Inc.
15. Chris Tappenden, Nortel Networks
16. Arthur Wang, WirelessHome
17. Vladimir Yanover, BreezeCOM Ltd.
18. Juan Carlos Zuniga, Harris Corporation

Jim Mollenauer has resigned as TG1 Technical Editor due to his new employment status. Roger Marks is acting in this capacity.

IEEE Standards Activities has assigned Andy Ickowicz as Project Editor for the TG1 draft. Andy's first task was to complete the incorporation of changes approved at Session #10; these changes had been delayed due to Jim's resignation. Andy began work before the session. He attended the session, working closely with the members. He agreed to complete the updates accepted at Session #10 by 15 December.

Changes Requested by TG3

A primary purpose of the session was to restructure the document in response to Document IEEE 802.16.3p-00/56 ("Using the TG1 MAC for TG3 Purposes: Report of the TG3 MAC Ad Hoc Group", by Vladimir Yanover, Subir Varma, and Huanchun Ye). Further input was provided in two contributions by Naftali Chayat and Vladimir Yanover:

• Proposal on changes in the 802.16 MAC Reference Model and PHY Service definition
• Template for the "PHY Service" subclause

• In order to isolate the MAC from the PHY, we developed details of the PHY Service Access Point.
• We revised the document text that included both MAC and PHY references and divided the content appropriately.
• We restructured the Table of Contents to reflect the new structure, based on a contribution of Glen Sater. Glen accepted the responsibility of restructuring the document according to this new Table of Contents. TG1 agreed to issue a Revision 5 of the document by 22 December. In accordance with the requests of the IEEE Standards staff, this version will be designated a Draft Standard; accordingly, it will be copyrighted and password protected. A Call for Comments will be issued, with a deadline of 13 January.

TG1 has assigned Clause Editors to be responsible for the editing of specific section of the TG1 draft. These Editors are:

1	Overview	Roger Marks
2	Normative References	Roger Marks
3	Definitions	Jose Costa
4	Abbreviations and Acronyms	Jose Costa
5	Service Specific Convergence Sublayers	-
5.1	ATM	Ken Stanwood
5.2	Ethernet	Glen Sater
5.3	IP	Carl Eklund
6	MAC Sublayer	-
6.1	MAC Service Definition	Ken Stanwood
6.2	Data/Control Plane	-
6.2.1	Message Formats	Glen Sater
6.2.2	Access Methods	Ken Stanwood
6.2.3	Network Entry	Juan Carlos Zuniga
6.2.4	Ranging	Ken Stanwood
6.2.5	Quality of Service	Glen Sater
6.3	Management Plane	Carl Eklund
7	Security Sublayer	Carl Eklund
8	Physical Layer	-
8.1	PHY SAP	Vladimir Yanover
8.2	Physical Layer Suitable for 10-66 GHz	Andy Schiltz & Jay Klein
9	Configuration File	Ian Baragar/Chris Tappenden
10	Parameters and Constants	Phil Guillemette
11	TLV Encodings	Sergio Licardie
A	Functional Requirements	Roger Marks
	Figure Editor	Andy Schiltz

Those with questions marks have been nominated by the Task Group but have not yet been informed of this interesting opportunity. In cases where a name appears more than once, there is an opportunity for new volunteers to step in. Please let me know if you would like to participate.

Minutes
Ron Meyer prepared minutes.

Acknowledgements
Thanks to Jay Klein for hosting a comfortable meeting and Ensemble Communications for generously serving as corporate host.