Approved by General Counsel   TR-50.1 Meeting Report

Date: June 22-23, 2011

Location: Teleconference

Approved: 06/27/11

 

 

Report of Meeting TIA TR-50!1

Smart Devices; Requirements and Architecture

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DateTime: 22 - 23 June 2011, convene 13:00 Eastern. ‡

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Chair: Vice-Chair:

Peter W Nurse peter.nurse@sigmadelta.com Mitch Tseng mitch.tseng@huawei.com

‡ The meeting will convene at 13:00 Eastern on June 22, and may recess overnight and reconvene at 13:00 Eastern on June 23.

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1) Call to Order 1

This meeting was conducted over two days. The meeting was called to order at 13:10 Eastern on June 22, 2

placed into recess at 15:25 on June 22, reconvened at 13:00 Eastern on June 23. 3

2) Early Disclosure Policy † info 4

The Chair reminded the meeting of TIA patent policy per the footnote contained in the meeting notice and 5

agenda. 6 3) Attendee Roll-call and E-Sign-In info 7

The Chair reminded members of the important notice of participation contained in the meeting notice and 8

agenda. The Chair reminded members to sign-in using TIA Electronic sign-in and the meeting code 7669. 9

The Chair asked TIA staff to conduct a roll-call. The Subcommittee failed to establish quorum on June 10

22. Following a roll-call on June 23, quorum was established, and the Subcommittee revisited agenda 11

items that required decision. The following members present: 12

Alcatel Lucent Ericsson Huawei ILS Technology Numerex Qualcomm Sigma Delta Communications

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4) Opening Remarks info 2

The Chair welcomed members to the meeting. 3 5) Review and Adoption of Agenda decision 4

TR501-20110622-001R1 Chair 5

• Contributions were numbered as necessary and assigned to agendum per this report. 6

• The agenda was adopted as amended. 7 6) Review and Adoption of Previous Meeting Report(s) decision 8

TR501-20110622-002 Chair 9

• No action of June 22 due to lack of quorum. 10

• On June 23rd, it was noted that in §13, the date of the meeting in September was incorrect, and 11

should read 2011-09-13/14. The meeting report was adopted as amended. 12 7) Incoming Correspondence discussion 13

• None. 14 8) Progress of Joint Work with ETSI TC M2M discussion/decision 15

• The Chair noted the completion of the action item to make our draft documents publically 16

available. The documents are available in the Projects folder at the URL 17 http://ftp.tiaonline.org/TR-50/TR-50.1/Public/Projects/TIA/ 18

• Encouraged to begin work on the convergence layer. The Chair noted that there was currently no 19

plan for this work to be undertaken in this Subcommittee, but the issue would be addressed at this 20

meeting. 21

• Action item to produce a use case for the intermediate node resulted in a document from Peter 22

Nurse and Mitch Tseng. That document is open for discussion in this Subcommittee, and is 23

available at: 24 http://ftp.tiaonline.org/TR-50/Public/20110621_Joint_TR-50_ETSI_TC_M2M/DAP UseCase.doc 25

• Action item to produce a mapping between the reference points in the reference architecture of 26

TIA and ETSI lead to two significant issues: there appears to be no direct mapping since the 27

reference architectures appear to address different objectives; there is no identifiable Service 28

Platform in the TIA architecture since that functionality is distributed. 29

• No further meetings scheduled pending further discussion in this Subcommittee regarding the 30

objectives. 31 TR501-20110622-004 Chair 32

• This document was presented to the joint meeting on June 21. 33

• Considered FYI at this stage. See also agendum 8. 34 9) Old Business decision 35

a) Requirements discussion 36

TR501-20110622-003 37

• Presents requirements for IT Core Infrastructure domain including the management of IP-based 38

devices. 39

• Ammar to develop a draft section for the Annex of PN-4940.005. 40

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b) List of Parts (PN-4940.000) discussion 1

• the current version (v0.3) can be found in the Projects folder. 2

• Agreed to publish terminology in part PN-4940.005, and suspend activity on PN-4940.001 at this 3

time. Update PN-4940.000 as appropriate. The editor to distribute an updated version to the 4

reflector for comment prior to uploading to the public section of the ftp site. 5 c) Common Terminology (PN-4940.001) discussion 6

• Agreed to suspend activity at this time. 7

• It was noted that the Workplan would need update as appropriate.. 8 d) Reference Architecture (PN-4940.005) discussion 9

TR501-20110622-005 10

• the current version (v0.2) can be found in the Projects folder, but there have ben proposed 11

updates on the email reflector. 12

• Agreed to include as section five, understanding that: 13

o the second paragraph (reference to WSDL and WADL) will be deleted; 14

o the references will be moved to reference section; 15

o various typos will be fixed; 16

o the entity now referred to as “smart device” will be renamed to Point of Attachment 17

(PoA) and aligned throughout the document. 18 e) Next Steps discussion/decision 19

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• Agreed that need to develop a common understanding of “Convergence Layer” and subsequently 21

develop a plan for the development in a future release. 22

• Agreed that the overall objective is to continue with the open distributed processing approach, 23

and to develop of standard objects representing devices and applications that can be used across 24

traditional ‘verticals’. 25

• There was some discussion regarding the impact of the ongoing work towards consolidation of 26

M2M work. The Chair recommended that, since that effort is still in the formative stages, TR-27

50.1 needs to plan for future work, and adapt as the outcome of that effort becomes clear. 28 f) Review Workplan discussion/decision 29

• the current work-plan in the Projects folder. 30

• Updated to reflect suspension of work on part 001. Also need to update to remove the V&V-31

related lines for PN-4940.000 and PN-4940.005 per the decision at the last meeting. The Chair to 32

distribute the Workplan on the reflector for comment prior to uploading to the ftp site. 33 10) New Business discussion 34

• None identified. 35 11) Outgoing Correspondence decision 36

• None identified. 37 12) Other Business discussion 38

• The Chair solicited further business at this time, and none was identified. 39

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13) Next Meeting decision 1

• 2010-08-03/04 in Denver. 2

• 2011-09-03/04 at TIA HQ, Arlington VA. 3 14) Adjournment 4

A motion to adjourn was accepted at 13:55 local on 2011-06-23. 5 15) TIA Manuals 6

The meeting was conducted in accordance with the TIA Legal Guides and the Engineering Manual. 7

Peter W. Nurse, Chair, 8

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