Updated Requirements doc and Action Items
Hello 802.21 folks,
An updated version of Requirements draft (version 9) is about to be
posted on the 802.21 web site under September 2004. This contains all
agreed upon changes from last teleconference on 8/12. Also available
there are the minutes of last teleconference from Xiaoyu Liu.
The following two comments from the Unresolved_Comments list remain
unresolved after the telecon on 8/12:
1] Section 5.2 (Reijo)
Comment 1 on chapter 5.2 on rev 7 requirement document:
The following text:
"The 802.21 standard shall facilitate handover scenarios related to
WLAN-cellular inter-working as specified by Scenarios 4 and 5 in 3GPP
standard."
Should be either removed, or rewritten in the following way:
"The 802.21 standard shall facilitate service continuity and seamless
operation in the handover process between the IEEE 802 and Non-IEEE
Cellular
systems."
This text would consider also other than WLAN systems (802.11?) from 802
and have the requirement in clear text what the scenarios from 3GPP are
aiming at. Then it is up to the proposals to come out with a solution
how this could be achieved. As mentioned before there is very little
information available about the details of the scenarios 4 and 5 from
3GPP side, so it is not possible to evaluate the proposals on this
requirement as it is written now in the requirement spec.
2] Section 6 Reference Model (Eric)
It is not clear from the document where an input to any particular
layer comes from and which direction (up or down) the output is directed
at
In addition there was new text submitted for section 6.2 by Reijo and
Peretz.
Please refer to following documents on 802.21 website under September
2004.
a]21-04-0087-08-0000-Draft_Technical_Requirements_seesta.doc and
b] Draft_Technical_Requirements_section6_2_pfe.doc.
Additional new comments were submitted by Yogesh on 8/11. Please refer
to:
Unresolved_Comments_9Aug04_Yogesh_Input.
Below are the Action items along with dates when they were assigned:
1] Resolve definitions of application classes in section 3.2 [Yogesh,
8/9]
2] Resolve definition of active and deep power management states in
section 3.7 [Yogesh/Peretz 8/12]
3] "The standard shall define generic mechanisms for providing layer 1
(PHY), layer 2 (MAC), and layer 2.5 (Mobility Management) information to
higher layer entity such as Mobile IP."
Provide alternative text for above. [Cheng Hong/Eric 8/12] (Done)
4] Submit list of normative references from IETF {[Eric 8/12]
5] Submit list of references from IEEE [Yogesh 8/12]
6] Submit list of references from 3GPP/3GPP2 [Yogesh/Peretz 8/12]
7] Submit text to distinguish definition of L2 and L2.5 between 802 and
cellular technologies in glossary [Yogesh 8/12]
All the documents referenced above have been forwarded to the chair so
that they can be posted on the 802.21 website under September 2004.
Best Regards
-Vivek