PTC Protocol Working Group Mar 25, 2004

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PTC Protocol Working GroupMar 25, 2004
PTC-PWG

• Gagan Puranik - Chairman
• Tel [phone]
• Email gagan.puranik_at_mci.com
• 2way 8889447380_at_skytel.com

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History

• PWG formed at PTC meeting in Jackson early 2001
• PWG has received 46 RFCs till date
• PWG has 6 open RFCs
• On May 07, 2002 PWG finalized R2.7.2
  additions/clarifications
• Motorola released R2.7.2 in July 02
• PWG completed Security initiative in Mar 03
• PWG approved TNPP v3.8.1.1 in Sep 03
• Motorola released R2.7.3 in Feb 04

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Protocol Responsibilities

• PWG
• ReFLEX
• TNPP
• TAP

• FLEXsuite
• TDP
• FLEX

• WCTP
• RXP

• Sub-committees
• RXP Chair James Dabbs
• Next Gen Protocols Chair Allan Angus
• WCTP Chair ltOPEN?gt

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Rules of Order

• Membership Limited to PTC members. Each member
  will be entitled to one vote however,
  participation in the ReFLEX discussion is limited
  to ReFLEX Service Operators and Licensees.
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• Enhancement Submission A Change Control Board
  consisting of service operators and two elected
  members (representing different entities) will be
  responsible for the review of suggested
  enhancements and the assignment of champions to
  investigate and present enhancements to the
  Protocol Working Group (PWG) for discussion and
  resolution.

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Rules of Order

• Intellectual Property Rights Any IPR associated
  with any technical proposal made in the Group
  should be declared and, if accepted, be offered
  royalty free.
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• Request Acceptance A technical proposal
  requires a CCB membership vote of fifty one
  percent (51) or more for acceptance.
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• Enhancement Acceptance A technical proposal
  requires a PWG membership vote of seventy five
  percent (75) or more for approval.
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Rules of Order

• Incorporation into the ReFLEX/FLEXsuite
  Specification Motorola will be responsible for
  incorporating any PWG approved technical proposal
  into the Air Interface Standard. A draft copy of
  the specification will be sent to all licensees
  and customer for comments. Upon an acceptable
  review period (not exceeding 90 days) Motorola
  will incorporate any PWG approved changes and
  issue the final release version.
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Rules of Order

• Incorporation into the other Specification
  Appropriate protocol sub-committee will be
  responsible for incorporating any approved
  technical proposal into the specification. A
  draft copy of the specification will be sent to
  all PWG members for comments. Upon an acceptable
  review period any PWG approved changes will be
  incorporated and issue the final release version.
  

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PWG status report

• TNPP
• PWG approved TNPP ver3.8.1 on Sep 23 03
• Is this available on AAPC website?

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PWG status report

• ReFLEX
• Version 2.7.3 released by Motorola on Feb 3, 2004
• New release will include
• RFC_017 - Multipurpose Application Response
  Command
• RFC_024 Registration states
• RFC_026 - Service Level 2
• RFC_029 Standby state Clarification
• RFC_038 - Network Compliance Level
• RFC_039 Waiting state with HIX0
• RFC_045 - Changing Alphanumeric MC to RE
  (Response Enable)
• RFC_046 - Reduced Latency Operation
• RFC_047 Home Not Available response code
• RFC_051 ARSS calculation

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PWG status report

• FLEXsuite - UAR
• UAR v3.0b released on Dec 05 03
• Added Transaction ID and Reference ID for
  threading responses (replies and control
  messages) back to the message.
• Added mutipart field data that allows for a
  single UAR envelope to carry data of multiple
  content types.
• Added wctpto addressing scheme to support
  communication with WMS using industry standard
  WCTP protocol.
• Clarified Port field
• UAR v3.0 scheduled to be released in Apr 04
• Update from Doug Ayerst on AAPC FLEXsuite
  licensing

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PWG status report

• FLEXsuite - CLP
• CLP release scheduled for Apr 04
• RFC_032 - CLP "Get Product Information"
  Protocol field definition for ReFLEX 2.7
• RFC_037 - CLP SL flag and Aloha info

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PWG status report

• WCTP
• No activity since v1.2 release in June 03

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PWG status report

• RXP
• ver2.0 released

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Links.

• Protocol Working Group
• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/PTC-PWG/
• Contact gagan.puranik_at_mci.com to join group
• Responsible for the following protocols
  ReFLEX(TM), FLEX(TM), FLEXsuite(TM), WCTP, RXP,
  TDP, TNPP, TAP
• WCTP
• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/PTC-PWG-WCTP/

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Links.

• RXP
• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/PTC-PWG-RXP/
• Contact jdabbs_at_tga.com to join group
• Next Gen
• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/PTC-PWG-NextGen/
• Contact allan.angus_at_weblinkwireless.com to join
  group

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Links.

• FLEXsuiteTM license
• http//www.motorola.com/flexlicensing
• Processed in few working days.
• Register UAR port/path?
• Email gagan.puranik_at_mci.com
• Phone [phone]

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PTC Protocol Working Group
PTC-PWG

• Gagan Puranik - Chairman
• Tel [phone]
• Email gagan.puranik_at_mci.com
• 2way 8889447380_at_skytel.com