Roger commented that he has some proposals about how the group can be a bit more formal and progress the work. Activity guidelines Roger presented an introductory slide set: including meeting guidelines (slide 2) and participation (slide 3). Agenda approval Roger presented the proposed agenda (slide 4). Roger pointed out that the agenda proposed to first address process issues, and he noted the meeting may run past 21:30. He asked for comments on the agenda. Yin Yue mentioned that he would present document 0012 on behalf of Jianglong Wang, who could not attend. The agenda was then approved as proposed, without objection. Background review and current activity led a review of Nendica, per slides 5-7. He noted that the ICA could be extended beyond the current March 2019 expiration and that the group should be thinking about such an extension by the end of the year if it looks to be moving in that direction. Report Progression Process Roger then presented his Proposed Nendica Report Progression Process: This proposed to formalize the development of the NEND ICA report as a set of deliverables on specific topics. It suggested that work be organized as a set of semi-autonomous Work Items leading to Nendica Reports. The intentions are to steer the activity toward the production of high-quality documentation of significance, and to stimulate the engagement of interested parties in both the Work Item and Nendica as a whole. The proposal included numerous procedural details for initiating Work Items and approved Nendica Reports. It indicated that new Work Items could be initiated by Nendica vote at a face-to-face meeting. It proposed that the two ongoing efforts (Flexible Factory IoT and Lossless Network for Data Centers) be recognized as approved Work Items.
Marks indicated that he would coordinate with the organizers of the May interims sessions and attempt to secure suitable facilities. Work Item Contributions Nader Zein presented the current draft of the “Flexible Factory IoT” Work Item: He spoke about recent and anticipated additions to the report. He pointed out the notation of text boxes for editor’s notes/comments and clarified that they are not part of the report. Roger noted that, in the interests of time, further discussion on the presentation should be taken up with Nader outside the meeting. Paul Congdon presented “Lossless Networks for Data Center Report Update.” Latest draft of that report is Presentation included a list of the work’s contributors/supporters. Roger suggested that discussion on the presentation should be taken up with Paul outside the meeting. Technical Contributions Li Jie presented “Standard and Industry Progress of Lossless Network in China.” Guo Liang presented “Application Scene of Lossless Network.” Some discussion ensued regarding the Storage Traffic slide and the “packet size” data presented there. Yin Yue presented “China Telecom’s Demand & Practice in the Lossless DC Network.” AOB A new attendee asked where these presentations could be found. Roger described the process of finding the Nendica documents on mentor.ieee.org at . He then made some closing comments about moving the two existing reports forward, and encouraged discussion regarding new or existing topics or approaches. The chair closed the meeting at 21:21.