3GPP TSG-T2 #7 / ETSI SMG4
Ystad, SWEDEN, 22-26 November 1999	TSGT2#7(99)0994	

Agenda Item:	

Source:	Telia AB

Title:	Summary of the discussion

Document for:	Information

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The report on “Multi-mode UE issues” was presented for information both on the last T2 and T meeting and caused lots of discussions on both meetings. To end the discussion and get other delegates the opportunity to give comments it was proposed to arrange a workshop to discuss these questions.

The report was further discussed during the SA meeting and the RAN delegates expressed their concern that they did not have the time to go to more meetings. The work with finalising the RAN specifications for R99 was enough. Instead the chairman of RAN 2 volunteered to draft a new, narrower scope of the report and to send some comments on the content in accordance to the work going on in the RAN groups.

This procedure was accepted by the chair of SWG5 after a short e-mail discussion with the T2 chairman that started with a summary of the discussion in SA sent out on the e-mail reflector by the T2 chairman at 15 October. As an answer to this summary and the e-mail discussion, a clarification on the procedure for future work with the report was not sent out 4 November. 

The new scope was sent to and discussed on the SWG5 e-mail reflector and the final version was agreed at 2 November. It narrows the content of the report to include mostly the implications of the type 2 terminal on the network when roaming and for service continuation when performing handover. Among a lot of changes the biggest are that the name of the report was changes once again to “Multi-mode UE issues” and the definition of “system” was deleted and changed to either “radio access technology” or “mode”.

A new version of the report (v 1.1.0) was sent out on the SWG5-reflector for comments at 8 November. After a week no comment were received but still another version of the report was sent out (v 1.2.0) at 15 November that clarifies the requirements on the types of terminals and what requirements the different types of terminals demand from the network. This version was also sent to RAN2 and SA2 for comments.

However, SA2 found it to be to short time for commenting and because of that a special agreement was worked out. The report will be discussed at our meeting and will hopefully be approved to v 2.0.0. The week after our meeting SA2 will have their meeting and in that meeting they will treat and comment the report. If they have any comments they will be summarised in an LS back to us that will be sent as soon as possible, perhaps before the meeting is over. The comments will then be included in the report and another version of the report will be sent out to the T-reflector for comments at least one week before the last T-meeting of this year. This makes it possible for everyone in T to give comments on the comments from SA2.

No comments have been received from RAN2.

During this time a request for volunteers to produce some text about the work going on in the other working groups was sent out but so far no one has accepted to be a volunteer. For this meeting Telia has produced some material to be included in chapter 7 of the report. This input tries to summarise the situation in some of the working groups (SA, SA1, SA2, RAN2, T2 and T3) and does a small evaluation about the work.

That ends the summary of the work processed on the report 21.910 “Multi-mode UE issues” between T2#6 and T2#7.