e-mail Rel-18 Workshop and TSG SA#93-e announcement from the TSG SA Chair, 29 June 2021 =================================================== Dear SA, After the SA#92-e plenary meeting please find below an updated announcement of the September workshop and what Rel-18 work is planned in SA#93-e. Cheers, Georg September 2021 SA Rel-18 Workshop - Date: Thursday 9 and Friday 10 September 2021, three hour GTM sessions each day (12:30 – 15:30 UTC) - You are encouraged to register early for the workshop here: https://portal.3gpp.org/#/registration?MtgId=60202 - Main purpose: o Bring all of SA up-to date on the status of and plans for Rel-18 o Give companies the opportunity to indicate, discuss and possibly synchronize their Rel-18 plans o Offload the main SA plenary meeting o Prepare for joint session with RAN and CT on Rel-18 planning during plenary week - The workshop will have no decision power, all presentations will be informal. - Deadline for uploading contributions is Monday, September 6, 12:00 UTC. Contributions uploaded after this time will be regarded as “late” and will only be presented at the end of the workshop if all contributions which were received in-time have been served already. - Contributions will only be presented online, i.e. the workshop will not involve any detailed e-mail discussions. - WG chairs of affected WGs should present quick overview (10 min max) of o status of Rel-18 work in their group o already foreseeable cross-WG and cross-TSG issues o already foreseeable complications (e.g. workload from Rel-17 eating up time from Rel-18 items, …) o indicate whether they see a need for prioritization of their items - Company contributions on Rel-18 plans and priorities o Especially joint contributions from multiple companies are invited, as this means that companies will already coordinate offline before the meeting. o Presentation & discussion time will be a maximum of 10 minutes. This might change if we see that the amount of contributions exceeds the available time. o A company can contribute only one presentation on their own, but can co-sign several multi-company presentations. o MRPs / Vertical Organizations can be named as contributors, but in those cases it is required that at least one company is co-signing such presentations. o Short Q&A after each presentation, if the presentation time did not exceed the time limit. - If by the deadline more contributions are received than can be managed in the available time, then presentations will be selected by a random process. The details of this process will be decided after the contribution deadline by the chair, the MCC and VCs of the meeting. September 2021 SA Plenary - SA1 Rel-18 work needs to be 80% complete. - Please register for the meeting here: https://portal.3gpp.org/#/registration?MtgId=60072 - Contribution deadline, GTM sessions and other details of the meeting will be announced once the agenda for the meeting is made available. - For all WGs which foresee possible prioritization (assumption at the moment is that this will be SA2 only) of their S/WIs should provide at least a list of all foreseeable Rel-18 S/WIs to SA#93-e. If time in the WG permits, then “technically endorsed/correct” or “approved” versions of these S/WIs can be discussed in Q3 and would be helpful input to the September Plenary. Please see the related guidance given by SA#92-e. - Companies can contribute individual S/WI’s to SA#93-e, but there is no guarantee if there will be time to discuss them in detail. - Approval of candidate list of S/WIs for the groups which need SA level prioritization. - Joint session with SA, RAN and CT for early coordination of Rel-18 work and cross-TSG items (planned for Thursday, for about one hour – more information to follow before the meeting). - Possible discussions and synchronization with RAN on Rel-18 timeline. - The September plenary will not approve the content of Rel-18. - SA#93-e might come up with a guidance on which Rel-18 S/WIs SA2 (and possibly others) should work in Q4/2021. Delegates need to be prepared for such discussions. Whether this discussion takes place is dependent on the Rel-18 work progress in SA2 during Q3 and the available time in SA2 during Q4 2021. -- Georg Mayer 3GPP SA Chair Huawei Technologies +43 699 1900 5758