[Ground-station] IEEE P1954 working group invitation

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings all,

I have updates on ORI's participation in standards working groups at IEEE,
and working groups for FCC TAC.

So far Matthew Wishek, Anshul Makkar, Andreas Schwarzinger, (and presumably
Leondard Dieguez) are interested in tracking/participating in an IEEE drone
standards working group.

We received the invitation and we have communicated our interest.

I will publicize any information I receive, but if you are interested in
participating directly or in supporting those of us that are, please let me
know?

I'm looking forward to this work - there's quite a bit of good stuff in the
summary and the vision for the standard plays to our strengths at ORI.

It will be a positive force to have a strong open source and open protocol
voice in this working group, especially due to the use of microwave amateur
bands for advanced drone work.

For more information on the working group we were invited to join please
see

https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1954/10686/

In other working group news, ORI's term on FCC's Technological Advisory
Council starts this week. We will be participating in the 6G and Advanced
Spectrum Sharing working groups. We will be looking out for any threat to
amateur radio (VHF and above) along with speaking up for open protocols,
open standards, and quality open source work.

We can nominate additional representatives to the FCC TAC, and this would
be a great time to step up. If you have time for weekly meetings and the
writing of recommendations for the FCC on behalf of our community, please
get in touch. The term runs through September 2025, with a final meeting
expected in DC in December 2025. You will be vetted by the FCC, who will be
looking for conflicts of interest and appearances of impropriety. You will
be expected to understand and follow FACA rules.

https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/policy/federal-advisory-committee-management/advice-and-guidance/faca-brochure

The vetting process is positive and relatively painless. FACA rules are not
overly burdensome.

The US government values the opinions of the TAC, our service last term was
deeply appreciated, and we made a material difference for open source and
the amateur radio service. Weekly meetings are virtual, last about an hour,
and the job requires some additional time outside of meetings to contribute
to the work products of that working group.

Thank you to all who make it possible for this work to continue to grow and
expand. We couldn't do these sorts of things without your broad and
continuing support.

-Michelle Thompson
CEO ORI
858 229 3399



On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 9:50 AM Michelle Thompson <
mountain.michelle at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably related to recent activity in #neptune, but we were
> invited to join a standards effort at IEEE. (IEEE P1954)
>
> “This standard defines an architecture and protocols to enable
> self-organizing spectrum-agile communications among unmanned aerial
> vehicles. The standard enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to
> automatically build a network exploiting available spectrum resources and
> deploy connectivity to terrestrial users and devices. The standard focuses
> on enabling the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles for fast network
> deployment. This standard does not cover specific communication
> technologies, but it is expected to leverage existing communication
> standards while introducing additional functionalities at system level.”
>
> If you’re interested in this, please let me know? I sent an email to get
> on the notification list for the meeting. Kick off is 10 April.
>
> Get in touch with the working group chair and program manager directly
> here:
>
> For additional information, please contact:
>
> IEEE P1954™ Working Group Chair:
>
> Fabrizio Granelli
> Email: fabrizio.granelli at unitn.it
>
>
> IEEE SA Program Manager:
>
> Jennifer Santulli
> Email: j.santulli at ieee.org
>
>
>
> -Michelle Thompson
>
>
>
>
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