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Call to order January 25, 2024 08:30 CET by Jessy Rouyer, acting Chair ("Chair"), who presided. Johannes Specht, acting Secretary ("Secretary"), wrote the minutes.

The following list reflects the attendance and affiliation of participants who recorded their attendance in IMAT or provided it separately.

Alexandris, Konstantinos	Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
Assmann, Ralf	Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Bao, Huajie	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Bottorff, Paul	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hantel, Mark	Rockwell Automation
Kehrer, Stephan	Hirschmann Automation and Control, Inc.
Kiessling, Marcel	Beckhoff Automation
Li, Yizhou	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Lyu, Yunping(Lily)	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Mansfield, Scott	Telefon AB LM Ericsson
Nakano, Hiroki	CAHI Corporation; Kyoto University
Proell, Dieter	Siemens AG
Rouyer, Jessy	Nokia
Seaman, Michael	Individual
Seewald, Maik	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Sivakolundu, Ramesh	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Specht, Johannes	Self
Varga, Balazs	Ericsson AB
Venkatesan, Ganesh	Intel
Winkel, Ludwig	PNO e.V.
Zein, Nader	NEC Europe (NLE)

Agenda items and dispositions:

1. Meeting introduction and other administrative items.
The IEEE SA slides on IEEE Patent Policy and IEEE SA Copyright and Participation Policies were provided beforehand as part of "MEETING INTRODUCTION" https://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/templates/admin-prePAR-intro-0323-v01.pdf. The Nendica Chair showed this presentation advising that the following applies:
- IEEE SA’s copyright policy is described in Clause 7 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Bylaws and Clause 6.1 of the IEEE SA Standards Board Operations Manual;
- Any material submitted during the Nendica meeting, whether verbal, recorded, or in written form, is a Contribution and shall comply with the IEEE SA Copyright Policy.

The Chair asked participants to record their attendance in IMAT and, if they are unable to do so, to promptly provide their affiliation to the minute taker.

2. Approval of agenda. The Mentor server document list was noted.

Disposition: The agenda was reviewed and agreed (informally, none dissenting) as https://1.ieee802.org/802-nendica-agenda-2024-01-25/.

3. Minutes. 

The Chair reviewed the draft "Minutes of the Nendica meeting held 2024-01-11 09:00-11:00 ET" https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=STDS-802-1-MINUTES;5c33de76.24, noting that subsequent teleconference meetings had not been held due to lack of contributions.

Disposition: The draft minutes could not be approved. A revision of the draft minutes is subject for approval in a subsequent meeting. Revision published post-session: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=STDS-802-NEND;7b490d9e.24&S=.

4. CTF Study Item.

No discussion.

5. Vetting and New Topics.

Yunping(Lily) Lyu presented the contribution "Study Item Proposal: Network for AI Computing" https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/dcn/24/1-24-0005-03-ICne-study-item-proposal-ai-computing-network.pdf.

Disposition: 
Presentation discussed. Further discussion needed. Discussion on a draft motion "To initiate a Study Item on "Computing Network"." (Mover: Yunping(Lily) Lyu, Second: Nader Zein) started and can continue at a subsequent meeting. 

Contribution "Load balancing challenges in AI fabric" https://mentor.ieee.org/802.1/dcn/24/1-24-0004-04-ICne-load-balancing-challenges-in-ai-fabric.pdf by Ruixue Wang has been deferred due to the lack of time. In addition, the Chair noted that the contribution may not comply with the IEEE policies and should be reviewed and (if neccessary) revised accordingly by the contributor.

6. Future Meetings.

The schedule for the next meeting, at the January Interim session, was discussed. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday January 25, 08:00-10:00 CET, with Jessy Rouyer presiding. One contribution is currently listed on the agenda. A second one was added, with the title yet undetermined. Addition contributions can be considered.

7. Any Other Business.

No other business was discussed by Nendica in this meeting.

Meeting adjourned 10:02 CET

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