TR-42 Closing Plenary – February 2021

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TR42-2021-02-012

TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Engineering Committee

Date:                            February 5, 2021

Time:                            9:30AM-12:00PM CST

Location:                      Virtual GoToWebinar

Chair:                            Greg Sandels

Vice Chair:                    Henry Franc

Secretary:                     Jonathan Jew

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1. Administrative/General Business
   • Call to Order
   • Attendance (Call Quorum, Introductions, Roster)
   • Current Meeting Agenda Review and Approval
   • Previous Meeting Report Review and Approval
   • TIA Intellectual Property Rights (Early Disclosure Policy)

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• Distribution of documents and contributions

2. Old Business
   • Liaison Letters received since the opening plenary
   • Subcommittee reports and plenary action
     • TR-42.1 – Generic Telecommunications Cabling and Premises Cabling
     • TR-42.3 – Telecommunications Administration, Pathways, Spaces, Bonding and Grounding
     • TR-42.5 – Telecommunications Infrastructure Terms and Symbols
     • TR-42.7 – Telecommunications Copper cabling Systems
     • TR-42.9 – Industrial Telecommunications Infrastructure
     • TR-42.11 – Optical Fiber Systems
     • TR-42.12 – Optical Fibers and cables
     • TR-42.13 – Passive Optical devices and Fiber Optics Metrology
   • NEC public input task group
   • Replacement for TIA Representative for NFPA Panel 16
   • Status of document sharing agreement between TIA and IEEE (Andrew Kurtzman, TIA General Counsel)
   • Other old business
3. New business and output documents
   • TIA Agenda and report new templates
   • Output documents
     • US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC25/WG3
     • IEEE 802.3
     • Other output documents
   • Other new business
   • Actions derived from this meeting
4. Photography contest

5. Upcoming Meetings
6. June 7-11, 2021 – Date fixed – Location TBD, preferably in Canada (e.g., Quebec City, Toronto)
   • Subsequent Meetings

• October 1-4, 2021- date tentative, location TBD

7. Meeting schedule for June 7-11, 2021
8. Adjournment

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