Re: [6gip] 6G in 3GPP?

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Me too I would like to ask I would like whether someone knows of a 
document on the 3gpp.org site that has the term '6G' in it?

Le 12/01/2021 à 17:55, Flinck, Hannu (Nokia - FI/Espoo) a écrit :
> Hello Alexandre
> 
> In your slides you claim the 6G is discussed in Rel 17. Can you tell in 
> which document or WG?
> 
> I am involved quite a bit in 3GPP as well as in 6G research and I am not 
> aware of any of such discussion.
> 
> Without a reference I must consider that statement be misinformation.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Hannu

Thanks for having gone through the slides; the slides tried to summarize 
the discussions on the email list at that time.

It might be that a potential reationship between 3GPP and 6G to be a 
stretch.

I might bear responsibility of having misread the emails, or read them 
too quickly, when drawing a conclusion that 3GPP might work on 6G, and 
writing that down.  Sorry for misunderstanding.

We had some mention on this list of an NGMN alliance (Next Generation 
Mobile Networks) which initiated a task force on 6G; elsewhere, NGMN is 
ack'ed as a contributor to 3GPP by a wikipedia article.  That might make 
it that 3GPP might have some work on 6G.

It might be that some discussions between usual contributors to 3GPP 
might have mentioned 6G even though there might be no document on 
3gpp.org that reads '6G'.  For my part, I do not know what document is 
Rel 17 more precisely, but I suspect I could find Rel 17 on 3gpp.org.

It might be that other industry alliances (e.g. 5GAA) could be outright 
opposed to work on things deemed "6G".  It might be that such 
opposition is supported by other funding bodies.  I do not know why the 
opposition, but that is the way it is.

If, for some reason, 3GPP considers the talk of 6G to be too early, and 
why not potentially disruptive to the ongoing work of 5G, then that is a 
3GPP problem to solve.  That would not be the only problem they should 
address.  I suspect a ling standing problem is even the name "3G" in a 
3GPP working on something else than 3G (e.g. 3GPP working on 4G or 5G).

I want to tell also that there might be other problems of 5G, on which 
3GPP works, and which deserve attention.

Such problems could be solved by working on something new, like 6G.

It is a speculation from my part.

I would like to ask others whether someone knows of a document on the 
3gpp.org site that has the term '6G' in it?

Alex