NTIA CSMAC Meeting - April 25, 2018 H. MARK GIBSON: Good morning. Whoa, hi everyone. [Inaudible] welcome to theCSMAC meeting. Okay, good. Welcome to the CSMAC meeting. We are a few headsdown but we have a full agenda, so let's go ahead and press on, and those that aren'there have to play the reindeer games. So a couple things on logistics, as you will note,the microphones are somewhat sparse today. These microphones, Dave correct me ifI'm wrong, are the ones that we need to be using? Okay so when you put your table tentup what we will do is try to identify your guys and get the microphone passed. Pleasewait until the microphone is in front because this is obviously being recorded as well asbeing transcripted. The little ones, what are the little ones for? Just the room? [Inaudible voice off microphone] H. MARK GIBSON: That's a little bit of logistics. The mic situation is what it is, so wewill work with it. We’ll work with it. That is it on logistics. Thank you to Mark and the lawfirm for, Morgan Lewis, I forget the last name, but Morgan Lewis sorry about that. Thankyou. Thank you. I apologize. I thought I had in my head. No. But thank you anyhow.These are very nice digs, so thank you very much. Very easy to find. It's nice to be in alarge space. So, thank you so much for this. I think that's a lot of the logistics to get outof the way. Anything else we need? Okay so let's get... [Inaudible voice off microphone] H. MARK GIBSON: That's fine. Thank you. All right. Yeah. Let's do a quick around thetable so we can do a rollcall. Carl, let's start with you and we will go clockwise. [inaudible voice off microphone] ALLEN MACKENZIE: Allen MacKenzie, Virginia Tech RICK REASER: Rick Reaser from Raytheon MARK CROSBY: Mark Crosby, EWA PAUL KOLODZY: Paul Kolodzy, Kolodzy consulting MARK RACEK: Mark Racek, Erikkson. MICHAEL CALABRESE: Michael Calabrese, New American Foundation DAVE REDL: David Redl, NTIA LARRY ALDER: Larry Alder: [inaudible] H. MARK GIBSON: Mark Gibson, COM search PAIGE ATKINS: Paige Atkins NTIA [inaudible voice off microphone] DENNIS ROBERSON: Dennis Roberson, Roberson and Associates and Illinois Instituteof technology [inaudible voice off microphone] BRYAN TRAMONT Brian Tremont, [inaudible] [inaudible] CHARLA RATH: Charla Rath, with Verizon DALE HATFIELD: Dale Hatfield, University of Colorado CAROLYN KAHN: Carolyn Kahn, Mitre PAUL ANUSZKIEWICZ: Paul Anuszkiewicz, CTIA H. MARK GIBSON: Okay and Steve Sharkey just walked in. [Laughter] H. MARK GIBSON: This is like last night’s White House dinner, Steve Sharkey. Yes.Yeah. Okay so that is the CSMAC members in the room. Are there CSMAC memberson the phone? JENNIFER WARREN: Yes hi, Jennifer Warren. H. MARK GIBSON: Hi Jennifer. JENNIFER WARREN: Hi. H. MARK GIBSON: Kurt, you on the phone? Okay. And Bob Weller, are you on thephone? Okay. Too bad. Okay. Then let's go around the room, same direction forvisitors. Let's start... [Inaudible voices off microphone] H. MARK GIBSON: Okay, so that's it for logistics. Everybody should know where therestrooms are. I hope. If not, ask one of them. That I think is it for the logistics and thecheck in. So without further ado I'd like to introduce Dave Redl who's going to makesome comments. Welcome, Dave. Thank you for being here. DAVID REDL: Well thanks guys. Good morning. Welcome to the first CSMAC meetingof the year that also happens to be my first, which I'd have to say out front I'm excited tobe here. I know most of you. I've had the opportunity to work with the vast majority ofyou over the last 15 years of my career, which has been entirely spent in some way shape or form working on spectrum policy. So I'm really excited to be here and get dugin on the hard work that you are all doing. I know we are at that point now where it's time to start looking at teeing up questions forthe next CSMAC which we’ll be constituting this year and the next cycle should be aninteresting one based on all the work that this group has done and the work that hasbeen teed up by Congress and by the administration going forward. I think it is worthstarting off by noting that this group was ahead of the curve. And I thank you all for allthe work that we've been doing that now has been memorialized in mobile now act,which was passed as part of Ray [Baum’s] act in the Congress. The work you guyshave been doing on finding ways to incentivize federal government spectrum users toget more efficient and finding ways to promote deployment on federal lands has been agood groundwork, a very good groundwork for us to get started from. We are nowdigging in with a renewed vigor based on these, at NTIA to make sure that we cancomply with what Congress has asked us to do but also so that we can continue thegood work of this group. Among the other things we’ll be working on beyond those few that have already beenmentioned, identifying potential bands for repurposing in both the low and mid bands,these are priorities in the