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October 14, 2019)

Amendments to the Broadband Forum Bylaws were approved on Monday, October 14, 2019.

• Access the currentBroadband Forum Bylaws
• Read the Broadband Forum Statement Regarding Engagement with Companies on BIS Entity List
• Learn more about what changed

August 19, 2019

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Since May 22, 2019, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) has been participating in certain 5G standards development activities within The Broadband Forum (“BBF”), pursuant to the Temporary General License (Supplement No. 7 to Part 744 to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations) granted by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce on May 22, 2019 (the “TGL”).  Under paragraph 4(c) of the TGL, BIS granted temporary authority (through August 19, 2019) for U.S. persons and entities to engage with Huawei and/or the sixty-eight non-U.S. Huawei affiliates that were added to the BIS’ Entity List on May 16, 2019, “as necessary for the development of 5G standards as part of a duly recognized international standards body”. 

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Broadband Forum Work Area	Broadband Forum Project	Additional Comments
Access and Transport Architecture	Mobile Transport and Routing (MT&R) Project Stream Packet Optical Evolution (POE) Project Stream Cloud Interconnect (CI) Project Stream Multi-Service Disaggregated BNG with CUPS
Broadband User Services	Data Modeling Project Stream Device Requirements Project Stream	Specifically work relating to the definition of data models and requirements for 5G RG devices.
Fiber Access Networks	PON Based Mobile Backhaul PON Abstraction Layer Project Stream - FAN
SDN and NFV	CloudCO Project Stream Fixed Access Network Sharing (FANS) Automated Intelligent Management (AIM)
Wireless-Wireline -Wireless Convergence	5G Project Stream Converged Policy and Control Project Stream Hybrid Access Project Stream

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