ITUT Products

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ITU-T Products Services

• Greg Jones
• ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
  (ITU-T)
• greg.jones_at_itu.int

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Overview

• ITU-T working methods
• ITU-T studies
• ITU-T products services
• ITU-T strategy and priorities
• Conclusion

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Working methods

• Recommendation A.1
• Contributions
• Delayed Contributions
• Temporary Documents
• Email reflectors
• Informal FTP areas
• Physical meetings
• SG, WP, Rapporteur, Editor
• Recommendation A.9 for SSG

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Approval methods

• TAP traditional approval process (Res. 1)
• Determination at physical meeting
• Approval at physical meeting
• Text available before approval meeting
• AAP alternative approval process (Rec. A.8)
• Consent at physical meeting
• Last call period
• Approval if no substantive comments
• Additional review or revert to SG or TAP
• Non-normative texts approved at Study Group level
• e.g. Appendices, Supplements, Handbooks

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Approval time for ITU-T Recommendations

• Before 1988 4 years
• 1989-1993 2 years
• 1993-1996 18 months
• 1997-2000 9 months (5 months in exceptional
  circumstances)
• 2000 ? Minimum 4 weeks (AAP) 9 months (TAP)
• AAP Alternative Approval Procedure
• TAP Traditional Approval Procedure

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Cooperation

• A.4 Communication with forums/consortia
• A.5 Organizations qualified for referencing
• A.6 Communication with SDOs
• MoUs
• MoU ICANN Protocol Supporting Organization, 14
  July 1999
• MoU between IEC, ISO, ITU and UN/ECE Concerning
  Standardization in the Field of Electronic
  Business, 24 March 2000
• MoU between ITU and ETSI, 14 June 2000

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Migration towards an IP-based backbone network
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GII Technology convergence (based on Figure
5-1/Y.110)
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Ensuring global interoperability

• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Numbering and routing
• Security
• Tariffs and Accounting rates
• Interworking

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ITU-T publications

• Recommendations
• WTSA Resolutions
• Appendices
• Supplements
• Handbooks
• Directives
• ITU Operational Bulletin

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Free and discounted ITU-T publications

• Discounts of 15 and one free online subscription
  are granted to Member States and Sector Members
  participating in the work of ITU.
• A discount of 80 of the catalogue price on all
  ITU publications is granted to Administrations of
  the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as well as
  to libraries of educational institutions (for
  online subscriptions and CD-ROM publications
  only).

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ITU-T Series (A-L)

• Organization of the work of ITU-T
• Means of expression definitions, symbols,
  classification
• General telecommunication statistics
• General tariff principles
• Overall network operation, telephone service,
  service operation and human factors
• Non-telephone telecommunication services
• Transmission systems and media, digital systems
  and networks
• Audiovisual and multimedia systems
• Integrated services digital network
• Transmission of television, sound programme and
  other multimedia signals
• Protection against interference
• Construction, installation and protection of
  cables and other elements of outside plant 

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ITU-T Series (M-Z)

• TMN and network maintenance international
  transmission systems, telephone circuits,
  telegraphy, facsimile and leased circuits
• Maintenance international sound programme and
  television transmission circuits
• Specifications of measuring equipment
• Telephone transmission quality, telephone
  installations, local line networks
• Switching and signalling
• Telegraph transmission
• Telegraph services terminal equipment
• Terminals for telematic services
• Telegraph switching
• Data communication over the telephone network
• Data networks and open system communications
• Global information infrastructure and Internet
  protocol aspects
• Languages and general software aspects for
  telecommunication systems

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Handbooks Directives(recent examples)

• Protection of telecommunication buildings from
  fire (SG6)
• Construction, Installation, Jointing and
  Protection of Optical Fibre Cables (SG6)
• Application of Computers and Microprocessors to
  the Construction, Installation and Protection of
  Telecommunication Cables (SG6)
• Handbook on Marinized Terrestrial Cables (SG6)
• Handbook on interference measuring techniques
• Handbook on Telephonometry (SG12)
• Guide to the use of ITU-T publications produced
  by Study Group 5 aimed at achieving
  electromagnetic compatibility and safety (SG5)
• Directives Concerning the Protection of
  Telecommunication Lines against Harmful Effects
  from Electric Power and Electrified Railway Lines
  (SG5)

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Freely accessible web resources

• ITU-T patent database
• International numbering resources
• A.4, A.5 and A.6 recognized organizations
• Terms and definitions
• List of ITU-T Recommendations
• ITU-T Work programme
• ASN.1 module database new