ITUT Products and Services

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ITU-T Products and Services

• Tatiana Kurakova
• Telecommunication Standardization Sector
• Engineer
• 7 October 2003, Tashkent

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Outline of Presentation

• ITU-T Recommendations
• ITU-T Software
• International Country Codes
• ITU Operational Bulletin
• ITU-T Handbooks and Guides
• ITU-T Databases
• Other ITU-T texts
• ITU-T Study Groups meetings
• ITU-T Workshops
• ITU-T Special projects
• ITU-T Membership

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ITU-T Recommendations

• Although ITU-T Recommendations are non-binding,
  they are generally complied with due to their
  high quality and because they guarantee the
  interconnectivity of networks and enable
  telecommunication services to be provided on a
  worldwide scale.

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ITU-T Software

• Several ITU-T Recommendations include
  deliverables on electronic support. Those
  deliverables are software, test data, speech
  data, digitized test charts, formal descriptions
  and SDL diagrams in reprocessable format, which
  are key elements for Recommendation quality
  issue.

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International Country Code (1/3)

• List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 assigned
  Country Codes (Complement to
• ITU-T Recommendation E.164) (Position on 1
  May 2002)
• List of Mobile Country or Geographical Area Codes
  (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation
  E.212)(Position on 1 March 2003)
• List of Data Country or Geographical Area Codes
  (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation
  X.121)(Position on 15 July 2000)

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International Country Code (2/3)

• List of Telex Destination Codes (TDC) and Telex
  Network Identification Codes (TNIC) (Complement
  to ITU-T Recommendations F.69 and F.68)(Position
  on 31 May 1999)
• List of Signalling Area/Network Codes (SANC)
  (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation Q.708
  (03/99))(Position on 1 April 2001)

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International Country Code (3/3)

• Five-letter Code Groups for the use of the
  International Public Telegram Service (According
  to ITU-T Recommendation F.1 (03/98))
• (Position on 1 April 2001)
• List of Country or Geographical Area Codes for
  non standard facilities in telematic services
  (Complement to ITU-T Recommendation T.35)
  (Position on 15 June 2002)

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ITU Operational Bulletin

• A fortnight publication containing administrative
  and operational information exchanged between
  Administrations and Recognized Operating Agencies
  (ROAs) and other service providers, entities and
  organizations, in respect to international
  telecommunication services. Various lists
  containing codes, numbers or
• indicators allocated to countries or operators
• are published as Annexes to the Operational
  Bulletin.

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Handbooks and guides

• Various handbooks, guides, directives and
• informative texts are published on different
  subjects such as operation, network planning,
  outside plant, IMT-2000 Deployment, measurement
  methods and formal languages as requested by the
  study groups and the World Telecommunication
  Standardization Assembly.

ITU-T Handbook
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ITU-T Databases (1/4)

• Recommendation list database
• This database traces all Recommendation history
  and is the basis of ITU-T Recommendation list
  publication.

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ITU-T Databases (2/4)

• Patent database This database is used to alert
  users that they need to contact the organizations
  which have sent Patent Statements to the Director
  of TSB, in order to determine if patent licenses
  must be obtained for the application of a
  particular Recommendation. The Statements may
  contain information on specific patents or give a
  general statement about an organization's
  compliance with ITU-T Patent Policy for a
  particular Recommendation.

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ITU-T Databases (3/4)

• ITU-T Terms and definitions database (SANCHO)
• This database groups more than 18,718
  definitions and 16,406 abbreviations published
  in ITU-T Recommendations. It is permanently
  updated, new definitions replacing the old ones
  as soon as revised Recommendations are published.
  This database is an essential tool for
  terminology coherence in the field of global
  telecommunications standardization.

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ITU- Databases (4/4)

• ITU-T Work Program database
• This database is a follow-up of ITU-T Study
  groups activity planning, and is the basis for
  the work program publication for every ITU-T
  Study Group. For TSB it is the source for the
  planning of ITU-T activities. Trough queries
  selecting Standardization Areas and domains
  included on it one can have a paramount vision
  on standardization activities carried out in
  ITU-T.

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Other ITU-T texts (1/7)

• Annex
• An annex to a Recommendation contains material
  (e.g. technical detail or explanation) which is
  necessary to its overall completeness and
  comprehensibility and is therefore considered an
  integral part of the Recommendation.
• As an integral part of the Recommendation,
  approval of an annex follows Resolution 1
  procedures.
• NOTE in joint ITU-T ISO/IEC texts, this
  element is called an "integral annex".

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Other ITU-T texts (2/7)

• Appendix
• An appendix to a Recommendation contains material
  which is supplementary to and associated with the
  subject matter of the Recommendation but is not
  essential to its completeness or
  comprehensibility and is therefore not considered
  to be an integral part of the Recommendation and
  thus does not require approval according to
  Resolution 1 procedures agreement by the Study
  Group is sufficient. An appendix is translated,
  upon advice from a Study Group, in the working
  languages for publication after agreement by the
  Study Group to append the proposed text.
• NOTE In joint ITU-T ISO/IEC texts, this
  element is called a "non-integral annex".

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Other ITU-T texts (3/7)

• Addendum
• An addendum to a Recommendation contains
  additions to an already published ITU-T
  Recommendation. The addendum is published by the
  ITU-T as a separate document that contains
  primarily additions. If it forms an integral part
  of the Recommendation, approval of an addendum
  follows Resolution 1 procedures otherwise it is
  agreed by the Study Group.

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Other ITU-T texts (4/7)

• Amendment
• An amendment to a Recommendation contains
  changes to an already published ITU-T
  Recommendation. The amendment is published by the
  ITU-T as a separate document that contains
  primarily changes. If it forms an integral part
  of the Recommendation, approval of an amendment
  follows Resolution 1 procedures otherwise it is
  agreed by the Study Group.
• NOTE In joint ITU-T ISO/IEC texts, this
  element is called an "amendment" to include both
  modifications and additions.

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Other ITU-T texts (5/7)

• Corrigendum
• A corrigendum to a Recommendation contains
  corrections to an already published ITU-T
  Recommendation. A corrigendum is published by the
  ITU-T as a separate document that contains only
  corrections. The TSB may correct obvious errors
  by issuing a corrigendum with the concurrence of
  the Study Group Chairman otherwise approval of a
  corrigendum follows Resolution 1 procedures.
• NOTE In joint ITU-T ISO/IEC texts, this
  element is
• called a "technical corrigendum".

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Other ITU-T texts (6/7)
Supplement A supplement contains material which
is supplementary to and associated with the
subject matter of one or more Recommendations,
such as the M series of Recommendations, but is
not essential to its completeness or
comprehensibility and is therefore not considered
to be an integral part of any Recommendation(s).
As such, a supplement does not require approval
according to Resolution 1 procedures agreement
by the Study Group is sufficient. A supplement
is similar to an appendix except that it is
published by the ITU-T as a separate document. A
supplement may be given a specific title, such as
"technical report", "handbook", etc., as directed
by the Study Group. A supplement is translated,
upon advice from a Study Group, in the working
languages for publication after agreement by the
Study Group to issue the supplement.
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Other ITU-T texts (7/7)

• Implementors' guide
• An implementors' guide is a document which
  records all identified defects (e.g.
  typographical errors, editorial errors,
  ambiguities, omissions or inconsistencies, and
  technical errors) associated with a
  Recommendation or a set of Recommendations and
  their status of correction, from their
  identification to final resolution.
• An implementors' guide is issued by the ITU-T
  following agreement by a Study Group. Typically,
  defect corrections are first collected in an
  implementors' guide and, at a time deemed
  appropriate by the Study Group, they are used to
  produce a corrigendum or are included as
  revisions to a Recommendation.

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ITU-T SG meetings

• SG 2 - Operational aspects of service provision,
  networks and performance(Florianopolis, Brazil,
  25 - 31 October 2003)
• SG 15 - Optical and other transport networks
• (Geneva, 21 - 31 October 2003)
• TSAG - Telecommunication Standardization
  Advisory Group
• (Geneva, 10 - 14 November 2003)
• SG 3 - Tariff and accounting principles including
  related telecommunications economic and policy
  issues(Geneva, 17 - 21 November 2003)
• SSG - Special Study Group "IMT-2000 and
  Beyond(Geneva, 17 - 21 November 2003)
• SG 6 - Outside plant
• (Hanoi, Vietnam, 25 - 28 November 2003)

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ITU-T Workshops

• Accessibility II Communication by all means
  Accessibility for all in telecommunications
  enabled by multimedia standards(a special
  session at the Telecom 2003 Forum)Geneva, 12 -
  17 October 2003
• Workshop on Outside Plant for the Access
  NetworkHanoi, Vietnam, 24 November 2003
• Workshop on Telecom and Automotive
  IndustriesGeneva, 24 - 25 November 2003

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Recent ITU-T Workshops

• Accessibility I ITU Takes Deaf People's
  Accessibility Needs Into Account
• (a plenary Session within the Telecommunications
  for the
• Deaf (TDI) Conference) - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
  
• 14 - 16 July 2003
• Workshop on Next Generation Networks What, When
  and How?
• "Encompassing Services, Transport Convergence,
  mobility issues and more - Geneva, 9 - 10 July
  2003
• Workshop on challenges, perspectives and
  standardization issues in E-Government
• Geneva, 5 - 6 June 2003

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ITU-T Membership

• 189 Member States (Countries)
• 162 recognized operating agencies
• 191 scientific or industrial organization
• 5 entities dealing with telecommunications
• 80 Associates
• 26 regional and other international organizations
• 10 regional telecommunication organizations
• 1 intergovernmental organizations operating
  satellite systems

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