The TR-45: Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards Committee leadership and plenary meetings were held late last month on the island of Kauai, in Hawaii. TIA gave status reports and recaps on 2007 TR-45 documents, including detailing the project numbers given, ballots opened and documents published.   Attendees also got an update on the current backlog of TR-45 documents, including a briefing on what is needed from committee members to resolve the situation. In question and answer sessions at the meetings, TIA staff also explained new document policies, such as the protocol for accessing yet-unpublished documents.

The second week of meetings was dedicated mostly to subcommittee issues and 3GPP2 meetings.

TR-45's publication and documentation activities for 2007 are listed below.

 Total Number of Ballots Opened: 147

• TR-45: 3
• TR-45.2: 79
• TR-45.4: 14
• TR-45.5: 39
• TR-45.6: 12

 Total Number of Documents Published: 77

• TR-45: 1
• TR-45.2: 57
• TR-45.4: 3
• TR-45.5: 15
• TR-45.6: 1

 Total Number of Project Numbers Assigned: 47

• TR-45: 2
• TR-45.2: 13
• TR-45.4: 2
• TR-45.5: 20
• TR-45.6: 10

For more information on TR-45, please contact Peter Bogard at pbogard@tiaonline.org.

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Three TIA Engineering Committees meet this week or next, and several more had teleconferences facilitated by TIA staff this week.

Committee TR-30: Multi-Media Access, Protocols and Interfaces meets in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., this week, under the chairship of Fred Lucas of FAL.  Please contact Ronda Coulter at rcoulter@tiaonline.org with any questions about the committee.

Committee TR-47: Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast will meet from December 10-12 in Hawaii, and will vote for officers then.  Please contact Marianna Kramarikova at mkramarikova@tiaonline.org with any questions about the committee.

Subcommittee TR-42.7: Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems will also meet next week, from December 11-13, in Miami, Fla., chaired by Valerie Rybinski of Siemon.    Please contact Marianna Kramarikova at mkramarikova@tiaonline.org with any questions about the committee.

Feel free to contact any of your committee or subcommittee staff with questions about these or any other meetings, as well as the various teleconferences hosted by TIA.

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TIA Director of International and Government Affairs Michael Nunes took part in a panel discussion on U.S-Korea high tech trade partnerships as part of a delegation of high-ranking Korean trade and technology officials this week, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-Korea Business Council in cooperation with the Korea Industrial Technology Foundation (KOTEF).

Nunes spoke Tuesday with moderator Robert C. Reis, Executive Vice President, U.S.-Korea Business Council, and fellow panelists Kyeong-hak Seo, Senior Vice President, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, and Yeong-chul Seok, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Industrial Technology Foundation. They discussed opportunities in high-tech and electronics trade between the two countries, which currently have a trade agreement pending in the U.S. Senate.

Following the meeting, TIA announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding/friendship agreement between KOTEF and TIA, attended by the Korean Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Energy, Mr. Kim Young-ju. The agreement is a first step in what TIA hopes will be series of cooperative programs between the two organizations; the first official program took place on December 5 at TIA headquarters in Arlington, Va., and was designed to help Korean regional innovation officers facilitate cooperation and the exchange of technology and human resources and develop international joint research projects by conducting research on the status of U.S. industrial technology development. The groups also hope to build personnel networks and channels between Korean and American business entities and government bodies.

For more information on TIA's U.S.-Korea trade efforts contact Michael Nunes at mnunes@tiaonline.org or Tyler Messa at tmessa@tiaonline.org.

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To check the status of any ballot (PN or SP), go to the TIA web page in the Standards Section to obtain current information. The link for PN ballots is:
http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/sfg/pn_report.cfm or for SP ballots
http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/committees/ballots/sp_report.cfm.

Check the TIA Calendar for upcoming standards meetings or events.

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