Three TIA Engineering Committees meet this week or next, and several more had teleconferenced 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 Systemswill 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 present 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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At its recent meeting in Qingdao, China, the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 204 for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); ISO/TC204 officially created Working Group 17; “Nomadic Devices in ITS Systems.”  WG17’s first project will be a technical report designed to:

…[investigate and] identify the Standardization requirements to enable nomadic devices as interfaces to support ITS Service provision and multimedia use into vehicles. The work to include the identification of which types of nomadic devices can be enabled to support ITS Service Provision; the identification of suitable extant Standards and protocols; the identification of any new interface protocol Standards required and guidance as to the types of ITS Service that may be suitable to be supported via nomadic devices.

The first meeting of WG17 will take place on 12 March 2008 at Jeju Island, Korea, and will focus on further refining the scope the technical report and kicking off its development. This meeting will take place in conjunction with the regular meeting of ISO/TC204/WG16 “Wide Area Communications for ITS."

Membership in the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is open to all organizations with established operations in the United States that have a material interest in Intelligent Transport Systems. It is not necessary to be a TIA member to join the U.S. TAG.

As both the International Secretariat to ISO/TC204 and the the administrator to the U.S. TAG to ISO/TC204, TIA plays a critical role in bringing these important technologies to market. 

If you would like to participate in the development of these proposed standards, or wish to receive additional information on the work of ISO/TC204 or the US TAG, please contact Tyler Messa at: tmessa@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7743

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If you are interested in participating in the development of the standards listed below or in any of the TIA standards-development process, please complete an online application at http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/join/apply.cfm.

New Standards Proposal Ballots:
Standards Proposal No. 3-3590.371-RV5, proposed creation of a new ANSI standard Mobile Application Part (MAP) – Broadcast Teleservice Transport Capability (if approved, to be published as TIA-41.371-E) 11/12/07

New Projects Proposal Ballots:
Project Proposal No. 3-3648-RV3[SF], proposed creation of a new TIA standard Software Distribution for Software Distribution for Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC), Speech Service Options 3, 68, and 70, Minimum Performance Specification (MPS) (if approved, to be published as TIA-718-C [SF]) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-3648-RV2 [SF]-1, proposed revision of TIA standard Software Distribution for the C.S0018-B Ver1.0 EVRC Release-B Minimum Performance Specification (if approved, to be published as TIA-718-B [SF]) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-0253, proposed creation of a new TIA standard All-IP Network Emergency Call Support (if approved, to be published as TIA-1111) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-0151.000-AD1, proposed revision of TIA standard Presence Overview (if approved, to be published as TIA-1032.000-1) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-0151.002, proposed creation of a new TIA standard Presence Security (if approved, to be published as TIA-1032.002) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-0151.003, proposed creation of a new TIA standard Presence Service using the IP Multimedia (IM) Core Network (CN) Subsystem; Stage-3 (if approved, to be published as TIA-1032.003) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-0151.004, proposed creation of a new TIA standard Network Presence (if approved, to be published as TIA-1032.004) 11/12/07

Project Proposal No. 3-0291.910, proposed creation of a new TIA standard AAA Dictionaries (if approved, to be published as TIA-1137.910) 11/12/07

NEW DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE:
American National Standards:
TIA-664.000-B-3[E], Wireless Features Description – Addendum 3

TIA-664.100-B, Wireless Features Description: Background and Assumptions

TIA-664.501-B, Wireless Features Description: Call Delivery (CD)

TIA-664.502-B, Wireless Features Description: Call Forwarding – Busy (CFB)

TIA-664.503-B, Wireless Features Description: Call Forwarding – Default (CFD)

TIA-664.504-B, Wireless Features Description: Call Forwarding – No Answer (CFNA)

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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