The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is holding its World Standards Week 2007 this week in Washington, D.C., including a number of forums and panel discussions, as well as its 2007 Leadership and Service Awards ceremony tonight (Wednesday, October 17).  The awards are given to recipients for their "significant contributions to national and international standardization activities, as well as an ongoing commitment to their industry, their nation, and the enhancement of the global voluntary consensus standards system." 

TIA CTO Dan Bart was among the winners of the award announced last month, and will receive the Howard Coonley Medal which recognizes an executive "[who] has benefited the national economy through voluntary standardization and conformity assessment and has given outstanding support to standardization as a management tool."  ANSI cited Bart's active promotion of standardization programs and partnerships for the industry and his long careers with the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) and TIA.  This is Bart's second ANSI award; he won ANSI's Meritorious Service Award in 2004.

TIA will actively participate in the ceremony honoring Bart, as well as the U.S. Celebration of Standards Day, the following day, including a reception and exhibition and an additional ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center at 1330 Pennsylvania Ave.  For a full schedule of World Standards Week event schedule, click here.   Participants can also register for the remaining events at this site. 

For questions or comments about the award or TIA's involvement in the global standards process, please contact Ian Martinez at +1.703.907.7723 or imartinez@tiaonline.org.

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TIA's TR-42.9 Industrial Telecommunications Infrastructure Subcommittee will hold two teleconferences next week, on October 23 and October 25. 

Both conferences convene at 2:00 p.m. 

Please contact Marianna Kramarikova for more information, including dial-in and passcode information, at mkramarikova@tiaonline.org and +1.703.907.7706.

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TIA's TR-48, Vehicular Telematics Committee elected its first officers this week. The newly-created committee has chosen Kevin Lu of Telcordia as Chair and David Kraft of QUALCOMM as Vice-chair. 

For more information on TR-48 please contact Stephanie Montgomery at smontgomery@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7735.

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Publishing began last week of a 50-part ANSI document for the TR-45.2 Core Networks - Mobile and Personal Communications Standards subcommittee. The document contains descriptions of various recently-solidified standards regarding wireless features.

Barring any delays, the document should be fully processed and published within a month, according to subcommittee participants and TIA staff. 

Meanwhile, all the TR-45 subcommittees are meeting in Long Beach, Calif., this week, where they are continuing to discuss, edit and write wireless standards.  The next full TR-45 meetings will take place November 29-30 in Kauai, Hawaii.

For more information on TR-45 issues, please contact Peter Bogard at pbogard@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7961.

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More than 120 participants from more than 20 countries will gather in Qingdao, China, October 15-19 for the 30th meeting of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 204 for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) –ISO/TC204. ISO/TC204 is the premier organization for international ITS standardization, and the weeklong series of meetings will focus on diverse set of emerging ITS standards in such fields as architecture, database technologies, automotive vehicle and equipment identification, fee and toll collection, general fleet management and commercial/freight, public transport/emergency, integrated transport information, management and control, traveler information systems, vehicle/roadway warning and control systems, dedicated short range communications, and wide area communications/protocols and interfaces.

The five-day series of meetings will cover the entire committee program of work, including the introduction of new work items. Anticipated highlights and new work items will include:

• Lawful Interception in ITS and Communications Access for Land Mobiles (CALM)
• Data retention for law enforcement in ITS and CALM
• A discussion of the succesful new project ballot: ISO/AWI 10992: The use of nomadic devices to support ITS service and multimedia  provision in vehicles, and the possible formation of Working Group 17 (Nomadic Devices) for future standardization in this field. 

As both the International Secretariat of ISO/TC204, as well as the the administrator of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to TC204, TIA plays a critical role in steering the overall strategic direction of the committee, as well as providing overall administrative and technical support. 

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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 Proposals Ballots:
Project Proposal No. 3-3648-RV3, proposed creation of a new TIA standard C.S0018-C Ver1.0 EVRC Release-C Minimum Performance Specification (if approved, to be published as TIA-718-C). 10/15

Project Proposal No. 3-0144-RV3, proposed creation of a new TIA standard Band Class Specification for cdma2000® Spread Spectrum Systems (if approved, to be published as TIA-1030-C). 10/15

Project Proposal No. 3-4935.000-RV2, proposed creation of a new TIA standard All-IP Core Network Multimedia Domain – Overview (if approved, to be published as TIA-873.000-RV2). 10/15

Project Proposal No. 3-4935.002-RV2, proposed creation of a new TIA standard All-IP Core Network Multimedia Domain; IP Multimedia Subsystem – Stage 2 (if approved, to be published as TIA-873.002-B). 10/15

Standards Proposal No. 3-4426-AD10-D-2, proposed creation of a new TIA standard Performance Specifications for 4-Pair 100 ? Augmented Category 6 Cabling (if approved, to be published as TIA-568-B.2-10). 10/8

New Documents Available:

TIA-41.323-E, Mobile Application Part (MAP) – Voice Feature Scenarios:  Call Waiting 10/8

TIA-41.200-E, Mobile Application Part (MAP) – Intersystem Handoff 10/8

TIA-2000.5-D-1[E], Introduction to cdma2000 Spread Spectrum Systems 10/8

TIA-925-1 [E], Enhanced Subscriber Privacy for cdma2000 High Rate Packet Data – Addendum 1 10/8

 *cdma2000® is the trademark for the technical nomenclature for certain specifications and standards of the Organizational Partners of 3GPP2. When applied to goods and services, the cdma2000® mark certifies their compliance with cdma2000® standards. Geographically (and as of the date of publication), cdma2000® is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA-USA) in the United States.

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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