Several key subcommittees of TIA's Engineering Committee TR-41, User Premises Telecommunications Requirements, will conduct elections for a new chair and vice chair at the Committee meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., this November 5-9. 

TR-41.3, Analog and Digital Wireline Terminals, will hold an election for vice chair, the post currently held by Al Baum of Uniden.

TR-41.7 will hold elections for both chair and vice chair, the positions currently held by Randy Ivans of Underwriters Laboratories and Phillip Havens of Teccor Electronics, respectively.

Please contact Ronda Coulter at rcoulter@tiaonline.org or 703.907.7974.

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TIA Engineering Committee TR-45, Mobile and Personal Communications Standards, chaired by Cheryl Blum of Alcatel-Lucent, has a full plate of old and new business as it meets at TIA headquarters in Arlington, Va., this week to follow up on last week's subcommittee meetings in Montreal.

Agenda items include Referencing Internet Drafts in TIA Standards; TIA Publication of 3GPP2 Specifications; TIA Legal Comments Post-publication Submission; Joint Work on Interference and Co-Existence; Voting Pool for TIA Ballots – Status; Readout of FCC CMSAAC Activities; New Business; GSC-12 Readout and Resolutions; and the IEEE 802 Emergency Services Ad Hoc. The committee will also hear liaison reports on CTIA, ITU-R, WCD, TIA, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ATIS and IFAST.

Please contact Stephanie Montgomery at smontgomery@tiaonline.org or 703.907.7735 with any questions about TR-45.

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TIA's TR-45 Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards committee meeting took place in in Montreal this week, with four subcommittees (45.2, 45.4, 45.5, and 45.6) addressing, among other issues, corrections and additions to standards, current open ballots and committee procedures.

The TR-45 subcommittee chairs will also meet again next week at TIA headquarters in Arlington. TR-45 Committee Chair Cheryl Blum with join TR-45.2 Chair Lew Milton, TR-45.4 Chair George Turnipseed, TR-45.5 Chair Orlett Pearson and TR-45.6 Chair Brent Hirschman to finalize outcomes of this week's meetings.

For questions or comments on TR-45 and its subcommittees, please contact Peter Bogard at 703.907.7961 or pbogard@tiaonline.org.

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During the week of September 24-28, 2007, TIA's TR-42 User Premises Telecommunications Cabling Infrastructure committee will be holding elections for the chair and vice-chair positions of select subcommittees.

Chairships are in play for the following subcommittees: TR-42.1, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling; TR-42.3, Commercial Building Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces; TR-43.5, Telecommunications Infrastructure Terms and Symbols; TR-42.7, Telecommunications Copper Cabling Systems; and TR-42.9, Industrial Telecommunications Infrastructure.

Please submit any questions, comments, letters of recommendation or inquiries about running for chairships to Marianna Kramarikova at mkramarikova@tiaonline.org.

During the September meeting, a call for nominees will be made and any interested parties' names may be added to the ballot at that time.

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

New Project Numbers:
Project Number 3-0095-RV1, Revise a TIA, Enhanced Cryptographic Algorithms – if interested contact Frank Quick via email at fquick@qualcomm.com

New Documents Available:
TIA-1036-A, Interoperability Test Specification for cdma2000® Air Interface
TIA-2001.1-D, Interoperability Specification (IOS) for cdma2000® Access Network Interfaces – Part 1: Overview
TIA-2001.5-D, Interoperability Specification (IOS) for cdma2000® Access Network Interfaces – Part 5: (A3 and A7 Interfaces)
TIA-2001.6-D, Interoperability Specification (IOS) for cdma2000® Access Network Interfaces – Part 6: (A8 and A9 Interfaces)
TIA-864-A-1, Recommended Minimum Performance Standards for cdma2000® High Rate Packet Data Access Network
TIA-2001.2-D, Interoperability Specification (IOS) for cdma2000® Access Network Interfaces – Part 2: Transport
TIA-915-A-1, CDMA Card Application Toolkit (CCAT)
TIA-856-A-2 [E], cdma2000® High Rate Packet Data Air Interface Specification – Addendum 2
TIA-41.000-E-2 [E], Introduction to TIA-41
TIA-102.AABD, Project 25 Trunking Procedures
TIA-127-B [SF1], Software Distribution for Enhanced Variable Rate Codec Speech Service Options 3 and 68 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Digital Systems
TIA-93-B-2 [E], Wireless Telecommunications Ai - Di Interfaces Standard
TIA-1054-A-1, High Rate Packet Data Supplemental Packet Services
TIA-890-A, Test Application Specification (TAS) for High Rate Packet Data Air Interface

New Project Numbers Ballots:

Project Number 3-4316-RV1, a proposed reaffirmation of a TIA Standard, Procedure for Applying Loads Directly to the Fiber in Optical Connectors or Fiber/Ferrule Assemblies to Quantify Fiber Pushback, (if approved, to be published asTSB-62-10)

Project Number 3-3026-RV1, a proposed reaffirmation of a TIA Standard, Blank Detail Specification for Conventional, Permanent, Optical Fiber Splices, (if approved, to be published asTIA-609AA00)

Project Number 3-3027-RV1, a proposed reaffirmation of a TIA Standard, Sectional Specification for Conventional, Permanent, Optical Fiber Splices, (if approved, to be published asTIA-609A000)

Project Number 3-3028-RV1, a proposed reaffirmation of a TIA Standard, Generic Specification for Optical Fiber Splices, (if approved, to be published asTIA-6090000)

Project Number 3-0280-A, proposed creation of a new TIA Standard, Test Source Launch Condition Guidelines for Testing Installed Multimode Cabling (if approved, to be published as TSB-178)

Project No. 3-0149-A, proposed creation of a TIA standard, Fiber Optic Connector Cleaning System Evaluation (if approved, to be published as TIA -455-240)

Project Number 3-3272-RV3, Revise an ANS, Test Method for Evaluating Fungus Resistance of Optical Fiber and Cable – if interested contact David Leight, Defense Supply Center, Columbus, at 416.692.0521, or via email at david.leight@dla.mil

New Project Numbers Ballots:

Standards Proposal No. 3-3590.330-E, proposed new of a ANS Standard, Mobile Application Part (MAP) – Voice Feature Scenarios: Password Call Acceptance / Selective Call Acceptance, (if approved, to be published as TIA-41.330-E) (09-02)

American National Standards :

TIA-968-A-5, Telecommunications – Telephone Terminal Equipment – Technical Requirements for Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network (09-02)

TIA-102.AABC-B-2, Project 25 Trunking Control Channel Messages Addendum – ISSI

Telecommunications Systems Bulletin (TSB :

TSB-102.BABE, Project 25 Vocoder Evaluation Mean Opinion Score Test

 *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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