Select subcommittees of TIA's TR-45: Mobile and Personal Communications Systems StandardsCommittee are gearing up to meet next February 18-22 in Xiamen, China, to address pending documents and hold elections.

TIA's TR-45.4: Radio to Switching Technology - Mobile and Personal Communications Standards Subcommittee will continue to develop UMB Interoperability Specification (IOS), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) inter-technology handoff, and HRPD IOS improvements and will hold it Vice-Chair election, for which Qualcomm's David Ott is currently running unopposed for his fourth term. 

According to Ott, "standards work is progressing with the recent approval for publication of TIA-1134, IOS for UMB Radio Access Network Interfaces. Members companies are now reviewing this text for implementation."  On the inter-technology handoff side, standards frame works have been approved for UMB-HRPD-1x (TIA-1135), WiMax-HRPD (TIA-1143) and LTE-HRPD (TIA-1142). "Call flows and procedures for handoff between technologies are progressing for these standards and heading towards second quarter 2008 publication," Ott said.

For more information on TR-45 please contact Peter Bogard at pbogard@tiaonline.org or 703.907.7961.

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TIA's TR-42: User Premises Telecommunications Cabling Infrastructure Committee is holding a full committee meeting in Tampa, Fla., this week, including the election of officers and the establishment of a basic timetable for standards currently in progress.

The committee will address the 568-C standards for generic or commercial cabling for designers by June of this year, while looking to the TIA-1005 industrial Cabling standard in October.  The 568-C standard for copper cabling manufacturers is slated for 2009.

Also this week, TR-42 Chair Herb Congdon of Tyco Electronics and Vice Chair Bob Jensen of Fluke Networks were reelected. In another election during this week, the members of TR-42.8 Telecommunications Optical Fiber Cabling Systems Subcommittee elected Bob Jensen as Chair and Herb Congdon as Vice Chair.

Herb Congdon, Bob Jensen during TR-42 elections.

Meanwhile the TR-42.6: Telecommunications Infrastructure and Equipment Administration Subcommittee elected Steve Huffaker of JP Morgan Chase as Chair and Jonathan Jew of J&M Consultants as Vice Chair.

For more information on TR-42, please contact Marianna Kramarikova at mkramarikova@tiaonline.org or 703.907.7706.

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TIA's TR-41:User Premises Telecommunications Requirements Committee is meeting this week in New Orleans and its subcommittees have been active during this Mardi Gras season.

The TR-41.3: Analog and Digital Wireline Terminals Subcommittee is kicking off work to revise its stutter dial tone standard and add coverage for VoIP telephones to its successful TIA-1083 hearing aid compatibility standard, and It is also continuing work on requirements for speakerphone and answering system performance.  The TR-41.4: VoIP Systems - IP Telephony Infrastructure and Endpoints Subcommittee will handle maintenance items on older standards in preparation for moving some of them to inactive status. TR-41.7: Environmental and Safety Considerations Subcommittee members are completing their review of a UL document on overcurrent protection devices based on input they previously provided. They are also beginning a new project on power fault and lightning surge protection for Ethernet in the Final Mile (EFM). The TR-41.9: Technical and Administrative Regulatory Considerations Subcommittee will announce the publication of three documents related to FCC Part 68 network harms issues: TSB-31-C measurement guidelines; TIA-168-B labeling requirements; and TIA-1096-A connector requirements.

For more information on TR-41 please contact Ronda Coulter at rcoulter@tiaonline.org or 703.907.7974.

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TIA's TR-45: Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards Committee, prepared this week for the annual process of conveying disclosure for Global Core Specification (GCS) related materials for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radiocommunication Bureau. 

The conveyance was overseen by TIA and the leadership of the TR-45 Committee and relevant subcommittees, including Cheryl Blum of TR-45, Orlette Pearson of TR-45.5 and Peter Musgrove of TR-45.3.

The TR-45.5: Spread Spectrum Digital Technology -- Mobile and Personal Communications Standards and TR-45.3 Time Division Digital Technology - Mobile and Personal Communications Standards Subcommittees were very active in preparing GCS materials to convey to the ITU. In a pair of letters to ITU Radiocommunication Bureau Counsellor Colin Langtry, TIA Vice President, Standards and Business Development Ed Mikoski affirmed the availability of GCS materials for the purposes of transposition at the ITU, providing accomodation for minimal regional differences while maintaining close consistency with the agreed-upon versions.

For more information on TIA's harmonization efforts with the ITU, please contact Stephanie Montgomery at +1.703.907.7735 or smontgomery@tiaonline.org.

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TIA's TR-41: User Premises Telecommunications Requirements Committee will hold its next meeting in New Orleans, February 4-,8 at the downtown Doubletree, in the heart of Mardi Gras week.

The committee will run through a battery of agenda points, including regulatory criteria; a meeting of TR-41.3.10/IEEE STIT on the issue of Hands Free Telephones; TR-41.3.2 on Stutter Dial Tone; and other subcommittee meetings on cordless telephones, environmental standards, international safety requirement, and wireline terminals.

Please contact Ronda Coulter at +1.703.907.7974 or rcoulter@tiaonline.org for more information.

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

New Project Numbers:
Project Number 3-4442 (if approved to be published as TIA-4720000-B) – if interested, contact Mike Kinard, OFS at (770) 838-5307, or via email at mkinard@ofsoptics.com 1/21

Project Number 3-4699-RV1 (if approved to be published as TIA-203-A) – if interested, contact Casey Shaar, Phton Kinetics at (503) 810-2955, or via email at casey.shaar@pkinetics.com 1/21

New Project Proposal Ballots:
Project Proposal No. 3-0095-RV1-1, proposed revision TIA standard, Enhanced Cryptographic Algorithms (if approved, to be published as TIA-946-A). 1/21

Project Number 3-0281, a proposed creation of a TIA Standard, Forward Link Only Media Adaptation Layer Specification, (if approved, to be published as TIA-1130) 1/21

 Project Number 3-3230-WD, a proposed withdrawal of a TIA Standard TSB-62-3, Mode Power Distribution and Mode Transfer Function Measurement 1/21

 Project Number 3-0277.513, a proposed creation of a TIA Standard, VoIP Supplementary Services Description: Message Waiting Indication, (if approved, to be published as TIA-1126.513) 1/21

New Documents Available:
TIA-1098, Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA) Framework 1/21

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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