[Corection: This article originally listed an incorrect date, February 6th is the correct date]

The U.S. Technical Advisory Group (U.S. TAG) to  the International Organization for Standardization’s Technical Committee 204 (ISO/TC204) for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, February 6, 2008, at TIA headquarters in Arlington, Va. The meeting will serve as an opportunity to strengthen the U.S. position on a number of ITS-related standards prior to the next international meeting of ISO/TC204 to be held this April in Munich, Germany.

As both the International Secretariat to ISO/TC204 and US TAG Administrator to ISO/TC204, TIA plays a central role in shaping standardization in this emerging and dynamic field.  Membership in the U.S. TAG is open to all materially affected organizations – both domestic and international – with a U.S. presence.  There is currently no fee to join the U.S. TAG. 

If you would like to participate in the technical work of either committee or are interested in attending the next meeting of the U.S. TAG as an observer, please contact Tyler Messa at: tmessa@tiaonline.org or +1.703.907.7743

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On January 14, 2008, representatives of AT&T, CGI, Panduit, Telcordia and many others were present at the second meeting of TIA’s TR-49 Healthcare ICT Committee. 

The committee moved to investigate the following four areas in healthcare:

• Device systems
• Network infrastructure
• Applications/services
• Operation support 

TR-49 continues to work on defining its role in the emerging healthcare ICT sector, establishing its leadership and meetings structure.  The committee also elected Shoshana Loeb of Telecordia as its Chair. 

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At this week's meeting of TIA's TR-45.4 Radio to Switching Technology - Mobile and Personal Communications Standards Subcommittee, George Turnipseed of Sprint Nextel was elected to serve another term as chair.  He ran unopposed and met with no objections.  The subcommittee will hold its vice chair elections next month.

Meanwhile, TIA's FO-4.3 Passive Optical Devices and Components Subcommittee reaffirmed the following standards:

• TIA-609AA00, Blank Detail Specification for Conventional, Permanent, Optical Fiber Splices
• TIA-6090000, Generic Specification for Optical Fiber Splices
• TIA-609A000, Sectional Specification for Conventional, Permanent, Optical Fiber Splices

TIA's FO-4.1: Optical Systems Subcommittee reaffirmed the following documents:

• TIA-455-126,Spectral Characterizations of LEDs
• TIA-455-128,Procedures for Determining Threshold Current of Semiconductor Lasers
• TIA-455-129, Procedures for Applying Human Body Model Electrostatic Discharge Stress to Package Optoelectronic Components
• TIA-455-130, Elevated Temperature Life Test for Laser Diodes
• TSB-62-20, Enhanced Bandwidth Performance over Laser-Based, Multimode Fiber Local Area Networks
• TIA-526-2, Effective Transmitter Output Power Coupled into Single-Mode Fiber Optic Cable
• TIA-526-3, Fiber Optic Terminal Equipment Receiver Sensitivity and Maximum Receiver Input
• TIA-526-15, Jitter Tolerance Measurement
• TIA-526-16, Jitter Transfer Function Measurement
• TIA-526-17, Output Jitter Measurement
• TIA-526-18, Systematic Jitter Generation Measurement
• TIA-785, 100 Mb/s Physical Layer Medium Dependent Sublayer and 1-Mb/s Auto-Negotiation on 850nm Fiber Optics

Please contact your TIA staff liaison with any questions about upcoming elections or the reaffirmation process.

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As previously approved, the TR-42 and FO-4 committees will merge at the February 4-8 meeting in Tampa, Fla., and there are several important housekeeping items to attend to for the meeting.

Officer elections will take place at the Tampa meeting for the full committee and even-numbered subcommittees; any members wishing to send a nomination should do so before this Friday, January 11. TIA would also like to remind TR-42 members to submit their meeting agendas by week's end as well.

This Friday, January 11, from 2-5pm EST, TIA will host a conference call to discuss comment resolution to ballot PN-33490-RV2-AD1. The following information has been posted to the TR42.2 web site:

• TR422-2008-01-001 Jan. 11 Interim Conference Call Agenda
• TR422-2008-01-002 TIA-570-B-1 Draft 4 Document
• TR422-2008-01-003 SP3 Compiled Comments with Editor Recommendations

The call-in info is as follows:

• Toll Free: 1-888-537-7715
• Toll Call: 1-334-323-9858
• Passcode: 36062943

We will also be using Web access, which is detailed in the posted agenda. TIA to looks forward to a robust participation rate, as the number of technical comments under review is high.

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TIA's TR-47: Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast Committee held its officer elections at its December meeting, as did two of its subcommittees.

TR-47 reelected Jerry Upton of J. Upton Consulting as its Chair and Marlis Humphrey of Harris Corp. as Vice-Chair. They began their two-year terms immediately.

The TR-47.1: Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast based on Forward Link Only Technology Subcommittee reelected Carl Stevenson of WK3C Wireless as its Chair, and the TR-47.2: Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast based on DVB-H TechnologySubcommittee elected previous Vice-Chair Thomas Derryberry of Dell Telephone Cooperative as its Chair.

A working draft of the meeting schedule for TR-47 and its subcommittees follows.

• March 11-12, Dallas, Texas. Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent for the full committee and all subcommittees.  More information to follow.
• April 8-10 or April 22-24 at TIA offices in Arlington, Va. Subcommittees only, if needed; more information, including finalized dates, to follow.
• May 28-29, at TIA offices in Arlington, Va. Company-sponsored meeting for the full committee and all subcommittees.
• July 8-10, at TIA offices in Arlington, Va. Subcommittees only, if needed.
• August 5-7 or August 12-14 at TIA offices in Arlington, Va. Company-sponsored meeting for the full committee and all subcommittees.
• October 14-16, at TIA offices in Arlington, Va. Subcommittees only, if needed.
• November 4-6 or November 18-20, at TIA offices in Arlington, Va. Subcommittees only, if needed.
• December 9-11, Hawaii. Full committee and all subcommittees.  More information to follow.

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The TIA TR-8: Mobile and Personal Private Radio Standards Committee is holding its quarterly meeting in Mesa, Ariz., this week.  The TDMA working group convened this Monday as part of the larger meeting.  At this meeting a TDMA Task Group working session of over 50 member companies what held to discuss TDMA technology in handheld radios.

The various subcommittees of the TIA TR-45: Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards Committee will meet in Hollywood next week from January 14-18. The full TR-45 Committee met November 29-30 in Kauai, Hawaii, under the leadership of Cheryl J. Blum of Alcatel-Lucent. The following week, December 3-7, TR-45's subcommittees met to discuss issues pertinent to their specific areas of responsibility.

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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 PROPOSALS BALLOT:

Project Proposal No. 3-0095-RV1-1, proposed revision TIA standard Enhanced Cryptographic Algorithms (if approved, to be published as TIA-946-A). 1/14/08

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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