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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[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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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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