Highlights from TR-45 Meeting
The TR-45 Committee on Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards held its leadership and plenary meetings last week in Chicago. The chairs of the subcommittees delivered annual reports on the status of their committees and plans for the near future.

Other issues discussed included:

• Suggestions to improve the new Web site
• Creating guidelines for converting 3GPP2 documents to TIA documents

TR-45 subcommittees will meet June 16-20 in Cancun, Mexico.

For more information regarding TR-45, contact Peter Bogard at pbogard@tiaonline.org.

Highlights from TR-42 Meeting
The TIA TR-42 Committee on User Premises Telecommunications Cabling Infrastructure met last week in Providence, R.I. All the subcommittees moved projects along and began new ones.

The TR-42.1 subcommittee agreed to start work on a second addendum to ANSI/TIA 942 Data Center Coaxial Cabling Specifications and Application Distances to add additional environmental requirements and requirements for Category 6a cable.

TR-42.7 subcommittee is opening two new projects:

• A TSB for guidelines for supporting power delivery over balanced twisted-pair cabling
• A new standard for requirements for field-test instruments and measurements for balanced twisted-pair cabling

TR-42.7 also completed comment resolution on the first round of TIA-568-C.2, Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, and will distribute the document for reballot.

TR-42.2 subcommittee reported that all comments for TIA-570-B-1, Residential Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard, Addendum 1 – Additional Requirements for Broadband Coaxial Cabling, were resolved and the addendum was approved for publication.

For more information about TR-42 contact Stephanie Montgomery at smontgomery@tiaonline.org.

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The U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) – the domestic mirror committee to the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 204 for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); ISO/TC204 – will hold its next meeting on Thursday, June 19, 2008, at TIA headquarters in Arlington, Va.

The meeting will serve as an opportunity to discuss the status of work items in the following subject fields and to formulate the official U.S. position on the advancement and introduction of new work items:

• WAG1:     Architecture
• WAG3:     ITS database technology
• WAG4:     Automatic vehicle and equipment identification
• WAG5:     Fee and toll collection
• WAG7:     General fleet management and commercial/freight
• WAG8:     Public transport and emergency
• WAG9:     Integrated transport information, management and control
• WAG10:   Traveler information systems
• WAG14:   Vehicle/roadway warning and control systems
• WAG16:   Wide area communications
• WAG17:   Nomadic devices in ITS systems

As both the ISO/TC204 International Secretariat and the Administrator of the US TAG, TIA plays a central role in helping shape standardization in this emerging and dynamic field. Membership in the US TAG is open to all materially-affected organizations with a U.S. presence. Currently there is no fee to join the US TAG, although sponsorships are welcome. If you would like to participate in the technical work of either group, or are interested in attending the next meeting of the US 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.

New Documents Available:
TIA-1096-A, Telecommunications Telephone Terminal Equipment Connector Requirements for Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network (06-04-08)

TIA-102.AABF-A-3, Link Control Word Formats and Messages Addendum for ISSI Supplementary Data (06-04-08)

TIA-878-2, Interoperability Specification (IOS) for High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Radio Access Network Interfaces with Session Control in the Access Network (06-04-08)

American National Standards:
TIA-102.AABC-B-3, Trunking Control Channel Messages Addendum for ISSI Supplementary Data (06-04-08)

TIA-only Documents/Interim Standards:
Project Proposal No. 3-0291.000-RV1 proposed revision of TIA standard CAN Wireless IP Network Overview and List of Parts (if approved, to be published as TIA-1137.000-A) (06-11-08)

Project Proposal No. 3-0291.220-RV1 proposed revision of TIA standard Proxy MIP Based Inter-AGW Handoff (if approved, to be published as TIA-1137.220-A) (06-11-08)

Project Proposal No. 3-0291.910-RV1 proposed revision of TIA standard AAA Dictionaries (if approved, to be published as TIA-1137.910-A) (06-11-08)

Project Proposal No. 3-0291.610 proposed creation of new TIA standard UMB-HRPD Interworking (if approved, to be published as TIA-1137.610) (06-11-08)

Telecommunications Systems Bulletin (TSB):
TSB-102.BAGA, Project 25 Console Subsystem Interface Overview (06-04-08)

To obtain copies of these documents, contact IHS Inc. at 1.800.854.7179 (United States and Canada) +1.303.397.7796 (international) or visit http://global.ihs.com.

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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