A half-day workshop on Conformance and Interoperability Testing will take place 25 January, Geneva, 09:00 to 12:30.

The objectives of the informal workshop are to discuss the general principles of the topic as well as to collect information on past, ongoing or potential activities related to it inside and outside ITU and to identify people involved. The results of this activity will allow the Correspondence Group on Conformance and Interoperability Testing that has convened the event to develop an activity plan.

The draft agenda of the Informal Workshop is as follows:

09.00-09.15 Welcome and presentations.

09.15-09.30 Mandate of the Correspondence Group. Arve Meisingset, Telenor, Norway

09.30-10.15 Principles and Supporting Standards. Os Monkewich, Canada

10.15-10.45 Protocol Test Specifications for NGN. Dimitri Tarasov, Russia

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.00 Conformance and Interoperability Testing of Multimedia Terminals and Systems. Patrick Luthi, Tandberg, Switzerland.

12.00-12.30 Open for additional presentations. Alternatives are being investigated.