Key results of individual Questions

Q.1/19 "Service and network capability requirements and network architecture"

• substantially progressed draft new Recommendation “Functional Network Architecture for Systems Beyond IMT-2000 (Q.FNAB)” found in TD 403R1
• reviewed and agreed on a work plan for Q.1/19 which aims to bring the work on Q.FNAB to completion per the current schedule.

Joint Q.2/19, Q.5/19 and Q.6/13 - Mobility management

Questions Q.2/19 “Mobility management”, Q.5/19 “Convergence of evolving IMT-2000 networks with evolving fixed networks” and Q.6/13 “NGN mobility and fixed-mobile convergence” met jointly.

Key results are:

• many contributions were submitted which resulted in a very active and productive technical discussion on draft new Recommendations Q.MMF, Q.LMF, and Q.HMF, and Q.MMF was restructured to improve its coherency
• completed draft new Recommendation Q.MMR (“Mobility Management Requirements for NGN”) to be proposed for AAP Consent in the SG 19 plenary
• progressed draft new Recommendations MMF, LMF and HMF and these are on track for completion per the work plan.

Q.3/19 “Identification of existing and evolving IMT-2000 systems”

• prepared draft Recommendation Q.1742.5 to be proposed for AAP Consent in the SG 19 plenary
• initiated development of draft new Recommendations Q.1741.5 “IMT-2000 references to Release 7 of GSM evolved UMTS core network” and Q.1742.6 “IMT 2000 References (approved as of 31 December 2006) to ANSI-41 evolved Core Network with cdma2000 Access Network”.

Q.4/19 “Preparation of a handbook on IMT-2000”

• baseline text towards the second edition of the Handbook on Deployment of IMT-2000 Systems was reviewed and adopted
• a new chapter on billing received from ITU-T WP 1/3 was adopted.

Joint Q.2/19, Q.5/19 and Q.6/13 - Fixed-mobile convergence

• progressed draft new Recommendation Q.FMC-PAU to the point where it is considered to be a stable draft
• progressed draft new Recommendation Q.FMC-REQ which is on track for completion per the work plan
• progressed draft new Recommendation Q.FMC-IMS which is on track for completion per the work plan.

Next Generation Networks and SG 19’s Role

It was agreed that SG 19 would conduct the approval process for mobility management and fixed-mobile convergence deliverables being worked in the joint activities of Q.2/19, Q.5/19 and Q.6/13. This recognizes the joint work and the effective teaming demonstrated by the three Rapporteurs involved, the strong spirit of cooperation and desire to progress the work shown by the participants, and the applicability of the work to the overall effort in the NGN-GSI.

Updating the NGN work plan on mobility management and fixed-mobile convergence

Consistent with the above, the deliverables for mobility management and fixed-mobile convergence are relabelled as follows:

Open Access to SG 19 Documentation

The trial of public access to SG 19 documents in under way in SG 19. All the publicly accessible documents, including public versions of previous meeting reports, are available at www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com19/docs.

No issues or concerns of any sort have arisen as a result of the open and public access to these documents to date.

SG 19 New Coordinators

Mr Oscar Lopez-Torres (Interdigital, USA) was nominated and confirmed as the SG 19 EDH Coordinator at the closing plenary.

Future plans

Rapporteur electronic meetings:

Rapporteur meetings:
 

Date(s)	Questions	Location
30 October – 2 November 2006	Q.5/19 and Q.6/13	Geneva, Switzerland
‘’	Q.2/19 and Q.6/13	‘’

SG 19 meeting:
 

Date(s)	Location
19 - 26 April 2007	Geneva, Switzerland