Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
San Francisco, USA, 24-25 July 2003
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Informal Forum Summit
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The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) was
established in December 1998. 3GPP brings
together a number of telecommunication standards bodies which are known as
"Organizational Partners". The current Organizational Partners are
ARIB, CWTS, ETSI, T1, TTA, and TTC. The establishment of 3GPP was formalized in December 1998 by the signing of the "The 3rd Generation Partnership Project Agreement". The original scope of 3GPP was to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes). The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)). Supported by industry associations which have the role of “Market Representation Partners”, and working in close co-operation with the ITU and other standardization initiatives, 3GPP is a truly global collaboration. It currently attracts technical experts from more than 430 individual member companies from around the world. Studies for the long-term direction of 3G technology and of the Partnership Project are currently underway.  Mr. Asok CHATTERJEE
Mr. Asok Chatterjee has been active in the telecommunication industry in various parts of the world for about 25 years. He has held positions of increasing levels of responsibility in basically all branches of telecommunications - local exchange, inter-exchange, satellite, trans-oceanic cable, specialized mobile radio, R&D, wireline and wireless manufacturing. He is currently a Vice President with Ericsson. Asok has been instrumental in setting up of 3rd Generation Partnership Project on behalf of US interests. He is the Head of Committee T1 Delegation to 3GPP. He is also the Chairman of the Project Coordination Group, the highest operational management level of the 3GPP organizational structure. |
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Born out of the International Telecommunication
Union's (ITU) International Mobile Telecommunications "IMT-2000" initiative,
The Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) was formed in 1999 as a
collaborative third generation (3G) telecommunication specifications-setting
project between the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), Japan;
the China Wireless Telecommunications Standards (CWTS) project, now housed within the China
Communications Standards Association (CCSA); the Telecommunications Industry
Association (TIA) in North America; the Telecommunications Technology
Association in Korea; and the Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) in
Japan. The goal of the Project is to develop global specifications for ANSI/TIA/EIA-41
Cellular Radiotelecommunication Intersystem Operations network evolution to 3G
and global specifications for the radio transmission technologies (RTTs)
supported by ANSI/TIA/EIA-41 that are particularly known as CDMA2000.
3GPP2 has 71 active member companies engaged in specifications-setting activities, has published over 250 specifications and reports and enjoys success through successful deployment of CCDMA2000 systems and strong CDMA2000 subscriber growth worldwide. 
Mr. Hideo OKINAKAMr. Hideo Okinaka is Vice President and General Manager of Strategic "au" Business Development Division at KDDI Corporation, and is responsible for business planning, marketing and product line management for its cellular communications business unit. He spent 14 years, in the research and development of digital mobile satellite communication systems, including two years at Inmarsat, London. Since 1991, he has been working on cellular systems and business development at KDDI (formerly DDI and KDD). He holds a Dr. Eng. degree in Communications Science, an M.S. degree in Physics and a B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Waseda University. He has been involved in 3GPP2 since its conception in 1998 and served as TSG-S Chair for the first two-year term of the leadership office. |
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| 3G Americas | |||||||
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Founded in January 2002, 3G Americas unites wireless operators and
manufacturers in the Americas for the first time to provide a single voice to
represent the GSM family of wireless technologies - GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS (WCDMA).
The founding members of 3G Americas wanted a single organization that could globally address converged operator networks and their seamless evolution to future generations. This marks a significant milestone for the advancement of the GSM family of technologies and ensures a smooth transition to 3G services in the USA, Latin America and the Caribbean, where a growing number of leading carriers are committed to a GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS technology migration. The mission of 3G Americas is to promote and facilitate the seamless deployment of GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS throughout the Americas. 3G Americas is committed to working with regulatory bodies, technical standards bodies, and other global wireless organizations to promote truly seamless interoperability and convergence. These relationships include Market Representation Partner for 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project), membership of CITEL (Inter-American Telecommunications Commission), collaborative working agreements with both the GSM Association and UMTS Forum, and endorsement of the EDGE Operators’ Forum. Representing 72 per cent of the world’s digital wireless market, GSM is the most extensively used digital mobile network technology in the world with the most extensive wireless footprint. As the fastest growing technology in the Americas, GSM grew by 54 per cent from year-end 2001 to year-end 2002. 
Mr. Chris PEARSONChris Pearson is the Executive Vice President of 3G Americas. In this role, he provides executive management through integration of strategy and operations in the areas of marketing, finance and industry affairs. Chris came to 3G Americas from the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) where he served as Executive Vice President in charge of the strategic management of the Consortium. Prior to joining the UWCC, Mr. Pearson held the position of Strategic Alliance Manager for the Advanced Network Services Provider Program (ANSPP) at AT&T Wireless Services in Kirkland, Washington. Additionally, he has held several senior level technical marketing positions at GTE Telephone Operations. Throughout his sixteen-year career in telecommunications, Chris has provided lectures, satellite based training, and speeches for telecommunications audiences throughout the world. Chris Pearson holds a Masters in Business Administration from Seattle University and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Finance from the school of Business at the University of Washington. |
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The 4G Society (4GS) was founded to bring together industry, academia, government, media,
and interested members of the public to suggest the technologies, policies and standards
for 4G wireless broadband. The starting point for 4GS was the research that became the
first book on 4G, Brave New Unwired World (John Wiley, 2002) carried out by 4GS founding
director Alex Lightman. Since its creation 4GS has advocated the most expanded view
of the technologies and possibilities of 4G, and urged stakeholders in 4G to include
much more than simply greater data rates (i.e. “100 MB/second.”), such as battery
life, frequency agility, novel content, awareness of location/context/user, wireless
power transmission. 4GS invites participation and representation from for profit,
nonprofit, government, and individual members. Its most recent meeting was at the
North American IPv6 Global Summit, June 24, 2003, in which 4GS cofounders Alex
Lightman, Latif Ladid, and Larry Smarr played key roles. Its next meeting will
be in Tokyo, 2004, after the 4G Comlab session chaired by Alex Lightman.
Mr. Alex LIGHTMAN Alex Lightman is the author of the first book on 4G, Brave New Unwired World: The Digital Big Bang and The Infinite Internet (John Wiley, 2002) and founder of The 4G Society. He has been invited to be a speaker, keynoter and/or chairman of every international 4G event held to date or scheduled. Lightman co-chaired The Path to 4G Conference in London, 2002 and was the highest rated for both chairing and for content out of 28 speakers on 4G. He will co-chair the 4G Comlab in Tokyo, January 2004, a part of The 3G Mobile Forum that attracts virtually all of the 3G industry chief executives. As marketing manager for the North American IPv6 Task Force, Lightman has helped raise the prominence of IPv6 worldwide. Alex Lightman is the first Cal-(IT)2 Scholar at the University of California’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He is also a Visiting Scholar with the California State University at SDSU. He is a graduate of MIT (’83) and is class treasurer and attended graduate school at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Sloan School at MIT. Lightman is the author of over 100 articles on science, technology, economy, and policy published since 1999. He was recognized as one of the top ten “CEOs of the Future” by Chief Executive magazine in its 20th anniversary issue. His next books are The Future Engine and The Ever Smarter World. In addition to the next North American IPv6 Summits, Lightman will chair the Sensornets Summit, March 1-3, 2004 in San Diego. 
Mr. Larry SMARR
Mr. Smarr is a pioneer in prototyping a national information infrastructure to support academic research, governmental functions, and industrial competitiveness. In 1985, Dr. Smarr became the founding Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In 1997, he became in addition the founding Director of the National Computational Science Alliance, comprised of over fifty universities, government labs, and corporations linked with NCSA in a national-scale virtual enterprise to prototype the information infrastructure of the 21st Century. Most recently, Dr. Smarr became the founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, which spans the Universities of California at San Diego and Irvine. Dr. Smarr received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and conducted observational, theoretical, and computational based astrophysical sciences research for fifteen years before becoming Director of NCSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990 he received the Franklin Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Gold Medal for Leadership in Science or Technology. |
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The ASN.1 Consortium is an internationally recognized non-profit organization
whose mission is to promote ASN.1 to industries that can benefit from this
powerful standard. The Consortium publishes research articles and papers,
encourages academic institutions to promote the study of ASN.1, and supports
research and publications that further ASN.1 awareness and acceptance.
Mr. Paul THORPE Paul Thorpe is Vice President of Research and Development, OSS Nokalva, Inc, and is currently the Editor for ASN.1 standards in both the ISO/IEC and ITU-T committees which jointly publish ASN.1 standards. He is also active in the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Technical Committee, and has been involved in the development of Intelligent Transportation Systems standards published by IEEE. Current interests are use of ASN.1 as an XML schema language, and mapping between XSD and ASN.1 to allow XML documents to be converted to and from the compact binary ASN.1 encoding rules with no loss of data or semantics. |
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The ATM Forum is an international non-profit organization formed with the
objective of accelerating the use of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) products
and services through a rapid convergence of interoperability specifications. In
addition, the Forum promotes industry cooperation and awareness.
Since its formation in 1991, The ATM Forum has generated very strong interest within the communications industry. Currently, The ATM Forum consists of approximately 150 member companies, and it remains open to any organization that is interested in accelerating the availability of ATM-based solutions. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, marketing awareness programs such as Broadband Exchange, and the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. 
Ms. Marlis HUMPHREY
Marlis Humphrey is chair of the Board of Directors for The ATM Forum, and director of Technology and Standards Planning for Harris Corporation. She is responsible for development of the company’s technology roadmap and standards strategy, and the coordination of standards activities. Prior to joining Harris in 1999, Ms. Humphrey was president of Vitreous Communications, Inc., a consulting firm focused on broadband access. Previously, she was with AT&T Paradyne, where she was director of Business Development for Broadband Access Products and responsible for strategic planning for ATM Products. In 1996, Ms. Humphrey also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she was involved in planning for Broadband Multimedia Products and Services. Ms. Humphrey began her career in 1978 as a developer of retail and point of sale communications software with Carson Pirie Scott & Company. She joined AT&T–Paradyne Corporation in 1981 as a software engineer and held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering and product line management for wide area TDM, fast-packet and ATM communications products. Ms. Humphrey is an active leader in key national and international standards organizations developing frame, cell and DSL–based standards. She is in her fifth year of leading The ATM Forum Board of Directors as chairman. She served as chairman of the North America Market Awareness Committee for the forum from 1994–1997. In addition, Ms. Humphrey has participated in the Broadband Content Delivery Forum, ANSI T1E1, the DSL Forum, the UAWG, the MMCF, ETSI TM6, ITU-T SG15, and the Frame Relay Forum. Within T1E1, she served as chair of the CAP/QAM RADSL Ad Hoc and editor of "TR59—September 1999—Single-Carrier Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL)." She is an internationally noted speaker and author published in Data Communications, BCR, Telecommunications Magazine, IEEE Network magazine, OEM Magazine, CIO Magazine, Computer World, LAN Times and others. Ms. Humphrey has a bachelor’s degree in Russian with minors in both mathematics and computer science from Knox College, Galesburg, IL. She received a masters degree in management of technology from the University of Miami. |
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| BCD Forum (Broadband Content Delivery Forum) | |||||||
Established in April 2000, the BCD Forum brings together equipment and software
vendors, service and content providers in a common effort to promote widespread
adoption of broadband content, and to provide business models and reference
architectures for carriers seeking profitable new broadband services. The BCD
Forum is an independent, member-supported, non-profit trade association that
addresses the technology and business issues affecting end-to-end delivery of
broadband content and services to consumers and businesses. Members, which include
some of the most important players in the broadband industry, work collaboratively
to gain consensus on technology and business requirements, document collective
thinking and share findings with standard bodies. For more information, visit
www.bcdforum.org or send an email inquiry to info@bcdforum.org.
Mr. Wilbur J. WALKOE
Wil Walkoe is Vice-Chair of the BCD Forum and a principal engineer in Sprint’s Industry Standards group, responsible for coordinating Sprint’s representation on wireline standards groups in relation to the requirements of the company’s strategy and integrated product roadmap. His earlier career included college teaching, several positions in Bell Labs and AT&T’s former Data Systems Division, and systems engineering and technology planning work at Ameritech. Except for the teaching positions (math and professional services), all of this work has been in the area of identifying and furthering new opportunities in data services. Wil has a PhD in Mathematics and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin. |
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The DSL Forum is an international industry consortium of nearly 200 leading
service providers, equipment manufacturers and other interested parties, focused
on developing the full potential of broadband DSL to meet the needs of the mass
market. With the established goal of 200 million customers by 2005, the DSL
Forum works to streamline processes, develop specifications and share best
practices that set the stage for effective deployments, and explosive global DSL
growth. By developing new standards and embracing new applications, the DSL
Forum is tailoring DSL to meet the needs of the next generation of multimedia
services and the online community.
Mr. Tom STARR
Tom Starr serves as DSL Forum President and Chairman and has served as a member of the DSL Forum Board of Directors from its inception in 1994. Tom Starr is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at SBC Technology Resources Inc. in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Tom is responsible for the development and standardization of new local access technologies for SBC’s network. These technologies include ADSL, HDSL, and VDSL. From 1988 to 2000, Tom has served as Chairperson of ANSI accredited standards working group T1E1.4 which develops xDSL standards for the United States, received the Committee T1 Outstanding Leadership Award in 2001, and now serves at T1E1.4 Vice-chair. Tom participates in the ITU SG15 Q4 group on xDSL international standards. He co-authored the books "DSL Advances" published by Prentice Hall in 2003, and "Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology" published by Prentice Hall in 1999. Tom previously worked 12 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories on ISDN and local telephone switching systems. Ten US patents in the field to telecommunications have been issued to Tom. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science and a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana Il. |
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The FS-VDSL Committee is registered as a not-for-profit organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
The key goals and achievements of this committee are:
Mr. Don CLARKE
Don Clarke is a leading member of BT Wholesale's 21st Century Network team. His current role is to drive the development of BT's next generation access network. He is Co-founder, Chairman and Technical Director of the Full Service-VDSL Committee and since 1996 has chaired the FSAN xDSL Working Group. This group has been highly influential in brokering international agreements on DSL standards, notably for VDSL. In 1998 he was awarded the UK IEE/National Physical Laboratory Measurement Prize for developing the methodology and initiating BT's pioneering survey of high frequency crosstalk in the UK access network. This work underpins the UK's broadband deployment. He received the BSc. degree in Computer Systems from the University of Essex, England in 1981, and holds seven patents in the field of optical access. |
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The ICT Standards Board (ICTSB) is an initiative from the three recognized
European standards organizations the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN),
the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CEN-ELEC), and the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) with the participation
of specification providers as partners to co-ordinate specification
activities in the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT),
under three objectives. The Terms of Reference (ToRs) have
been revised in July 2001.
The ICTSB listens to requirements for standards and specifications that are based on concrete market needs and expressed by any competent source. The Board then considers what standards or specifications need to be created, and how the task will be carried out. ICTSB is dealing with Electronic Signature (EESSI), Design for All and Assistive Technologies through (DATSCG), and Intelligent Transport Systems Steering Groups (ITSSG), and is involved in the political initiative e-Europe by providing direct support. European research activities are organized by the European Commission. They are structured around consecutive five-year programmes, or so-called Framework Programmes. The Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) sets out the priorities - including the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority - for the period 2002-2006. The ICTSB maintains a dialogue with the Commission and links standardization with research activities for mutual benefits.  Mr. Keith DICKERSON
Keith Dickerson has worked in the ICT industry for 25 years and is currently Head of Standards for the BT Group of companies, as part of the Office of the CTO. He provides direction to BT’s standards activities, identifying key technologies to BT and the standards required to support these. Keith directs a team of professional engineers participating in standards in all areas related to telecommunication and IT. He is responsible for developing strategies for participation in bodies such as ITU, CEN, ETSI, IETF, TMF, W3C, OMA and many others. He is also a member of the Internet Society (ISOC). Since February 1997, Keith has been the CEN ICT Rapporteur and Chairman of the CEN/ISSS Forum, which manages and sets direction for the CEN/ISSS workshop programme. Keith is also well known within ETSI and was an active participant in the ETSI Strategic Review Committee on the EII (SRC6). He led work on Telecommunications and Information Architecture in ETSI and was previously Vice Chairman responsible for strategy of the ETSI Technical Committee on Network Aspects. In November 2002, Keith was elected to the Board of ETSI. In March 2000, Keith was elected Chairman of the ICT Standards Board (ICTSB), the body which coordinates the standards activities of the three European Standards Organizations and 15 fora and consortia. He has since led initiatives to clarify the role of ICTSB, widen its membership, and strengthen links with EU RTD programmes. Previously he led the CEN delegation to ICTSB and has been a regular participant since its creation in 1995. He has been very supportive of the ways of working of ICTSB, and is keen to contribute to further improving its effectiveness and accountability in support of European Industry. From 1995-2000 Keith was an active participant in the ETNO Working Group on ICT Standards and drafted many contributions on topics related to European and global standards. From 1998/9 he was secretary to the High Level Strategy Group for ICT Standards (HLSG) and made many presentations on HLSG recommendations to ICTSB and other bodies. From 1992-5, Keith lived and worked in Brussels as a member of the RACE Consensus Management project, where he was responsible for downstreaming the results of the EU RACE and ACTS R&D programmes to international standards. Keith has made over 100 contributions to international standards bodies including ITU, ISO and ETSI on a wide range of topics including man-machine interfaces, services, and telecommunication and information systems architecture. |
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The IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
is a global, not-for-profit corporation designed to provide an innovative legal umbrella
for consortia, and a flexible array of program management support. The ISTO is affiliated
with the IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association.Currently there are eight initiatives
organized as programs of the ISTO: 1355 Association; Broadband Wireless Internet Forum;
Customized Learning Experience Online (CLEO) Lab; Liberty Alliance Project; Medical Device
Communications Industry Group; Nexus 5001 Forum; Printer Working Group; and VoiceXML Forum.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open
international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and
researchers concerned with the evolution of Internet architecture and the
smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.
The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.). Much of the work is handled via mailing lists. The IETF holds meetings three times per year. IETF working groups are split into areas, and managed by Area Directors, or ADs. The ADs are members of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Providing architectural oversight is the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). The IAB also adjudicates appeals when someone complains that the IESG has failed. The Internet Society (ISOC) charters the IAB for these purposes. The General Area Director also serves as the chair of the IESG and of the IETF, and is an ex-officio member of the IAB. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a service provided by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols. The IANA is chartered by the Internet Society (ISOC) to act as the clearinghouse to assign and coordinate the use of numerous Internet protocol parameters. First-time attendees might find it helpful to read The Tao of the IETF. This was published as RFC3160.  Mr. Harald ALVESTRANDHarald Alvestrand was born in Norway in 1959, and graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology /NTH) in 1984. He has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT (The University Network of Norway), EDB Maxware and, since, 2000, for Cisco Systems. His current title is Cisco Fellow. He has been active in Internet standardization since 1991, and has written a number of RFCs. He has been an area director of Applications and of Operations & Management in the IETF, as well as a member of the IAB, and is currently serving as IETF Chair. Mr. Ted HARDIE Ted Hardie is the Application Area Director in the IETF and Director, Wireless and Internet Group in Qualcomm. |
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International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC)
is an international community of companies working together to facilitate
the availability of real-time, rich-media communications between people in
multiple locations around the world. Rich Media refers to converged
communications sessions that incorporate voice and one-way (or two-way) data and
one-way (or two-way) video. Members of this community include Internet
application developers and service providers, teleconferencing hardware and
software suppliers, telecommunications companies and equipment vendors, end-users,
educational institutions, government agencies and non-profit corporations.
In the bleeding edge days of multipoint video, products supplied by different manufacturers failed to work together even when based on internationally accepted standards and protocols. The IMTC identified interoperability as a key impediment to industry growth and initiated formal standards recommendations and testing programs to improve interoperability of the products and services. 
Mr. Istvan SEBESTYEN
Mr. Istvan Sebestyen is the President of IMTC and Chief Engineer of Siemens Information and Communications Networks Group in Munich, Germany. He has been working in the field of telecom standardization at Siemens since 1985. Since the early 1980s he has been teaching at the Universities of Graz and Klagenfurt in Austria, and has widely published in the area of information and telecommunication technologies. |
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The International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) is an international industry
association dedicated to the development of the market for all products, services,
applications and solutions that utilize packet-based voice, data and video communications
technologies, over the broadest range of transport mediums including wireless,
copper, broadband, and fiber optics. The IPCC membership is comprised of a diverse
group of wireline and wireless service providers, governmental agencies, standards
bodies, equipment and software vendors and enterprises, representing all network
elements involved in next generation networks.
The Consortium has been instrumental in establishing and clarifying a common terminology for the packet-based architecture, promoting interoperability, providing educational programs, conducting research, and liaising with governmental and industry organizations to address issues that service providers and vendors face. The IPCC builds on the work of it predecessor, the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC), which was the industry’s premiere forum for the worldwide advancement of softswitch interoperability, promoting the growth of Internet-based multimedia communications and applications. Additional information on the IPCC can be found at www.packetcomm.org.  Mr Michael KHALILIAN
Michael has more than 20 years of engineering, operations, applications, business development and management experience in telecommunications, broadband and multimedia. Michael has worked with organizations ranging from service providers and equipment manufacturers to government agencies. Prior to working with NTT Business Groups, an International Telecom, Media, Cable and Broadband company, Michael held positions such as Senior Director of Technology, Architecture, Applications and Business Development with Time Warner Communications, where he built and managed multiple departments. Michael directed and developed telephony, VoIP, broadband cable data network, and multimedia (Cable Modem) Internet services groups at Time Warner (AOL) business telecom and cable groups. Other companies that he has worked with include BellSouth Communications, FAA/Harris Government Communications, and Siemens as well as the FCC. Michael was one of the founding member of the industry “Packet Multimedia IP Carrier Coalition” and “International Softswitch Consortium” (ISC) which evolved into the “International Packet Communications Consortium” (IPCC). Now the Chairman and President of the IPCC, he is also an appointed member of the Telecom Executive Council for the United States. He is a frequent speaker at national and international technology conferences and is actively involved in service provider consortiums and industry standards bodies. Wallstreet analysts and Venture Capital institutions also call upon Michael’s expertise as a technology reference and advisor. Michael earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida and his Master of Business Administration from Southern California University. |
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IPDR.org developed the Internet Protocol Detail Record "IPDR" interface used by IP network
and service providers to capture network data usage information. IPDR.org is an open consortium
of leading service providers, equipment vendors, system integrators, and billing and mediation
vendors. All are collaborating to facilitate service measurement and exchange for next-generation
services by implementing de-facto standards. IPDR.org collaborates with standards bodies
possessing domain knowledge in specialized services and technologies to ensure standards
accuracy and broad adoption. IPDR.org membership is open to all companies willing to
support these goals. For more information about IPDR.org, please go to our web site
at www.ipdr.org.
Mr. Tal GIVOLY
Tal Givoly is a director on the board of IPDR.org. Tal Givoly is Chief Scientist at XACCT Technologies. He joined XACCT Technologies in June 1997 and is part of the founding team. Tal has over 18 years of networking technologies and software development experience. Before joining XACCT, he was a team lead and senior staff engineer at Mobile Information Systems where he developed a shrink-wrapped application for Automatic Vehicle Location over a wireless digital network and a suite of other fleet management applications. Prior to MIS, Tal lead the design and development of a graphical front-end for OrbiTrak(tm) - a VLSI processing system that won Semiconductor International's Editor's Choice Award for 1995. Tal has several patents to his credit. He conceived, defined, and developed the CRANE protocol. Tal is a frequent speaker at industry events and actively involved in industry consortia such as, IETF and IPDR.org and is a Director on the Board of IPDR.org. Tal received B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics with Honors from Tel-Aviv University. |
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The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of over 150 leading Internet
service vendors, National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and
international ISPs, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and
user awareness, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet and
allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The key focus
of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the deployment of
IPv6. IPv6 Summits are organized by the IPv6 Forum and staged in various
locations around the world to provide industry with the best
available information on this rapidly advancing technology.
Mr. Latif LADID
With support from the IETF NG & Ngtrans Working Groups and the IPv6 Deployment Initiative, Latif initiated the foundation of the IPv6 Forum in May 1999. He also served, from 1996 to 1998, as chairman of Global-ISDN. Selected in 1998 for inclusion in the International Who's Who Professional list, he is also member of 3GPP PCG Board and Researcher on multiple European Commission IST Projects including; 6INIT, 6WINIT, Euro6IX and Eurov6. Latif is also Project Coordinator of the Next Generation Networks Initiative funded by the European Commission that kicked-off Jan 1, 2001, Chairman of the European Commission IPv6 Task Force initiative and was elected June 5, 2001 as an Internet Society Trustee. |
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The IPv6 Forum Korea has been established on March 2000, supported by the Korean government;
currently, it has more than 75 domestic member organizations coming from industrial sectors,
research institutes and universities. The IPv6 Forum Korea has three major missions which are:
enabling access to knowledge and technology for the early adoption of IPv6 in domestic environment;
verification of the adoption of IPv6-related on-time applications and services to the market;
and setting up collaboration with other IPv6 related organizations.
Recently, the IPv6 Forum Korea has actively collaborated with other organizations worldwide and has a plan to prepare the Korea IPv6 Showcase,for early deployment of IPv6 in Korea. 
Mr. HyoungJun KIM
Mr. Hyoung Jun Kim is a Team Manager of NGI Standardization Research Team at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), and is responsible for projects for advanced IPv6 services technologies and auto-configuration networking technologies based on IPv6. He is also a Director of IPv6 Forum Korea performing as international counterpart with other related organizations. He spent 16 years in the research and development of telematic services, hypermedia document processing systems and video conferencing systems based on MCS, including three years at ULB, Brussels. Since 2002, he has been working on IPv6-related projects supported by the Korean government. |
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| Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) | |||||||
The mission of the Metro Ethernet Forum is to accelerate the adoption of
Optical Ethernet as the technology of choice in metro networks worldwide. The
MEF consists of over 60 member companies representing a range of leading
Ethernet service providers, major incumbent local exchange carriers, top network
equipment vendors and other prominent networking companies.
Mr. Ron YOUNG
Ron Young is founder and CEO of MetNet, a newly funded Metro Ethernet service provider. Ron helped pioneer and became a leading evangelist of optical Ethernet services as co-founder of Yipes, the first metro Ethernet service provider and as co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Metro Ethernet Forum, one of the fastest growing forums in the telecom industry. Previously, he was VP of Marketing and Sales at Nokia High Speed Access Products, which pioneered the first commercial deployment of DSL in the US. During the early nineties he launched the first Frame Relay services for US WEST and during the late eighties the first LAN services for Pacific Bell. With more than 30 years’ experience, Ron is a sought-after industry spokesperson. His many conference presentations include COMDEX, COMNET, IEC NCF, Internet World, Networld + Interop, NGN and Opticon. Ron has been quoted extensively in the media, including America's Networks, Business Communications Review, InfoWorld, Network World, Red Herring, Telecommunications and Telephony. A lifelong sailor, Ron placed second in the International One Design World Championships and was the General Manager of San Francisco's first challenge for the America's Cup. Mr. Nan CHEN Biography to be provided. |
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Mobile Terminal Technology Forum (MTTF) was established in March 2003.
The forum brings together a number of telecommunication operators, mobile terminal vendors/designers, valued-added service (or content) providers in the Chinese-Speaking region. MTTF has more than 50 members including China Mobile, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens, TI, Legend, SmarTone, HK CSL, SINA, TOM are all the members of MTTF. The scope of MTTF is to produce applicable technical proposals and technical reports for mobile terminals based on GSM/GPRS technology and its evolution for the Chinese speaking market. The mission of MTTF is to promote compatibility and interoperability between terminals or between terminal and network, fulfilling a growing need for a greater variety of mobile services. The MTTF is composed of Presidium, Council, Secretariat and Working groups. The presidium of MTTF is composed of ten sponsoring companies. Madam Li Mofang, Chief Engineer of China Mobile was elected to be the first Chair of MTTF. Currently MTTF has four working groups. WG1 is dedicated to radio access and terminal architecture. WG2 is dedicated to service and ability. WG3 is dedicated to terminal testing, including IOP and IOT test. WG4 is dedicated to terminal security systems. The secretariat of MTTF is based in Beijing, and is responsible for management of the forum and handles daily routine affairs of MTTF. 
Mr. Jianming ZHOU
Mr. Jianming Zhou is Director of Council of Mobile Terminal Technology Forum (MTTF). He is Professor of Telecommunication at Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Director of R&D, Center of China Mobile, Director of Beijing Communication Association, strategy expert on the Consultative Committee of State Mid-long Term Science & Technology Development & Plan of China. He graduated in NanJing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1982. He has been engaged in research of telecommunication networks & telecommunication operations for more than 20 years. He has had many papers published in a variety of telecommunication journals. Currently he is Deputy President of Telecommunication Institute of Ministry of Information Industry of China. He has been the recipient of the Ministry-Grade Award of Advancement of Science and Technology. 
Mr. Jianfeng TANG
Mr. Jianfeng Tang, is General Secretary of the Mobile Terminal Technology Forum (MTTF) and Deputy Director of the Product Development Division of R&D Center of China Mobile. He graduated in Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT) with a masters degree in wireless communication. He is currently a lecturer of BUPT and engaged in software development for GSM mobile phones at SonyEricsson. |
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Founded in April 2003 by merging the MPLS Forum and the Frame Relay Forum,
the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance is an industry-wide organization of networking
and telecommunication companies focused on driving the deployment of
multi-vendor Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Frame Relay (FR) networks
and associated applications. The Forum provides a meeting ground for companies
that are creating MPLS and FR products and deploying MPLS and FR networks and
services.
Through the efforts of our three working committees, the Forum encourages: (a) input to the development of standards throughout the various industry standards groups; (b) the creation of Implementation Agreements, based upon appropriate standards, on how to build and deliver MPLS and FR networks and services; (c) the definition of Interoperability test suites and coordination of Interoperability events to demonstrate the readiness of MPLS for network deployments; (d) the creation and delivery of educational programs to educate the industry about MPLS and FR technologies, services and solutions; and (e) building the awareness of MPLS as a technology ready for wide-scale deployment within service provider networks to deliver profitable services to the end-user community. 
Mr. Andrew MALIS
Andrew G. Malis is Chief Technologist at Vivace Networks, Inc., a leading provider of flexible, high-performance multi-service WAN switches to carriers worldwide. He has been active in wide-area data networking and telecommunication for over 25 years, beginning with the ARPANET, the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications; Ascend Communications; and Lucent Technologies. His current responsibilities include Vivace Networks’ product architecture, future product planning, standards participation coordination, and customer consultation. He is also President and Chairman of the Board of the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance (and formerly was their founding Technical Committee Chair), has chaired a number of working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the ATM Forum, and is a veteran participant and award recipient in other standards bodies and industry consortia. He has written, edited, and otherwise contributed to many standards documents in these organizations, including 21 IETF RFCs. He also serves on the technical advisory boards of several privately held high-tech companies. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, and his Master of Science degree, also in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University. 
Mr. Roger RUBY
Roger J. Ruby started in telecommunications in 1979 as an applications and T1 network design engineer for TRW-Vidar a leading provider of digital telephony and data infra-structure equipment for Independent Telephone company industry. He served as Sr. Field Engineer, from 1982-1984, in the Digital Telecom division at California Microwave and, from 1984-1992, he was a senior engineer at ROLM Corporation responsible for serviceability features and strategies for their digital PBX product lines with emphasis on telco trunking. From 1992-95, transitioned to product management, with ROLM-Siemens, and launched the industry’s first PBX integrated fax and text messaging server. In 1995, served as product manager at Verilink Corp. and launched company’s first intelligent frame relay CSU/CSU product line, WANscopeÔ, along with its complimentary network management software, VeristatsÔ. In 1999, joined Digital Link (now Quick Eagle Networks) as senior product manager for all inverse muliplexer multi-link products with focus on launching industry standard’s-based multi-link solutions. In early 2001, became active in the Frame Relay Forum and chaired a major inter-operability event that consisted of 7 major vendors offering the new FR multi-link standards- based solution: FRF.16. In late 2001, he was elected co-VP of Marketing of the Frame Relay Forum. In March of 2003, he became acting president of the Frame Relay forum and successfully completed negotiations to merge the forum with the MPLS Forum, thus forming the MPLS/FR Alliance. Roger holds a B.A. in Business and Telecommunications from the Univ. of the Pacific and resides in the Sacramento area of California with his wife at 3 children. |
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The Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) is a global association of service
providers and system suppliers committed to developing and promoting
open-architecture, multiservice switching systems. Founded in 1998, the MSF is
an open-membership organization comprised of the world's leading
telecommunication companies.
The MSF's activities include developing implementation agreements, promoting worldwide compatibility and interoperability, and encouraging input to appropriate national and international standards bodies. 
Mr. Roger WARD
Roger Ward was heavily involved in the MSF from its foundation in 1998. In June 1999. he was was elected to the MSF Board of Directors and was elected President of the MSF board in September 2000. Based in the UK, Ward heads up Future Switched Network Strategy at BT Exact, BT's technology powerhouse and has had a long, distinguished career in the industry holding a variety of key positions. In his work with the MSF, he has done much to help achieve the forum's current focus on multi-vendor interoperability and the very successful GMI2002 & GMI2004 global interoperability programmes Ward holds BS with honours in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, an MS in telecommunications systems from Essex University and an MBA from Warwick University. |
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| OASIS | |||||||
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit,
global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards.
Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly
designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide
standards for security, Web services, conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing,
topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more
than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
Mr. Patrick GANNON
Patrick J. Gannon is President and CEO of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). In addition to holding a position on the OASIS Board of Directors, Mr. Gannon served from 2000 to 2002 with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), as Chairman of the Team of Specialists for Internet Enterprise Development, which advises governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business. He participates in the ebXML (electronic business using eXtensible Markup Language) Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) together with management from UN/CEFACT. He has worked for BEA Systems, where he was Senior Vice President in the E-Commerce Integration Division. Mr. Gannon also served as Vice President of Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish Technologies and as Vice President of Strategic Programs for the CommerceNet Consortium, directing research and development efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML. While at CommerceNet, he became the first Project Leader for RosettaNet and served as Executive Director for the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) initiative. Mr. Gannon is co-author of the book: "Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs," and is an international speaker on electronic business and Web Services standards. Mr. Gannon has also provided consultation and guidance to governmental leaders (ministers and heads of state) on adoption of electronic business (Information & Communication Technology) strategies to facilitate economic growth. |
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The mission of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is to foster the
development and deployment of interoperable products and services for data
switching and routing using optical networking technologies. The OIF
encourages co-operation among telecom industry participants including equipment
manufacturers, telecom service providers and end users; promotes global
development of optical internetworking products; nationwide and
worldwide compatibility and interoperability; encourages input to appropriate
national and international standards bodies; and identifies, selects, and augments
as appropriate. It also publishes optical internetworking specifications drawn from
national and international standards.
Being the only industry group uniting representatives from the data and optical networks, OIF's purpose is to accelerate the deployment of interoperable, cost-effective and robust optical internetworks and their associated technologies. Optical internetworks are data networks composed of routers and data switches interconnected by optical networking elements. 
Mr. Joe BERTHOLD
Joseph Berthold is Vice President, Network Architecture and Standards at CIENA, where he has worked since early 1997. There he contributes to the understanding of future network architecture directions, network service concepts, the definition of CIENA's networking products, and is responsible for coordination of CIENA's work in industry standards. He served as the Technical Committee Chair of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) from its formation in 1998 until 2001. He has been a long-term contributor to the Optical Fiber Communications Conference, OFC, was the Technical Program Co-chair for OFC 2001 and will be the General Co-Chair for OFC 2003, and is an IEEE COMSOC representative on the OFC Steering Committee. From 1984 until 1997 he worked in the Applied Research Area of Bellcore. He was responsible for the management of research programs related to broadband network systems, and was the Program Manager and chairman of the Technical Management Committee for the Multiwavelength Optical Networking Consortium (MONET). He managed previous Bellcore research programs in high capacity protocol processing, high speed electronic switching and high speed multiplexing. Before Bellcore he spent six years at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, responsible for a semiconductor device technology development group. Joe also serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Directors in the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). |
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Mr. Jacob CHRISTFORT
As Chief Technology Officer for the Mobile Products and Services Division of Oracle Corporation, Mr. Christfort is responsible for product development and management of the mobile features and services of the Oracle9i Application Server. Mr. Christfort has been with Oracle since 1997 in a variety of mobile development, management and marketing roles. Mr. Christfort was responsible for Oracle’s first wireless portal server, the creation of Oracle's hosted mobile services, and architecting the current mobile and wireless technology offerings of Oracle. Mr. Christfort is Vice Chairman of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), whose mission is to grow the market for the entire mobile industry. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Christfort was with McKinsey & Co. consulting Global 500 companies in a variety of industries including: telecommunication, steel, mining, paper, and education. Prior to McKinsey, he co-founded and served as CTO of a Danish startup designing industrial hand-held computers and related enterprise software. Mr. Christfort holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from University of Copenhagen and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
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With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to
future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle
approach to enterprise integration which maximizes Return on Investment (ROI), the key to successful
IT. OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages,
middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development
environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the
Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the
Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with
hundreds of millions of deployments running today.
Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a US government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization's website.  Mr. Joubine DUSTZADEHJoubine Dustzadeh has 14 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry with an extensive background in standards related to open services architecture, network intelligence, distributed systems and modeling concepts. He has been an active participant in various standards bodies including ITU-T, ETSI, TINA, Parlay, IETF and OMG, and has held chairman and editor positions with ITU-T (SG11, Intelligent Networks CS-3/4, Service Modeling) and ETSI (NA6/SPS3, Working Party 1, Service Aspects). Mr. Dustzadeh joined AT&T Laboratories in 1999 and is currently a District Manager in the Network and OSS Architecture Organization. From 2000 to 2002, he was responsible for overall corporate standards strategy of Concert (an AT&T/BT global venture), and also for the coordination of joint standards activities and strategic positions between AT&T and BT. Prior to joining AT&T, Joubine was with Cegetel and France Telecom where he held R&D positions of increasing responsibility focused on advanced voice/IP services architecture. He has also worked for Unisys and Retix (89-93, California) in the OSI applications area. Joubine holds a BS in Theoretical Physics from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, an MS in Telecommunications and a Ph.D. in Open Distributed Systems, both from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris. |
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OGC is an international industry consortium of 257 companies, government
agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop
publicly available geoprocessing specifications. Open interfaces and protocols
defined by OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that
"geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and
mainstream IT, and empower technology developers to make complex spatial
information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Mr. Carl REED
Mr. Carl Reed is the Executive Director of the OpenGIS Consortium Specification Program. Prior to his current position, Mr. Reed was an independent GIS consultant. Before this, Reed was VP of Infrastructure Marketing at Intergraph. Before Intergraph, Reed was President and CTO for Genasys II, a GIS software company. From 1980 until 1986, Reed was GIS Division Manager for Autometric Inc. He obtained his Ph.D. in GIS from SUNY Buffalo in 1979. His accomplishments include designing and implementing two major GIS packages, MOSS and GenaMap. Reed has published dozens of papers and given numerous GIS conference keynotes. In 1996, in recognition of his contributions to the GIS industry, he was voted by the industry as one of the top ten most influential people in the GIS industry. |
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The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers is a non-profit professional
association dedicated to advancing the careers of cable telecommunications
professional and serving the industry through excellence in professional
development, information and standards. Since 1969, SCTE has continually
expanded its resources and services to meet the changing needs of its members in
a rapidly evolving industry. Today, more than 15,000 engineers, technical
professionals, installers, and managers depend upon SCTE to deliver the tools
they need to maintain their competitive edge.
The SCTE standards program is dedicated to providing standards to help the cable telecommunications industry prosper. SCTE standards cover a wide range of industry needs from F connectors to protocols for high-speed data access over cable. Six of SCTE’s digital video standards were selected as the core of a recent agreement between cable operators and consumer electronic manufacturers. SCTE is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), recognized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and works in cooperation with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). More than 130 MSOs, vendors and allied organizations are SCTE Standards members.  Mr. Stephen OKSALA
Mr. Oksala is the Vice-President of Standards for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). In this position he is responsible for a wide-ranging standards program for the cable telecommunications industry covering topics from connectors to cable modems. Prior to joining SCTE at the beginning of 2001, he spent 35 years with the Unisys Corporation, including 12 years as Director of Standards and Regulatory Compliance. He has also held management positions in system design, hardware design, operating systems and languages and applications development. A member of the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) since 1990, Mr. Oksala was elected as a Vice-Chairman of the Board in December of 2001. He chairs the Board National Policy Committee (NPC), which is responsible for domestic standards and government relations policy, and led the group that produced the ANSI National Standards Strategy in 2000. He is a member of the Executive Committee and the Board's International Committee, and participates in ANSI's Organizational Member Council and the Company Member Telecommunications Caucus. Prior to his chairmanship of the NIC, he chaired the Regional Standing Committee on Europe, and led delegations to ANSI-European meetings. Previous standards experience includes management activities with the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) Technical Advisory Group and the US standards developer INCITS. A recipient of the 1999 ANSI Edward Lohse medal for standardization in Information Technology, Mr. Oksala has twice won awards in the World Standards Day paper contest (first place in 1996 and second place in 2000). He has testified before Congress on several occasions on the subject of standards and conformity assessment and the role of government in these processes. Mr. Oksala holds a BSEE from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Wayne State University. |
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The SDL Forum Society was formally established in 1995 as a non-profit making
organization registered in Darmstadt, Germany.
Informally the Society has existed since June 1990. The main function of the Society initially was to act as a legal entity behind the SDL Forum series of events. The main participants of the Society have therefore been the key people involved in organizing the SDL Forum and publishing the proceedings. Although there is no formal connection, it is natural that the SDL standard rapporteurs have also chaired the society (both before and after it was legally registered) and the programme committee of the Forum. However, the Society should ensure that its decisions are "in agreement with ITU-T Study Group 17". More recently the Society has been closely involved in the evolution of SDL. It has supported meetings of the SDL experts' group and related electronic interchange of information. This is planned to continue with the Society taking a strong role in future standardization. The aims of the Society also include dissemination of information, promotion and education. These activities (such as running its website) will benefit the whole community of SDL users. The use of funds to establish and run this site was explicitly agreed. To enable the society to sustain the site and run the other activities it was agreed there should be membership fees. 
Mr. Uwe GLAESSER
Mr Uwe Glässer is CFO and Executive Board Member of the SDL Forum Society, and also participates in the work of ITU-T Study Group 17 for formal languages development. He is an Associate Professor of Computing Science in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. His research interests include foundations of software engineering and applications of formal techniques and supporting tools for making systems design more reliable and predictable. He recently spent a year as visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Foundations of Software Engineering in Redmond, WA. |
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The TD-SCDMA Forum was established 12, Dec. 2000 to advertise TD-SCDMA
technology, promote the advancement and deployment of TD-SCDMA technology,
promote the industrialization of TD-SCDMA and eventually drive the worldwide
application of TD-SCDMA technology.
TD-SCDMA Forum aims to provide a platform for worldwide operators, manufacturers, research institutes, educational services, standardization organizations and other companies or groups to communicate and cooperate on the development and promotion of TD-SCDMA and related products. TD-SCDMA Forum hopes that the informal forum summit will afford it an opportunity to setup a stable relationship with ITU and introduce TD-SCDMA technology to the world 
Mr. Guoqiang Neal JIN
Mr. Guoqiang Neil Jin is General Secretary of TD-SCDMA Forum, Vice President of Mobile Network of Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Ltd. He received his Bachelor Degree from South-East University of Science, Electrical Engineering in 1988 and recently acquired an EMBA Degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in 2003. He has taken several high-level management positions in sales, operations and marketing at Motorola and Siemens. With more than 15 years working experience in wireless communication industry, Mr. Jin has a rich knowledge of mobile telecommunication and is very familiar with Chinese telecom marketing. |
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The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is a non-profit global organization that
provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the
management and operation of information and communications services. The TM
Forum boasts 340 members worldwide, from incumbent and new-entrant service
providers, equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and Systems
Integrators (SIs). The TM Forum's New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) program is a comprehensive, integrated framework for developing, procuring and deploying operational and business support systems and software. The NGOSS program forms part of the TM Forum's overall technical program, which consists of member-driven collaborative activities that help identify, create, develop, and implement real world solutions that automate and streamline telecom operations.  Mr. Jim WARNER
James (Jim) Warner is president and CEO of the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum), an international consortium of service providers, computer system vendors, network equipment suppliers, software developers and systems integrators. TM Forum provides leadership on management issues and is driving the industry’s efforts to develop a new generation of Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS). In his current role, Jim is responsible for helping formulate the TM Forum’s strategic direction and then guiding the organization’s resources to deliver on that vision. In that capacity, he is responsible for overall management of key programs including the group’s technical program, where members collaborate on reaching industry-wide agreement on key management principles, the knowledge-services portfolio of online information and education services, marketing, member services and the TeleManagement World conference and exposition. Prior to becoming president, Jim served as the TM Forum’s marketing director for ten years when he was responsible for all marketing, communications and education projects and was the co-creator of TeleManagement World. Jim has over 20 years of marketing and product management experience in voice and data communications and information networking with companies such as DCA, Southern Bell and Burroughs. |
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| The Open Group | |||||||
The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium that is committed to
delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information
technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the
enterprise. With its proven certification methodology and conformance testing expertise, The Open
Group is the international guarantor of the interoperability that single economic entities require
to achieve independence.
 Mr. Allen BROWNAllen Brown is President and CEO of The Open Group LLC, a company formed out of the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open Company Limited. Previously Brown served as Acting President and CEO as well as holding positions of Chief Operating Officer, VP Business Development and Chief Financial Officer of X/Open Company Limited. Before joining The Open Group, Brown was a consultant, specializing in start-up and turn-around companies. Prior to this Brown spent 13 years with Unilever rising to a senior financial position in Unilever Computer Services Limited. Brown has an MBA from the London Business School and is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. Mr. Carl CARGILL Carl Cargill is Sun's Director of Standards, where he manages Sun's standardization strategies, activities, and portfolio. He has been involved in standardization for nearly twenty years, and has written two books ("Information Technology Standardization: Theory, Process, and Organizations" and "Open Systems Standardization: A Business Approach"), several chapters in other books on the subject, and the "Standards" entry in the Van Nostrand Reinhold "Encyclopedia of Computer Science". He was the Editor-in-Chief of "StandardView", ACM's journal of Standardization, and has written scores of articles on the subject of standardization and its practical applications. He is a member of the W3C Advisory Board, a member of the Board of Directors of the Open GIS Consortium and the Open Systems Gateway Initiative, Chairman of the Governing Body of The Open Group, and Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Information Technology Industry Council. He has been a member of the Coordinating Committee and General Assembly of ECMA, as well as a member of the BoD at the Object Management Group and the Open Mobile Alliance. Prior to rejoining Sun, he was the Director of Standards at Netscape, and a standards strategist at both Sun and Digital Equipment Corporation. He has also been a product strategist, marketing manager, and program manager for various and sundry other companies in the IT arena. Education: BA History (Medieval European), University of Colorado, 1969 MSA, Management Engineering, The George Washington University, 1975. |
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The UMTS Forum is an open, international body for promoting the global uptake
of third generation (3G) mobile systems and services. The UMTS Forum recognises the importance of all players - including new entrants - in the mobile value chain. As well as offering guidance to governmental and financial communities it also provides marketing input to technical standardisation bodies and advises on spectrum requirements both for present and future 3G systems. The UMTS Forum serves the interests of all its members through educational and promotional activities in its role as the voice of the 3G mobile market. The UMTS Forum has as objectives:
Mr. Jean-Pierre BIENAIME
The UMTS Forum confirmed the election of Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, Director of Group Technical Support at Orange, as its Chairman at the Forum's 28th General Assembly, held in Berlin on 28-30 January 2003. Bienaimé, 50, has a long and distinguished career within the France Telecom Group, including Director of International Development of its Mobile division when he managed operational support for the business development and launch of France Telecom's mobile activities worldwide. After the purchase of Orange by France Telecom he was appointed Group Technical Support Director at Orange, where he provides technical support to the international zones of Orange and France Telecom for business development, as well as to the mobile affiliates of the Group world-wide for operations. He also contributes to Orange's corporate programs, such as rebranding, franchising and strategic reviews. |
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| Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) | |||||||
The objective of this new forum is to formulate visions on strategic future
research directions in the wireless field, among industry and academia, and to
generate, identify, and promote research areas and technical trends for mobile
and wireless system technologies. It is intended to constructively contribute to
the work done within the UMTS Forum, ETSI, 3GPP, IETF, ITU, mITF, IEEE and other
relevant bodies regarding commercial and standardisation issues derived from the
research work. Recently, the forum signed liaison agreements with the UMTS Forum
and mITF in Japan. The forum is open to all interested parties. Members are
expected to contribute papers and ideas.
Mr. Werner MOHR
Werner Mohr graduated from the University of Hannover, Germany, with a Masters Degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and with a Ph.D. degree in 1987. From 1987 – 1990 he was a senior engineer at the Institute of High-Frequency Technology of the University of Hannover. Mr. Werner Mohr as been with Siemens AG, Mobile Network Division in Munich, Germany since 1991. He has been responsible for propagation measurements and channel modeling and he has been involved in the European RACE-II Project ATDMA. From 1995 to 1996 he was active in ETSI SMG5 for standardization of UMTS. He was project manager of the ACTS FRAMES Project from December 1996 until the project finished in August 1999. Werner Mohr was Director of Strategic Pre-Development until September 1998 and since October 1, 1998 he has been Vice-President Pre-Engineering in the infrastructure division of Siemens ICM. He is responsible for cross-functional research activities. Currently, he is involved in the 5th Framework Program and in the preparation of Framework Program 6 the European Commission. Werner Mohr is chair of the "Wireless World Research Forum – WWRF". He is member of VDE and Senior Member of IEEE. In 1990, he received the Award of the ITG in VDE. Werner Mohr is co-author of a book on "Third Generation Mobile Communications". |
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The Collab is a portal between its two sets of constituents – policy makers and
intellectuals. The aim is better flow in both directions, between communications
policy makers and the research intellectuals who write on the subject. To do its
part, the research side also needs to speed up the adoption of a global frame for
its work. The rule set for a given society can be challenging, but the complexity
multiplies with each border and additional rule set that a network crosses. The
Collab’s part is to accelerate the global research frame and catalyze better access
and feedback between doers and thinkers. Both policy and theory can improve; the
payoff is in ongoing innovation for communication tools, with better quality of
life all around.
One mainstay of the policy mix, the standards process, is integral to such ongoing innovation. As elsewhere, the Collab tries to support mutual learning between policy (both public and private) and policy research for standards work. The Collab inaugural is three regional meetings of lead intellectuals around the world, to gather input for the first World Summit on the Information Society. For each of its meetings the Collab works with topic teams. Team participants bring the view from different cultures; each team prepares and presents a salient topic for plenary discussion. The meeting itself is one marker in a deliberative process that extends before and after the event. For policy makers there is opportunity to compare alternative intellectual proposals. To support the second WSIS summit, two years later, the Collab brings its topic teams to that summit preparations and policy makers. Ongoing Collab activity models the inaugural work for the summits. As its foundation, the Collab guards the independence and neutrality that are necessary for trust and open exchange among participants. 
Mr. David ALLEN
David Allen is Co-Principal and President of the World Collaboration for Communications Policy Research. The other principals are strategically located at schools around the globe. A decade ago he created a program on global communications policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Previously for about a decade he was a member of MIT’s research program on communications policy. He is also affiliated at Columbia University’s Institute for Tele-Information. He came to university in midlife. Earlier he worked a decade in business starting new companies. He also has had a tour in government as Controller for a federal grant to the city of Boston. His current writing sets the individual-in-community within the economics of communications policy; his approach is behavioral and evolutionary at the same time. |
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Founded in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) serves
as the center for Web standards development. W3C is where HTML, CSS and XML - and the future
of the Web - are developed. W3C's mission is to provide the vision to lead the Web to its full
potential, and to engineer the technologies that build the foundation for this vision.
The strengths of the Consortium are its ability to bring the broadest range of parties to the
table, to work within a fair and effective process, to reach consensus, and to produce
technical products that provide the foundation for the Web of today and of tomorrow.
Nearly 60 Technical Recommendations – known to the IT world as Web Standards – have been
produced since its inception, with more components under development now.
W3C's approximately 400 Members are supported by its Technical Team, and collaborate to develop the requirements, architecture, design and specifications to support the evolution of the Web. These products ensure that the Web is increasingly accessible, understandable, interoperable, trusted, interesting and able to evolve with time. Ms. Janet DALY Janet is W3C's Head of Communications, having joined the W3C Team in February 1999. She develops and implements strategies for public and member communications, and serves as overseer for the W3C Technical Report Publishing process. She regularly gives interviews and presentations on Web technologies, and is an elected member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee. Janet previously served as Information Officer at Project Athena, one of the first successful experiments in heterogeneous network computing that preceded the Web. In 1994, she became one of the first Webmasters at MIT, and taught courses on Internet and Web use; in 1995 she launched and wrote a column on Web publishing. After MIT, Janet ventured into the start-up world. Notably, in 1996, she became the first production manager at Tripod, Inc., with responsibilities for site management, establishing house style for content, editing and producing content modules. She was also responsible for championing and enforcing W3C HTML Specification compliance. Janet holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Massachusetts. |
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| ITU-T SG 2 - Numbering, Naming and Addressing | |||||||
ITU-T Study Group 2 is the lead Study Group on Service definition, Numbering, Routing and
Global Mobility. It is also responsible for studies relating to:
Mr. Mark NEIBERT
Mark T. Neibert is Manager, Telecommunications Regulations at Intelsat. He directs all standards activities related to Intelsat’s satellite services and is responsible for Intelsat participation in fora such as the ITU-T, the IETF, and Committee TI. He holds several leadership positions including Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 2, Chairman of ITU-T Working Party 2/2, Vice-Chairman of the ITU Intersector Coordination on Satellite Matters, and Interexchange Carrier representative in Committee TI. Mr. Neibert’s ITU experience dates back to 1984 when he was an active contributor to the work of Study Group 7. He became active in the work of Study Group 2 in 1986 and has held positions of increasing responsibility beginning as a rapporteur for Quality of Service Questions, later as the Vice-Chairman of Working Party 2/2, and currently as Chairman of Working Party 2/2 (Network Service and Assessment). Mr. Neibert’s working party is responsible for development of Quality of Service and Network Management Recommendations, and it manages both the Quality of Service Development Group (QSDG) and Network Management Development Group (NMDG). His ITU experience spans four study periods and includes participation in SG-3, SG-7, SG- 11, SG- 16 and TSAG, in previous meetings of the WTSA, and as the cu rrent vice- chairman of the Intersector Coordination Group on Satellite Matters. Mr. Neibert is Intelsat’s representative to the FCC’s Network Reliability and Interoperablility Council (NRIC). He is 1971 graduate at Ohio State University with a B.S. from the College of Engineering. |
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| ITU-T SG 4 - Telecommunication Management including TMN | |||||||
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Management of services, networks, and equipment using the telecommunication management network (TMN)
framework; also studies related to designations, transport-related operations procedures, test
and measurement techniques and instrumentation. Leads ITU-T work on TMN.
Major Work Areas:
Mr. Dave SIDOR
David Sidor has been involved in industry activities regarding the management of telecommunication services, networks, and equipment for most of his professional career. Since joining Nortel Networks in 1991 he has had responsibility for managing the corporate objectives and strategy for TMN standards in ANSI T1M1 and ITU-T SGs 4 and 11 and for advising on the use and impact of TMN standards in switching, transmission, wireless, and management products. Recently, he also took on a corporate-wide coordination role regarding OAM standards. Prior to Nortel Networks, Mr. Sidor was employed at AT&T Bell Laboratories where his activities included service as a designer of provisioning software, a systems engineer for computer-based management systems that formed part of the world’s first TMN-like network, and a manager of switching marketing. Sidor has been involved in ITU-T standardization activities since 1980. He became active in SG 4 and 11 TMN activities in 1987 and led the generation and served as editor of various information modelling Recommendations. Concurrently he also participated in the parallel TMN activities in TIM1. In 1993, he was appointed chairperson of the TMN WP in SG 4 and assumed leadership of the first ITU-T Joint Coordination Group (JCG), focused on TMN. During its lifetime, the JCG on TMN was able to achieve significant TMN technical harmonization which set the stage for the consolidation of most ITU-T TMN activities in SG 4 and led to Mr. Sidor’s appointment as chairperson of SG 4 in 1996. During his tenure as chairperson, SG 4 changed TMN into a multi-paradigm framework by embracing market-supported technologies, realigned its mission to emphasize the definition of management information regardless of the underlying technology, and established partnerships with other standards organizations to achieve its goals. To support these ITU-T activities, Mr. Sidor authored articles in technical journals and made presentations at conferences and before partner organizations. David Sidor has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering. |
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| ITU-T SG 9 - Integrated Broadband Cable Networks and Television and Sound Transmission | |||||||
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Use of cable/hybrid networks to the home to also carry voice, broadband
and time critical services, video on demand, interactive services, etc.;
distribution of TV, sound and similar data services; IP Cablecom project.
Leads ITU-T work on integrated broadband cable and television networks. Major Work Areas:
Mr. Bill UTLAUT
Bill Utlaut is Vice President of Standards in CableLabs and as such has responsibility for the Standards Department which has the purpose of assisting the President and CEO develop and carry out strategic plans for advancing CableLabs technical specifications to become domestic, ANSI, or international, ITU, standards that help the Cable industry attain economic benefits of global competition in the market place. The Department also aids technical projects produce and archive final specification products which incorporate engineering changes approved by the projects. Prior to coming to CableLabs, Dr. Utlaut was an Associate Administrator of the US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Agency in which he also served as the Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Science, the research and engineering part of NTIA, located in Boulder, CO. There he carried out research on radio propagation and telecommunication networks and participated in international standards and trade activities. Earlier he served on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado to which he came after working at the General Electric Company in Schenectady, NY. Bill is a native of Colorado (Sterling) and received his three degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. |
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| ITU-T SG 11 - Intelligent Networks | |||||||
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Signalling requirements and protocols for mobility related functions,
multimedia functions and inter-network signalling protocols. Leads ITU-T
work on intelligent networks. Major Work Areas:
Mr. Yukio HIRAMATSU
Senior Manager of NTT Intellectual Property Center, Yukio Hiramatsu is currently responsible for Intellectual Property Strategy Planning for NTT R&D. Since joining Electrical Communications Laboratories of NTT in 1978, he has been engaged in signaling systems and software development for data communications including ISDN packet, frame relay and ATM. Since 1985, he has been an active participant in ITU-T Study Group 7 (Data communications and OSI). From 1985 to 1993 he served as Editor of Recommendation X.31 (ISDN packet mode protocol). From 1993 to 1996, he served as Rapporteur on Q. 10/7 (Interworking between networks providing data transmission services). From 1996 to 2000, he served as Vice-Chairman of Study Group 7 and Chairman of Working Party 2/7 dealing with network interfaces. Then, since October 2000 he has been serving as Chairman of Study Group 11 (Signalling requirements and protocols). In April 1998 he also became involved in standardization of IMT-2000 packet mode communications at TTC Japan, where he served as Chairman of Working Group 3 (packet aspect) of Technical Committee 6 (Mobile communications). From December 1998 to February 2001, he was active in the 3GPP as Vice-Chairman of TSG-SA WG2 (System Architecture). From April 2000 to August 2002, he also served as Chairman of TTC Strategic Research and Planning Committee where he took the lead in reorganization of TTC Committees. Mr. Hiramatsu was born in Tokyo in 1953 and received his B. E. and M. E. degrees from Yokohama National University in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, and Information Processing Society of Japan. In 1995 the ITU Association of Japan awarded him for his contribution to standardization of ISDN packet mode protocols. |
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| ITU-T SG 12 - Quality of Service and Performance | |||||||
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End-to-end transmission performance of networks and terminals in relation
to the perceived quality by users of text, speech, and image applications.
Leads ITU-T work on QoS and performance. Major Work Areas and Principal Recommendations:
Mr. Jean-Yves MONFORT
Jean-Yves Monfort is chairman of ITU-T Study Group 12 and works for France Telecom in T&I/ R&D/DIH/EQS. He qualified as Doctor Engineer of Applied Acoustics in 1980 and in 1975 as Electronics Engineer (ENSEEIHT). At France Telecom he is Head Deputy of DIH/EQS Laboratory (Human Interactions/ Evaluation and acceptability of Services Quality) and Senior Advisor. As well as his ITU-T activities he is Vice Chair of ETSI TC STQ (Speech Processing and transmission Quality). From 1986 to 1991 he acted as Secrétaire General of Société Française d’Acoustique (1200 members), and has provided tuition as a Professor of Electro-acoustics at the University from 1984. |
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| ITU-T SG 15 - Optical and other Transport Networks | |||||||
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Transmission layer related standards for access, metropolitan and long haul
sections of networks; terabit optical transport network infrastructure,
and multi-megabit network access. Leads ITU-T work on access network transport
and optical technology. Major Work Areas:
Mr. Peter WERY
Peter H.K. Wery is with Nortel Networks Corporation in Ottawa (Canada). As Senior Advisor, International Standards his main responsibilities are the co-ordination of Nortel Networks’ involvement in international standards development, with emphasis on new transport network technologies, such as the Optical Transport Network. Peter holds an Ingenieur (grad) degree from Staatliche Ingenieurschule Wuppertal, Germany. Before emigrating to Canada in 1972, Peter worked with Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL), now Alcatel–SEL, in Stuttgart for 11 years, first as a transmission systems development engineer and later as a transmission systems planner and project leader. Peter joined Bell-Northern Research (formerly the R & D arm of Nortel Networks) in April 1972, continuing with transmission systems planning activities. He was later promoted to manager of this group. Peter has been involved with ITU-related activities since 1969, when he represented SEL at joint CCIR/CCITT Study Group CMTT (Sound Program and TV signal transmission). Since 1976 Peter has participated actively for Nortel Networks in a variety of Study Groups and roles. During the period 1980-1991, he was CMTT Special Rapporteur to CCITT Study Group XVIII for liaison on ISDN matters. During the 1982-1986 CCIR Study Period, Peter also served as Chairman of CMTT Working Party C, responsible for sound-program transmission. From 1980-1988 Peter was Special Rapporteur in CCITT Study Group XVIII for the Questions on digital hierarchies. At the CCITT IXth Plenary Assembly in 1988, Peter was appointed Vice-Chairman of Study Group 15, where he chaired WP XV/3 (Multiplexing). He continued as Chairman of this Working Party until 1996. Following his appointment at the WTSC 1996 and re-appointment at the WTSA 2000, Peter currently holds the chair of Study Group 15 (Optical and other transport networks), now the largest Study Group of the ITU-T. Reflecting the evolution of the telecommunications environment towards dynamic optical transport networks optimized for carriage of converged packetized and broadband traffic, Study Group 15, under Peter’s leadership, developed crucial standards for high-speed (multi-Megabit/s DSL) and broadband (B- and G-PON) network access and switched high capacity (Gigabits/s) metropolitan and long-haul optical network transport, positioning the ITU-T is as the lead global standards development organization in these critical areas. As Chairperson of Study Group 15, Peter participates regularly and pro-actively in a number of TSAG initiatives, including the ITU-T Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR; his participation in Study Group 13 keeps Study Group 15 in touch at an early stage with any newly evolving network concepts. |
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| ITU-T SG 16 - Multimedia Services, Systems and Terminals | |||||||
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Multimedia service definition and systems, including the associated terminals,
modems, protocols, signal processing, security, accessibility and QoS.
Leads ITU-T work on multimedia and e-business/ e-commerce. Major Work Areas:
Mr. Pierre-Andre PROBST
Pierre-André Probst is a Swiss national fluent in French (mother tongue), English and German Starting his professional career as a Research assistant at the High Frequency Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (research work and tutor) in the early seventies he prgressed through jobs as Engineer, Telecom PTT General Directorate, Research and Development (Transmission and broadband networks), then Head of the Transmission Division, Telecom PIT General Directorate, Networks (managing the unit in charge of strategy, planning and operating the national transmission network), Head of Telecom Directorate, Geneva (responsible for customers in the Geneva region), Executive Vice President of Swisscom, Member of the Management Board with responsibility for the Network Services Division (strategy, planning and implementation of Swisscom network platforms), Executive Vice President of Swisscom, Member of the Management Board with responsibility for the "Corporate Operations" business unit (activities benefiting the entire group, such as communications, legal service, international affairs, regulatory affairs, quality and environment management as well as major projects, e.g. "Year 2000" Swisscom), 1999-2000 Head of External Relations, relations with international organizations (U IT, ETNO, ETSI, etc.) and the Swiss political and economical bodies.an now acts as an Independent consultant in the area of ICT. |
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| ITU-T SG 17 - Data Networks and Telecommunication Software | |||||||
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SG 17 is responsible for studies relating to data communication networks, application of open
system communication (including networking, directory and security), technical languages, the
method for their usage, and other issues related to the software aspects of telecommunication systems
SG 17 is the Lead Study Group on frame relay, communications system security, languages and description techniques. Principal Recommendations:
Mr. Herb BERTINE
Herbert Bertine is Director of Standards and Intellectual Property at Lucent Technologies. Mr. Bertine is also Co-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17, Data Networks and Telecommunication Software. Mr. Bertine joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 after receiving his BEE degree in 1963 and his MEE degree in 1965 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. Over the past 38 years, he has held various technical and managerial positions in AT&T and Lucent Technologies. These included systems engineering studies on data communications, communications architectures, technical/regulatory studies, and industry standards. Mr. Bertine has been active in industry standards setting bodies for more than 30 years. Focusing on telecommunications and data communications, Mr. Bertine's standards efforts included work in the FCC Dialer Advisory Committee, EIA, Committee X3 / NCITS / INCITS, ISO, ISO/IEC JTC 1, CCITT / ITU-T, Committee T1, ECMA, ANSI and the IETF. Between 1981 and 1992 he was a Vice Chairman of CCITT Study Group VII, Data Communication Networks and chaired one of its Working Parties, and from 1993 to September 2001 he was Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 7, Data Networks and Open System Communications. With the merger of Study Groups 7 and 10 on 17 September 2001, he became Co-Chairman of Study Group 17, Data Networks and Telecommunication Software. Mr. Bertine has been very active in working to achieve a healthy standards-setting environment and improving relationships among various standards bodies. He was the prime mover in the cooperative agreements between the ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC1, he was an early contributor in building a cooperative relationship between the ITU-T and IETF, and he has used his role as Study Group Chairman to nurture many relationships with consortia/forums. 
Mr. Amardeo SARMA
Amardeo C. Sarma received his Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1977 and his Master’s degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1980, both in Electrical Engineering. In 1981, he joined the Research Institute of the Deutsche Bundespost, now Deutsche Telekom AG’s Technology Centre. From 1990 – 1995, he was Head of Research Groups at Deutsche Telekom’s Technology Centre in Darmstadt. In this period, he participated in several internal and international projects dealing with signalling, protocols, ATM, middleware and specification techniques. In 1995, he joined EURESCOM GmbH in Heidelberg as Project Supervisor, where he supervised international Projects in the area of software technologies, middleware, ATM and IP. In February 1999, he returned to Deutsche Telekom AG as Head of a Department for Technology and Methods Management dealing with the strategic selection and promotion of technologies and methods at T-Nova Headquarters in Bonn. In April 2001, he joined the Network Development Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd. in Heidelberg as Manager of the Mobile Internet Group, where his focus of interest is on mobility management, self-organisation and security. Within ITU-T, he has worked in Study Group 10 that deals with "Languages and general software aspects for telecommunication systems" since 1987. He was Rapporteur for SDL (Specification and Description Language) from 1992 – 1996, and has been the Chairman of Study Group 10 from 1996 - 2001. Since 2002, he is one of two Co-Chairmen of the new Study Group 17 on "Data Networks and Telecommunications Software". He is co-founder of the SDL Forum Society, in which he served as Chairman for several years. Amardeo Sarma is co-author of two books on SDL published by Prentice-Hall and co-editor of several other books. |
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| ITU-T SSG - International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT-2000) and Beyond | |||||||
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Network aspects of IMT-2000 and beyond, including wireless
Internet, mobile/fixed convergence, mobility management, multimedia,
interoperability; migration & harmonization beyond IMT-2000.
Leads ITU-T on mobility & IMT-2000 and beyond. Major Work Areas:
Mr. John VISSER
John Visser earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1973. He has been involved in key network Standards, Systems Engineering, Planning, Product Design, and Product Line Management support for many years. He has an extensive background in SS7, ISDN and Intelligent Networks in fixed and mobile networks. He is currently Senior Manager, International Network Standards, at Nortel Networks, and is based in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to involvement in both 3GPP and 3GPP2, he is very active in third generation International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT-2000) and beyond in ITU-T, including work on future telecommunications core network infrastructure, inter-system mobility management, harmonization and convergence. John was appointed Chairman of the ITU-T Special Study Group on "IMT-2000 and Beyond" in October 2000. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and a member of IEEE.  Mr. Young Kyun KIMMr. Young Kyun Kim has been Senior Vice President, Global Standards & Strategy of Samsung Electronics since August 1999. In this capacity, he has been responsible for overall global standards and strategy development within Samsung Electronics. He is leading a Team for Beyond 3G system research & standards, optical and IP networking standards research. With his leadership, in 3G standards both 3GPP and 3GPP2 Samsung Electronics has achieved a worldly recognized technology standards position. Since 2001, he has served as Vice Chairman of ITU-T SSG on IMT-2000 & Beyond with a special focus on Core Network Harmonization and Convergence. He has served as Vice Chairman of the ASTAP for the standard activities of the Asia-Pacific region and also as a Chairman of APT IMT-2000 Forum promoting mobile communication services (2G/3G) into this region. He has been a Steering member of 3GPP PCG/OP, 3GPP2 SC/OP, CDG, OMA and WWRF. He serves as a Vice Chairman of Technical Committee of TTA and Chairman of Program Evaluation Committee and an Advisory Board member of TTA, Korea. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Mr. Kim served as ITU-R Program Director at INTELSAT, Washington, DC, representing INTELSAT at the ITU-R SG 8, SG4, CPM and WRC. Mr. Kim has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 1984 and holds B.S from Seoul National Univ., Korea, M.S. from Rutgers Univ. and Ph.D. from Duke Univ., both in USA. |
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| ITU-T SG 3 - Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues | |||||||
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Responsible for studies relating to tariff and accounting principles for international telecommunication
services and study of related telecommunication economic and policy issues. To this end, Study Group 3 shall
in particular foster collaboration among its Members with a view to the establishment of rates at levels as
low as possible consistent with an efficient service and taking into account the necessity for maintaining
independent financial administration of telecommunication on a sound basis. |
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| ITU-T SG 5 - ITU-T SG 5 - Protection against electromagnetic environment effects | |||||||
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Responsible for studies relating to protection of telecommunication networks and equipment from interference
and lightning. Also responsible for studies related to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), to safety and to
health effects connected with electromagnetic fields produced by telecommunication installations and devices,
including cellular phones. |
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| ITU-T SG 6 - Outside plant | |||||||
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Responsible for studies relating to outside plant such as the construction, installation, jointing, terminating,
protection from corrosion and others forms of damage from environment impact, except electromagnetic processes,
of all types of cable for public telecommunications and associated structures. |
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| ITU-T SG 13 - Multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their internetworking | |||||||
As regards IP- and multi protocol-based networks, the work in SG 13 aims to integrate traditional
and IP-based networks to provide full integration of services and applications; network architecture,
capabilities & evolution, service and performance aspects, and access arrangements.
Leads work in ITU-T on IP related matters.On the NGN front, focus is on technology-independent network
architecture and long-term evolution, including IP-network studies, development of necessary frameworks
and architectures, and internetworking of heterogeneous networks (considering architecture, adaptation,
routing, and transport). Leads ITU-T work for B-ISDN, Global Information Infrastructure, and satellite
matters.
Major Work Areas:
Principal Recommendations:
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| ITU-T TSAG - Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group | |||||||
The Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group is the oversight group of ITU-T activities in between the
World Telecommunication Standardization Assemblies (WTSA) and has as main roles:
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