Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere       
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation           
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions            
 6     Introduction to telecommunication relay services   
        6.1     General          
        6.2     Functional equivalency            
        6.3     Components of relay services
        6.4     Consideration on international interworking/interoperability for relay services
 7     Four major types of relay services  
        7.1     Text relay (text-to-speech relay)          
        7.2     Video relay (video-to-speech relay)    
        7.3     Captioned telephony relay service      
        7.4     Speech-to-speech relay           
 8     Service requirements          
        8.1     End user equipment 
        8.2     Call set-up, modification and tear down procedures   
        8.3     Communication assistant        
        8.4     Point-to-point calling
        8.5     Speed of answer         
        8.6     Emergency call handling          
        8.7     Message service, storage, indication and retrieval        
        8.8     Key performance indicators   
 9     Service confidentiality and security
Appendix I – Use of IPTV for telephone relay service    
Appendix II – Real-time text in the United States    
Appendix III – Procedures for training of communication assistants    
      III.1     Initial training
      III.2     Instructional methods
      III.3     Training topics              
      III.4     Alternate language training topics        
      III.5     Training class 
      III.6     Training transition and graduation       
Appendix IV – Procedures for message retrieval    
Bibliography