ITU-T Study Group 11 - Signalling requirements, protocols and test specifications

WP1, 2 and 3/11 meetings were held in Kampala, Uganda, 7-13 November 2013 and were attended by 58 participants from 20 countries. WP4/11 meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, 14-20 November 2013 and was attended by 29 participants from 15 countries. Along with face-to-face meetings, all sessions of WP4/11 meeting (in Geneva) were supported by remote participation capabilities.

1.      Consented Recommendations (ITU-T A.8)

The following table shows the ‘Consented’ draft Recommendation:

2.      Supplements, Handbooks and Technical Papers

2.1   Supplement
No Supplements were approved at this meeting.
2.2   Handbooks
No Handbooks were approved at this meeting.
2.3   Technical Papers
No Technical papers were approved at this meeting.

3.      Liaison officers and Rapporteurs

3.1 Rapporteurs and Associate Rapporteurs
A new associate Rapporteur was appointed by WP4/11 for Question 14/11. The contacts of the new Associate Rapporteur are reported below:
Nan CHEN (Associate Rapporteur);
Data Communication Research Department Guangzhou Research
Institute of China Telecom Co.,Ltd.
109 West Zhongshan Ave, Tianhe District,Guangzhou,510630, China
Tel: +86 20 3863 9200
Fax: +86 20 3863 9487
E-mail: chenn [at] gsta [dot] com
A new associate Rapporteur was appointed by WP4/11 for Question 11/11. The contacts of the new Associate Rapporteur are reported below:
Zhili WANG (Associate rapporteur);
BUPT - National Laboratory of Switching and Networks
Mail Box 198 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 10 Xi Tu Cheng Road BEIJING 100876 China
Tel: +86 10 6228 3119 ext. 8726
Fax: +86 106228 3412
E-mail: zlwang [al] bupt [dot] edu.cn
The list of Rapporteurs can be found at: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/11/Pages/rapporteurs.aspx .
3.2 Liaison officers
Some new liaison officers were appointed (pending SG11 Plenary endorsement in July 2014) at the meetings.
- Mr Wei Feng was appointed as Liaison Officer to SG17, responsible for Security
The following experts were appointed as Liaison Officers to JCA-CIT:
− Mr Wei FENG (SG11 Chairman)
− Mr Kaoru KENYOSHI (SG11 Vice-Chairman)
− Mr Dmitry TARASOV (SG11 Vice-Chairman)
− Mr Martin BRAND (SG11 Vice-Chairman)
− Mr Isaac Boateng (SG11 Vice-Chairman)
- Mr Isaac Boateng, NCA, Ghana was appointed as Convener of the Correspondence Group on "collaboration between ITU-T and Testing Laboratories for ITU C&I Programme"
- Ms Jane D. Humphrey was tentatively appointed as Liaison officer to the Joint Coordination Activity on Plenipotentiary Resolution 178 ‘Technical Aspects of Telecommunication Networks to support the Internet’ (JCA-Res178)
The list of Liaison Officers can be found at: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/11/Pages/representatives.aspx  

4.      Correspondence Groups

A new Correspondence Group (CG) on collaboration between ITU-T and testing laboratories for ITU C&I programme was established. The ToR of the CG are to be found: TD 294 Rev.1 (GEN/11). Mr Isaac Boateng, NCA, Ghana was appointed as Convener of this CG and a face-to-face meeting is planned during Q11/11 interim Rapporteur meeting in February 2014.

5.      C&I Pilot Projects

WP4/11 started one Pilot project related to C&I Programme in collaboration with SG2 and is considering another pilot project in collaboration with SG15:
- Pilot project on network management interface related Recommendations ITU-T M.3170 series in collaboration with SG2;
- Possible Pilot project on G.hn conformance testing in collaboration with SG15.

6.     C&I Living list of key technologies and reference table of ITU-T Recommendations to be tested for conformity/interoperability

WP4/11 has updated the C&I relevant-output documents. The current updated versions are reported as follows:
− Reference table of ITU-T Recommendations to be tested for conformity/interoperability [TD 300 Rev.1 (GEN/11)];
− Living list of key technologies which are under study in SG11 and are suitable for conformance and/or interoperability testing [TD 301 Rev.1 (GEN/11)].

7.      Outgoing Liaison Statements

The following table shows the list of the fourteen agreed outgoing liaison statements.