ITU‑T Study Group 2: Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunication management
ITU-T Study Group 2 is responsible for studies relating to:
- numbering, naming, addressing and identification requirements and resource assignment, including criteria and procedures for reservation, assignment and reclamation;
- routing and interworking requirements;
- principles of service provision, definition and operational requirements;
- operational and management aspects of networks, including network traffic management, designations and transport-related operations procedures;
- operational aspects of interworking between traditional telecommunication networks and evolving networks;
- evaluation of feedback from operators, manufacturing companies and users on different aspects of network operation;
- management of telecommunication services, networks and equipment via management systems, including support for next-generation networks (NGN), cloud computing, future networks (FN), software-defined networking (SDN), IMT-2020, and the application and evolution of the telecommunication management network (TMN) framework;
- ensuring the consistency of the format and structure of IdM identifiers;
- specifying interfaces to management systems to support the communication of identity information within or between organizational domains; and
- the operational impact of the Internet, convergence (services or infrastructure) and new services, such as OTT, on international telecommunication services and networks.
Lead Study Group Roles
- Lead study group for numbering, naming, addressing, identification and routing
- Lead study group for service definition
- Lead study group on telecommunications for disaster relief/early warning, network resilience and recovery
- Lead study group on telecommunication management
Recommendations under SG2 responsibility
