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Informal Forum Summit (Geneva, 3 - 4 December 2001) Outcome
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Geneva, 3 January 2002 – The Director of TSB (ITU's Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau), Mr. Houlin Zhao, recently convened an informal two-day
meeting with two dozen prominent representatives of well-known forums/consortia.
Representatives from two standard development organizations (SDOs) also attended
this meeting, as well as chairmen of ITU-T study groups. The purpose of the
meeting, held at the headquarters of ITU in Geneva, Switzerland, was to improve
awareness about each others’ organizations and respective activities and to
identify possible common ground/basis for improved cooperation with ITU-T.
"Although this meeting was the first of its kind, I believe we managed
to reach agreement on some very important principles on how ITU-T, forums and
SDOs could efficiently collaborate in the future," says Houlin Zhao,
referring to the detailed list of proposals compiled and agreed by the
participants. This document suggests, among other things, best practices for
communication among ITU-T, forums and SDOs together with considered
opportunities for partnerships between ITU-T and forums.
"ITU-T considers forums and consortia as strategic partners. We are
complementary to one another," stressed Mr. Zhao in his opening speech. The
sincere and rewarding discussions that followed primarily centered on methods
and procedures to improve communication in order to assure efficient
collaboration and minimize the risk of duplicating work. "This personal
contact will be for the benefit to our respective organizations, as well as to
the telecommunication industry as a whole," summarized Mr. Zhao.
Further details may be found at: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/forum
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