ITU-T SG16
Q16, 17/16

	Source : Rapporteur for Q16,Q17/16 (Mitsuji MATSUMOTO)
	Title : Progress Report for Q16/16 and Q17/16 MMCG meeting
              (Geneva, 117-27 March 1997)

1. 	Introduction
The Rapporteur Group for Q16/16(Multimedia Harmonization) and Q17/16 (Multimedia Coordination) had two meetings during the first SG16 meeting, Geneva, 17-27 March 1997, chaired by Mr. M. Matsumoto (NTT, Japan) and Associated by Mr. I. Sebestyen (Siemens, Germany) and Mr. P. T. Taylor (Nortel, Canada).

The aim of the two meetings was to clarify the role, target and objectives of the Rapporteur Group as a lead Study Group on multimedia services and systems in the ITU-T as worldwide standardization body. 
Considering the current multidirectional standardization environment developing rapidly  external to the ITU-T, in forums and consortia, we felt the necessity for harmonization on multimedia standardization in the telecommunication field, and the need to provide the Guideline Recommendation taking account of the following issues.
•	to develop the framework for the whole multimedia interface to be standardized, by finding our priority subjects and look at ìwhere we areî in the worldwide multimedia standardization environment
•	to show the methodology by which we may coordinate and cooperate with parallel work on multimedia in other standardization bodies by looking at the focus issue ìwhat is happening nowî and ìwhat is going onî 
•	to promote the ITU-T SG16 activities and the Recommendations to the external users
•	to support the cooperation work method requested by other Study Groups’, like GII of SG13 and IMT-2000 of SG8/ITU-R TG8/1
In order to meet the above-mentioned issues, we start the initial work and it’s administrative activities.  The following results were obtained.

2. 	Organization of work
2.3 	Title of Questions
	Q16/16 : Harmonization of multimedia systems, applications and services
	Q17/16 : AVMMS Coordination
2.4 	Name of the Rapporteurs
2.2.1  Rapporteur
	Mitsuji MATSUMOTO
	NTT  
	GTI, 5F Nishi-Waseda Bldg. 
	1-12-1  Nishi-Waseda, 
	Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169 Japan
	Tel/Fax: +81-3-5286-3114
	E-mail : matumoto@tom.comm.waseda.ac.jp
	     
2.2.3  Associate Rapporteurs
Mr. I. Sebestyen				Mr. P. Taylor		
PNM PE, Siemens AG			M/S. 250, Nortel,
Mch H/Pe16 03/807			 	P.O. Box 3511, Station C,
Hofmannstr. 51				Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4H7
D-81359 Munich				Canada
Germany
Tel : +49 89-722-47230			Tel:+1-613-765-4167
Fax : +49-89 722-47713			Fax: +1-613-765-4873	
E-mail: sebes@pnstal.zfe.siemens.de  		E-mail: taylor@nortel.ca		
2.4  Documentation
	TD7(PLEN: Liaison on B-ISDN), TD11(PLEN: Meeting Report on ICG-FPLMTS), 
	TD17(PLEN:MMCG Agenda), TD9 (GEN: Liaison on Network aspect for MMSS), 
	TD10 (GEN: Liaison on GII), TD41(PLEN: MMCG Agenda, Ad-hoc meeting report),
	TD42 (PLEN: Liaison statements)
	
2.5 	Liaison Rapporteurs
	Liaison Rapporteurs to ITU SGs to and to other standards organizations, such as 
	forums and consortia  It was approved that request the listed persons as SG16 Liaison 
	Rapporteurs (Annex A).

3.  Results
3.1  Administrative issue
To realize the work easily and urgently, the confirmation of our partners, in particular the recognized bodies, like Forums/Consortia were requested and it’s communication process with the bodies was requested. 
(1) 	The meeting proposed that the following bodies be recognized by SG16 for further communication.  
	ATMF, DAVIC, IMTC and NMF.
(2) 	The meeting confirmed the communication process shown in the following figures 1, 2 and 3.  Those figures are shown in Annex B of this report.
•	Fig.1 (the relationship between SG16 and its partners), 
•	Fig.2 (Analysis procedure of the criteria in Annex A of Rec. A.4) 
•	Fig.3 (Communication flow during and in between SG16 meetings)
In this discussion, the formal communication with other bodies, e.g., MMCF(Multimedia Communication Forum) was discussed to exchange the user’s requirements. However, due to the lack of the qualified information, it could not reach an agreement, and postponed next opportunity. The necessity of the informal communication by the reference basis was also identified.  

3.2  Harmonization issue
Mr. P. T. Taylor, Associate Rapporteur of Q16,17/16 introduced the initiative draft document on the Plan of activity for Standardization of Multimedia Services and Systems. The document is intended to be updated regularly as new developments occur or new information is received from collaborating groups.  It will also be maintained and used by ITU-T Study Group16 to provide an overall view of the project of standardizing multimedia communication systems and services.  The document is attached as Annex C of this report.  It was approved that MMCG should further develop in this approach. The further discussion will be done by the following E-mail address.
Contact: Mr. P. T. Taylor : taylor @ nortel.ca

3.3  Focus issue
Mr. I. Sebestyen, Associate Rapporteur of Q16/16 and 17/16, introduced the current problem on Multimedia to be solved.  At this moment, as a focus issue, the following two issues were identified.  i.e., Internet Telephony and MPEG4.

The first issue is related to the synchronization of the cooperative work between SG16 and other relative Groups.  It was suggested to establish Task Force Group to synchronize the work between SG16 and other bodies. Due to the lack of the detail discussion, the procedure was left for further study.  Further discussion through mailing list was requested.
The second issue raised was the related the SG16 promotion activities. That is mean ìPress Releaseî and ìUsage of the Web pageî. The meeting approved the described suggestion. The future introduction procedure required using mailing list. In this discussion, the possibility of the ìWorkshop on Multimediaî was introduced.  The meeting could not reach any decision, but the joint Workshop with the related bodies was mentioned.  

3.4  Report of the Ad-hoc meeting 
Mr. M. H. Sherif, chairman of Ad-hoc group on Internet Telephony, introduced the report using TD41(PLEN) Annex B(p5-6). The purpose of the meeting was to list the Study Groups within ITU that could be involved in activities related to internet telephony. In order to harmonize the Recommendations, to reduce the developing hours, to ensure the interoperability among products, the work was requested.  Within SG16, the following Questions were allocated. Therefore, internal coordination activity by the MMCG was also identified.
Q4/16: Modems for switched telephone network and telephone type leased 
    	circuits
Q13/16: Packet-switched multimedia systems and terminals
Q14/16: Common protocols, MCUs and protocols for interworking with H.300-Series 
        terminals
Q18/16: Interaction of high-speed voiceband systems with signal processing 
equipment in the public-switched telecommunication networks.
Q19/16: Extension to existing ITU-T speech coding standards at bit rates below 16 kbit/s
As the communication partners within ITU,  SG2, 7, 11, 12, 13 and 15 were allocated. As external bodies, ISO, FRF, DAVIC, IMTC, VoN (Voice on the Network) Coalition, MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Internet Telephony Consortium, MMUSIC(IETF working Group on Mutiparty Multimedia Session Control), ASID(IETF Working Group on Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories), ETSI, T1(A1) were identified. The rules for communicating with these partners are as follows.
Groups within the ITU
The Study Group has to approve all liaison statements at the Plenary level. The information flow at the working level is encouraged through joint meetings, individual member participation, or informal exchange of documents.
With ISO.
The Study Group has to approve all liaison statements at the Plenary level. The information flow at the working level is encouraged through joint meetings, individual member participation, or informal exchange of documents.
With Recognized Entities
Formal liaisons need the approval of the Study Group Chair or his delegates. The information flow at the working level is encouraged through individual member participation or informal exchange of documents.
With other organizations
No formal liaisons can be sent to these organizations. To establish formal relationship, the procedure specified in Recommendation A.4 has to be followed.
Regional organizations
ETSI is a member of the ITU and is treated as other members. Communication with the T1 committee follow the rules specified by the US authorities.

4.  Liaison statements
4.1 	 SGs 2, 11, 12, 13 on Internet Telephony
	The purpose of this Liaison Statement is to harmonize the related Recommendations of the SGs, to ensure the interoperability among products and to inform activities of the related Questions in SG16. As one of the activity, TD70(WP2/16) describing the objectives, related Recommendations status, related Questions on Internet Telephony in SG16 and Q13/16(Packet-switched multimedia systems and terminals) was attached. The text of the LS (TD42 PLEN Pages 5-9) was accepted.
	
4.2 	Reply to SG13 on GII 
	A small drafting group chaired by Mr. Yves Robin-Champigneul examined the liaison statement received from SG 13 (TD10-GEN) and drafted a reply containing
	-  the names of the liaison representatives from SG 16 to the JRG for GII,
	-  descriptions of GII Projects F.3 and F.4 for which SG 13 has allocated responsibility to SG 16,
	-  a statement that SG 16 is awaiting further information on GII Projects  
M.	2 and M.4 in which SG 13 has requested the participation of SG 16,
    -  brief comments on other GII Projects,
    -  comments on the draft Recommendation T.GII.PFA.
   It was suggested that the Chairmen of WPs 2 and 3 could be jointly   
   responsible for Project F.3 while the Chairmen of WPs 1 and 2 could be 
   jointly responsible for Project F.4. Projects Leaders should be appointed to 
   coordinate these Projects both inside and outside SG 16. The text of the LS 
   (TD42 PLEN Pages 1-4) was accepted. 

4.3 Reply to WP3/3 Work Plan 1997-2000 
	During Rapporter meeting, considering LS(TD4-PLEN) from SG3 on Work plan, we felt that the necessity of the LS for reply to the LS (for information) was identified.  

5.  Others
5.1 	Future discussion is carried by ìmailing listî
	tsg16qr16@ itu. int
5.2 	 Future Planned meetings: none

6. 	List of attachments
Annex A  SG16 Liaison Representatives
Annex B  Communication process
Annex C  The Plan of activity for Standardization of Multimedia Services and 
         Systems (Initial Draft)

7.  Road map for Q16/16 and Q17/16
Progress Report	Liaison Statement	To where	Action/Information	

TD75 -PLEN
	TD76 -PLEN	SG13, JRG-GII 	Action	
	TD77 -PLEN 	SG2,7,11,12,13 	Action	
				
	TD78 -PLEN	SG3 WP3/3 	Information	

Annex A  SG16 Liaison and Correspondence Representatives in the Q16,17/16

Related Groups	SG16 Representatives	Note (specific issue)	
ITU-T SG2	-		
ITU-T SG3	-		
ITU-T SG4	-		
ITU-T SG7	-	Security	
ITU-T SG8	Mr. I. Sebestyen		
ITU-T SG9			
ITU-T SG11	-		
ITU-T SG12	-		
ITU-T SG13
	Mr. Y. Robin-Champigneul	GII Coordination Representative	
	Mr. T. Lyons		
ITU-R SG8	Mr. M. Matsumoto
Mr. Dae-Gwon Jeong	Specially  ICG- IMT-2000	
ITU-R SG10	-		
ITU-R/SG11	-		
ITU-D	Mr. N. Kisrawi	includes GTU/GTTI (HRD)	
IEC/ISO JTC1/SC6	-		
IEC/ISO JTC1/SC18	-		
IEC/ISO JTC1/SC24	-		
IEC/ISO JTC1/SC27	-		
IEC/ISO JTC1/SC29	Mr. I. Sebestyen		
ETSI	Mr. I. Sebestyen		
CITEL	-		
T1	-		
TTC	Mr. M. Matsumoto		
TTA	Mr. Joon Won Lee		
DAVIC	Mr. S. Okubo		
ATM-F	Mr. T. Lyons		
IMTC	Mr. I. Sebestyen
Mr. N. Starkey		
ISOC/IETF	Mr. T. Taylor		

Annex B  Communication process

Fig. 1  Communication Process between SG16 and SGs/Org./Bodies

Fig.2  The proposed analysis procedure in SG16

Note 1: Rapporteurs must confirm the LS to SG and WP chairman before sending.
Note 2: All of the documents must be sent through SG16 chairman (Category B Partners)
Fig.3 An example of Communication Flow during and in between SG16 meetings