This archive contains the following documents of the CCITT SGXV Specialists Group on Coding for Visual Telephony that developed Recommendation H.261 during December 1984 - November 1989: This message. This file gives the document number #nnn, source, title, meeting place and timing. This folder contains contributions submitted for the Specialists Group. Those with numbers nnnR are meeting reports. Currently the following are missing: #000 - available outside this folder as H261_contribution_list.xls #003 Annex 1 and Annex 2 #008 Proposed recommendation for a codec for video conferencing systems operating at 1.544 Mbit/s (GEC U.K.) #011 Some directly related activities in Europe to CCITT SGXV ad-hoc specialists group on picture coding set-up by the video telephone Working Party (BT) #396 RM6 description -- this was obsoleted by #420 #483 Patent application (CNET) -- its information was subsumed in #577 This folder contains the pure text versions of meeting reports and annexes. File name indicates yymmppp where yy: year, mm: month, ppp: the first three letters of the meeting place. They correspond with the document number as follows: ------------------------------------------- file Doc# Date Place ------------------------------------------- 8412tok 014R 11-14 Dec 1984 Tokyo (Note) 8504hol 032R 23-26 Apr 1985 Holmdel 8509tor 054R 24-27 Sep 1985 Torino 8601ips 074R 21-24 Jan 1986 Ipswich 8603tok 103R 25-28 Mar 1986 Tokyo 8606mon 140R 17-20 Jun 1986 Montreal 8611nur 181R 11-14 Nov 1986 Nurnberg 8703san 216R 10-13 Mar 1987 San Jose 8706sto 246R 02-05 Jun 1987 Stockholm 8710red 276R 13-16 Oct 1987 Red Bank 8801tok 317R 26-29 Jan 1988 Tokyo 8803hag 346R 22-25 Mar 1988 Hague 8809par 395R 19-22 Sep 1988 Paris 8812flo 445R 06-09 Dec 1988 Florida 8903osl 499R 07-10 Mar 1989 Oslo 8906stu 540R 13-16 Jun 1989 Stuttgart 8910ips 571R 24-26 Oct 1989 Ipswich 8911tok 583R 07-10 Nov 1989 Tokyo ------------------------------------------- Note - 8412tokw is the report of Working Party (#015). ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Dr. Cliff Reader kindly converted all the contributions in paper form to pdf files in the Contributions folder. I would like to thank him for his valuable efforts. 18 October 2004 10 April 2009 (missing documents and contact information updated) OKUBO Sakae e-mail: okubo@aoni.waseda.jp, okubo@mxz.mesh.ne.jp Visiting Professor Global Information and Telecommunication Institute (GITI) Waseda University ****************************************************************** Waseda University, YRP Ichibankan 312 Tel: +81 46 847 5406 3-4 Hikarinooka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Fax: +81 46 847 5413 239-0847 Japan H.323 videoconferencing: arranged by advice ******************************************************************