1. Statistics

Participants: 142 (last meeting 138) from 36 (last meeting 31) countries
Contributions: 94 (last meeting: 81)
TDs (not counting the revisions): 204 (last meeting 182)
Incoming liaison statements: 33 (last meeting 26)
Outgoing liaison statements: 20 (last meeting 11)

2. Rapporteurs/ Liaison Rapporteurs/ Other roles

Mr. Kris Carpentier (Technicolor, Belgium) was nominated as a new Associate Rapporteur of Question 4/5.
Mr. Tetsuya Tominaga (NTT Japan) was nominated as the Liaison Rapporteur to IEC SC77C.
Mr. Osamu Namikawa (Hitachi, Japan) was nominated as the Liaison Rapporteur to ECMA.
Mr. Yong-Woon Kim (Korea) was nominated as the Liaison Rapporteur to ISO/IEC JTC1.
Mr. Guy-Michel Kouakou (Côte d’Ivoire) was nominated Mentor as requested by TSAG.

3. Main discussions and results

As this meeting was the last one in the current study period, the main focus was – beside the finalization of several new and revised Recommendations – the preparation of the study Questions to be proposed to WTSA-12 for the next study period. All questions were revised, several questions were merged and a new question was also elaborated.
The summary of the results related to the wording of each question is given in the table below:

3.1 Question 14/5 – Guides and Terminology on environment and climate changes
This Question, under the responsibility of the SG Plenary, maintains the guide on the use of SG5 publications and the terminology used in SG5.
Under this Question the SG Editing Group was established in 2008 and its membership was revised during this meeting.

3.2 Working Party 1/5 – Damage prevention and safety
Under Question 4/5 a new revision of Recommendation K.44 “Resistibility tests for telecommunication equipment exposed to overvoltages and overcurrents – Basic Recommendation” was discussed along with the final version of the resistibility guide (Guide on the use of the overvoltage resistibility recommendations). This Guide assists test laboratories in implementing the correct tests for ITU-T K.20, K.21, and K.45 compliance testing. Revised Recommendation K.44 was consented and the Guide was approved.

3.3 Working Party 2/5 – Electromagnetic field: emission, immunity and human exposure
A lot of contributions were submitted for Question 3/5 studying human exposure to electromagnetic fields. Most of them are related to the new draft Recommendation K.91 (K.guide) “Guidance for assessment, evaluation and monitoring of human exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields”. The Recommendation was consented during the closing Plenary.

In Question 8/5 two new Recommendations were prepared and received consent. Recommendation K.92 (K.henv) “Conducted and radiated electromagnetic environment in home networking”, describes the home networking electromagnetic environment, gives the specification of disturbance characteristics and levels, as well as provides guidance on how to evaluate the EM-environment in home networking. Recommendation K.93 (K.im_bb) “Immunity of home network devices to electromagnetic disturbances” gives a new additional immunity test method for broadband services, especially for devices that are sensitive to broadband interferences to ensure normal operation of home networking devices. Good progress was made on draft new Recommendation K.mhn “Techniques to mitigate interference between radio devices and cable or equipment connected to wired broadband networks and TV networks”.

In Question 16/5 new Recommendation K.94 (K.deg) “Mutual-disturbance test method for performance degradation evaluation of converged terminal devices”, which analyses the EMC disturbance between different modules in converged terminal devices and defines a conducted test method was also consented during the closing Plenary.

3.4 Working Party 3/5 – ICT and climate change
Question 17/5 completed new Recommendation L.1310 (L.M&M) “Energy efficiency metrics & measurement for telecom equipment” and submitted it for consent to the Plenary. This Recommendation specifies energy efficiency metrics test procedures, methodologies and measurement profiles required to assess the energy efficiency of telecommunication equipment. Good progress was also made on the draft of L.m&m_infra “Energy efficiency measures Metrics and measurement for telecommunication infrastructure power and cooling systems”.

Question 18/5 progressed several methodology recommendations and new drafts were presented for L.methodology_ICT in cities and L.methodology_projects.

Question 19/5 completed new Recommendation L.1200 (L.specDC) “Specification of DC power feeding system interface”, which specifies the direct current (DC) interface between the power feeding system and ICT equipment connected to it. The Recommendation was consented. Good progress was also made on L.architecture which specifies configurations of DC power feeding systems in consideration of reliability, safety, and management.

In Question 21/5 it was agreed that, considering the difference between powering solutions for ICT equipment for stationary and for portable use, L.adapter phase 2 would be split into two parts, one for fixed CPS and one for portable devices. Considerable work was done on a draft of L.CPS_stationary during the meeting which is planned to be proposed for consent during the WP3 interim meeting in October 2012.

3.5 Home Network Special group
The goal of this special group consisting of many questions from Working parties 1 and 2 was to prepare a new Recommendation on the requirements for lightning protection of Home Network equipment. The new Recommendation K.85 (K.hnwr) was consented during the last meeting and approved by AAP process. As the Home Network Special Group achieved its goal, it was agreed to disband this group and the study question on Home Networks will take responsibility for the upkeep and review of Recommendation K.85. 
 

Revised Recommendations

New Recommendations

Informative material: Guide on the use of the overvoltage resistibility recommendations

5 Reports of the Regional Groups
Study Group 5 has two active Regional Groups: Regional Group for Africa (RG-AFR) and Regional Group for the Americas and the Caribbean (RG-LAC). The chairmen of both group gave a short overview of their activity. RG-AFR will have its next meeting in July, G-LAC is working mainly by correspondence.

6 Technical session on EMF
A Technical session on EMF – measurements, calculations and monitoring was held on 16 April 2012 during the meeting of Study Group 5.
The Technical session was organized by Fryderyk Lewicki, Rapporteur for Question 3/5.
The agenda of the Technical Session was the following:

7 Information and training session on ITU Methodologies
An Information and Training Session on ITU Methodologies for Assessing the Environmental Impact of ICT was held on 12 April 2012 (CET) in parallel with ITU-T Study Group 5.
The main purpose of this Information and Training Session was to provide an overview of:

Recommendation ITU-T L.1400 (“Overview and general principles of methodologies for assessing the environmental impact of ICT”);
Recommendation ITU-T L.1410 (“Methodology for environmental impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) goods, networks and services”);
Recommendation ITU-T L.1420 (“Methodology for energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions impact assessment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in organizations”).

The programme and presentations can be found at: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/ITS/201204/Pages/programme.aspx 

8 Next meetings
The first meeting of SG5 in the new study period will be held in Geneva probably from 29 January to 7 February 2013.
Interim meetings are not planned for Questions of WP1/5 and WP2/5.
Working Party 3/5 plan to hold an interim meeting in October 2012 in order to complete the remaining work for the study period and to consent new recommendations.
Several of the WP3 Questions will also organize e-meeting to accelerate their work.