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TSB Circular 36
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Subject: Establishment of new ITU-T Study Group 17
(Merging of ITU-T Study Groups 7 and 10)
Dear Sir/Madam,
- To Administrations of Member States of the
Union;
- To ITU-T Sector Members;
- To ITU-T Associates
Copy:
- To ITU-T Study Group Chairmen and
Vice-Chairmen;
- To the Director of the Telecommunication
Development Bureau;
- To the Director of the Radiocommunication
Bureau
1 Resolution 22 of WTSA-2000 gives inter-alia the authorization to TSAG
(Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group) to act between WTSAs in restructuring and establishing ITU-T Study Groups and assigning Chairmen and vice-Chairmen to act until the next
WTSA in response to changes in the telecommunication market.
2 TSAG at its first meeting (Geneva, 19-23 March 2001) agreed on the following:
2.1
Approve the merger of Study Groups 7 and 10 into a single Study Group 17 entitled “Data
Networks and Telecommunication Software” with all the Questions and Recommendations of the two Study Groups intact and unchanged (see Annex 1 ).
2.2
Approve the following “General Areas of Study” for the new Study Group 17 which is the combination of the mandate of the two Study Groups (as currently stated in Resolution 2) as follows:
“Responsible for studies related to:
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Data communication networks,

Application of Open System Communications, including networking, directory and security,

Technical languages and methods for their usage,
 Software aspects of telecommunication systems.”
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2.3
Approve that the new Study Group 17 will be the Lead Study Group (unchanged with respect to those specified for Study Groups 7 and 10 specified in Resolution 2) on a) Frame Relay b) Communication System Security and c) Languages and Description Techniques
2.4
Approve the following appointments a) The existing Chairmen of Study Group 7 and 10 will be the co-chairmen of Study Group 17 b) All Vice-Chairmen of Study Group 7 and 10 will be the Vice-Chairmen of Study Group 17
2.5
Approve that the merger of the Study Groups into the new Study Group 17 will come into effect on 17 September 2001 and instruct the Study Groups 7 and 10 to ensure a smooth merger.
3. The database of ITU-T for Study Group 17 will be initially constituted with the merging of the database for Study Groups 7 and 10.
Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the TSB or refer to the ITU-T website which contains detailed information on the activities of the Sector.
Yours faithfully,
H. Zhao
Director of the Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
Annex : 1
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ANNEX 1
(to TSB Circular 36)
Establishment of new Study Group 17 (Data networks and telecommunications software)
Chairmen : Mr. H. BERTINE (Lucent Technologies, USA)
Mr. A. SARMA (Federal Republic of Germany)
Vice-Chairmen : Mr. B. M. CHIN (ETRI, Korea)
Mr. V. EFIMOUCHKINE (Russia)
Mr. A. MEISINGSET (Telenor, Norway)
Mr. O. MONKEWICH (Nortel Networks, Canada)
Mr. V. OSSIPOV (Russia)
Decision of merging will come into effect on 17 September 2001
Illustrative Allocation of Questions to Working Parties resulting from the merging of Study Group 7 and Study Group 10
WPA – Data Networks
1/7 Technical characteristics, classes of service, facilities and categories of access for networks providing data communication
2/7
3/7
Network performance and quality of service in data communication networks
Numbering and routing for public data networks
4/7
5/7
6/7
Access and interworking procedures
Interfaces and signalling applicable to DTEs and public networks using or providing frame relay services
Revision of mature data network Recommendations
WPB – Open Systems Technology
7/7
8/7
IP-related lower layer protocols and service mechanisms
End-to-end QoS multicast communications
11/7
12/7
13/7
Revision of mature Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Recommendations
Directory services and systems
Security services, mechanisms and protocols
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WPC – Languages and Notations
9/7 Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
4/10 Unified Modelling Language (UML) Combined with ITU-T Languages
5/10
6/10
7/10
Encoding of SDL Data
SDL: Specification and Description Language
Time expressiveness and Performance annotations in ITU-T Modeling
Languages
9/10
10/10
MSC: Message Sequence Charts
Specification and Description Language (SDL) data binding to Message
Sequence Charts (MSC)
WPD – Quality and Methods
10/7
1/10
Testing of information and communication protocols
Quality assurance, methodology and use of description techniques
8/10
12/10
Testing Languages and Validation based on Formal Models
URN: User Requirements Notation
13/10 Quality Aspects of Protocol-related Recommendations
WPE – Distributed Object Technologies
14/7
2/10
3/10
11/10
Open distributed processing (ODP)
ODL: Object Definition Language
Software Platforms and Middlewares for the Telecom Domain
DCL: Deployment and Configuration Language
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