I NTERNATIONAL T ELECOMMUNICATION U NION
Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
Geneva, 19 September 2001
Ref:
TSB Circular 64
COM 17/BGS
Tel:
Fax:
+41 22 730 5994
+41 22 730 5853
tsbsg17@itu.int
E-mail:
Subject:
- To Administrations of Member States of
the Union
Copy:
- To ITU-T Sector Members;
- To ITU-T Associates;
- To the Co-Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of
Study Group 17;
- To the Director of the Telecommunication
Development Bureau;
- To the Director of the Radiocommunication
Bureau
Termination of ITU-T Study Groups 7 and 10;
ITU-T Study Group 17 organization
Dear Sir/Madam,
1
Further to TSB Circular 36 of 2 April 2001 on the establishment of new ITU-T Study
Group 17 entitled “Data networks and telecommunication software”, I hereby inform you that
ITU-T Study Groups 7 and 10 had their second and final meetings in Bangalore (28 August to
7 September 2001) and Geneva (6 to 14 September 2001), respectively.
2
The merger of Study Groups 7 and 10 into Study Group 17 came into effect on
17 September 2001. The organization of Study Group 17, as agreed by Study Groups 7 and 10 at
their plenary meetings of 7 September and 14 September 2001, respectively, is given in Annex 1.
3
A transitional arrangement is made for documents pertaining to Study Groups 7 and 10 to
remain accessible via the pages designed for these Study Groups on the ITU-T Website. These
documents are also accessible via the ITU-T Website by using appropriate links on the Study Group
17 page.
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Should you have any contributions addressed to Study Group 17, attention should be paid
to COM 17-1 which provides information on the general work area and Questions entrusted to
Study Group 17.
Yours faithfully,
H. Zhao
Director of the Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
Annex: 1
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ANNEX 1
(to TSB Circular 64)
Study Group 17 (Data networks and telecommunications software)
Co-Chairmen:
Mr. H. BERTINE (Lucent Technologies, USA)
Mr. A. SARMA (Federal Republic of Germany)
Vice-Chairmen:
Mr. B. M. CHIN (TTA, Korea)
Mr. V. EFIMOUCHKINE (Russia)
Mr. A. MEISINGSET (Telenor, Norway)
Mr. O. MONKEWICH (Nortel Networks, Canada)
Mr. V. OSSIPOV (Russia)
TSB Secretariat:
Mr. G. SEBEK - Engineer:
Tel: +41 22 730 5994
e-mail: sebek@itu.int
Ms. G. REGAN - Assistant:
Tel : +41 22 730 5862
e-mail: gabrielle.regan@itu.int
Proposed Allocation of Questions1 to Working Parties resulting from the merging2
of Study Group 7 and Study Group 10 into Study Group 17
WP 1/17 – Data Networks
Chairman: Mr. E. Blausten (USA)
1/17
Technical characteristics, classes of service, facilities and categories of
access for networks providing data communication
2/17
Network performance and quality of service in data communication
networks
3/17
Numbering and routing for public data networks
4/17
Access and interworking procedures
5/17
Interfaces and signalling applicable to DTEs and public networks using
or providing frame relay services
6/17
Revision of mature data network Recommendations
WP 2/17 – Open Systems Technology
Chairman: Mr. B. M. Chin (Korea)
7/17
IP-related lower layer protocols and service mechanisms
8/17
End-to-end QoS multicast communications
9/17
Directory services and systems
10/17 Security services, mechanisms and protocols
11/17 Revision of mature Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
Recommendations
1/7
2/7
3/7
4/7
5/7
6/7
7/7
8/7
12/7
13/7
11/7
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1
The Tables give the relationship with the Questions studied by Study Groups 7 and 10
2
Merging came into effect on 17 September 2001
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WP 3/17 – Languages and Notations
Chairman: Mr. R. Reed (UK)
12/17 Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
13/17 SDL: Specification and Description Language
14/17 Encoding of SDL Data
15/17 MSC: Message Sequence Charts
16/17 Specification and Description Language (SDL) data binding to Message
Sequence Charts (MSC)
17/17 Unified Modelling Language (UML) Combined with ITU-T Languages
18/17 URN: User Requirements Notation
WP 4/17 – Quality and Methods
Chairman: Mr. O. Monkewich (Canada)
19/17 Testing of information and communication protocols
20/17 Testing Languages and Validation based on Formal Models
21/17 Quality assurance, methodology and use of description techniques
22/17 Quality Aspects of Protocol-related Recommendations
23/17 Time expressiveness and Performance annotations in ITU-T Modeling
Languages
WP 5/17 – Distributed Object Technologies
Chairman: Mr. A. Meisingset (Norway)
24/17 ODL: Object Definition Language
25/17 DCL: Deployment and Configuration Language
26/17 Open distributed processing (ODP)
27/17 Software Platforms and Middlewares for the Telecom Domain
9/7
6/10
5/10
9/10
10/10
4/10
12/10
10/7
8/10
1/10
13/10
7/10
2/10
11/10
14/7
3/10
Rapporteur for Public Relations (PR): Mr. C. O. HYDBOM (Sweden)
Contact point for Electronic Document Handling (EDH): Mr. V. EFIMOUCHKINE (Russia)
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