ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY
The 25th APT Standardization Program Forum
(ASTAP-25)
02 – 06 March 2015, Bangkok, Thailand
Document
ASTAP-25/OUT-14
(Rev.1)
6 March 2015
Chairman, WG SA
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE EGS UNDER WG SA
This document includes Terms of Reference (ToR) of following Expert Groups under WG SA.
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EG Machine-to-Machine Application/Services (EG M2M)
EG Security (EG IS)
EG Speech and national Language Processing (EG SNLP)
EG Multimedia Application (EG MA)
EG Accessibility and Usability (EG AU)
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Contact:
STED MOSTAFA SAFAVI
Chairman, WG SA
Iran
Email: msafavi@aut.ac.ir.
ASTAP-25/OUT-14(Rev.1)
EG M2M
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF EXPERT GROUP ON MACHINE-TOMACHINE APPLICATIONS/SERVICES (EG M2M)
Objectives:
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To exchange the regional interests in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications and/or
services such as “smart grid,” and “e-Health amongst APT member countries
 To study standardization activities in regards to M2M applications and/or services such
as smart grid and e-Health in other standardization bodies
 To study situations on the efficient use of ICT (Information and Communication
Technologies) on M2M applications and/or services such as smart grid and e-Health
amongst APT member countries
 To identify use cases of the M2M applications and/or services such as smart grid and eHealth that can be used to derive requirements to ICT/ telecommunication network in
each country in the region
Output/Deliverables:
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Report of standardization activities regarding ICT/telecommunication networks on smart
grid
Report of standardization activities regarding ICT/telecommunication networks on eHealth
Report of standardization activities regarding ICT/telecommunication networks on other
M2M applications such as ITS (Intelligent Transport System)
Report of survey results on regional interests of the APT member countries
Report on smart grid use cases that can be used to derive requirements on
ICT/telecommunication networks in APT member countries
Report on e-Health use cases that can be used to derive requirements on
ICT/telecommunication networks in APT member countries
Report on use cases of other M2M applications that can be used to derive requirements
on ICT/telecommunication networks in APT member countries
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ASTAP-25/OUT-14(Rev.1)
Chairman, EG IS
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF EG IS
Objectives:
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Survey of Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Promotion of exchange of views and strong relationships on Information Security / Cybersecurity
related topics in the Asia-Pacific region
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Contribution to standardization activities on Information Security / Cybersecruity in international
standardization organizations such as ITU-T and the Asia-Pacific region countries.
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Provide assistance to the lead Study Group of Security, ITU-T SG17.
Output/Deliverables:
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Submission of the contributions by ASTAP or the member of APT to ITU-T
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Circulation of the draft documents among the related Expert Groups and member countries under
consultation with APT/ASTAP members
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Survey of new projects the security issues in AP region countries
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Status report on the researched items at next ASTAP forum
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Review the TOR among experts
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Decision of the next discussion items
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Providing a security guideline
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Contribution to Brunei Darussalam Statement and the Strategic Plan of the Asia-Pacific
Telecommunity 2015-2017
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ASTAP-25/OUT-14(Rev.1)
EG SNLP
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR EG SNLP
Objective:
The Expert Group focuses on speech and natural language processing technologies (SNLPT)
and Asian language resources (ALR). Speech and natural language processing technologies are
new technologies developed with the aim of breaking communication barriers between different
language speaking people and between people and machines. Asian language resources are
indispensable not only in achieving the developments of language communication technologies
but also in using other applications of information extraction, Web search, text translation,
speech recognition, and so on. The expert group shares information on speech and natural
language processing technologies and highly recognizes the standardization for spoken language
communication technologies and natural language processing.
Deliverable / Output:
We have so far engaged in parts of languages in the APT region i.e., Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, and Hindi in the U-STAR projects. To cover more
languages in the APT region, the following works will be continued.
SNLPT (Speech and natural language processing technologies) part:
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To survey and discuss language-specific issues in APT region for speech and natural
language processing technologies.
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To increase the number of speech and natural language processing experts in the region.
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To publish recommendations and documentations to international, and regional
standardization activities.
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To construct and deliver the sample speech and natural language communication
applications and language services which have been developed based on the
recommendations and the evaluation results.
ALR (Asian Language Resources) part:
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To produce annotated multi-lingual corpora focusing on the languages used in the
region.
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To produce annotated multi-lingual technical terms, dictionaries and ontology focusing
on the languages used in the region.
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ASTAP-25/OUT-14(Rev.1)
Chairman, EG MA
TERMS OR REFERENCE OF EG MA
Objectives
The objectives of the EG MA are to:
 Review and study the existing and new domains for multimedia capabilities for services
and applications for existing and future networks, including NGN, mobile network and
beyond. This encompasses multimedia architectures, terminals, protocols, signal
processing, media coding and systems. The services and applications covers Web related
services, digital signage, IP based TV service (IPTV, smart TV, and multi screen
service), meta data, and other multimedia applications using fixed and/or mobile
network.
 Study the regional cooperation for the above services and applications development in
order to bridge the ICT gap among APT region and to realize Sustainable ICT
Ecosystem for Innovation.
 Contribute to development of regional and global standards that reflect Asia-Pacific
regional requirements.
Output/Deliverables
Outputs from the EG MA include:
 Development of technical report, guideline, and recommendation of ASTAP standards.
 Collaboration with international, regional, and de facto standardization organizations
such as ITU, W3C, IETF, ISO/IEC JTC1, OASIS by developing liaison statements and
contributions.
 Collaboration with other Expert Groups and Working Groups in ASTAP to achieve the
both objectives by organizing joint meeting.
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ASTAP-25/OUT-14(Rev.1)
Chairman, Expert Group on Accessibility and Usability
TERMS OF REFERENCE OF
ASTAP EXPERT GROUP ON ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY
Name of the Expert group: Expert Group on Accessibility and Usability
Objectives:
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Share information on national, regional and international standardization activities in
accessibility1 and usability for information and communication technology (ICT).
Identify international and regional accessibility and usability standardization activities as a
basis for the collaboration of the APT countries.
Share information on issues related to affordability and literacy of the ICT services.
Support the APT national standardization activities in accessibility and usability.
Transfer the APT perspectives on accessibility and usability to other regions and
internationally.
Input the accessibility and usability features into other ASTAP Expert Groups
Deliverable Output of the Group:
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Identification of the scope of the standardization activities using concrete projects such as
publishing reports of mobile application accessibility and software accessibility for the
APT countries.
Encouragement of the APT countries to make efforts on standardization activities for
accessibility and usability of ICT devices, systems and services
Development of reports, guidelines, handbooks and recommendations of the ASTAP
standards.
Collaboration with international, regional, and de facto standardization organizations and
consortiums such as ITU, ISO/IEC JTC1, W3C, etc. by developing liaison statements and
contributions.
Cooperation with other Expert Groups of ASTAP in order to expand application areas of
EG AU and promote accessibility of the outputs of other EG's.
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Accessibility refers to design and development ICT products and services for people with
disabilities and elderly people, but not limited to.
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