1. Reviewing Technical Committee Configuration
June, 2002
The Telecommunication Technology Committee
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2. Necessity for Reviewing (1) -- Circumstances Surrounding the TTC --
- The ITU-T-oriented committee configuration of the TCC does not match the recent external situations.
- The TTC has started to work mainly on the IP technology and in more diverse fields.
- The TTC should reinforce its organization for cooperating with outside organizations (such as the GSC).
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3. Necessity for Reviewing (2) -- Inside the TTC --
- Increasing number of instances in which, in addition to a two-level structure of Technical Committees and Working Groups, an SWG is set up to carry out standardization (resulting in three-level hierarchy).
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4. TTA-ARIB/TTC-CCSA Meeting June 2002
Approach to Reviewing
- Extensively review the way Technical Committees and other groups are organized.
- Organize Technical Committees and other groups in such a way that they can swiftly catch up with changing times.
-- Top-down functions
-- Simple hierarchical structures
- Allow for committee activities linked with those of the GSC, NGN, and others.
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5. Present Committee Configuration
Strategic Research and Planning Committee
Present Committee Configuration
Technical Committee 1 (Network-Network Interface)
Technical Committee (User-Network Interface)
Technical Assembly (TA)
Technical Committee 3 (PBX, LAN)
Coordination Committee
Technical Committee (High Layer Protocol)
Technical Committee 5 (Multimedia Service Systems and Coding Scheme)
Technical Committee (Mobile Communications)
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6. Rough Plan Overview (Overall Image for Future)
Technical Assembly (TA)
Working Groups
Allocate a manager (tentative name) to administrate each Working Group TB
- Administrate the activities of Working Group.
- Plot out mid- and long-term strategies for standardization.
- Select new standardization theme.
- Abolish or merge Working Groups.
- Take up the functions of the Coordination Committee.
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7. Rough Plan for New Committee Configuration
- Abolish Technical Committees and centrally place Working Groups for standardization activities.
- Categorize Working Groups, allocate a manager for each category for administrating the activities of the Working Groups in the category.
Network division, information and communications division, and mobile division
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8. TTA-ARIB/TTC-CCSA Meeting June 2002
New Working Groups
- Reconstruct groups for new activity fields.
- Abolish or merge the existing Working Groups according to the situations of their activities.
- Organize the groups such that they allow for linkage with the NGN.
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9. Technical Board (tentative name) (1)
- Set up the Technical Board as a core organization for handling the TTC’s strategies for standardization.
- Configure the Technical Board with the chairman and vice-chairman of the Technical Assembly, manager (tentative name), and secretariat.
- Allocate the manager (tentative name) as a promoter for standardization in a specific field (category) and put Working Groups in charge of the manager.
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10. Technical Board(tentative name) (2)
- Abolish the Coordination Committee, and have the TB take up its functions (such as deliberating draft standards to be brought up to the Technical Assembly).
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11. Schedule for Future Reform
First half of fiscal 2002
Second half of fiscal 2002
Fiscal 2003
<1> Abolishing or merging Working Groups
Technical Assembly
<2> Reviewing the rules and procedures
Technical Assembly
Finalizing reform plan
Establish the TB, and abolish the Technical Committees and Coordination Committee.
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