1. How ETSI publishes 3GPP specifications

2. 15 October 2000JMM2 A 3GPP specification is based on the standard template (available from http://www.3gpp.org/information). It consists of the following basic elements:http://www.3gpp.org/information Cover page – number, title, administrative information Second page – more administrative information Third page – table of contents Fourth page – Foreword (and Introduction, if any) Body of the document Change history – showing evolution of the spec via CRs

3. 15 October 2000JMM3 The document is created – and maintained – in MS-Word ©. When ready for publication, it is converted to Portable Document Format ©. Then passed to the ETSI Secretariat in pdf.

4. 15 October 2000JMM4 The PDF file is received by the SMS Department of the ETSI Secretariat, responsible for publication of ETSI deliverables.

5. 15 October 2000JMM5 Using information from the delivered document … … and from the spec’s database record …

6. 15 October 2000JMM6 … a new Word document is created based on the ETSI standard deliverable template.

7. 15 October 2000JMM7 Only the title page, the admin info page 2, the ETSI IPR and Foreword and the final History page are required.

8. 15 October 2000JMM8 Note the relationship between 3GPP TS number and ETSI TS number: 3GPP TS 31.734 V3.3.0 (2000-06) ETSI TS 131 734 V3.3.0 (2000-06)

9. 15 October 2000JMM9 These pages are converted to PDF.

10. 15 October 2000JMM10 Using a PDF editor, the first two pages are stripped off the 3GPP spec.

11. 15 October 2000JMM11 And are replaced by the (three) equivalent pages of the ETSI TS. And the final ETSI history page is appended.

12. 15 October 2000JMM12 The ETSI deliverable is ready for publication. It will appear on the ETSI publications area of the ETSI web site: http://www.etsi.org for free download.http://www.etsi.org It will also appear in the subscription-based ETSI Document System (CD-ROM and on-line update).

13. 15 October 2000JMM13 Q: How soon after the 3GPP TS becoming available is the ETSI deliverable ready? A: For a spec which forms part of a Release which is already “frozen”, the ETSI TS is published straight away. The whole process is normally completed about six weeks after the end of the TSG SA meeting at which the 3GPP spec was approved. ETSI deliverables are not produced for 3GPP specs until the Release as a whole is frozen. Want to know more about Release plans? Visit the project management pages of the 3GPP web site. 

14. 15 October 2000JMM14 Easy, eh?