1. Technical Committee Meeting October 7, 2003 Report of TSSC Activities Supporting TIA Board Ad Hoc Anil Kripalani, Technical Committee Chair Dan Bart, TIA

2. TSSC Activities  The first step in the process was briefing TIA Division and Engineering Committee leadership on the findings of the Standards Strategies and Priorities Breakout  Additional work and conference call meetings were scheduled over the next few weeks  TIA staff will assist the Chairs in following through on the action items

3.  Approach: Self Examination of Projects, Technology Trends, Current Committee Names, and International Approach by Each Engineering Committee  Many common themes emerged: – Current work is often a well-kept secret in Committees – “Getting the Word Out” and focused publicity desired by all – Industry economics affecting number of active participants, more outreach to potential new members Findings of Review of TIA Standards Program

4.  Has been growing in participation, lots of interest from users  Current name is appropriate  Has been responsive to FCC’s National Coordination Committee  Partnership with ETSI in MESA  Public Safety InterOP Summit with NIST and DHS  WLAN approaches for Public Safety users  Expertise in Push-to-Talk area TR-8 Chair: John Oblak

5.  Principal SDO addressing public safety communications needs, ETSI has similar work  Still some perception about standards process taking too long  Has been active since 1944  Could do better job educating internationally, at ITU, and with foreign regulators, tie-in with Homeland Security  Need to improve “Awareness Level” TR-8 Chair: John Oblak

6.  Many similar issues to TR-8  Committee name to be reviewed, current naming reflects technology rather than applications  Need for cross-pollenization across Committees  Hot issues, IP, ESNs, LAES, Disability, Homeland Security, ITU support  Synergistic with 3GPP2  Joint work with T1 TR-45 Chair: Cheryl Blum

7.  Projects in support of Homeland Security, LAES, WPS, E-911 location info  T1P1 also does similar work, now also IEEE  Open to new technology proponents  Interworking across technologies should be pursued  Supports more joint discussions with TR-8 TR-45 Chair: Cheryl Blum

8.  Critical challenge is getting time from volunteers  Components side of industry well represented but need more on systems side and active components  Need process improvements  Perception that TIA is US or Regional Body  Need more promotion of FO-4’s work  IEC is an end point for FO-4, as well as ITU, JTC1  Support to IEC Sector Board 4 FO-4 Chair: Steve Swanson

9.  There has been a proliferation of “fora/consortia” partly as response to lack of timeliness of standards process  Should recruit new companies including from international locations  TIA should adopt an “ambassador program” similar to ATM Forum  Should solicit help at TIA Board level  Renaming will be investigated FO-4 Chair: Steve Swanson

10.  Has picked up work from dissolved Engineering Committees  Should better address use of standards at consumer and retail level and by consultants  Better support for conformity assessment needed, “don’t buy junk” – Concept of “TIA-Approved” or “Meets the TIA Standard”  Lots of IP work, will be looking at UWB  Heavy involvement in ACTA, joint meetings with T1E1 also TR-41 Chair: Steve Whitesell

11.  International focus has been Canada and some EU – Need to investigate Asian opportunities  Need more synergy with CEA  Work with IEEE on spectrum co-existence i.e., cordless and WLANs  Expertise with many Section 255 issues  Parallel relationship with ETSI  Re-naming being pursued TR-41 Chair: Steve Whitesell

12.  Re-naming being pursued  Drop of attendance is not lack of interest by lack of funding  Also active with disability group representatives  IP work, modems, fax, text telephony  Support ITU work, much work feeds into ITU, SG16  Principal SDO in this area TR-30 Chair: Fred Lucas

13.  Pursuing “multi-media platforms and interworking” which is similar to work TR-30 did on gateways for modems  Need more PR on TIA standards work, TIA members and others often do not know all TIA is doing  TIA should be more active in new technology areas to add to existing groups or create new committees TR-30 Chair: Fred Lucas

14.  TR-42 has been outreaching to others for years, e.g., CABA, BICSI  Town Hall Meeting session for local users will be used in 2004  Change standards structure to “core” and then adders like residential, commercial, industrial, healthcare, etc.  International outputs go to JTC1  More synergy with CEA needed TR-42 Chair: Bob Jensen

15.  Need to pursue builder associations for Residential Wiring standard. – Currently only high-end homes get built per standards – Driver in homes is DSL  More brochures and PR needed, also targeted ad placements “Being good is one thing, looking good is another”  Investigating renaming and scopes  Need more horizontal communications among ECs TR-42 Chair: Bob Jensen

16.  Look into China, Japan, other targeted countries and create key alliances  Past Wiring Seminar work now takes place at BICSI meetings  Pricing and groupings of standards needs to investigated by TIA staff especially addendums TR-42 Chair: Bob Jensen

17.  Present details of TSSC review for Board review  Aggressive industry communications activities with clear message about TIA standards program  Maintain linkages to other ‘legs of TIA’s foundation’  Task TSSC to Execute Strategic Standards Plan  Complete Action item list from TSSC breakouts Action Plan to Maintain TIA Standards Excellence

18. Specific Sequence of Activities  Educate and solicit new members  Report at November Board Meeting – Chairs to participate in Board Breakout and Board meeting  Follow Board meeting with another TSSC meeting  Prioritize communications plan  Institute various horizontal communications programs – One on one – One to many – Many to many, and Town Hall – Many to all

19. Questions? Discussion