Dear WP2/16 experts,

1/ Two new Questions have been created, pending the review by TSAG in December 2007 and the approval by SG16 at the next meeting in April 2008

Q12 Advanced multimedia system for next generation and other packet-switched networks (Rapporteur: Mr Paul Jones, Associate Rapporteur: Mr Brody Kenrick)

Q13 Multimedia application platforms and end systems for IPTV (Rapporteur: Masahito Kawamori)

They start to work immediately.

2/ Achievements of WP2/16

The meeting report and outgoing liaison statements have been uploaded to the avc-site:

http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/avc-site/2005-2008/0706_Gen/WP2_report_070706.zi... http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/avc-site/2005-2008/0706_Gen/WP2_liaison_statemen...

Section 3.1.2 lists draft Recommendations for Consent and Section 3.1.2 lists documents for Approval. Sections 3.1.4 through 3.1.14 provide executive summaries of Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28 and 29.

3/ Work programme

This is now available on-line with different views. Please visit the SG16 page http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com16/index.asp - Information - Work Programme. Modifications made at the end of last week will soon be reflected there.

4/ Interim activities

The following two Rapporteur meetings collocated with the NGN-GSI event are planned:

* 11-14 September 2007, Geneva -- Q12 (AMS), Q13 (IPTV), Q21 and Q22 * 16-22 January 2008, Seoul -- Q1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29

Please note that the September meeting is preceded by Workshop on Multimedia in NGN http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/multimedia/200709/index.html.