Randy, I noticed that you have done an excellent job of informing important activities of other standardization bodies to T1A1. Nowadays, many ITU experts attend IETF meetings as well and many ITU guys are also IETF guys at the worker level. It sounds like we need more than exchanging liaisons between two organizations. I don't have answers for T1A1 but I think it is important to improve the communication between IETF and ITU. I am posting your question to some list servers I know of.

IETF and ITU may have addressed what you asked already. If they haven't, I can think of three possible solutions. One is inter-pollinating list servers between two organizations as many as possible. We can suggest Working Group Chairpersons of IETF to subscribe appropriate ITU list servers and Study Group Chairpersons of ITU to do the same thing. The other possibility is to have ITU and IETF management teams get together (they might have done it already) and put a communication structure in place. And the third may be forming an ITU and IETF Inter-pollination Group (IIIG) at the worker level and have each organization submit anything that may affect others to the group. IIIG can be a traffic controller. If ITU is willing to recognize IIIG (or IETF) as a nation, it would be interesting. (there can be negative side effects). Modified and improved version of my third idea may work. Any comments? Regards, Joon --------------------------------------------------------------- Joon Maeng VTEL Corp. phone: 512-437-4567 email: joon_maeng@vtel.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

randy@its.bldrdoc.gov on 04/13/99 06:53:45 PM

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To: t1a1-internet@t1.org cc: (bcc: Joon Maeng/AUS/VTEL) Subject: Fw: Re: H.323 Annex E for Decision in ITU

With reference to the comment in the email below, I think serious consideration is needed regarding how better relations with the IETF can be established and improved over time by all interested organizations. Any ideas or suggestions on how T1A1 could help out here?

- Randy Bloomfield

--- On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:33:15 -0700 braden@ISI.EDU wrote:

*> From end2end-interest-owner@ISI.EDU Tue Apr 13 08:50:24 1999 *> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:48:33 -0400 (EDT) *> From: Scott Bradner sob@harvard.edu *> To: chsharp@cisco.com, end2end-interest@ISI.EDU *> Subject: Re: H.323 Annex E for Decision in ITU *> Sender: owner-end2end-interest@ISI.EDU *> Precedence: bulk *> Content-Length: 88 *> X-Lines: 3 *> *> note that this proposal also includes a flow control option for the non-TCP case *> *> Scott *> Scott,

How do those ITU guys breathe, living in a vacuum as they do?

Bob Braden

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