Dear All I am very glad to make this announcement. Thanks to Mr.Ishikawa and his colleagues,the NRFID Correspondence Group as was agreed to be created at the last SG16 meeting in April now has its own mailing list. It is now open to accept subscription requests. We sincerely hope that anyone in SG16 who has interest in this new area can join us by subscribing to our mailing list.We believe SG16 should and can play a central role in the development of NRFID standards in ITU-T. Those who want to subscribe to our mailing list are welcome to send your requests to Mr.Ishikawa at chiaki.ishikawa@ubin.jp who is responsible for creating and maintaining it.(Thanks to him once more!) For anyone who is not familiar with what has been going on in SG16 about NRFID,see the following information. Overall Requirements We’d like to bring to your attention the following documents: 1) TSAG Output from the meeting in November 2) NRFID Workshop Results (including the informal meeting which took place just after the workshop) 3) Deliverables of the TSAG Correspondence Group 4) TSB-Circular letter 80 5) Meeting Report Q22/16 and he would like to see a clear understanding of the following in early May timeframe. i) the topics SG16 will address under its mandate and ii) SG16 role in the coordination of the development of global standards in NRFID. Background It is our observation that NRFID is deemed important enough to be discussed at ITU-T. But it is also true, there are still issues that need to be clarified about how to use NRFID from the viewpoint of network. In order to solve this, i.e., give clear understanding of these technical issues, we need to build a usage model of NRFID to discuss the technical issues in detail within ITU-T. Japanese delegation tried to propose such a usage model to TSAG, and SG16 so far, but it is still too early for the delegates to reach a consensus yet. So we would like to move discussion along to reach a consensus on usage model and the set of technical issues to be discussed. Main proposals We would like to make SG16 as a leading SG for studying NRFID issues. Since SG16 discusses the ubiquitous service applications including multimedia, it is possible to cover all the aspects of NRFID in a top-down manner at SG16 discussion. Roadmap of the proposal/action plan (i) Let us build an application usage model of NRFID so that we can discuss the technical issues of NRFID in detail at SG16. (ii) Let us summarize the application requirements from the viewpoint of such usage model. We will deliver the list of such requirements as reference requirements of NRFID application. (iii) Once the application requirements are summarized, we will look at issues such as security, privacy, performance, and quality of service. Some of these issues are now being looked at by other SGs such as SG11, SG13, SG17, etc.. So we coordinate the evaluation of these extra issues. (iv) Assuming that the application environment envisioned in the step (i), and (ii) become a reality, then we will evaluate the scalability issues (say, 100 NRFID tags for each person) and reflect the discussion on the future network architecture requirements (SG13) and signaling issues (SG11) . Short-Term goals (a) Application Model. For the step (i) of building application usage model(s), we would like to propose application model/scenario based on our experience. First we need to settle on a template of such submission. The following is a tentative idea. Such application usage scenario template consists of the following items. - Service Definition. (A summary paragraph). - System Configuration. - Terminal Characteristics (NRFID reader/writer functions, and other features.) We think we can offer technical data based on our feasibility study experiments using NRFID so that we can reach a consensus on system configuration, scalability, service definition, performance and other issues. (b) Application Requirements. (This will be the topics discussed at SGs) - Network requirements such as size and other characteristics. - Required Service to be offered to users. - other (c) Performance and QoS (d) Interoperability issues with other application. (e) New Service. - Location-aware services based on NRFID. (This is the type of services discussed during the presentation from University of North Carolina.) - others. We plan to offer such novel application profile/scenario and requirements in addition to summarizing the current application. With Best Regards Noah Luo Rapporteur of Q.22/SG16 Ph.D,Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. Tel:+86-755-28786346 Fax:+86-755-28789166