[itu-sg16] Debriefing the SG16 meeting concluded last Friday

[OKUBO Sakae]

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.zip
http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/avc-site/2005-2008/0706_Gen/WP2_liaison_statements_070706.zip

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>.

-- 
Best regards,

OKUBO Sakae
e-mail: okubo at aoni.waseda.jp
Visiting Professor
Global Information and Telecommunication Institute (GITI)
Waseda University
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