COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS REVIEW Volume 11, Number 9 October, 2000 In This Issue The following reports of recent standards meetings represent the view of the reporter and are not official, authorized minutes of the meetings. TR-29 Facsimile Systems & Equipment Engineering Committee, August 7 – 9, 2000, Palo Alto, CA.................. 3 TR-29 Meeting Roster, August 7 – 9, 2000, Palo Alto, CA................................................................4 TR-41, Telecommunications Equipment Requirements, August 14 – 18, 2000, Vancouver, BC..........................5 TR-41.1, Multiline Terminal Systems.......................................................................................... 5 TR-41.1.2, Voice Quality over IP................................................................................................7 TR-41.2, Conformity Assessment............................................................................................... 8 TR-41.3, Analog and Digital Wireline Terminals............................................................................ 11 TR-41.3.5, Revision of TIA-470-B............................................................................................. 11 TR-41.4, VoIP Gateways and Infrastructures................................................................................... 13 TR-41.5, Multimedia-Building Distribution Systems....................................................................... 14 TR-41.7, Environmental and Safety Considerations......................................................................... 14 TR-41.7.1 Harmonization of International Safety Standards............................................................... 16 TR-41.9, FCC Technical Regulatory COnsiderations........................................................................ 18 TR-41.10, Private ISDN Issues................................................................................................... 22 TR-41.11, FCC Regulatory Administrative Considerations................................................................ 23 TR-41 Partial Meeting Roster, August 14 – 18, 2000, Vancouver, BC...................................................28 DSL Forum Technical Committee Meeting, August 28 - September 1, 2000, Dublin, Ireland............................. 30 Architecture and Transport Working Group.................................................................................... 30 Transport Sub-Working Group................................................................................................... 32 VoDSL (Voice over DSL) Working Group...................................................................................... 34 Operations & Network Management Working Group........................................................................ 37 Testing & Interoperability Working Group.................................................................................... 38 Emerging DSLs Study Group...................................................................................................... 44 Marketing............................................................................................................................ 45 G8 Interoperability Group......................................................................................................... 46 DSL Forum Meeting Roster, August 28 - September 1, 2000, Dublin, Ireland.......................................... 48 Study Group 15 WP2 Rapporteur’s Meetings, September 14 – 20, 2000, Munich, Germany.............................. 57 Q6/15, Circuit Multiplication Equipment...................................................................................... 57 Q7/15, Network Echo Control and Interaction of Echo Controllers and Network Equipment........................ 59 Q21/15, Functionality and Interface Specifications for GSTN Transport Network Equipment for Interconnecting GSTN and IP Networks (TIGIN)................................................................................................... 61 WP2/15 Rapporteurs Partial Meeting Roster, September 14 – 20, 2000, Munich, Germany........................ 63 ETSI TIPHON Meeting #20, September 18 – 22, 2000, Vienna, Austria....................................................... 64 Working Group 1, Requirements................................................................................................. 68 Working Group 2, Architecture................................................................................................... 70 Working Group 3, Call Control.................................................................................................. 73 Working Group 4, Naming, Addressing........................................................................................ 75 Working Group 5, Quality of Services (QoS).................................................................................. 78 Working Group 6, Verification................................................................................................... 79 Working Group 7, Wireless....................................................................................................... 81 Working Group 8, Security........................................................................................................ 83 TIPHON #20 Meeting Roster, September 18 – 22, 2000, Vienna, Austria.............................................. 84 Table of Contents Continued on Next Page October 2000 Vol. 11.9 Copyright © CSR 2000 1 COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS REVIEW ETSI TM6 #19, Access Transmission Systems on Metallic Cables, September 18 – 22, 2000, Vienna, Austria...... 87 SDSL................................................................................................................................... 88 VDSL.................................................................................................................................. 91 ADSL.................................................................................................................................. 93 ANAI................................................................................................................................... 95 Spectrum Management............................................................................................................. 96 DSL Testing and Interoperability Issues........................................................................................ 96 TM6 Meeting Roster, September 18 – 22, 2000, Vienna, Austria........................................................ 97 Acronym Definitions..................................................................................................................... 99 Year 2000 Standards Committee Meeting Schedules as of October 26, 2000................................................. 104 Year 2001 Standards Committee Meeting Schedules............................................................................... 104 Communications Standards Review regularly covers the following committee meetings: TIA TR-29 Facsimile Systems & Equipment TR-30 Data Transmission Systems & Equipment TR-41 User Premises Telephone Equipment Requirements TR-42 User Premises Telecommunications Infrastructure ITU-T SG8 Telematic Terminals SG15 WP1 Network Access SG15 WP2 Network Signal Processing SG16 Multimedia ETSI AT Access and Terminals TIPHON Voice over Internet TM6 Transmission & Multiplexing DSL Forum xDSL, Access Technologies THE CSR LIBRARY Subscribers may order copies of documents shown in boldface type from Communications Standards Review, where not controlled. $50.00 for the first document in any order, $40.00 for the second, and $25.00 for each additional document in any order. 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TR-29 has previously been notified about the following IPR items: • Fujitsu has some intellectual property on sending voice files in T.30. • Mixed Raster Content - Xerox may have IPR related to this work and has submitted an IPR statement. (See TR/96-11-55). Xerox also submitted a new patent statement on Mixed Raster Content at the March-April 1999 SG8 meeting, but it was later withdrawn. • JBIG2 - Xerox may have IPR related to this work with respect to the rendering of JBIG-2 images, and there also may also be additional patent claims related to JBIG-2. • Internet Fax – D. Duehren (Brooktrout) is aware of Intellectual Property associated with dial forwarding. D. MacTaggart (Cyberfax) is aware of potential IPR that may apply for real time fax over the Internet. There are patents from Biscom, Matsushita, and Open Port on some aspects of Internet fax (see http://www.patents.ibm.com for details on US patents).