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>Date: Mon, 3 Nov 97 08:06:04 -0700
>Subject: Fw: (Fwd) Cooperation between IETF and ITU-T SG 11
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>- Randy Bloomfield, NTIA/ITS.N3
>
>--- On Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:11:18 +0000 [email protected] wrote:
>FYI, here is a copy of the official a liaison that ITU-T SG 11 has
>been sent to the IETF.
>
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>Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 22:56:46 +0900
>To: [email protected]
>From: "KANO.Sadahiko" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Cooperation between IETF and ITU-T SG 11
>Cc: [email protected]
>
>November 1, 1997
>
>To: Dr. Scott Bradner
> Operational Requirements Area Director
> and Ipng co-Area Director of IESG
> Harvard University
> 11350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
> Tel: +1 617 495 3864
>
>Copy to: Dr. Brian E. Carpenter
> Chair, Internet Architecture Board
> IBM United Kingdom Laboratories
> MP 185 Hursley Park, Winchester, Hampshire S021 2JN, United
>Kingdom
> Tel: +44 196 281 6833
>
>Dear Dr. Bradner,
>
>Since I am writing to you for the first time, let me introduce myself first.
>I work at NTT as Senior Vice President, R&D Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
>I also serve as Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 11, responsible for signaling
>requirements and protocols, such as SS No.7, ISDN Q.921 and Q.931 as well
>as signaling for ATM and next generation mobile system, called IMT-2000
>(International Mobile Telecommunication - 2000).
>
>Recently I also served as Lead Coordinator at the Global Standards Conference
>held in Brussels on 1-3 October 1997, where I met Dr. Brian E. Carpenter, who
>gave an excellent talk, at the session I chaired, on the interoperability
issue
>from
>the IETF perspective.
>
>The participants of ITU-T SG 11 have agreed to place a high priority
>on assembling documentation that complements various standards of the
>IAB and other RFCs. SG 11 is aware of the work that has already been
>undertaken in the production of RFCs (particularly 1483, 1755 and 1932, and
>also 1577, 1626, 1695 and 2022). Additionally the participants of the Study
>Group
>have agreed to identify areas in which further standardization may be needed.
>To
>this end, an issue leader has been identified to coordinate efforts across
>various
>Working Parties of the Study Group. (Sub-groups within a Study Group are
>called
>as Working Parties (WPs) at the ITU-T.)
>
>To achieve the objectives noted above, cooperation with the IETF is
desired and
>
>considered essential. As a first step, the membership asked that I, as
>Chairman of
>the SG, transmit the attached material, that originated from Working Party
1 of
>
>Study Group 11 (hereafter called WP 1/11), which is responsible for
signaling
>recommendations associated with access and internetwork broadband
>communications interfaces.
>
>Other Working Parties of ITU-T SG 11 are responsible for additional aspects
>that may impact, or be impacted by, Internet related standards:
>
>For example, WP 2/11 is responsible for signaling recommendations associated
>with narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN) access and internetwork communications
>interfaces.
>
>WP 3/11 is responsible for requirements for digital wireless
communications, as
>
>SG 11 is the lead ITU-T Study Group for IMT-2000, thus is providing a focal
>point for the next generation mobile computing.
>
>WP 4/11 is responsible for Intelligent Network recommendations
>where there is growing interest in standardizing interfaces between
>the PSTN and the Internet to support integrated services across the
>networks. This WP is also studying local number portability issues.
>
>WP 5/11 is responsible for common protocols that support
>communications service applications at access and internetwork
>interfaces, such as LAPD and management protocols.
>
>Thus, I strongly believe that establishing a cooperative relationship
>between IETF and ITU-T Study Group 11 will be mutually beneficial
>and promote the synergy between the two bodies for the further
>enhancements of the Internet.
>
>It is our intention to send our documents to you which we consider
>useful for you via e-mail or on the web site. Our procedure allows
>us to share outputs of our meeting with anybody within and outside
>of the ITU-T. However, to receive inputs from you, the best way is
>to receive them as an input from one of our members, who is also
>a member of the IETF. Would your procedure allow, for example, one
>of your memebers to submit an input to an ITU-T Study Group?
>
>In any case, exchange of letters between us stating our mutual
>willingness to work for the common objective and share information
>would be a useful first step, which was the intention of this e-mail
>to you from our side.
>
>Please tell me on how you think of the need for cooperation between
>the two organizations and advise me on what sort of specific measures
>can be taken to consolidate the cooperation.
>
>Sincerely,
>Dr. KANO Sadahiko
>Chairman, ITU-T SG 11
>Senior Vice President, NTT Research and Development Headquarters
>3-19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-19 Japan
>Tel: +81 3 5359 4105 Fax: +81 3 5359 1625
>E-mail: [email protected]
>
>_________________________
>
> Attachment 1
>Broadband Signaling support of IP based services
>
>Currently, there are a number of levels of network support in an ATM
>based B-ISDN that signaling could provide and that may be useful for
>IP support. These levels of support are provided by the following
>specifications included in the signaling messages:
>
>- specification of connection characteristics (included in the
>Broadband Bearer Capability, ATM Traffic Descriptor and Quality of
>Service information element);
>- establishment of point to multipoint connections;
>- negotiation at establishment and modification once established of
>connection characteristics;
>- specification of network terminating characteristics (included in
>the Broadband Lower Layer Information information element);
>- connection routing in the network (based on the contents of the
>Called Party Address information element);
>- transport of a variety of end-to-end type of information across the
>network (included in several information elements: User-User
>Information, Broadband Higher Layer Information, Broadband Lower
>Layer Information, Generic Identifier, and Calling and Called Party
>Subaddress).
>
>
>It is hoped that the capabilities outlined in the above hyphenated points
>will provide a useful basis for further discussion between IETF and SG
>11. In addition, extracts from a contribution to SG 11 on B-ISDN
>and Multimedia Signaling has been posted at
>
>http://www.nal.ecl.net/SG11WP1/
>
>for your further information.
>
>
>
>---------------
>Dr. KANO, Sadahiko
>Senior Vice President, R&D Headquarters, NTT
>3-19-2 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-19, Japan
>Tel: + 81 3 5359 4105 Fax: + 81 3 5359 1625
>
>
>
>Greg Ratta, Vice Chairman, Working Party 1/11
>tel: +1 732 332 5174 fax: +1 732 949 1196
>[email protected]
>
>
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