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TSAG Correspondence Group for "ITU-T SG Restructuring"
TSAG Restructuring Meeting
5-7 April 2004 - Ottawa, Canada
Terms of Reference for the continuation of the "ITU-T Study Group Restructuring" Group
after the 10-14 November 2003 TSAG Meeting
Aim
The "ITU-T SG Restructuring" Correspondence Group should propose to the July 2004 TSAG
meeting a SG structure to be the basis of a proposal to be provided
to WTSA-2004 in October 2004, to support and strengthen the position of the
ITU-T in maintaining its pre-eminence as a global standardization organization.
This work should be guided by the following principles:
Principles
- Attract participants, including new members
- Avoid duplication
- Cost effective for the membership and for the ITU-T
- Effective development of standards
- Efficient development of standards
- Efficient utilization of participant resources
- Flexibility in groupings (dissimilar topics can run in one group independently)
- Forward looking
- Groups do not get too large and unwieldy
- Groups have critical mass of related work for:
- adequate diversity of interests, including geographical spread (to attract participants)
- challenging, interesting, cross-fertilized and sizeable work program
- adequate talent pool for leaders
- legitimacy in representing the ITU-T to external organizations
- Make ITU-T attractive place to do standards
- Minimize unnecessary interaction
- Provide a home for new and unanticipated topics
- Put like topics together
- Well-correlated topics grouped together
Tasks to be done:
Taking into account relevant provisions of the ITU Constitution and
Convention and noting the work arising from the Council Working Group
on the review of the ITU structure established under PP-02 Resolution 106,
and taking into account PP-02 Resolutions 71, 107, 121, 122, 123, 130, 131,
and discussions during the WP2/TSAG November 2003 meeting:
- Update continuously the list of work areas relevant to ITU-T;
- Examine how the blocks defined in Annex 2, and how the functional
groupings identified in Annex 3, may be refined and best gathered,
and propose an optimal structure for Study Groups, and other groups as necessary;
- Examine how existing or revised Questions should be allocated within
the restructured Study Groups and other Groups as necessary, taking into
account input from Study Group meetings as available; and
- Propose a revised Resolution 2 (Montreal, 2000) adapted to the new structure
as an input to the July 2004 TSAG meeting.
Working method and planning
The ITU-T SG Restructuring Group is instructed to carry out its task through
correspondence and a face-to-face meeting according to the following schedule:
- The Correspondence Group on ITU-T SG Restructuring will continue its work immediately.
This correspondence group will be active all the time, except during the meeting
indicated in the next bullet.
- A face-to-face meeting is planned for 5-7 April 2004, in Ottawa,
kindly hosted by Nortel Networks (Canada). Every effort should be made
to make it possible for the maximum participation by SG Chairmen.
- The membership should decide by end of February 2004 whether the face-to-face
meeting indicated above should take place based on the anticipation of progressing
the work as described above.
- The WP 2/TSAG Chairman will chair the ITU-T SG Restructuring group anywhere
the meeting will take place.
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