ITU-T Study Group 2 Operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance

1. ITU-T Study Group 2Operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance Philippe Distler (prev. Roy Blane)

2. Contents • Terms of reference • Management Team • SG Organization • Statistics • Highlights of achievements / Projects / FGs • Workshops • Future work

3. Terms of Reference • Responsible for studies relating to: • principles of service provision, definition and operational requirements of service emulation; • numbering, naming, addressing requirements and resource assignment including criteria and procedures for reservation and assignment; • routing and interworking requirements; • human factors; • operational aspects of networks and associated performance requirements including network traffic management, quality of service (traffic engineering, operational performance and service measurements); • operational aspects of interworking between traditional telecommunication networks and evolving networks; • evaluation of feedback from operators, manufacturing companies and users on different aspects of network operation.

4. Terms of Reference • Lead SG for: • service definition, numbering and routing

5. Management Team

6. Study Group Structure • WP1 Numbering, naming, addressing, routing and service provision includes service description and human factors • WP2 Network service and assessment, and traffic engineering includes quality of service and network management • Special groups: • Quality of Service Development Group (L. Cardoso, Portugal Telecom, Portugal) • Service and Networks Operations Group (M. Flory, Lucent, USA)

7. Statistics (I) • # Rapporteurs meetings held: 12 • # contributions received: 264 • # SG meetings held: 8 • Max/Min/Average SG participants : 150/100/120

8. Statistics (II) • #New/Revised Recommendations approved: 27/15 • # Questions assigned by WTSA-2000: 9 • # New or revised Questions during study period: none • # Questions proposed for next period: 7

9. Highlights of achievements (I) • ENUM • E.164 misuse interim procedure • E.164 and E.212 maintenance • Universal Personal Telephony • Terrestrial trunk radio mobile country codes • QoS Routing

10. Highlights of achievements (II) • International emergency preference scheme Telecommunications for disaster relief • Presentation of numbers and addresses • New symbols of high clarity • Quality of service and security • Quality of Service Handbook • Network management • IP and IMT-2000 based networks

11. Highlights of achievements (III) • Traffic engineering • Contribution to ITU-D Traffic Engineering Handbook • Community connectivity indicators

12. Workshops (I) • Tutorial Workshop on ENUM / 8 February 2002 / Geneva • Tutorial Workshop on IPv6 / 8 May 2002 / Geneva • Workshop on Telecommunications for Disaster Relief / 17-19 February 2003 / Geneva

13. Workshops (II) • Workshop on Member States’ Experiences with ccTLDs / 3-4 March 2003 / Geneva • Workshop on challenges, perspectives, and standardization issues in E-Government / 5-6 June 2003 / Geneva

14. Workshops (III) • Workshop to develop a Recommendation to clarify the management of “.int” (with ICANN) / 15-16 September 2003 / Geneva • Workshop on Convergent regulation – is it becoming technology-neutral / 17 May 2004 / Geneva

15. Workshops (IV) • Joint ICANN/ITU ccTLD Workshop / 24 July 2004 / Kuala Lumpur

16. Future Work • Naming, numbering, and addressing • International emergency preference and telecommunications for disaster relief • Routing • Human factors • Quality of service • Network and service operations, including network management • Traffic engineering for fixed and mobile

17. Thank you!