in030076, Standards Policy Board Consideration of JTC 1 SGs to Explore New Areas Addressed in JTC 1 2002 Sophia Antiopolis Resolution 10

InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
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Doc: in030076
Date: January 15, 2003
Reply to: Jennifer Garner
Phone: 202-626-5737
email: jgarner@itic.org

Subject:

Standards Policy Board Consideration of JTC 1 SGs to Explore New Areas Addressed in JTC 1 2002 Sophia Antiopolis Resolution 10

Background

At the November 2002 JTC 1 TAG meeting, the following action item was agreed upon:

The issue of JTC 1 SGs to Explore New Areas will be remanded for consideration by the new organization. (Agenda Item 9.7, November 2002 JTC 1 TAG minutes - JT/02-0591)

Requested Action

The text for Resolution 10 has been extracted from JTC 1 N 6927 (Resolutions from the November 2002 JTC 1 Plenary - Sophia Antipolis) for consideration at the February 2003 meeting of the Standards Policy Board (SPB):

Resolution 10 - Initiate Study Groups to Explore new Areas

JTC 1 intends to actively explore new areas of work. This will be done through Study Groups with the following Terms of Reference:

to assess the relevance of JTC 1's program of work to the development in the area under consideration;

to assess the state of standardisation efforts in this area by Consortia, Fora and ITU-T;

to come, if required, with recommendations on whatever actions are needed by JTC 1 to increase its market share in this standardization area;

to report on its activities to the next JTC 1 Plenary in November 2003 in Singapore.

An initial list of candidate areas comprises:

Middleware

web services

Privacy management

JTC 1 requests its Secretariat to initiate a call for experts to actively participate and/or provide convenorship responsibilities in any of the related Study Groups.

A Study Group will be initiated only if a convener has been nominated and at least 3 additional National Body or Subcommittee participants have been nominated.

JTC 1 further invites its National Bodies and SCs to identify additional candidate areas, particularly from the list of items of the LTBP, together with an offer for participation. The JTC 1 Chairman is authorized to initiate additional Study Groups if the same requirements as above are met.

Unanimous