Download TC-20020308-035_GSC7_EWG_TIA_update

TIA Electronic Tools
Standards Development
Susan Hoyler
Director, Standards Development and Promotion
GSC/EWG Meeting
Sydney, Australia November 2001
Overview
• Electronic tools used by
committees.
– FTP site
– Mobile LANs
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- Reflector lists
- Web pages
On-line ballot system
New hardware for TIA
Virtual meeting tools (web conferencing)
Future developments
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FTP Site
• TIA assigns a password and username
to each of its 101 Committees,
Subcommittees, Working Groups, and
Ad hoc Committees
• Each Group has two directories
• A volunteer from each group is
designated as Electronic Document
Coordinator (EDC)
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FTP Site
• EDCs administer the FTP site using FTP
client software and the assistance of
TIA staff
– Easy and versatile file management
– Reduction of TIA staff workload
– Person knowledgeable in work program of group
• Web browser access to the FTP site
– No plug-in software
– WYSIWYG interface
- No multiple downloads
- One group per session
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Reflector Lists
• Use of a 3rd-party provider called
Lyris (www.lyris.com)
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Provide all server support on an off-site box
Multiple email domains
Security for each list
Each group has its own list
Commands can be made through email (i.e.,
auto unsubscribe and subscribe)
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Reflector Lists
• A Committee volunteer is the list
administrator with help of TIA
staff
• Initial reflector list is established
by TIA staff
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Mobile LAN Deployment
• Support both wired and wireless LAN
implementations
• TR-8, TR-45 and TR-46 use the TIA
mobile LAN on a regular basis
• Provides real-time exchange of
documents, contributions and updates.
• Someone on the committee or a staff
person must be familiar with networking
and computers and be able to do basic
troubleshooting.
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Mobile LANs
• Toshiba Tecra 8100 350MHz
(Laptop)
– 10/100 Ethernet Card
• 802.11b Access Point
• 10/100 Ethernet Hubs
– Connecting cables (RJ 45)
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Mobile LANs
• The mobile LAN usage has not
been as widely accepted as was
expected
– Security issues for users
– Limited computer networking knowledge at
meetings
– International regulations
– Hesitancy to use by some of the groups
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Web Pages
• TIA has web pages for each of its
Committees
• Contents of the Committee pages:
– Annual Schedule
– Agendas
- Meeting Notices
- Scopes
• Committee web pages link to the
secure FTP site
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Web Pages
• Committee webpages are
administered by TIA staff using online posting tools developed by TIA’s
web department
• Functions are:
– Document upload sorted by committee
– Automatic expiration of link based on date
– Adding Subcommittees and Working Groups
to web pages.
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Web Pages
• All TIA standards forms are available
on-line for the volunteers to complete
and submit
• TIA has used web interface for its
standards development requests
• TIA assisted ANSI in the development of
on-line ANSI forms so that TIA members
can complete them at the TIA site
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Web Pages
• Balloting on-line since January 1999.
• All ballots are posted to the Internet for
download by the participants
• A password to access the ballot is
distributed by email
• All submitted ballots are collected in a
database and sent by email to TIA and
the Chair of the Committee
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Web Pages
• Summaries of the ballot voting
are compiled by a TIA staff person
• Results distributed to the
Committee chairs by email
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BALLOT SUMMARY
PROJECT NUMBER: 3-0031
TIA/EIA-898
TITLE: Signaling Conformance Tests for cdma2000 Spread Spectrum Systems
BALLOTING COMMITTEE: TR-45, TR-45.5
DATE:
10/26/01
CLOSE: 08/20/01
NAME
ABSTAIN
Ed Campbell
COMPANY
Ross Johnston
Gary Pellegrino
CommWorks Corporation, A 3Comm
Co
Agilent Technologies
CRAG
APPROVE
Steve Jones
Yoshitaka Iida
Cliff Barber
Blake Russo
Derk McAvoy
Sharon Sheldon
Scott Fischel
David Comstock
Kurt Bantle
Henry Chang
NEC
Hitachi, Ltd.
Tantivy Communications
Qwest Communications
Bell Mobility
Toshiba
Qualcomm
Ericsson Wireless Communications
Spirent Communications
Kyocera Wireless
APPROVE
W/COMMENTS
Jason Losh
Richard Ross
Ke-Chi Jang
Motorola
Sprint Spectrum
Nortel Networks
OTHER
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On-Line Ballot System
• Ballot system redesigned but not
yet deployed
• Features of new system:
– Password protection per user not
document
– Automated comment compilation
– Automated, real-time ballot summaries
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New Hardware for TIA
• New Cisco routers: one main and one
subsidiary at TIA HQ and another
subsidiary at the TIA DC office to
migrate from 10 Mb to 100 Mb LAN
• New Fiber Network Interface Cards
(NIC), connecting equipment
• Packeteer PacketShaper for control and
load leveling of bandwidth in the
network. (http://www.packeteer.com/)
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Virtual Meeting Tools
• Experimented with
– Placeware
- WebEx
- others
• TIA selected Premiere as reseller
which offers both Placeware and
WebEx (www.premconf.com)
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Document Delivery
• TIA produces single use download of the
cdma2000 and ANSI-136 to comply with
ITU requirements
• TR-41 Internet Telephony (VoIP) standards
available for single use download on the
TIA web page (www.tiaonline.org)
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Document Delivery
• All TIA documents are available in
softcopy (since 1997) or hardcopy from
our publisher IHS/Global Engineering
Documents (http://ihs.global.com)
• IHS also provides subscription
collections (i.e., all TIA documents, all
EIA documents)
• Some technology areas also have their
own hard copy and/or electronic
compilations (e.g., wiring standards)
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Document Delivery
• Participants who voted on final
document and in its development, get
an electronic copy of final document
from TIA
• Individual electronic documents also
available from TIA publisher
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Future Developments
• IPR statement collection and
database on-line
• On-line database for all stages of a
standard’s development
• Develop “helpful hints” pages for use
by Chairs and committee members
• More use of web conferencing and
web casting
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Thank you!
Questions?