Funding of Standards Contribution

Standardisation Meeting Reports

• 49th IETF meeting (10-15 December 2000, San Diego, CA, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - David Chadwick's report
     - Jacob Palme's report
     - Peter Kirstein`s report
• 48th IETF meeting (31 July - 4 August 2000, Pittsburgh, PA, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - Jacob Palme`s report
     - David Chadwick's report
• 47th IETF meeting (27-31 March 2000, Adelaide, Australia):
     - Official Proceedings
     - Kirstein-O`Hanlon-Brown`s report
     - Colin Perkins's report
• 46th IETF meeting (8-12 November 1999, Washington DC, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - Pier's O'Hanlon's report
     - Jacob Palme's report
• ITU-T/ISO X.500 meeting (21-28 October 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark):
     - David Chadwick's report
• 45th IETF meeting (12-16 July 1999, Oslo, Norway):
     - Official Proceedings
     - David Chadwick's report
     - Jacob Palme's report
     - Colin Perkin's report
• ITU-T/ISO X.500 meeting (7-14 April 1999, Orlando, USA):
     - David Chadwick's report
• 44th IETF meeting (8-12 March 1999, Minneapolis, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - Jacob Palme's report
     - Edmund Whelan's report
• 43rd IETF meeting (8-12 December 1998, Orlando, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - David Chadwick's report
     - Jacob Palme's report
     - Colin Perkin's report
• 45th MPEG meeting (11-12 October 1998, Atlantic City, USA):    - Colin Perkins's report
• 42nd IETF (24-28 August 1998, Chicago, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - Jacob Palme's report on the Applications Area
• 41th IETF (29 March - 3 April, 1998, Los Angeles, USA):
     - Official Proceedings
     - MERCI report on Multimedia, IP and Mbone issues
     - Web4Groups report on the Applications Area

Information on Standards Bodies

IETF

The IETF is the Internet Engineering Task Force, the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. It is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.
Links to IETF information:

• IETF Home Page
• IETF Meetings
• IETF RFC Editor Home Page
• Request for Comments Documents (RFC's) and Current Internet-Drafts
• Active IETF Working Groups
• Description of the standardisation process and status of IETF protocol standards (RFC2000) and Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts

W3C

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium. It was founded in 1994 to develop common protocols that enhance the interoperability and promote the evolution of the World Wide Web. It is an industrial consortium, jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Inst itute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) in the United States; the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Europe; and the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Asia.
Links to W3C information:

• W3C Home Page
• W3C News and Announcements
• W3C Technical Reports and the World Wide Web Journal
• W3C Technical Areas

ISSS

ISSS is the Information Society Standardisation System. It was created by CEN to replace EWOS (European Workshop for Open Systems) and aims to bring all the relevant European Information Society standardisation activities under a single umbrella.
Links to ISSS Information:

• ISSS Home Page
• ISSS Events Calendar
• ISSS Technical Committees

ITU-T (SG8 and SG15)

The ITU is the International Telecommunications Union, within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services. ITU activities include the coordination, development, regulation and standardization of telecomm unications and organization of regional and world telecom events.
Links to ITU information:

• ITU Home Page
• ITU Publications
• ITU-T Study Group 8 (Characteristics of telematic systems)
• ITU-T Study Group 15 (Transport networks, systems and equipment)

MPEG

MPEG is the Motion Pictures Expert Group which develops international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving video and audio.
Links to ITU information:

• MPEG Home Page