Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: djcl@contact.uucp (woody) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: CCITT and Plenary Sessions/Books summary Message-ID: <12700@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 27 Sep 90 03:58:06 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 47 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 687, Message 3 of 9 Summary of Plenary Assemblies of the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT): Every four years, CCITT holds a session to update international telephone and telecommunication standards. The next one is due in 1992. Here are the locations dates of the sessions to date, along with the colour of the books that resulted from each session (the latest is the Blue Book series from 1988's session). Session Location Dates Book Colour ------- ---------------------- ------------- ----------- I Geneva 10-20 Dec '56 Red II New Delhi 8-16 Dec '60 Red III Geneva 15-27 Jun '64 Blue IV Mar del Plata 23 Sep-25 Oct '68 White V Geneva 4-15 Dec '72 Green VI Geneva 27 Sep-8 Oct '76 Orange VII Geneva 10-21 Nov '80 Yellow VIII Molaga-Torremolinos 8-19 Oct '84 Red IX Melbourne 14-25 Nov '88 Blue It appears that the book colours are forming a cycle. If so, the books coming out of the '92 conference, wherever that will be, will be white. The announcement for the '92 conference will likely show up in an edition of the ITU's _Telecommunication_Journal_ at some point. Various study groups are formed to tackle various questions of standards and policies. To be studies in 1989-92 are 16/I (public international directory services) or 34/I (international telecommunication credit card service). One of the first volumes of the Blue Book series should have some details on that. On a side note, it is interesting to note that the CCITT has developed standards for a programming language called CHILL (CCITT High Level Language). I don't know if this is actually in use anywhere, or if there have been any CHILL compilers/interpreters developed. It's an interesting language, what with various set operators developed, and the typical 'if', 'for' and 'while' looping mechanisms. The preceding was distilled from a recent quick run into Ottawa; this information is subject to spelling or errors of reading things too quickly. Any corrections or additional information would be appreciated.