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In article <12700@accuvax.nwu.edu>, djcl@contact.uucp (woody) writes:

> 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.

A decision has been made by Dr. Theo Irmer, the Director of the CCITT,
that color books will no longer be published.  Instead,
Recommendations will be published when approved.  This approval no
longer needs to wait until a Plenary Assembly.  The 1988 Melbourne
Plenary Assembly approved. among othrt things, Resolution No.2.  This
resolution empowers each Study Group to approve a Recommenadtion at
any time by going through a defined process.  Once the Recommendtion
is approved it will be issued and published by the CCITT.

At the recent September meeting of Study Group VIII (Telematic
Terminals, i.e.  facsimile, Teletex, videotex, document transfer) two
revised Recommendations, one new Recommendation, and amendments to 5
other recommendations were approved for these Res. 2 procedures.  

>The announcement for the '92 conference will likely show up in an 
>edition of the ITU's _Telecommunication_Journal_ at some point. 
>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.

Yes CHILL is used, mainly in the electronic switching system environment.


Herman Silbiger