The BSF was invited to participate in the ITU-T Initial coordination meeting on IPTV, held April 2006 in Geneva. Mr. Helmut Leopold, Telekom Austria and BSF Board Member, attended the meeting and presented the BSF IPTV Explained white paper.
The mission of IPTV Focus Group is to coordinate and promote the development of global IPTV standards taking into account the existing work of the ITU study groups as well as Standards Developing Organizations, Fora and Consortia.
The meeting developed the following initial goals of FG IPTV:
- Definition of IPTV
- Identification of scenarios, drivers and relationships with other services and networks
- Identify requirements and define framework architecture
- Review and gap analysis of existing standards and ongoing works
- Identification of opportunities for ITU-T
- Identification of activities that ITU-T would encourage other organizations to pursue
- Coordination of existing standardization activities
- Harmonization of the development of new standards
- Encourage interoperability with existing systems where possible
Forty-six contributions from industry collaborators were discussed during the meeting. All documents are available at
ITU-T website
As a result of the discussions at the initial coordination meeting, the BSF has been invited to participate in the first working session of the ITU-T IPTV Focus Group to be held in Geneva, July 2006.
Initial Coordination Meeting Report
Letter from ITU-T Chair
Invitation to participate in upcoming ITU-T IPTV FG meeting
