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TC-20000907-007
Electronic Tools for TIA
Standards Development
David Thompson
Member of the Technical Staff
GCS/EWG Meeting
Sapporo, Hokkaido, JAPAN August 2000
Overview
• FTP site (http://ftp.tiaonline.org) - secure
• TIA’s Engineering Committee webpages public
• Engineering Committee Reflector lists restricted
• Review of TIA on-line balloting process
• Mobile LANs for meetings
• Goals for the future
FTP Server
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Dell-Power Edge 4200
Pentium II 233Mhz
Dedicated 27 GB
6x CD ROM
ARCserveIT 6.6.1 (runs the tape library
system)
• RAID 5
FTP Security
• TIA assigns a password and username to
each of its 121 Committees,
Subcommittees, Working Groups, Ad hoc
Committees, Divisions and Sections.
• A volunteer Electronic Document
Coordinator (EDC) from each of the above
groups, administers the assigned portion of
the FTP site with the assistance of TIA staff.
FTP Site
• Administration using FTP client software
has been very effective. With minimal
training volunteers can easily upload and
download multiple documents.
• Internet interface to the FTP site has proved
somewhat problematic but works well for
individuals who need to download just a
few files.
Website Server
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Dell Power Edge 6400
Quad Pentium 550 (2.2 GHz)
54 GB of dedicated storage
9 GB for operating system
1 GB of RAM
RAID 5
Windows 2000 and MS SQL-based server
Internet Development
• TIA has developed web pages for each of its
Committees, Divisions and Sections
• Contents of the pages: Annual Schedule,
Meeting Notices, Agendas, Scope of the
Committee, etc.
• Committee web pages link to the FTP site
Internet Development
• Committee webpages are administered by
TIA staff using on-line posting tools
developed by TIA’s web department.
Functions are:
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Document upload sorted by committee
Selecting name of link
Automatic expiration of link based on date
Adding Subcommittees and Working Groups to
web pages.
Internet Development
• The on-line annual committee calendar is
also administered by TIA staff using tools
developed by TIA’s web department.
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Posting by committee or event
Organized by date
Links to hotel and meeting notice
Staff contact information for users
TIA Balloting Process
• TIA has been doing all its standards
development requests and balloting on-line
since January 1999. (in 2000 - 218 ballots)
• TIA worked with ANSI to develop shared
on-line forms.
• All TIA forms are on-line for the volunteers
to complete and submit.
Electronic Ballot
• All PN (committee level) and SP ballots
(ANSI public review) are posted to the
Internet.
• A password to access the ballot is
distributed by email.
• All submitted ballots are collected in a
database and sent by email to the TIA
Standards Secretariat and the Chair of the
engineering committee.
Electronic Ballot
• Ballot Summaries are compiled manually
and distributed to the committee chairs by
email.
Reflector Lists
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Third-party provider Lyris
Provides all server support
Multiple email domians
Security for each list
Each Committee and Subcommittee has its
own reflector list
• A Committee Volunteer acts Administrator
with help of TIA staff
Reflector Lists
• All list administration is preformed over the
Internet or through email
• Initial reflector list is established by TIA
Mobile LANs
• Based on the success of 3GPP2’s use of
Mobile LANs TIA is beginning to support
and supply mobile LANs to some of its
other Engineering Committees.
• Have supported both wired and wireless
LAN implementations, “sneakernet” for
handful w/o NIC
• TR-45.3, Time Division Digital Technology,
is using one with much success.
Mobile LANs
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Toshiba Tecra 8100 350Mhz
128MG
Lucent WAVE LAN card
3COM 10/100 Ethernet card
Hubs and cables for wired system
Mobile LAN
• This system provides real-time exchange of
documents, contributions and updates that
are electronic.
• It saves time and expense of last minute
contribution photocopying.
• It does require that someone on the
committee be familiar with networking and
computers.
Document Delivery
• TIA delivers the cdma2000, ANSI-136 and
TR-41 Internet Telephony standards for
single download over the Internet from
www.tiaonline.org
• All other documents are available in soft
(since 1997) or hardcopy from our publisher
IHS/Global Engineering Documents
(http://ihs.global.com)
• IHS also provides Internet download with
passwords for full collection (e.g. ITU).
Future Developments - 2001
• By 2001 TIA will have all the balloting
inputs and outputs in electronic systems
based on databases with the goal of
removing the manual processes as much as
possible.
• TIA is also investigating webcasting for
some of its meetings. MS Netmeeting (also
used by T1) and CentraNow under review
(https://www.centranow.com/home/home.asp).
Thank you!
Questions?