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LS on the completion of ITU-T Focus Group on IMT-2020 and start of normative work in ITU-T Study Group 13

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State Posted
Submitted Date 2017-01-24
From Group ITU-T-FG-IMT-2020
From Contact Peter J. Ashwood-Smith
To Group IETF
To Contacts The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Cc The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
irtf-chair@irtf.org

Response Contact Leo.Lehmann@bakom.admin.ch
Peter.AshwoodSmith@huawei.com
Purpose For information
Attachments sp16-fgimt-2020-oLS-0004
Body
We would like to inform you that from its establishment under ITU-T Study Group
13 (SG13) on 1 May 2015 until its final meeting in Geneva, 5-9 December 2016,
the ITU-T Focus Group on IMT‑2020 (FG IMT-2020) has identified 85 non-radio
standards gaps for IMT-2020 (so-called 5G), and developed a set of draft
Recommendations and Technical Reports addressing several gaps identified in
various technical areas and non-radio aspects of 5G: –       network
architecture with fixed-mobile convergence, –       network softwarization, –  
    end-to-end quality of service, –       end-to-end network management, –    
  fronthaul/backhaul, –       information centric networking (ICN). The group
also held a workshop and demo day during its last meeting to showcase
networking innovations that support the diverse range of envisioned 5G use
cases, use cases which span from automated driving to industrial robotics and
tele-surgery. Please consult the workshop web site:
http://itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/201612/. Furthermore, we would
like to inform you that in 2017 SG13 will begin normative work on non-radio
network aspects of IMT-2020 by forming a dedicated working party and several
questions. The working party and the questions will conduct their study based
on the output documents of the Focus Group. The first SG13 meeting of the study
period will be held in Geneva, 6-17 February 2017. Please consult the SG13 web
site for more details: http://itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2017-2020/13/. SG13
appreciates your interest and continuous collaboration on this topic.