Re: NGN Management Focus Group

[David Meyer <dmm@1-4-5.net>]

	Joe,

>> Dave Sidor's message contained a lot of fascinating acronyms, but  
>> unfortunately none that I was able to decode, with or without google. I  
>> suspect I may be missing some context. What is an SG? I thought TSB was  
>> the name of a bank.

	SG == Study Group (the ITU divides up into study periods,
	with study groups that look at "questions"). OTOH, a
	Focus Group is a group designed (from what I can tell) to
	look at questions that come up during a study period for
	which there is no organized study group (or groups), and
	is organized into Working groups. For example, FG NGN
	(Focus Group on NGN) is organized into 7 working groups
	(e.g. FG NGN WG 7, on future packet bearer networks). At
	least this is my understanding. How documents are
	produced is quite formal for the SGs, and completely
	informal for the FG WGs (as far as I can tell).

	Hope that helps. 

>> For those of us who thought this was an IETF-related list, who are  
>> confused as to exactly what any of this is, could you maybe post a  
>> summary?


	Summary of what?

	Thanks,

	Dave