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FO-4 Summary Report TIA Technical Committee Meeting Arlington, VA July 13, 2005

This report provides a summary of the TIA Technical Committee Meeting held in Arlington, VA on July 13, 2005. It covers topics such as industry challenges, administrative work, new developments, concerns, and future meetings.

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FO-4 Summary Report TIA Technical Committee Meeting Arlington, VA July 13, 2005

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  1. FO-4 Summary Report TIA Technical Committee Meeting Arlington, VA July 13, 2005 Steve Swanson (swansonse@corning.com)

  2. Meetings held • January 25-27, 2005 in Mesa, Arizona • Co-located with TR-42 • June 20-23 in Boulder, Colorado • Hosted by NIST

  3. The Environment • While attendance is stable, it is clear the industry is still challenged • Still seeing attrition of key contributors • Some areas of work remain unsupported • Some open Chair positions

  4. Administrative work • Preliminary communication of changes to the Engineering Manual • Enforcement of cover sheet rule on contributions • Communication of requirements for informative and normative references • OMA and IETF references are not allowed • More progress on processes for nationally adopting international standards • Forward pointers • Backward pointers • Communicated TIA staff changes • ICEA MOU complete; iNEMI MOU in process

  5. New work • Broad discussion across FO-4 on potential opportunities to develop new or approved standards for FTTP • Decision to let each SC to move forward with individual initiatives • NIST workshop on US measurement system • Will be presented at TC meeting • New work on multimode fiber • Contribution on new multimode fiber for 40G • CWDM @ 850nm • New multimode launch condition test methodology

  6. Concerns • Document maintenance continues to be an issue • Group reaffirmation trial successful • TIA staff to review other options • Chair vacancies • 2006 Chair election • Lack of support in some areas • Passive component standardization • Active device standardization • International support and leadership

  7. Future meetings • January 2006 in San Jose • June 2006 in Providence

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