Videotelephony and teleconference. 6. Trends of international standardization. 2. International standardization on videoconferescing/videophone systems.

International Standardization Activities on Optical Interfaces Global Standardization Activities

This article reviews international standardization activities on optical interfaces over the last four years. Standardization is the key to the cost-effective manufacture, purchase, and installation of largecapacity high-speed optical network elements. This article mainly focuses on the activities related to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) interfaces in ITU-T (International Telecommunica...

Technical Controversy in International Standardization

The development of larger technical systems relies on the coordination of autonomous action of a multitude of individuals and organizations. Institutional settings, often neglected in the analysis of technical development, help to achieve such coordination. Our analysis of international technical standardization in telecommunications highlights an institutionalized process aiming at the creatio...

International Standardization on Face Recognition Technology

This paper details the international standard works on biometrics, especially face recognition, for example, which groups have an interest, what kind of works has been done, and why the standard works are needed. Moreover, the history of MPEG-7 Advanced Face Recognition descriptor and current situations are described.

International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector

This contribution proposes for Recommendation G.812 (1) a holdover specification for Clock Type II that is consistent with the current specification of 10 per day and is not broken into aging, temperature, and initial offset components and (2) a modification to the output wander TDEV mask, to apply only to Types II and III, to make the mask consistent with the respective wander generation TDEV ...

International committee for standardization in haematology.