INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

ITU-T

TELECOMMUNICATION

STANDARDIZATION SECTOR

OF ITU

WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION ASSEMBLY

Florianópolis, 5-14 October 2004

Resolution 46 – ITU-T contribution to Council Working Group on the World Summit on the Information Society

FOREWORD

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is a permanent organ of ITU. ITU-T is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issuing Recommendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis.

The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which meets every four years, establishes the topics for study by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these topics.

The approval of ITU-T Recommendations is covered by the procedure laid down in WTSA Resolution 1.

RESOLUTION 46

ITU-T contribution to Council Working Group on the World Summit on the Information Society

(Florianópolis, 2004)

The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Florianópolis, 2004),

considering

a)    the importance of definitions related to Internet issues;

b)    the role of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) in preparing ITU’s  contributions to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),

bearing in mind

a)      the successful outcome of the first phase of WSIS;

b)      the second phase of WSIS, to be held in Tunis in November 2005, and the corresponding preparatory process,

noting

that Council Resolution 1222 on ITU activities relevant to WSIS instructs the Council Working Group on WSIS to continue to provide updated inputs to the WSIS preparatory process,

resolves

1. to establish a short-lived group for the purpose of providing the first meeting of the Council Working Group on WSIS in 2005 with a definition relevant to the technical aspects of the telecommunication networks used by the Internet;
2. to invite the chairman of the Council Working Group on WSIS to add a corresponding item on the agenda in 2005,

instructs the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

to provide the necessary support to accept relevant contributions and to support a one-day meeting of the short-lived group prior to the first meeting of the Council Working Group on WSIS in 2005,

invites ITU-T members

to submit contributions to this group.