1、 International Telecommunication Union ITU-T TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR OF ITU WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION ASSEMBLY Johannesburg, 21-30 October 2008 Resolution 11 Collaboration with the Postal Operations Council (POC) of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in the study of serv
2、ices concerning both the postal and the telecommunication sectors FOREWORD The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications, information and communication technologies (ICTs). The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
3、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 fo
4、ur years, establishes the topics for study by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these topics. ITU 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of ITU. WTSA-08 Resolution 11 1 RES
5、OLUTION 11 Collaboration with the Postal Operations Council (POC) of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in the study of services concerning both the postal and the telecommunication sectors (Malaga-Torremolinos, 1984; Helsinki, 1993; Geneva, 1996; Montreal, 2000; Florianpolis, 2004; Johannesburg, 2008
6、) The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Johannesburg, 2008), considering a) that postal and telecommunication administrations and the relevant operating agencies authorized by Member States and service providers need to keep themselves informed of technical progress liable to improve
7、 or harmonize existing services, and that it is useful for them to examine jointly the implications of any new Recommendations or modifications to current Recommendations made in this connection; b) that the VIth CCITT Plenary Assembly resolved to create a “CCPS/CCITT Contact Committee“ to consider
8、questions of joint interest to both organizations in order: to identify complementary activities to assist both organizations in coordinating time-scales of results; to identify overlapping activities to minimize duplication of work; c) that the Contact Committee has fulfilled its purpose well, prov
9、iding a sound basis for ongoing fruitful collaboration at the working level between the Postal Operations Council (POC) (the successor to the Consultative Council for Postal Studies (CCPS) in 1995) and the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) (the successor to the International Teleg
10、raph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) in 1993), resolves 1 that the relevant ITU-T study groups should continue to collaborate with the POC committees as necessary, on a reciprocal basis and with a minimum of formality; 2 that, for ITU-T, Study Group 2 should continue to act as the main point of contact for POC/ITU-T collaborative studies; 3 that the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau should encourage and assist this collaboration between the two organs.
