Transcript TC-20060503-013_Chair_FO4_Report_to_TC

FO-4 Summary Report to TC
May 3, 2006
Steve Swanson ([email protected])
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Highlights
• FO-4 has met twice since the last TC meeting
– June 2005 in Boulder, Colorado at NIST’s facilities
– January 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Changes in the Engineering Committee
– Tom Robinson of Draka/Comteq elected as the new FO-4 Chair at
January meeting
– Tom Ball resigned as Chair of FO-4.3; Greg Sandels appointed ViceChair with Andre Girard
– FO-4.4 on active devices/reliability disbanded and rolled into FO-4.1
on Systems
• Attendance appears stable
– Attendees from Mexico, UK and Canada at our last two meetings
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FO-4 Structure and Leadership
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FO-4, Committee on Fiber Optics, Steve Swanson/Chair and Bob
Jensen/Secretary
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FO-4.1, Subcommittee on Fiber Optic Systems, Jim Matthews/Chair and
Gair Brown/Vice-Chair
– FO-4.1.2, WG on Modal Dependence of Multimode Fiber Bandwidth, Paul
Kolesar
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FO-4.2, Subcommittee on Optical Fibers and Cables, Tom Hanson/Chair
and Mike Kinard/Vice-Chair
– FO-4.2.3, WG on Single-mode Fibers and Standards Harmonization, Andre
Girard (on hiatus)
– FO-4.2.5, WG on Products for (Air Assisted) Installation by Blowing, Ken
Dunn
– FO-4.2.6, WG on harmonization work on IEC 60794-1-2, Mike Kinard
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FO-4 Structure and Leadership (cont.)
• FO-4.3, Subcommittee on Interconnecting Devices, Andre
Girard/Chair and Greg Sandels/Vice-Chair
– FO-4.3.1, WG on Passive Components, Helmut Knehr
– FO-4.3.2, WG on Interconnecting Devices, Greg Sandels
– FO-4.3.3, WG on Reliability, Dr. Osman S. Gebizlioglu
• FO-4.5, Subcommittee on Fiber Optic Metrology, Lorenz
Cartellieri/Chair and Tim Drapela/ Vice-Chair
– FO-4.5.1, WG on Round Robin Testing and Calibration, Tim Drapela
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Recent FO-4 actions
• FO-4 has published several fiber optic cable standards
using a dual logo program under an MOU with ICEA
• FO-4.3 has applied for a Category D liaison with IEC SC86B
• FO-4.5 has established a formal liaison with TC86/WG4 on
Calibration
• Participation in the NIST Initiative on the US Measurement
System in Broadband Communications
– High Speed Optical Communication Systems
– Universal Broadband Access via Optical Fiber
– Transverse Compatibility in Fiber Optic Transport Networks
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FO-4 needs
• Document maintenance remains a key challenge
– Delays in implementing committee requests
• Document processing
• Need forward pointers
• Need the ability to do group re-affirmations
– Need to do a better job of document action in subcommittee
• FO-4 continues to nationally adopt IEC Standards where
possible
– Issues with copyright impacted standard availability
• FO-4 remains open to co-locating meetings
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