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On behalf of the Operators Harmonization Group, I would like to express our sincere thanks to
the two Co-Chairs of the IP CN Harmonization Workshop held recently in Toronto, Canada.
Their professionalism and efficiency was instrumental in ensuring a very successful meeting.
OHG is delighted with the output document (Annex 1) from the workshop. Many operators
participated in the workshop. In our Milan meeting we had estimated attendance of approximately
60 people for the workshop but the final count exceeded all our expectations at 114, - clearly
demonstrating the interest this workshop generated.
In addition to whole heartedly endorsing the recommendations outlined in the output document
from the meeting, we would like to further elaborate the following points:
1. We applaud the recommendation that duplication of work between two PPs should be
avoided.
2. The two Partner Projects should work together to establish a common long term vision
and evolution strategy. We encourage you to consider a joint session on vision and
evolution, perhaps during the autumn of this year. We would encourage you to invite
ITU SSG to be part of such a meeting.
3. We anticipate that, you will create work items in your respective groups to carry out the
work that was outlined in the recommendation of the workshop.
Michael Walker
Chairman
OHG
CC:
ITU - WP8F
ITU - SSG
ITU - Project Manager, IMT 2000
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Recommendations from April 3-4, 2002 IP CN
Harmonization Workshop
The following conclusions and recommendations on 3GPP/3GPP2 IP core
network harmonization were reached at the IP CN Harmonization Workshop held
on April 3-4, 2002 in Toronto, Canada.
Harmonization Goals
Given that considerable alignment has already occurred in the area of 3GPP and
3GPP2 IMS, it was further agreed that 3GPP and 3GPP2 should adopt:
Furthermore, it was agreed that the 3GPP and 3GPP2 should work to ensure:
- Interoperability between the 3GPP IMS mobiles and 3GPP2 IMS mobiles (a
3GPP IMS mobile can set up a session with a 3GPP2 IMS mobile and vice-
versa)
- Application level intersystem IMS roaming (given that the mobile supports the
visited network’s access network and IP transport technology, a 3GPP IMS
mobile should be able to roam into a 3GPP2 network and vice-versa)
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Recommendations
In general, the group agreed that duplication of work between the PP groups
should be avoided and that existing schedules (e.g., 3GPP Release 5) should not
be negatively impacted.
3GPP and 3GPP2 should align the IMS and service aspects of their respective
Reference Models.
3GPP2 should utilize 3GPP Release 5 IMS and Parlay 3.1 as the base for their
on-going development activities.
3GPP and 3GPP2 should establish formal and informal mechanisms (e.g., joint
e–mail exploder) to promote harmonization activities.
3GPP and 3GPP2 should consider routes to joint requirements analysis and joint
specification development.
The group agreed that common mobility management is an item for future
consideration.
3GPP and 3GPP2 should work together on a common evolution strategy taking
into account the vision work in other groups including ITU and IP2 AdHoc.
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Annex A: IMS Harmonization Network Reference Model
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