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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:21:18 pm by LawrenceDoliveiro Revert
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 ITU specifications are horrible to read, they refer all over the place to each other, and feel like they should be read by a computer. Thing is, many of them are designed to be parsed by an [ASN.1] parser. 
  
 ITU-T standards currently in force are freely downloadable from [here|http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC/e]. 
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+The ITU-T standards all start with a letter a dot and some numbers:  
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+<?plugin OldStyleTable  
+|^__Letter__|^__Meaning__|  
+|A|Organization of the work of ITU-T  
+|B|Means of expression: definitions, symbols, classification  
+|C|General telecommunication statistics  
+|D|General tariff principles  
+|E|Overall network operation, telephone service, service operation and human factors  
+|F|Non-telephone telecommunication services  
+|G|Transmission systems and media, digital systems and networks  
+|H|Audiovisual and multimedia systems  
+|I|Integrated services digital network  
+|J|Cable networks and transmission of television, sound programme and other multimedia signals  
+|K|Protection against interference  
+|L|Construction, installation and protection of cables and other elements of outside plant  
+|M|TMN and network maintenance: international transmission systems, telephone circuits, telegraphy, facsimile and leased circuits  
+|N|Maintenance: international sound programme and television transmission circuits  
+|O|Specifications of measuring equipment  
+|P|Telephone transmission quality, telephone installations, local line networks  
+|Q|Switching and signalling  
+|R|Telegraph transmission  
+|S|Telegraph services terminal equipment  
+|T|Terminals for telematic services  
+|U|Telegraph switching  
+|V|Data communication over the telephone network  
+|X|Data networks and open system communications  
+|Y|Global information infrastructure and Internet protocol aspects  
+|Z|Languages and general software aspects for telecommunication systems  
+?>  
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+Some well known standards:  
+;G.992: The [ADSL] protocol standards  
+;[H.323]: Video conferencing over packet radios  
+;V.''xx'': Various modem standards  
+;X.500: The world wide directory service (DAP). It never took off, but [LDAP] is a direct descendant.  
+;X.509: Public key Certificates, often used for [SSL].  
+;X.25: An old packet switched network.  
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+CategoryStandards