Hello Joe On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:51:23 EDT, j...@aol.com wrote:
> I have been told that the draft standard proposes making with ITU K.21 > compliance mandatory for modems, although I suspect this is not true. I can not > read the Japanese text, but I do see many references to various DSL standards. I > do not see any reference to K.21. As it turns out, the two documents are > posted at the following URLs: > > http://www.soumu.go.jp/s-news/2003/030617_5.html > > http://www.soumu.go.jp/s-news/2003/pdf/030617_5_a.pdf > > I am hoping that some group members who can read Japanese could briefly check > these two documents on the web and answer a few questions for me: > > 1) What is the subject matter of these two documents? The former is a cover letter for the latter, requesting to send comments to the draft amendment. The latter describes a draft amendment to the regulatory requirements to the telecommunication terminals. > 2) What is the "Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and > Telecommunications" (on whose web site these are posted), and how does this > organization relate to JATE? It is the ministry which governs telecommunications. JATE is one of the organizations which is appointed to evaluate compliance of telecommunication terminals. > 3) Is this a draft regulatory standard or a draft industry standard? It is a draft amendment to the current regulatory standard. > 4) Is there any indication that compliance with ITU K.21 may become mandatory > in Japan? I'm not familiar with K.21, but the document says nothing about K.21. Majour changes proposed in the draft are: - minor modification of isolation registance/withstanding voltage requirements for telecommunication terminals - new requirements for mobile packet terminals - modification of requirements for ADSL/SSDSL terminals - modification of requirements for cable modems Regards, Tom Tomonori Sato <vef00...@nifty.ne.jp> URL: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/ This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: emc_p...@symbol.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
