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All standards development work in the ITU is undertaken by these formally constituted study groups. Focus groups were created by ITU-T to "provide an alternative working environment for the quick development of specifications in their chosen areas."
According to ITU-T they are now widely used to address industry needs as they emerge, and when these needs are not covered within an existing study group.
"The key difference between study groups and focus groups is the freedom that they have to organise and finance themselves," ITU-T says. "Focus Groups can be created very quickly, are usually short-lived and can choose their own working methods, leadership, financing, and types of deliverables."
In addition to identifying telecommunications standards needed to support cloud computing the cloud computing focus group is expected to also identify potential impacts in standards development in other fields, such as next generation networks, transport layer technologies, ICTs and climate change and media coding.
Smart grids are likely to use current telecommunication technologies as the basis for control, metering and charging applications. The smart grid focus group will explore this link and the standards needed. It will also look at how smart grid principles could apply to the telecommunication system itself.
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It requested the director of the Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau (ITU-T) to organise meetings of high-level, private sector executives to discuss the standardisation landscape, identifying and coordinating standards priorities and ways to best meet the needs of the private sector.
The ITU has issued draft terms of reference for the focus groups and invites comments by 14 April 2010.
It also published, an ITU-T Technology Watch Report "Distributed Computing: Utilities, Grids and Clouds" that describes the advent of clouds and grids, the applications they enable, and their potential impact on future standardisation.
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