Government of India
Ministry of Communications
Department of Telecommunications
Telecommunication Engineering Centre
Khurshid Lal Bhawan, Janpath, New Delhi 110001
Dated 04-01-2022
“Revised”
“Notice for Inviting Public Comments”
Sub: Adoption of TSDSI’s 3GPP Rel. 16 standard into national standards by Telecommunications Engineering Centre (TEC) – Inviting the public comments thereupon
Telecommunications Engineering Centre (TEC), Department of Telecommunication (DOT) has approved a policy for adoption of standards of Telecom Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI)/international standards bodies. “Standardisation Guide” – a policy document for adoption of telecom and related ICT standards defines the process of adoption/ratification of TSDSI/international standards like institutional mechanism, process of adoption, maintenance of standards, numbering plan, stakeholder consultation etc.
(Refer the Standardization Guide- https://www.tec.gov.in/pdf/M2M/Standardisation%20guide.pdf).
Telecom Standards Advisory Committee (TSAC) – a Standing apex committee under the chairmanship of DDG (Standardisation), TEC has decided to initiate the process of adoption of TSDSI transposed 3GPP Rel. 16 standard into National Standards in its meeting held on 29th Dec, 2021.
As a next step in adoption process of 3GPP Release 16 standard, all the stakeholders are requested to offer their comments on the TSDSI transposed document. The details in this regard are as given below:
| S.No | Item | Description |
| i. | Adoption of Standards | Seeking public comments on TSDSI’s 3GPP Rel. 16 standard (16.2.0) |
| ii. | Division | Standardisation Division |
| iii. | Date of Release | 04 January 2022 |
| iv. | Date of Closing | 03 Feb 2022 |
| v. | Comments to be mailed to | dirsted.tec-dot@gov.in |
| vi | Document | Document links given in attached Annexures |
All the stakeholders are requested to mail their comments by 03.02.2022 at dirsted.tec- dot@gov.in. It may be kept into consideration while offering the comments that only technical content or the amendments affecting the technical content of standard shall be open for public comments, as per Para 6.2.4 of the Standardisation Guide.
For any query or clarification, please contact dirsted.tec-dot@gov.in
(Deepak Pathak)
Director (Std.)
Telecommunication Engineer Centre
9560907777
To,
- Director (IT), TEC to host the documents on TEC website
- Director (IT), DOT to host the documents on DoT website
- DG, TSDSI to host the documents on TSDSI website
