The Internet Technical Committee (ITC) is active in several areas. It has successfully launched new workshops and symposiums, is providing co-sponsorship for Internet-related events, and holds face-to-face meetings as needed to ensure further progress. For more information, click on the following links:

• Events launched and supported by ITC
• Events co-sponsored by ITC
• ITC Meetings

• Procedures For Technical Co-Sponsorship
• Duties of Technical Program Representatives
• Rewarding Deserving ITC Members

Events Launched and supported by ITC

The Internet Technical Committee (ITC) has successfully launched and established several workshops on topics relevant to the Internet community, including Global Internet, Internet Services and Enabling Technologies, and Network Services and Operation.

Global Internet (GI)

Global Internet (GI) Symposium is the flagship event established and organized by ITC. It is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and ITC. Until 2002, the symposium was held in conjunction with IEEE Globecom and since then has moved to be held in conjunction with IEEE Infocom.

The symposium provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in Internet-related technologies. The focus of the symposium is on experimental systems and on emerging Internet technologies.

Reports from recent Global Internet events are available:

• Report from Global Internet 2006

• Report from Global Internet 2007

• Report from Global Internet 2008

The Global Internet Steering Committee (GISC) members are:

   Joe Touch, Chair/GISC (Information Sciences Institute, USA)
   Kevin Almeroth (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
   Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
   Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
   Dinesh Verma (IBM, USA)
   Deep Medhi, ex-officio [Chair/ITC] (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

Contact for the Steering Committee is Joe Touch.

Internet Services and Enabling Technologies (ISET)

The Internet Services and Enabling Technologies (ISET) symposium has been launched and organized by ITC in 2006. It will be held for the first time in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2006.

The symposium targets academic and industrial research activities that are focused on techniques to improve the delivery of services over the Internet, both wireline and wireless. It encompasses the design, implementation, and management of networked services and applications, as well as underlying protocols and technologies that enable them, including, for example, SIP, P2P technologies, network virtualization, and presence information.

Network Services and Operation

The Network Services and Operation symposium was created in a joint effort between ITC, the Computer Communications TC and the Communications Switching and Routing TC. It will be held for the first time in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2007.

The concept of network convergence was developed to merge different networks into one multi-service network. This concept is becoming real using an Internet-based infrastructure and Internet protocols for transferring information. However, strategic research is still required to achieve the best integration architecture, services and operations management, and service provisioning in both wired and wireless domains. Many topics like network resilience, network and service security and availability, Quality-of-Service, or mobility management in the future network are still widely considered by researchers, network operators, device manufacturers and service providers. The symposium provides the forum for discussions on this and other challenging research areas concerning network operation and services in future converging networks.

Events Co-Sponsored by ITC

ITC is co-sponsoring many workshops and conferences on Internet-related topics, helping to ensure their success and to achieve a high-quality standard. For each co-sponsored event, ITC names a Technical Program Representative (TPR).

Some of the recent events supported and co-sponsored by ITC include:

• Globecom 2010, General Representative
  - Miami, FL, November 2010
  - Yan Chen as ITC Representative
• ICC 2010, General Representative
  - Capetown, South Africa, May 2010
  - Giovanni Pau as ITC Representative
• Globecom 2009, General Conference
  - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 2009
  - Amitabh Mishra as ITC Representative
• Globecom 2009, Next Generation Networking & Internet (NGNI) Symposium
  - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 2009
  - Deep Medhi as Co-Chair
• ICC 2009, Symposium on Next Generation Networking
  - Dresden, Germany, June 2009
  - Ivica Rimac as ITC Representative and Co-Chair
• ICC 2009, Symposium on Communications Software and Services
  - Dresden, Germany, June 2009
  - Lars Wolf as ITC Representative and Co-Chair
• Globecom 2008, Symposium on Next Generation Networking
  - New Orleans, LA, USA, December 2008
  - Marcus Brunner as ITC Representative and Co-Chair
• Globecom 2008, Symposium on Communications Software and Services
  - New Orleans, LA, USA, December 2008
  - Bob Ensor as ITC Representative
• ICC 2008, Symposium on Advances in Networks and Internet
  - Beijing, China, May 2008
  - Markus Hofmann as ITC Representative
• Globecom 2007, General Conference
  - Washington DC, USA, November 2007
  - Markus Hofmann as ITC Representative
• Conference on Telecommunication Techno-Economics (CTTE)
  - Helsinki, Finnland, June 2007
  - Markus Hofmann as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• ICC 2007, General Conference
  - Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007
  - Sneha Kasera as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• ICC 2007, Symposium on Network Services and Operation
  - Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007
  - Burkhard Stiller and Marcus Brunner as ITC Representative and TPC Chairs
• Globecom 2006, General Conference
  - San Franciso, CA, USA
  - Markus Hofmann as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• Globecom 2006, Symposium on Internet Services and Enabling Technologies
  - San Franciso, CA, USA
  - Volker Hilt and Anees Shaikh as ITC Representative and TPC Chairs
• ICC 2006, General Conference
  - Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006
  - Volker Hilt as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC)
  - Bern, Switzerland, May 2006
  - Markus Hofmann as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• Globecom 2005, General Conference
  - St. Louis, MO, USA, November/December 2005
  - Milind Buddhikot as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• Globecom 2005, Symposium on Emerging Technologies
  - St. Louis, MO, USA, November/December 2005
  - Markus Hofmann as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
  - San Diego, CA, USA, October 2005
  - Marina Thottan as ITC Representative and TPC Member
• International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON)
  - Budapest, Hungary, July 2005
  - Arup Acharya as ITC Representative and TPC Member

The procedure to apply for technical co-sponsorship is described here. The duties of a Technical Program Representative (TPR) are described here.

ITC Meetings

The committee conducts most of its business, including voting for officers, electronically. If the need arises, ITC meets at IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, or IEEE Infocom. The last ITC meeting was held on November 27, 2007 at IEEE Globecom in Washington, DC. The next ITC meeting is at IEEE Globecom 2008 in New Orleans on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:00-13:30 in Chequers Room (2nd Floor).

Minutes from earlier meetings:

• Minutes from ITC Meeting on November 27, 2007

• Minutes from ITC Meeting on November 30, 2006

• Minutes from ITC Meeting on November 30, 2005

Rewarding Deserving ITC Members

Beyond the scientific activities, ITC's scope includes nomination of deserving members for awards, promotions to IEEE Senior Member or IEEE Fellow, and for Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. Individual ITC members can make suggestions for such nominations at any point in time by sending an email to any of the current ITC officers. The officers will review each suggestion and support a nomination as appropriate. The current ITC secretary will also solicit suggestions for such nominations at least once a year via the ITC mailing list.