Technical Specification Group working methods
This document outlines the working methods to be used by the 3GPP Technical Specification Groups and their Working Groups and their Sub-Groups, and by the 3GPP Support Team in relation to document management, i.e. handling of specifications, updating procedures, Change Request procedures, version control mechanisms, specifications status information etc. It complements the rules and procedures defined for 3GPP. This document does not stipulate the details of the internal working of the TSG Sub-Groups. From the Technical Specification Group point of view, a task and responsibility is given to a Working Group directly answering to the Technical Specification Group. In practice, the work/task may be carried out in a subgroup of that Working Group.
1A References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non‑specific.
- For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
- For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
[1] 3GPP TR 21.801: "Specification drafting rules".
[2] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[3] 3GPP TS 21.101: "Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a UTRAN-based 3GPP system".
[4] 3GPP TS 41.101: "Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a GERAN-based 3GPP system".
[5] ITU-T Recommendation I.130: "Method for the characterization of telecommunication services supported by an ISDN and network capabilities of an ISDN".
[6] 3GPP TS 29.501: "5G System; Principles and Guidelines for Services Definition; Stage 3".
[7] IETF RFC 3629: "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646".