 two weeks at the ITU building complex in Geneva for a consolidated meeting known as a plenary. Member organizations of the ITU-T send delegates to the plenary to represent the organization, and for SG15, several hundred people attend. During this two-week process, there are many meetings, most of them among delegates concerned with a specific question, but there are other, larger gatherings and several joint meetings between questions when the delegates need to work together. Q13/15 normally welcomes about 35-45 deleg- ates at the plenary. The meetings are chaired by a rapporteur and assisted by an associate rappor- teur. The delegates to the plenary submit contributions to the meeting that contain ideas and suggestions and make proposals about new material to insert or changes that need to be made to a recommend- ation. From the number of contributions that are submitted, Q13/15 is one of the most active ques- tions, with well over 100 contributions not unusual at every meeting. During the (very long) meet- ings, each contribution is taken in turn, and the proposing delegate presents the contribution to the meeting. At that point, following open discussion, the delegates in the room arrive at a consensus to either accept or reject the proposal for inclusion-or may suggest further study and consideration. Sometimes the delegates need to work together to refine some proposals before consensus is reached. This consensus will be captured in a working document, and vigorous discussion contin- ues over the lunch table, during the coffee breaks, and at restaurants during dinner. The text from the proposals and working documents are then worked into the latest draft by the ed- itor of the recommendation (each recommendation has one of the delegates as an editor). Once all the contributions have been considered, the process of drafting takes place. For each recommenda- tion, the editor will go through the changes made to the text and the delegates in the room will ap- prove, by consensus, the appropriate language for in