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One of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) responsible for coordinating standards for telecommunications and Information Communication Technology, such as: X.509 for cybersecurity Y.3172 and Y.3173 for machine learning H.264/MPEG-4 AVC for video compression between its Member States, Private Sector Members, and Academia Members. The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), the sector’s governing conference, convenes every four years. ITU-T has a permanent secretariat called the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), which is based at the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. primary function: The ITU-T mission is to ensure the efficient and timely production of standards covering all fields of telecommunications and Information Communication Technology (ICTs) on a worldwide basis, as well as defining tariff and accounting principles for international telecommunication services.[2] The international standards that are produced by the ITU-T are referred to as “Recommendations” (with the word capitalized to distinguish its meaning from the common parlance sense of the word “recommendation”), as they become mandatory only when adopted as part of a national law. Since the ITU-T is part of the ITU, which is a United Nations specialized agency, its standards carry more formal international weight than those of most other standards development organizations that publish technical specifications of a similar form.[3] history: french govt, conf in paris 1865, initiqates ITU…
