[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 4 (Thursday, January 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-33299]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 9399]


Notice of Meeting of the International Telecommunication Advisory 
Committee and Preparations for Upcoming International Communications 
and Information Policy Meetings

    This notice announces a meeting of the Department of State's 
International Telecommunication Advisory Committee (ITAC) to review the 
activities of the Department of State in recent international meetings 
on international communications and information policy and preview 
upcoming similar activities. The ITAC will meet on January 21, 2016 at 
2:00 p.m. EST at: 1300 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20005. The ITAC will 
review the results of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 
2015 Radio Assembly and the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference 
and World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) +10 review.
    The ITAC will also discuss the ITU World Telecommunication 
Standardization Assembly 2016 (WTSA 16) taking place in the fourth 
quarter of 2016, including positions on study program restructuring and 
leadership. The WTSA, the quadrennial assembly of the ITU 
Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), will consider the 
reports of the ITU-T Study Groups, approve the sector's program of
    work, decide the Study Group structure, and appoint chairmen and 
vice-chairmen. At the ITAC meeting, we invite comment from the public 
on U.S. priorities for WTSA 16.
    The meeting will also highlight preparations for the ITU Council 
meeting taking place from 25 May to 2 June 2016 and related ITU Council 
Working Groups. The Council acts as the governing body between 
plenipotentiary conferences.
    Attendance at this meeting is open to the public as seating 
capacity allows. The public will have an opportunity to provide 
comments at this meeting at the invitation of the chair. Further 
details on this ITAC meeting will be announced on the Department of 
State's email list, [email protected]. Use of the ITAC list is 
limited to meeting announcements and confirmations, distribution of 
agendas and other relevant meeting documents. The Department welcomes 
any U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to remain on or join the 
ITAC listserv by providing his or her name, email address, and the 
company, organization, or community that he or she is representing, if 
any.
    Persons wishing to request reasonable accommodation for the meeting 
should contact [email protected] or [email protected] not later 
than January 13, 2016. Requests made after that time will be 
considered, but might not be able to be fulfilled.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:  Please contact Franz Zichy at 202-647-5778, 
[email protected].

    Dated: December 29, 2015.
Julie N. Zoller,
Senior Deputy Coordinator, International Communications and Information 
Policy, U.S. State Department.
[FR Doc. 2015-33299 Filed 1-6-16; 8:45 am]
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