Aims

The Aims of the Committee are:

1. to promote the international exchange of information related to communication systems;
2. to bridge gaps existing between users, telecommunication operators, service providers, and computer and equipment manufacturers;
3. to establish working contracts with international bodies concerned with data communication, such as ITU, ETSI, ISO, IEEE, IETF, ACM and ITC.

Scope

The Scope of its work includes all aspects of communication systems, such as research on and design, manufacture and operation of products, systems, concepts and architectures related to information exchange.

Some examples of areas of special interest are:

• Work fostering the development of standards;
• Formal protocol specification and verification techniques;
• National and international communication networks;
• Local and wide area communication networks;
• Integrated services digital networks;
• Network management;
• Distributed computing and information interchange between data bases within a network of computers;
• Application of communication systems in the office and manufacturing area;
• Communications tools and communication services;
• Promotion of existing and innovative communication concepts both in developing countries and in developed countries;
• Teleservice architectures;
• Multimedia communications;
• New applications, e.g. electronic commerce.

Please also refer to the new IFIP TC6 Digital Library under IFIP DIgital Library (still under construction).

PS: As of May 2009, the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) has decided to no longer co-sponsor conferences nor workshops (co-) organized by ICST (The Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).