Organizational Partners (OP)

Terms of reference

The Organizational Partners shall determine the general policy and strategy of 3GPP.

In addition the Organizational Partners shall perform the following tasks:

• approval and maintenance of the 3GPP scope;
• maintenance the Partnership Project Description
• taking decisions on the creation or cessation of Technical Specification Groups, and approving their scope and terms of reference;
• approval of Organizational Partner funding requirements;
• allocation of human and financial resources provided by the Organizational Partners to the Project Co-ordination Group;
• acting as a body of appeal on procedural matters referred to them.

Organizational Partners and Market Representation Partners shall perform the following tasks:

• maintenance of the Partnership Project Agreement
• approval of applications for 3GPP partnership;
• taking decisions relating to the dissolution of 3GPP.

Contacts

There are no permanent officials for meetings of the Organization Partners. A Chairman and Secretary are provided by the Partner hosting the meeting on a case-by-case basis. Discussion takes place electronically between meetings.

Meetings

The OP meets on demand, normally co-located with the PCG.

Link to meetings on ETSI so we don't have to keep updating it.

Meeting documents for the OP can be found here. Link to meetings documents