1. TR41-13-08-010-L Virtual meeting August 23,, 2013 The document to which this cover statement is attached is submitted to a Formulating Group or sub-element thereof of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6.4.1-6.4.6 inclusive of the TIA Engineering Manual dated March 2009, all of which provisions are hereby incorporated by reference. DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO: TR-41 Engineering Committee

2. Overview TR-41 Performance and Accessibility for Communications Products new name approved by TSSC July 18 (PR sent) ANSI Special audit – EM TG (Steve Whitesell) Auto press releases (project initiation/scope and justification/stakeholders and publication authorization form) Registration/Upcoming events in Beta FTP site update in Beta – 1 password per committee Lyris list merger in Beta Membership documentation Clean-up last step Meeting documentation reminders – 24days/2weeks/6 weeks Ballot reminders – members - open/15days/5days/day of closing -chair-5days/day of –vote summary Ballot administration Clean-up TIA-4953 Logo Marketing campaign (Jim Bress) Events Onboarding (09/2012) Offboarding emails (03/2013) Smart Grid – update for TR-41.7 TR-41 survey RERC call cancelled (panel on accessibility/survey on mobile technology for hard of hearing users; survey of user needs; survey on emergency communications and ppl with disabilities) Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

3. Engineering Manual Timeline Working Timeline Week of March 11 –Fred will issue a “Call for Interested Parties” to join the Engineering Manual Ad Hoc in order to collect willing participants to the work involved [Completed] March 26 th (1-2PM) EM Ad hoc web conference to kick off the revision program April 9 th EM Ad hoc meeting TIA HQ for document split review and first rough draft preparation May 21 st TC and TSSC Preview web conference of rough draft of EM6 June TC and TSSC Review of Changes from previous review July 1 st – Circulate draft documents and solicit comments from TSSC July 18 th and TC July 30 th August 4 th – BOD meeting September – if needed TC and TSSC Review of Changes from TSSC/TC calls October 1 st – Circulate draft documents and solicit comments from TSSC Week of Oct21 TSSC and TC web conferences – Objective to approve documents in this cycle Nov 3 rd – BOD meeting Nov 11 th – Preparation for submission to ANSI Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

4. Lyris list clean-up 06/24/2013 Dear leadership, Thank you for your assistance and patience during the lyris list clean-up project – TIA membership database merger. Within last month I updated 627 entries for TR-8, TR-41 and TR-14 engineering committee and its active formulating groups. Once all TIA managers complete their committee clean-up the merger project will be initiated. Process-wise nothing will change for you. You will continue to use tr8@tiacomm.org; tr41@tiacomm.org and tr14@tiacomm.org as a mailing list for your committees.tr8@tiacomm.orgtr41@tiacomm.org tr14@tiacomm.org However, as the process is changing on internally here at TIA, your lists will be more accurate. I will go over details at the upcoming face-to-face leadership meeting. Thank you for your support and investment in growing the future of TIA Engineering Standards development! Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

5. Membership Documentation Clean-up Updates at TR-41 meetings in Orlando, FL (February 2013) Updates at TR-41 meetings in Santa Cruz, CA (April 2013) -Removal of retired/deceased/no longer active participants (Offboarding) -Update of position codes of active participants -Onboard paying members in good standing Timeframe / benefits for this project: Lyris list merger Accurate reporting of active members in good standing w/TIA Active members identified and contacted Inactive participants removed from the committee Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

6. Ballot Administration Clean-up TIA staff performed a ballot clean-up project. We compared vote options report against TIA membership database. TIA removed 24 individuals off the TR-41 ballot list: not eligible to vote, individuals linked to wrong committee, merged duplicate records (i.e. US Department of Homeland Security/ Homeland Security) Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

7. TIA-4953 Logo Marketing Campaign Marketing campaign: HLAA conference Portland OR 2013 http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/4953-license-agreementhttp://www.tiaonline.org/standards/4953-license-agreement -June 27, 2013 Demo Presentation by Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA); 'Standards Enabling Hearing Accessibility: Developments and Trends' by Brian Scarpelli (TIA); Tony Jasionowski (Panasonic); James R Bress (AST Technology Labs Inc). Demo presentation guides you through the history of standards TIA-1083-A and explains how TIA-4953 will affect you. -Presentations and pictures from TEDPA and TIA were added to the site -Zina Jawadi (HLAA) re-posted TIA’s info about HLAA on FB: https://www.facebook.com/hearinglosscahttps://www.facebook.com/hearinglossca TIA -article was added to the quarterly Innovative Standards July 2013 -https://www.tiaonline.org/standards/innovating-standards-newsletter-july-2013https://www.tiaonline.org/standards/innovating-standards-newsletter-july-2013 -Paragraph about TIA-4953 added to TIA Strategic InitiativesTIA Strategic Initiatives -TIA-4953 page was developed under TR-41 site -http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/4953-license-agreementhttp://www.tiaonline.org/standards/4953-license-agreement -Mass email was sent to targeted audience (5,029 subscribers) on 07/09/2013 -Interview with Jim Bress about TIA-4953 http://www.tianow.org/videos/tias-amplified-telephone- standard/12578/http://www.tianow.org/videos/tias-amplified-telephone- standard/12578/ Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

8. Events HLAA 2013- Portland, OR: TIA is holding a panel on our accessibility standards work on Thursday, June 27. Tony J. and Jim B.; Brian S. (TIA) will be included on this panel. HLAA 2013- TIA-2013 –National Harbor MD – October 8- 10,2013 code: ECP13 TIA-2013 TR-41 meeting at TIA HQ November 4-8, 2013 – Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn, Arlington VATIA HQ Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org

9. TR-41 ICT survey Survey went out to 647 email addresses, with 47 bounce backs or denials, so realistically 600 received the survey; 2 asked to be removed from the mailing list; 1 responded to the survey Distributed twice – sales 1x, standards 1x Marianna Kramarikova mkramarikova@tiaonline.org