Kaleidoscope 2014 ITU's premier academic event in

Kaleidoscope 2014
ITU's premier academic event in 2014 will focus on whether a converged world is possible without standards.

Study Group 16
30 June-11 July, Sapporo, Japan: The next meeting of SG16, leading ITU-T standardization work on multimedia coding, systems and applications.

http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Pages/default.aspx

9-16 July, ITU Headquarters, Geneva: Meeting of SG11, responsible for signalling requirements, protocols and test specifications.

7-18 July, ITU Headquarters, Geneva: Meeting of SG13, leading work on future networks including cloud computing, mobile and NGN.

.....well, we can see the ITU is still working on a converged world w/standard protocol