On Sept 23^rd – 24^th, 2021, the fifth meeting of the Requirements and Standards Group of SparkLink Alliance was successfully held in Chengdu. More than 60 experts from the 30 alliance members attended the meeting.

Ge Yuming (Group Leader), Vice Director of IOV and Smart Transportation Department of CAICT, Yang Hong (Joint Group Leader), from CESI, and Wu Hanbing (Deputy Group Leader), a senior engineer at CATARC, jointly presided over the meeting.

Ge Yuming (Director)

Yang Hong (Director)

Wu Hanbing (Senior Engineer)

First of all, the Secretariat introduced the establishment and release plan of SparkLink Release 1.0. The experts discussed the progresses of the 11 standards of Release 1.0 (including system architecture, access layer, basic service layer, and test specifications), being developed by the Requirements and Standards Group, and the exposure draft. Finally, the latest developments of SparkLink industry white paper were reviewed.