3GPP Portal (3GU)

You can obtain most information without logging in to the 3GU portal. However, some important functions such as allocating and uploading documents (TDocs) or draft Specifications can only be done when logged in using your On-Line (EOL) account credentials. The access rights you get when logged in depend on your function in 3GPP. The following roles are defined, and these are listed in order of increasing rights:

• Delegate: can see details of Release milestones, can reserve numbers for most types of TDoc and upload those TDocs.
• Rapporteur: a delegate who also has the additional ability to reserve TDocs of type "draft TS" and "draft TR" for Specs for which they are the rapporteur (assuming those specs are still in draft mode, not yet under change control).
• MCC staff member: can create meetings and configure meeting details and import post-meeting TDoc lists.
• MCC work programme manager: can upload new versions of the 3GPP work plan.
• MCC specification manager: can manage many aspects of data stored in the portal's databases, including the allocation of formal TS and TR numbers to new Specs.

If you are new to 3GPP, but have registered to participate in a meeting, you should normally have automatically been allocated a username and password. Log-in credentials will be allocated to:

• 3GPP Individual Member organizations
• Organizational Partners
• Market Representation Partners
• Observers
• ITU representatives
• Guest organizations

Such organizations are listed in article 4 of the 3GPP Working Procedures.

If you believe that you should have been automatically allocated an account on the 3GU portal, but do not know your credentials, in the first instance click on the link "Forgot your password?" just below the login button and follow the instructions. If you have not yet been given an account, click the link "Sign Up" instead, and again follow the instructions. Your account credentials will only be revoked if you leave your employer or tell us you no longer need an account.

At the top of the portal page, the following links are always on view.

All portal information is shown in one of the following tabs.

1. Register for a meeting

Select the meeting tab for the meeting of interest. If you have an EOL account, ensure you are logged in.

Use the highlighted button below;

If you do not have an EOL account, or have forgotten your username or password, enter your email address and click Register.

Step 1 - Personal information

Step 2 - Meetings registration

Step 3 - Registration confirmation 

You must indicate the capacity in which you will participate. The radio buttons will indicate the type and identity of the organization you will represent at the meeting. If you represent an Individual Member organization - the most common case - your employer organization will be shown together with the Organizational Partner it belongs to.

Note: if this page shows an organization other than your employer, you must correct this: either send us an email with details of your new employer.  Any change of employer implies cancellation of your EOL account: you will have to request a new one.

It is possible to participate in a 3GPP meeting representing an organization other than your employer. To do this, on the Instructions page, choose the appropriate 3GPP Organizational Partner from the upper drop-down list and the appropriate Individual Member from the lower drop-down list in the "Status of Represented Membership" area of the page. For example, this can legitimately be done if you are an independent consultant working on behalf of a 3GPP Individual Member, or if you wish to represent a sister company within the same group of companies as your employer.

Warning: If you choose to represent an organization other than your employer, an email will be automatically sent to the official contact person of the organization you select, allowing that person to challenge your right to represent the organization. This email is copied to the MCC project manager, secretary of the group in question.

Please DO NOT register to represent a 3GPP Organizational Partner (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, TTC) unless you are directly employed by that OP or you have explicitly granted permission from that OP to represent it.

If you have chosen to register for two or more meetings at the same time, you will have a separate set of controls for each meeting.

You will be redirected to a registration confirmation page, which will indicate the meeting or meetings for which you have been registered. There is a link allowing you to de-register if you so wish (for example, you have inadvertently clicked the wrong meeting).

You will receive a registration confirmation email for each meeting. It is important that you retain these emails, because they carry important information which you will need during the meeting:

• a link to a page where you can print your badge
• a token which you must use to confirm your presence at the meeting (see next bullet)
• a link to a page on the local meeting server where you must enter the token mentioned in the previous bullet - you are advised to copy and paste it into the box on the page

2. Reserve a TDoc number for a meeting

You must log in to the portal before you can reserve a TDoc number.

Select the "Meetings" tab and identify the meeting to which you contribute.

3. Upload a TDoc number for a meeting

Once you have reserved a TDoc number, you then create it (using the cover sheet pushed to you by 3GU if possible, or the blank template prepared by your MCC support officer).

Your TDoc may consist of just a single Word file, or any number of files of different types.

• Put all your files - even if there is only one - into a single .zip file, and name that file according to the naming convention stipulated in the 3GPP Working Procedures, article 34. This is important: 3GU will reject an incorrectly named file.
• Navigate to either the Meetings tab or the TDocs tab on the 3GU portal and click on the button "Upload TDoc". A pop-up window will appear. Drag and drop your tdoc zip file to the drop zone, or browse to and select it. Click "Upload". You do not have to specify the meeting your TDoc is targeted at:
  • 3GU will upload it to the correct folder on the file server by analysing the filename.
  • 3GU will record the date-and-time each TDoc is uploaded and record this in its database. This date/timestamp is visible in the downloaded Excel file of a meeting's TDoclist, and serves as a means of detecting whether a given TDocas been uploaded or not, and if so whether it should be classified as "late". (Some groups will relegate "late" TDocs to the end of the meeting and there is a risk they will not be treated.)

Note that you can drag and drop several TDoc files and upload them all at the same time. And because 3GU distributes then to the correct meeting folder as a function of their file name, you can even upload TDocs for more than one meeting in a single action.

Once you have uploaded a TDoc, you can no longer change the meta-data pertaining to it.

4. Obtain a list of TDocs for a meeting

There are two ways of obtaining a TDoc list, both involving clicking an icon to the right of the meeting line:

• Click on the list icon - This will open a new 3GU tab in your browser and present a list of TDocs associated with the meeting.
• Click on the "TDoc" icon - This will result in 3GU pushing an Excel file to you.

5. Download all the TDocs for a meeting

You are strongly encouraged to download all TDocs for a meeting to your own PC, rather than open them directly from the public FTP server or from the local meeting server.

You can click the FTP icon against a meeting to see all the available TDocs, but using a browser, you can only download them to your own PC one at a time. To download all files at once - use an FTP client on your PC (ftp://ftp.3gpp.org).

6. Obtain a list of Specs

Warning: the list you obtain is influenced by the Technical Body selector at the top of the window.

Click on the Specifications tab and complete the search box to limit the list to just the Specs you need. Note that, contrary to intuition, if you do not click any of the technology boxes, you will get Specs relating to all 3GPP technologies, not none. The same applies to the other groups of check boxes. Click Search to produce the list.

To the right of each listed Spec is a group of icons. The "Spectacles" icon will give you a pop-up window containing the details of an individual Spec. This pop-up is basically the same as you get if you reserve an individual TDoc according to the procedures above. If you are recorded in the TDoc's metadata as being the "contact person" for the TDoc, and you have not already uploaded it (see above), there will be an enabled "Edit" button which will allow you to change some, but not all, fields.

7. Obtain a list of CRs for a Spec

There are several methods to obtain lists of CRs.

In the search box of the "Change Requests" tab, enter the spec number of interest. You can set additional filters (work item code, meeting, ...) to restrict the search if you wish. Clicking the Search button will yield the specified result. By default, CRs for a given spec are listed in decreasing numberical order (i.e. most recent CR first).

On the General tab of a Specification home page, click the CR icon to obtain a complete list of CRs for that spec.

On the Versions tab of a Specification home page, click the CR icon next to a particular version of the spec to obtain a list of CRs which caused that particular version to be created. Note that if you hover the cursor over this icon rather than clicking it, a roll-oever text box will appear listing the specs in question.

8. Obtaining a list of CRs pertaining to a work item

If you know the precise work item code you are interested in, you can obtain such a list directly from the Change Requests tab of the 3GU portal by simply entering the work item of interest. You can specify the work item code, its title, or its unique id number; 3GU will present a list of items, and you must choose one. But you may repeat the work item choice several times to make a powerful selection of several work items. Clicking Search will yield a list of specs and CRs.