Meeting structure, naming conventions, quarterly plenaries, and meeting pages. Use when parsing 3GPP meeting data, understanding meeting schedules, or working with meeting metadata from 3GPP portal.
3GPP Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) hold quarterly plenary meetings where their Working Groups present work for information, discussion, and approval. The three TSGs (RAN, SA, CT) meet synchronously over a one-week period.
Plenary Period: March, June, September, December each year
Working Groups meet before their TSG plenary meetings to make progress on specifications and studies that will be approved at the TSG level.
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Each 3GPP meeting has a unique integer meeting_id that serves as the primary database key.
Meeting names are inconsistent across years and groups. Do NOT parse information directly from meeting names.
Examples:
SA4#134 - Standard SA4 formatSA4-e (AH) Audio SWG post 130 - Ad-hoc meeting3GPPSA4-e (AH) Audio SWG post 130 - With 3GPP prefixS4-133-e - Alternative formatImportant: Meeting names cannot be reliably parsed. Always use the meeting_id integer from the portal for database operations.
Dynamic pages generated by 3GPP showing all meetings for a group:
URL Pattern: