Technical Meeting on the IDC Validation and Acceptance Test Plan

Objectives:

The meeting is aimed towards scientists, engineers and other persons who have technical expertise in any of the four IMS technologies, the functions of the IDC and in performance monitoring and testing. The participants are expected to provide their technical input to the VATP and related activities such as the 2026 Experiment.

States Signatories are invited to nominate experts who will provide substantive inputs into these topics for discussion.

The following agenda is draft and may be subjected to changes prior to the technical meeting.  A detailed agenda will be provided to all participants prior to the technical meeting.

1. Update on the Progressive Commissioning of the IDC
2. Discussion on specific comments received regarding the draft of the VATP Rev 6.0 and actions to address them
3. Review draft VATP Rev 6.0 including updates to:
   1. Chapter 1
   2. Chapter 2
   3. Chapter 3
   4. New Chapter 4
   5. Test Implementation Plans (TIPs)
4. Discussion of the next activities to take place regarding progressive commissioning

Meeting outcomes and action items

Presentations

PowerPoint presentations shall not exceed 15 minutes.