During May 7–11, 2007, the fourth meeting of the ITU-T (The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector) IPTV FG made it clear that the AVS1 became one of the standards available for IPTV selection ranked with MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1. On June 4, 2013, the AVS1 video part was issued by the most influential academic organization IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in the field of international electronic information, with Standard Number IEEE1857-2013, marking that the AVS series of standards made an important step on the internationalization road.