International Telecommunication Union

GSC-9, Seoul, Korea (9-13 May 2004)

ITU-T Highlights since GSC-8ITU-T Highlights since GSC-8

reinhard.scholl@itu.intDeputy to the Director

Telecommunication Standardization BureauInternational Telecommunication Union

www.itu.int/ITU-T

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Outline

1. ITU-T – Best in class2. ITU-T highlights since GSC-8

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1. ITU-T – Best in class

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How ITU-T has changedo ITU-T has undergone dramatic changes

in the last years …o … though not everyone noticed:

o ITU-T is fast• To start work• To develop work• To approve work• To publish work

o ITU-T standardizes hot topicso ITU-T is very flexible & unbureaucratic

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Fast: Starting ITU-T Work

o Old days:• 2 - 4 years

o Today:• 1 day to a few weeks

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Fast: Developing Content and Reach Agreement

o Old days:• 2 – 3 years

o Today:• Weeks to 2 – 3 years

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Fast: “Speedy Gonzalez”Approval Procedure

o Old days:• Before 1988 4 years• 1997-2000 9 months

o Today:• NEW: Alternative Approval Process via

email (except regulatory Recommendations)• 95% of all Recommendations use AAP• Average approval time: 9 weeks

(arguably one of the fastest approval procedures in the market)

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Fast: ITU-T’s Speedy Publication Procedure

o Old days:• 2-4 years

o Today:• Recommendations available on

web a couple of days after approval!(so-called pre-published version)

• Published Recs: 3-9 months

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ITU-T’s Easy Online Accessfor Recommendations

o Old days:• Paper

o Today:• Website, CD-ROM, Paper• Free online access since Jan. 2001

• one free access/member; • 3 free downloads for public

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Flexible: ITU-T Focus Group Concept

o Create forum-like entities as an “arms-length” organization under ITU-T Study Group.

o Goal:• Encourage participation of members

of other organizations / nonmembers• Advance the work of ITU-T parent

Study Group.o Very flexible, e.g.

• Focus group can establish its own rules of approval

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Strengths of ITU-T

o Unique partnership of industry & government

o Truly globalo Consensus decisions guarantee wide

acceptanceo Excellent, transparent, fast procedureso Very flexible to collaborate with fora and

standards organizationso Brand nameo IPR Policyo World-class meeting facilitieso Excellent Secretariat staff

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ITU-T Membership

12/00

Delta 12/01

Delta 12/02

Delta 12/03

Admins 189 - 189 - 189 - 189Operator-ROA

164 +15 179

-9 170 -7 163

Manuf.-SIO 213 +9 22

2

-15 207 -34 173

Asso-ciates

3 +27 30 +27 57 +25 82Other entities

5 -1 4 +1 5 - 5

Other orgs

33 +2 35 +1 36 +6 42

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TSB

Total: 35 (66%)

Teraburst Networks 2

Telchemy 2

Okinasa Photonics 2

Octasic Semicond. 2

Harris 2

ElectriPHY 2

AULM 2

ACCA Networks 2

Telekom Srpske 3

SwissQual 3

Opticom 3

OFS Fitel 5

eAccess 5

Associates (31/53)

Members: 82

Fujitsu 11BELGACOM 11Russian Federation 20

Total: 371 (56%)Total: 282 (61%)Total: 587(70%)

NEC 12TeliaSonera 13Korea (Rep. of) 22

Infineon 13+1+1+1TelekomItalia 13Japan 25

ZTE 21NTT DoCoMo 14Canada 26

L.M. Ericsson 21+1AT & T 14Italy 29

Lucent Tech. 12+9+1+2Telenor ASA 17 Syrian Arab Rep. 30

Huawei Tech. 25Bharat Sanchar Nigam 18 Brazil 31

ETRI 29KDDI 19India 32

Siemens 25+1+5Deutsche Telekom 26France 33

Cisco Systems 34BT 27Germany 45

Alcatel 9+8+2+9+12+2+1China Telecom. Corp. 29U.K. 55

NTT 47 + 3Telekomunikacja Polska 38China 95

Nortel 29+12+12FT 43U.S.A. 144

SIOs(121/664)

Members: 173

ROAs (63/461)

Members: 163

Administrations (65/832)

Members: 189

Top Members participation (2003)

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2. ITU-T highlights since GSC-8

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ITU Highlights

o World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) 1st Phase 10-12 Dec 2003 (+ earlier Prepcoms)

o Council, May & October 2003o Radio Assembly (RA), Geneva, 2-6

June 2003o World Radiocommunication

Conference (WRC), Geneva, 9 June-4 July 2003

o Telecom World 2003, Geneva, 12-18 October 2003

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ITU-T Standards Highlights

o Quadrupling fibre optic transmission capacity (10 Gbit/s to 40 Gib/s): ITU-T Rec. G.959.1

o Fat pipes get fatter through Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing (ITU-T Rec. G.695)

o Novel video coding algorithm (with ISO/IEC) - expected to be deployed in all future DVD players, 3G phones and video-conferencing equipment (ITU-T Rec.H.264)

o Opening up world for interactive TV providers (ITU-T Rec. J.202)

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NGN moves forward

o ITU-T workshop on NGN catalyzes worko NGN-Meetings every other montho NGN working definition existso NGN Project description existso Increasing number of participants in

respective ITU-T Study Group meetingso About a dozen Recs in developmento Consent on first set of Recs in June 2004o Two open (to non-members) NGN mailing

lists

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ITU-T Workshops Highlights

o Telecoms for Disaster Relief, Feb 03o Workshop on ccTLDs, March 03o Standardization in E-Health, May 03

• New Question created; new Rapporteur

o Challenges, perspectives and standardization issues in E-Government, June 03

o Next Generation Networks, July 03• Catalyzes NGN work in ITU-T

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Workshops Highlights, cont.

o Development of a Recommendation to clarify the management of ".int", September 03

o End-to-End Quality of Service, Oct 03o Accessibility II: Communication by all

means, Telecom 2003 Forum, Oct 03o Standardization in telecommunication

for motor vehicles, November 03• New Questions created

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Upcoming Workshops

o Convergent regulation – is it becoming technology-neutral?, 17 May 04

o All Star network access, 2-4 June 04o Home networking and home

services, 16-18 June 04

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ITU-T “Security Manual”

o Some 90 pages; 1st edition Dec. 03o Collaboration ITU-T security experts

& TSBo www.itu.int/ITU-T/edh

/files/security-manual.pdfo Goals:

• Offers a bird’s eye view of the numerous ITU-T Recs on security

• Describes how ITU-T Recs help solve security problems

• Focuses on completed work

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WSIS and Standardization

o “Standardization is one of the essential building blocks of the Information Society”

o “The core competences of the ITU in the fields of ICTs - … standards development … - are of crucial importance for building the Information Society”

(from WSIS Declaration of Principles)

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ITU-T Fosters Cooperation

o 2nd Informal Forum Summit• San Francisco, July 2003• Close to 60 leaders from close to 40 fora

o Focus Group concept successful:• Full Service VDSL- Forum & ITU-T SG16:

• Specifications completed

• TeleManagement Forum & ITU-T SG 4• Set up in August 2003• Goal: To draft ITU-T Rec. on ETOM (Enhanced

Telecom Operations Map)

• OCAF (= Open Communication Architecture Forum) Focus Group – in negotiation

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ITU-T’s CTO-meeting

o Chief Technical Officers (CTOs), 8-9 Dec 2003

o CTO Statement:1. Growing confidence in telecomms industry;2. Convergence of the information, computing

and telecomms technologies;3. Demands for a coherent framework for

standard development;4. ITU in a key position to facilitate overall

framework and globalisation of standards because of its:

1. global reach 2. traditional relationship with telcos and vendors3. links to governments

5. ITU to cooperate with SDOs and fora

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WTSA

o World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly• 5 – 14 October 04• Among major topics: ITU-T Study

Group Restructuringo Cybersecurity Symposium

• 4 October 04o Both events: Florianópolis, Brazil

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Preparing for WTSA

o Final ITU-T Study Group meetings: • finished by June 2004

o Various preparatory meetings – excerpts:• Africa: 23-25 June (Zimbabwe)• Americas: 3-6 August (Paraguay)• Asia-Pacific, 2-6 August (India)• Arab States: 9-12 August (Syria)• Europe: 7-8 Sept (CEPT; Switzerland)

o TSAG 12-16 July

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