Standards in the Digital Single Market: setting priorities...

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Case Id: 5ee0634b-353c-4a16-ab17-6139970f7e2aDate: 29/12/2015 15:37:59

Standards in the Digital Single Market: setting prioritiesand ensuring delivery

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Qualcomm is the world leader in the development of wireless technology,

supporting Europe’s mobile ecosystem. We innovate and invest in research

and development that drives the evolution of mobile communications,

underpinning the best mobile services in Europe. We are the world’s

largest supplier of chips for mobile phones and our technology is in all

3G and 4G phones and communications equipment globally. Europeans want

the power of a PC in their mobile device. Qualcomm is strongly engaged

with the European industry ecosystem to shape the new ‘connected world’.

Qualcomm’s presence in Europe includes offices in the UK, France,

Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium. Our

European research facilities in Cambridge, Munich and Nuremberg

undertake R&D in areas including core network standards, interference

management, spectrum engineering, position location, automotive

machine-type communications, context aware computing and computer

vision. We have engineering centres in Farnborough (UK), Hessen

(Germany) and Guyancourt (France).

Qualcomm mission is to continue to innovate and drive forward technology

advances in mobile and wireless communications products and standards

through the significant investment in research and development (R&D)

that underpins the company’s business model, the fruit of which is

licensed to interested parties in an open, fair and non-discriminatory

way.

Qualcomm has been actively involved in global industry wide

standardisation virtually since its formation in the mid-1980’s and is

today active in over 100 Standard Setting Organisations and industry

organisations. Standardisation has been a key component in quality

communication systems that we all use every day.

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Enterprise (not SME)

Is your organisation active in ICT standardisation?YesNo

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*Please indicate the Standard Setting Organisations in which you are active:

Qualcomm has long been a member of the family of SSO’s related to mobile

networks (ETSI, 3GPP, ATIS, ARIB, TIA, ATIS, TTA, TTC, CCSA, TSDSI) in

addition to more than 100 SSOs and Consortia’s, whose standards are

integral to today mobile devices, such as IEEE, Wi-Fi-Alliance and

Bluetooth SIG for connectivity standards. More importantly Qualcomm

actively makes technical contributions to standards working groups and,

for example, is one of the most active contributors in both cellular and

connectivity standards evolutions.

For the upcoming 2 questions see Comment #1 on Q1.10

And if possible:

- The approximate number of person-months devoted to standardisation related activities.

- The percentage this means to the total of your resources.

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II.1 Questions on general framework and problem statement

It is of particular interest to understand if the standards currently under development effectivelymatch interoperability and successfully creating a Digital Single Market. In addition, it isespecially interesting to identify those actions in standards development that could act as asolution for wider industry and public needs, not limited to the specific technologies that havebeen standardized.

Please indicate whether you agree to the following statements and explain your answerbriefly.

Q1.1 - Do you share the Commission's analysis in Part 2 of?this document

YESPARTLYNONO OPINION

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http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/document/2015-39/analysis_10888.pdf

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*Please explain:

- “Voluntary process”: We believe “voluntary process” is a key

component because encouraging and incentivising technology contributors

to take part in standardisation efforts and to contribute to

standardisation activities is critical if standardisation efforts are to

have the broadest choice of technological solutions available. This is

essential to the technical and commercial attractiveness of standards.

We think that “consensus-driven” instead of “consensus-oriented” should

be a requirement and this principle should be strongly recognised (as it

is already in the Regulation (EU) N 1025/2012 of the European Parliament

and the Council of 25 October 2012). In this context, consistency

between different EU and international standardisation instruments is

fundamental. As a general rule, European standardisation policy is

correctly founded on the principles recognised by the World Trade

Organisation (WTO) in the field of standardisation namely coherence,

transparency, openness, consensus, voluntary application, independence

from special interests and efficiency, known as the “founding

principles” (recital 2, Regulation N 1025/2012)

- “Timeliness”: A balance needs to be struck between efficiency

and quality. However Standards Setting Organisations (SSOs) and their

members are generally best placed to understand this balance, given the

technical nature of quality assessment. Where a policy or regulatory

system seeks to set the ‘balance’ before standardisation efforts

commence, this will affect the desire for participants to take part,

especially if there is a sense that work will be distorted by subjective

policy imperatives, or where winners will be ‘picked’ on the basis of

non-technical criteria.

Q1.2 - ICT is assuming a greater role in sectors of the economy which were not previouslysignificant users of ICT. How do you see for the economy, in particularthe role of ICT standardsbeyond the ICT sector?

Very ImportantImportantModest importanceNot importantNo opinion

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*Your comment, indicating a specific sector:

In the knowledge economy, ICT is increasingly pervasive and is now an

enabler for e-health, e-energy and smart grids, e-learning, smart cities

and home and the Internet of Things (IoT) and in the near future will

all be pillars of our connected economy.

The IoT is connecting devices to the network across products as varied

as cars, washing machines, smartphones, as well as connecting the home

and smart cities. This will require large scale interoperable wireless

connectivity solutions, such as 5G. The expected economic growth; mass

markets and job creation, will only occur with seamless interoperability

between devices and services.

Existing value chains and traditional means to doing business are likely

to be rearranged and merged with neighbouring sectors that were formerly

separated. In the near future, therefore, significant effort will be

required to deliver the complex interoperability solutions needed to

mesh traditionally disparate sectors and value chains.

European standardisation, with its proven record of success, will play a

critical role in ensuring interoperability and the diffusion innovative

solutions to the Single Market and beyond.

We believe ETSI is both well placed and well adapted to play a key role

in standardisation for the whole economy, including beyond the ICT

sectors, e.g. IoT and 5G.

Q1.3 - Do you agree that setting priorities for ICT standards at EU level, accompanied by cleartime-tables, could help standard-setting organisations in better organising their work andsupport the Digital Single Market?

YESPARTLYNONO OPINION

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Given the upcoming convergence of different sectors of the economy and

the pervasive role of the wireless ecosystem in ICT, the setting of

priorities can be good tool for governance and may also help to ensure

delivery of new services for the DSM.

The setting up of realistic time tables also helps in delivering on

policy goals. Nevertheless the core principle of inclusive

standardisation is consensus. Consensus can take time to achieve and

therefore a certain degree of flexibility should be applied to setting

up timetables for the development of innovative technology standards.

The existing Multi Stakeholder Platform and its ICT task force is one

mechanism to identify priorities and mechanisms for direct industry

participation and enhanced representativeness. However, these must be

further improved.

As wireless connectivity continues to expand across many industries

(transport, energy, health, housing, learning) leading to efficiencies

and growth opportunities, significant up-front investment will be needed

to develop standardised technology solutions required to support this

growth and to fulfil the objective of the DSM. Since investment in

standards development is majorly fuelled by the industry and the initial

risk taken by participating companies, a direct industry input into the

setting of ICT priorities is key to the success of the future DSM.

Q1.4. - What other steps should be considered to ensure that any such prioritisation wouldenjoy broad support of key stakeholders?

Critical to effective standardisation is to foster an understanding

amongst ‘non-traditional’ ICT industries as to how the process of

standardisation works in practice and the benefit it brings. Many

‘traditional’ industries may be unfamiliar with the form of risk-sharing

involved in standardisation, standards evolutions and/or standards

dissemination approach traditionally used in the ICT sector. Yet these

non-traditional ICT industries need R&D intensive companies to invest in

standards in order to ensure interoperability of services and

applications independently from the brands, e.g. vehicle to vehicle

communications. As such the European Commission could usefully help to

bridge this knowledge gap and foster dialogue and mutual understanding.

See also Answer to Section II.3 below.

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Q1.5 - What would be the most effective instrument at EU level to ensure that any suchprioritisation is taken up by relevant standard-setting organisations? (please select and rank upto 3 instruments)

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A Commission Communication

A Commission Recommendation

Standardization requests issued to EU standard-setting organisations andincluded in the Annual Union Work Programme for Europeanstandardisation

Regulation

Priorities stated in the Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation

No opinion

None of them

Your comment:

Our answer is "no specific answer" as all available policy instruments

could play a role. What is important is the direction given by policy

makers in providing standards participants a level of commercial

certainty, from technology development and contribution to

implementation. We believe that the choice of instrument has to be taken

on a case-by-case basis. For instance the Rolling Plan could set the

long-term vision on the macro level that could then be supported by

policy statements in communications. On the micro level we might need a

different form of instrument; recommendations, to guide more technical

aspects of standardisation; and regulations where national initiatives

need to be harmonised in order to permit implementation (for instance on

public procurement for the Health sector or for transport emergency

systems like eCall).

Q1.6 - What would be the impact of a priority ICT standards plan defined at the level of the EUon Europe's effort ?to pursue leadership in global standard-setting

POSITIVENEUTRALNEGATIVENO OPINION

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Leadership comes not only from first-mover advantage, but from

credibility, openness, predictability, IP protection, enforcement and

market sophistication. European polices should encourage and reward

companies to take part in standardisation efforts and to contribute

their best technologies and innovations (i.e. policies should seek to

attract the right participants, have rules that ensure the best

technologies are proposed and adopted and that there is fair return on

investment). Participants will take part in standardisation efforts if

there is a level of commercial predictability that the project has a

good chance to yield effective results and that there is an opportunity

for effective implementation. Policy direction and purpose is important,

however the search for ‘leadership’ should not be at the expense of

quality or standards evolution.

Q1.7 - What would be the impact of a priority ICT standards plan defined at the level of the EUon the ability of European companies ?to capture new global market opportunities

POSITIVENEUTRALNEGATIVENO OPINION

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We would like to rephrase the question: How does the ICT standards plan

ensure European leadership in the context of Global Standards Setting?

Our answer is the following. In order to gain leadership and capture new

global market opportunities, there is a need to play a key leadership

role in (1) attracting and selecting best technologies, (2) the

fostering of such technology development, and (3) to play a key role as

a first mover implementer. In order for Europe position in Standards to

be enhanced, this can only be achieved if Europe is in the driving seat

in term of (1) definition, (2) development, (3) selection, (4)

implementation. If only one of the four elements is picked leadership

will likely occur elsewhere.

The Plan should encourage participation of non-traditional industries

(i.e. non ICT) such as automotive, transportation, etc. at the earliest

stage possible in the standardisation cycle. Their inclusion from

standards inception is the key to implement the most competitive and

tailor-made solution and capture first move advantage. This is what we

could call building a “tailor-made and holistic standards ecosystem”.

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Q1.8 - Besides establishing a priority ICT standards plan, what other measures could theCommission (or other EU institutions) take to ensure that standardisation plays its role inachieving a Digital Single Market?

See answer to question 1.7

Q1.9 - How should standard-setting organisations best respond to the increasing speed oftechnological development and the integration of technologies in business processes across allindustrial sectors?

A - Regarding the adaptation of existing standards tonew developments:

Regarding speed, SSOs must be flexible and agile enough to not only

develop standards but to ensure their evolution as technology solutions

improve. UMTS and LTE and their various evolutions over the years are a

very good example of this. Given standards competition, if speed results

in an inferior standard, either the market will gravitate to the best

performing standard or other jurisdictions and markets that adopt the

best performant standard will evolve faster and compete more

effectively. The desire for speed should therefore be tempered by the

need for quality. We want to emphasize in this context that ETSI/3GPP

have been extremely efficient in responding to the development and

integration of new standards in various non-ICT industrial sectors, e.g.

LTE-MTC, NB-IOT, LTE eMBMS (Broadcast), LTE V2X (vehicle to vehicle,

infrastructure, pedestrian), LTE Public Safety / D (device to device).

B - Regarding the introduction of new standards for new:technologies/products

There is always a balance to be struck between the cost of developing

and standardising standard specifications and their evolution, versus

level of commercial certainty in term of implementation costs.

Q1.10 - How do you see the involvement of European ICT Standardization experts ininternational standardisation organisations (ITU, ISO, IEC) and global standard settingorganizations (i.e. IEEE, IETF, OASIS, W3C, ECMA international)?

A - The :SCOPE (or LEVEL?) of involvementIs appropriateShould be increasedShould be decreasedNo opinion

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Please explain:

Our answer is "No Opinion". Before answering, it would be important to

have more details and definition on what a European ICT Standardisation

‘expert’ is; their affiliation, technical competence, mandate and

authority, their scope and level of activity (both in terms of time

commitment as well as at what level of the SSO) etc. In addition,

maintaining transparency and governance rules are critical and it is key

to understand in which capacity European ICT experts will be speaking on

behalf of and which organisation they answer to.

B - The :QUALITY of involvementIs appropriateShould be improvedNo opinion

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Please explain:

Our answer is "No Opinion". There should be some criteria to be set on

mandate, level of engagement and objective - especially if such experts

are appointed by the European Commission. Finally we do not believe such

a category should only include technology experts and should exclude

non-European authorities and in particular regulatory authorities.

-- Comment # 1 -- The approximate number of person-months devoted to

standardisation related activities:

Standardisation related activities permeate many activities at Qualcomm.

There are hundreds of Qualcomm employees that travel to and attend

standardisation meetings in person. In addition, there are many

employees that join meetings through conference calls. There is also the

very significant set of researchers at Qualcomm who never travel to nor

attend meetings, but instead spend their time researching new approaches

to solve technology problems for standardisation efforts. There is also

the large number of support staff that are essential to continued

participation in standardisation activities, these people include patent

attorneys, paralegals, program managers and project analysts and

management, to name but a few. At Qualcomm, we assess the number of

people who are directly involved in standardisation activities (i.e.

attending the meeting, making contributions, etc…) to be approximately

4000. However, we consider that essentially all Qualcomm employees are

directly or indirectly involved in the standards setting process more

broadly, given the focus of the company. For example the activities of

researchers, support staff as well as the engineers that are engaged in

the implementation of standards and testing of devices are essential in

underpinning pre- and post-standardisation efforts.More generally we

would point out two articles on the intensity of industry-level

standardisation efforts and commitment; “The process and data behind

standard setting in wireless communications by Kirti Gupta, June 2013”

and “Unpacking 3GPP standards” by Justus Baron, Kirti Gupta and Brandon

Roberts, March 2014

(http://www.law.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/searlecenter/events/in

novation/documents/Gupta_standard-setting-process-3gpp.pdf). These

provide some key data points on the significant firm time investments

made in the process of standardisation within 3GPP, including 1.7

million man-hours spent solely on meetings within (only) RAN 1-5. This

figure does not include any R&D effort spent outside the meetings, which

is where the main R&D efforts occur.

-- Comment # 2 --

N.B. : The Form does not allow to get the same 'Priorities".Our answers

are below. #1 is the Highest Priority.

Domain 1: 5 G --> Rank 1, Domain 6: eHealth and aging --> Rank 2, Domain

7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) --> Rank 3, Domain 8: Internet of

Things --> Rank 2, Domain 9: Smart Cities --> Rank 3

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II.2 Questions on priority domains for standardisation in the Digital SingleMarket

In this section, the Commission invites survey participants to express opinions and ideas onsetting priorities for ICT standardisation.

The Commission has identified 10 domains set out below, as well as a set of sub-domainswithin each domain. Please note that domains and subdomains are interrelated and thatoverlaps are possible and desirable in particular with respect to synergies between differentsectors. Some domains are horizontal and may benefit a large number of sectorialapplications; some other domains are more sectorial and were identified as areas where ICTstandardisation would bring important benefits.

First check whether the list of domains is complete and relevant. If the list is consideredincomplete, please complement it with additional domains that you consider priority.

Q2.1 - Please identify and rank the domains (up to 5) and subsequently subdomains (up to 3per domain) within each domain that you consider a priority. If specific domains or subdomainsare missing please add them.at most 5 answered row(s)

1 2 3 4 5

Domain 1: 5G communications

Domain 2: Cloud computing

Domain 3: Cybersecurity

Domain 4: Data driven services and applications

Domain 5: Digitisation of European Industry

Domain 6: eHealth and aging

Domain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

Domain 8: Internet of Things

Domain 9: Smart Cities

Domain 10: Smart and Efficient Energy Use

Others

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Subdomains of Domain 1: 5G communicationsat most 3 answered row(s)

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Architecture definition

Channel model characterisation for innovative usages (e.g. V2V)

Converged control plane (fixed mobile)

Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

Multi domain SDN interoperability

Multi tenancy and multi technology C-RAN

Network slicing

New radio access technologies and waveforms, including backhaul/fronthaul integration

Resource identification

SDN Northbound interface

Others

Domain 6: eHealth and aging

at most 3 answered row(s)

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Drug identifiers for medical prescriptions

ICT infrastructure for the implementation and delivery of services forindependent living in age-friendly buildings

Interoperability profiles for independent living (Interoperability profilesdescribe specific solutions to interoperability in a specific use casescenario. A profile documents how standards will be used in order toachieve interoperability. Profiles ensure implementers and users that theyare talking about the same solution without having to restate all thetechnical details that establish actual interoperability.)

Interoperability profiles for mHealth apps

Quality criteria for health and wellness apps

Security and Safety of mHealth apps

Semantic interoperability of Electronic Health Records

Telemedicine

Others

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Domain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)


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Access to in-vehicle resources and data

Connected and/or automated driving (Connectivity, Data-Handling,Cybersecurity)

Connected vehicles applications (e.g. Emergency vehicle notification)

eFreight

Service Platforms (for mobility and in-vehicle services) Smart chargingsolutions for electric vehicles

Multimodal passenger transport systems

European Electronic Toll Service

Others

Domain 8: Internet of Things


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Advanced Manufacturing / M2M

Building and Home automation

Energy / Environment monitoring

Medical and health care systems

Reference architectures and related standardised interfaces

Smart cities and communities

Smart living environment for ageing well

Smart farming and food security

Transportation (including ITS, C2C, C2I, automated driving)

Wearables

Others

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*Other(s) subdomain(s):

N.B. #1 is the highest priority. Our Ranking is the following:

Reference architectures and related standardised interfaces --> Ranking

3

Medical and health care systems --> Ranking 2

Building and Home automation --> Ranking 1

Regarding the reference architectures and related standardised

interfaces, there is a particular need for Standardized APIs in order to

enable the sharing of data and communicating events among IoT

sensors/actors/applications.

Qualcomm has business ongoing in several subdomains, e.g. Medical and

health care systems (mainly eHealth) and provide communications

technologies for subdomains such as Smart living environment for ageing

well, Wearables and “Industrial Internet” with several categories

including Water management, Energy management, Outdoor lighting,

Building automation and Transportation.

Domain 9: Smart Cities


1 2 3

Application Programming Interfaces for urban platforms

Urban Indicators

Urban Management System (city planning)

Urban Ontologies (for specific domains (including city objects, geometricelements and themes) or cross-domain)

Urban Platforms

Urban transactions (payments, identification, etc.)

Others

*Other(s) subdomain(s):

N.B. #1 is the highest priority. Our Ranking is the following:

Application Programming Interfaces for urban platforms --> Ranking 2

Urban Management System (city planning) --> Ranking 3

Urban Platforms --> Ranking 1

“Industrial Internet” with several categories such as Water management,

Energy management, Outdoor lighting, Building automation and

Transportation could be also considered as an important subdomain.

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Please answer to Q2.2 to Q2.6 . In your answer pleasefor each of the domains selectedspecify if applicable the subdomains that you have selected.

*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 1: 5G communicationsplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them. We copy the criteria foryour convenience.

Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies

Competitiveness of the European industry

Clear and achievable targets

Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs

Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers


Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 1: 5G

and sub-domains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichcommunications time-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

There is a need to define a new and much more capable platform to

optimally serve a variety of different services, addressing the needs of

multiple industry and society’s needs. The challenge will be to

integrate and multiplex these new services with wildly varying service

characteristics, access priority and reliability. The three selected

subdomains above are key for the design of such new platform.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 1: 5G and sub-domains which you have selected.? Please rank the list below andcommunications

explain your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.

• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities

• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation

• Community Building

• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP

• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.

• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards

• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement

• Other

• No opinion

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*Please explain:

N.B.: #1 is the highest priority.

Developing a pan-European technology vision, which could drive research

and standardisation, would assist greatly. This could include some new

policies to foster technology development as well as service innovation.

Most importantly if businesses are to take the up-front risk of

investing billions of Euros in Research & Innovation in developing the

valuable technologies underlying the DSM and be encouraged to contribute

their best technologies to standards, businesses need to know that

success in dissemination will yield a fair and reasonable return on

investments. The Commission should look at strengthening and fostering

those risk-sharing elements that already make the European

standardisation ecosystem the success that it is. The alternative –

creating proprietary solutions or siloed solutions will lock players out

and will fragment the DSM frustrating the European growth potential.

Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and sub-domains which you haveDomain 1: 5G communicationsselected., and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

It would help to develop and push a pan-European vision on spectrum to

make sure that harmonized spectrum in low, mid and high bands are

identified by 2018 and made available by 2020 for next generation ICT

services. Innovative policies that enable spectrum sharing and lower the

barrier for new entrants to develop and roll-up new services should be

studied and implemented. In addition, our experience from WRC is that it

would be important for the European Commission to work directly with key

other countries in other regions to find common spectrum.

Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?

Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an

organisation/company/institution.

YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion

*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:

Qualcomm is fully committed in leading the research and standardisation

of technologies that will address the connectivity needs for the Digital

Single Market.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected, Domain 6: eHealth and agingplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.

:We copy the criteria for your convenience






Healthcare represents a key economic and societal sector in Europe. The

healthcare vertical is not only critical given its implications for

European welfare systems (particularly in terms of the benefits of

citizens’ and patients’ access to timely and sustainable healthcare

services and products) and finances but also from an industrial

perspective given the importance of the pharmaceutical and medical

device sectors in the European economy.

Clear targets can be set for this vertical related to the transition

towards digitised and integrated forms of health and social care and the

deployment of both in hospital and remote monitoring solutions that can

personalise service provision and help alleviate financial burdens on

the patient and public health system. The market is in desperate need of

these solutions in the face of long-standing budget pressures, a

shortage of health workers and ageing populations.

Given that healthcare is a key Member State competence, policy action at

EU level to create more harmonisation has so far taken the form of

facilitating voluntary cooperation among Member States and coordinating

research and innovation initiatives. While these efforts are noteworthy,

they have inherent limits to what they can achieve. A stronger focus on

European standardisation may help in achieving harmonisation of at least

the more technical elements of eHealth while avoiding more complex

political obstacles linked to funding, procurement or reimbursement.

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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 6: eHealth

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichand agingtime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

While profiles and specifications exist for most subdomains identified,

thanks to organisations such as IHE and PCHA (Continua), widely

different local implementations, or a lack of market adoption

altogether, continue to be major issues. We suggest that the lack of

market uptake can be to a large extent explained by the fact that such

profiles and specifications do not provide national and regional public

procurers with a sufficient legal basis to source solutions on the

market. Official European standards would provide a stronger legal basis

for public procurement. Moreover, issues such as privacy and security

could benefit from further standards development.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 6: eHealth and and the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explainaging

your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

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We believe that set out mandates for the development of European

standards could play a major role in solving many of the issues that

public procurers face when sourcing eHealth solutions on the market.

European standards would dramatically reduce uncertainty and drive

harmonisation, interoperability and market adoption in Europe’s

healthcare systems.

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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 6: eHealth and agingselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

The healthcare domain is a key part of the Internet of Things. As such,

it will benefit from the development of standards for machine-to-machine

communications in the larger sense (e.g. ETSI TC Smart M2M and oneM2M),

some of which will have very similar connectivity needs to healthcare

applications. There will still be a need, however, for standards to be

sector-specific, to address healthcare-specific needs such as EHRs. It

will still be important that sector-specific standards are developed in

a way that is consistent with the larger IoT developments, in order to

maximise interoperability and market uptake.






Qualcomm is keen to contribute to European standardisation efforts in

the area of eHealth. We believe that the best ESO to carry out this task

will be ETSI.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains whichDomain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)you have selected, please explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.







Connected vehicles and/or automated driving is one of the keys to DSM,

as it leverages European automotive expertise and communications while

also impacting many of the other nine domains listed. In short, all

these domains are to some degree enabled by connected vehicles. Societal

and consumer needs will be met by the seamless delivery of mobility and

safety services, from collision avoidance to convenience and even modal

and time choices in transport of people and goods (i.e. the mobile

Internet on wheels). The fundamental enabling elements are to make

common spectrum available, and at the same time foster interoperability

standards. These are the basic tools needed by producers and consumers

of connected and automated vehicles and applications to transform

lifestyles, social good, all the while spurring economic growth.

In our survey response, we have also marked service platforms and

connected vehicle applications as important. Our view is that these are

closely related to, and actually stem from, European innovations in

connected and/or automated vehicles. We repeat our thesis that

enabling, standardized technologies in this domain – and in particular

communications technologies – will spawn the host of other applications

and services. The alternative would lead to siloed proprietary

technologies that would frustrate the development of pan-EU ITS services

and applications.

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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 7: Intelligent

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicateTransport Systems (ITS)within which time-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of fiveneeds/gaps per domain or sub-domain:

Within 2 – 5 years –

I. Connected and Automated Vehicles and Connected Vehicle

Applications

Needs:

(1) Common pan-European spectrum and concomitant interoperability

standards for access technologies and applications,

(2) Public sector interest should be fostered for the development and

deployment of technologies and associated applications for safety,

mobility and environmental stewardship. (Need (2) of public interest

standardisation should be carefully and thoughtfully executed so as not

to dominate connected and automated vehicle application use cases.)

(3) Regulatory climate and standards that enable a marketplace,

innovation and technology export such that Need (2) can co-exist with

invention and consumer applications.

II. Service Platforms

Needs: open market policies and standards for interoperability that

enable service platform development to match the needs of road

authorities and road users alike.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 7: Intelligent and the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the listTransport Systems (ITS)

below and explain your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

*Please explain:


Encouraging individual participation and industry standards and

investing in innovation will engender significant market-driven

advances. Hence, we rank these higher than other meritorious efforts.

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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and theDomain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)subdomains which you have selected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be bestplaced to lead on these initiatives:

For the DSM to best meet its ambitions, those who innovate and develop

technologies, products and services, namely industry, should be involved

in creating many of the enabling standards. Certainly, the public

sector could and should participate to provide inputs on requirements as

stakeholders, but should not be the drivers of technical decisions.

From this perspective, we believe that the most effective DSM standards

in ITS will come from those individual contribution-driven standards

organizations already active in the ICT arena: ETSI and 3GPP, to name

two key SSOs. Consideration should also be given to related industry

initiatives, such as oneM2M (which we believe will be of significance in

ITS) and WTO-level standards organizations, such as ISO. The approach

should be for primacy for those standards aimed at fostering private

sector innovation for consumer markets, with additional consideration of

public-driven standards - rather than the reverse.






As described earlier Qualcomm recognizes the importance of standards and

participates significantly in standards development, often in a

leadership capacity. This is true in the ITS sector, where we have

invested significant resources to support the development and

implementation of eCall. We anticipate continued across-the-board

participation in standards to foster European competitiveness and

consequential consumer, industry and societal benefit in the ITS arena.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 8: Internet of Thingsplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.







Competitiveness of the European Industry. IoT standards will have

direct benefit for non-ICT industries and consumers: interoperability,

comfort, energy efficiency, productivity, healthcare, emergency services

etc.

Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 8: Internet of

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichThingstime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

A lot of proprietary technologies for IoT exist and a number of

standards are being developed. There is a need for consolidation: EC

should push for consolidating efforts in different domains (ITS,

Consumer Electronics, Building/Home automation/eHealth). In many cases a

horizontal platform (aka Service Layer) can be used across different

domains. Data models should be defined in standards for each domain.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 8: Internet ofand the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain Things

your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

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*Please explain:


Mandating ESOs could help, since too many proprietary solutions

currently exist within the EU that will lead to fragmentation. However,

some stakeholders ignore efforts for consolidation, horizontal

solutions. Appropriate partnership of SDOs already exist to resolve

this: oneM2M. There is a need to foster cooperation in order to avoid

incompatible and proprietary solutions. Ensuring consistent use of

existing standards is important to ensure proper interworking when

existing standards are sufficient. Support for R&D should be coupled

with support for contributions to standards, given the benefits that

flow to the public when better standards are created.

Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 8: Internet of Thingsselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

oneM2M (see above), AllSeen (consumer domain), KNX (building

automation), ETSI ITS.






IoT is a critical vertical for the industry.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected, pleaseDomain 9: Smart Citiesexplain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.







Both an open urban platform and exposure to a suite of robust APIs will

assist the industry with achieving significant improvements in

interoperability and allow for the implementation of a Smart

Cities/Industrial Internet developer community. Today’s solutions, in

the Smart Cities/Industrial Internet space are highly proprietary (as

the platforms and application running on the platforms belong solely to

the solution provider). These solutions are pushed on end customers,

such as utilities and municipalities, by incumbent solution providers.

This sets up an environment where the cost of solutions are extremely

high, solutions are a ‘walled garden’ and enhancements, such as new

applications to address new use cases, are very expensive and slow to

develop given the lock-in created.

An open, standardised urban platform and robust suite of APIs will

change the way business is managed (by solution providers and end

customers) and require an evolution in business processes, procedures

and potentially policy. The first of these changes will be the need for

customers, such as municipalities and public utilities, to develop a set

of requirements, defining their use cases and applicable standards to be

followed. These requirements, with guidance of several industry forums,

will clearly state the need for interoperability as well as key features

(security, data transport, environmental, etc.) to address the rapid

changes in technology that are being presented to the community.

Embedded within these requirements will be pointers to specific

standards. It is anticipated that gaps in standards will be identified

by industry and forums. Qualcomm is already looking at these gaps and

plans to address them with specific contributions over the coming months

and years. Many of these anticipated gaps are due to the fact that many

of incumbent systems and solutions are based on product architectures

and technologies that are inefficient - and more than 30 years old.

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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 9: Smart

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichCitiestime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

At this time, the major gaps that exist are within the area of

requirements, rather than standards because existing solutions in the

verticals of water, electric grid, transportation (not automotive),

building efficiency and automation rely on requirements that have been

established and set forth by solution providers, rather than by end

customers. The areas that need to be addressed are:

• Interoperability between verticals (e.g. water, electric grid,

gas, oil, transportation)

• Interoperability within verticals (e.g. multiple solutions

within water or oil)

• Device Management: It is anticipated that the number of new

devices (i.e. sensors) that will be on-boarded will be orders of

magnitude greater that what municipalities and cities have seen in the

past. This will drive a radical evolution of technologies, processes

and procedures to discover, configure, secure and manage these new

resources/assets.

• Security: At numerous levels including data and information

security, device security, data and information integrity.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the andDomain 9: Smart Citiesthe subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

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*Please explain:

N.B. : The Form does not allow to get the same 'Priorities".

Our answers are below. #1 is the Highest Priority.

- Mandating European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) for fast

delivery of standards/technical specifications. --> Rank 4

- Foster cooperation among standards development organisations for ICT

priorities --> Rank 2

- Support Research & Innovation projects to contribute to

standardisation --> Rank 4

- Community Building --> Rank 1

- Support creation of public-private partnerships - PPP --> Rank 6

- Increase strategic coordination of ICT standardisation at EU level -->

Rank 5

- Ensure consistent application of existing standards --> Rank 1

- Accelerate the identification of ICT technical specifications most

commonly used for their reference in public procurement --> Rank 3

- Other, Mandating ESO minimum requirements, across the industry, to

ensure a common set of requirements are driving the needs areas

described above in 2.3. --> Rank 1

The central premise here is the need to have industry customers

(utilities companies and municipalities) take more responsibility for

defining solution requirements. This can happen with some assistance by

the ESO (joint industry development of a common set of base

requirements) plus strong collaboration/coordination within the industry

via well-defined industry forums. The forums should address the needs

of specific verticals (forums in water, oil, gas, electric grid,

transportation, etc.) and also have working groups that coordinate

across vertical value chains. Especially with municipalities

implementing technologies to enhance the ‘smartness’ of their cities,

municipalities can no longer afford to operate their verticals in a

‘siloed’ fashion and must enhance their cross vertical cooperation and

interoperability. This fundamental change in business process and

structure will allow solutions to provide their greatest benefits and

enhancements in terms of efficiencies gained in capital expenditures,

operating expenditures and the realization of new service revenue

opportunities.

Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 9: Smart Citiesselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

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There is a strong need for harmonised standards in the smart cities

domain.

II.3 Other Comments

Other comments:

-- Comment # 3 --

The mobile evolution has transformed into a digital revolution. By 2020,

people and the objects around them at home, at work and in transit will

be connected to networks and to each other, through vastly faster, more

robust and more secure wireless communications.

Tremendous diversity of industries will get connected ranging from

automotive, to healthcare and electricity, to cities infrastructure and

agriculture. Extremely dense and reliable networks and technology

standards enabling them will be needed.

Users will be at the centre of this digital revolution and the results

will be astonishing. Intensive investments in networks, open standards

for technology and wireless spectrum optimization will be required in

order to create a world-class communication infrastructure for Europe

and enable the growth of smart, efficient and globally competitive

applications and services.

The Digital Single Market is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to put

Europe in the driving seat to define and shape the next digital era.

Turning the DSM into reality requires very significant investment in

fundamental innovation and quickly evolving networks. Continuing upfront

investments in R&D and infrastructure throughout the industry is needed

to strengthen connectivity, boost data speed, tighten security, build

robust networks and enhance consumers’ experience. And such investment

will be needed on a rolling bases to improve, evolve and optimize these

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networks. Companies in the mobile industry invested $1.8 trillion in

capital expenditure and R&D from 2009 through 2013, and, worldwide, to

meet the expected demand in connections they will need to invest

approximately $4 trillion in R&D and capital expenditure worldwide. The

world region that facilitates those investment first will gain the most

from it.

This is why we encourage the European Commission to adopt policies that

promote innovation and reward investment in in standardisation that

brings all industry players together for the sake of efficient

interoperability that benefits consumers and promotes competition.

Europe needs to create an expectation that the investors and companies

creating innovative technologies and networks roll-outs can earn and

retain reasonable returns if their investment succeed. And Europe needs

to discourage free riding on those investments, as this will reduce the

incentives to ongoing investments. Tactics to free-ride those

investments will impact the whole of Europe’s ecosystem and its value

chain.

Indeed, a coherent intellectual property rights framework, based on a

high quality patent system, allows the inventor to seek to commercialize

the technology and, if successful, to earn returns on their efforts and

ingenuity. In a standards context this is requires FRAND-based IPR

policies that have proved flexible in ensuring technology dissemination

and encouraging re-investment in the next generation of technologies.

When others are allowed to “free-ride” – profiting from the invented

technologies without paying for them – the European innovation suffers

and its value chain diminishes. The key asset of innovators, and in

particular smaller players, is their ideas, their technology. If they

cannot get a return on investment, their ability to do business, attract

venture capital, grow and create jobs is fundamentally weakened. To

foster innovation, it is critical to maintain strong patent protection

and enforcement and prevent devaluation and erosion of patent-protected

inventions. As such European standardisation policy should continue to

promote FRAND-based IPR policies that continue to encourage

contributions to standards, avoiding one-size-fits all definitions,

especially given the flexibility that FRAND licensing provides in the

ensuring the dissemination of the multitude of standards, sector and

business models involved in fulfilling the DSM.

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