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ITU:
Committed to connecting the world
ITU-T:
Providing the global standards
Malcolm Johnson
Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
France Telecom, 4 April 2008
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ITU characteristics
UN specialised agency
Unique international public/private partnership
Senior management of 5 elected officials
4 year term, one possible renewal
Current management team started January 2007
3 Sectors: Standards; spectrum; development
ITU standards called Recommendations
Provide the basis for much of today’s information
and communications
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Membership
300 Sector Members
125 Associates
191 Member States
REGION
Contributory Units
(sector members and associates)
Africa
4.16
Asia Pacific
41.04
Arab States
17.16
Europe and CIS
54.34
Americas
58.66
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ITU-T Characteristics
Continuous adaption to market needs
Strong developing country participation
Work (mostly) done in Study Groups (13 of them)
Today, 95% of work is done by private sector
Truly global
Consensus driven
Very flexible
Fast, transparent procedures
start work: 1 day / few weeks
develop work: weeks to 2-3 yrs
approve work: average 2 months
AAP for technical standards (= 95% of work)
publish work: couple of days after approval
Common IPR Policy
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ITU-T Structure
WTSA
World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
Workshops,
Seminars,
Symposia…
Telecommunication Standardization
Advisory Group
IPR
SG
Working Party
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QQ
Study Group
WP
Q
WP
QQ
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SG
Focus
Group
Questions: Develop Recommendations
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ITU-T hot topics
Next generation network (NGN)
ICTs and climate change
Bridging the standardization gap
IPTV
The fully networked car
Cybersecurity including identity management (IdM)
Ubiquitous networks
Videocoding and next generation multimedia conferencing
Accessibility
Broadband access
Packet based transport
Fibre optics
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Work highlights 2007
Restructuring of the secretariat (TSB) for increased efficiency
13% more standards published, 39% increase in meetings, 5%
reduction in staff
Free ITU-T Recommendations (3 million downloaded)
The first set of global standards for IPTV
First in series of regional Forum on bridging standards gap
Direct liaison with 3GPP established
ITU member of ICANN Board
Joint IETF/ITU-T leadership meeting
Common ITU/ISO/IEC IPR policy and guidelines adopted
Global NGN standards progressed rapidly (30 Recommendations:
requirements, architecture, OAM, signalling protocols, resource
control, NNI signalling, NGN testing, and security)
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Upcoming workshops
Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change: April 15-16,
Kyoto, and 17-18 June, London
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for ICT
Standards: 21 April, Geneva
Innovations in NGN: 12-13 May Geneva
Joint ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Next Generation Optical
Access Systems: 19-20 June, Geneva
Regional Development Forums: Bridging the
standardization gap: May: Brasilia, Accra; June: Tashkent;
July: Damascus; September: Hanoi
ICT Standards and IPR: 1 July
Speech and audio coding: 29 August
From Speech to audio: bandwidth extension, binaural
perception: Lannion, 10-12 September
IPv6: Gulf, September (joint with NRO)
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Innovations in NGN
12-13 May 2008
Part of initiative to increase dialogue between
academia/ITU
Follows January 2007 consultation meeting
First in a series of ‘Kaleidoscope’ events
Will identify new topics for standardization
IEEE Communications Society technical co-sponsor
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Technology Watch
Technology Watch surveys the ICT environment for new study
topics
Technology Watch Briefing Reports provide an up-to-date
assessment of promising new technologies. Recent papers:
Remote collaboration tools
Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
ICTs and Climate Change
Telepresence
High-performance video-conferencing
Intelligent Transport Systems
Technology Watch Symposium:
Networked robotics, Seoul July 2008
Under study speech technology; lawful interception (LI);
networked robotics;
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Relationship with other
standardisation bodies
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Global Standards Collaboration
GSC 13, 14-17 July 2007, Boston, USA
The mandate of GSC is to provide a venue for the leaders of the
Participating Standards Organizations and the ITU to:
...exchange information on the progress of standards
development…
Collaborate in planning future standards development to
gain synergy and to reduce duplication.
…the mandate of GSC is to provide a venue… to:
Support the ITU as the preeminent global
telecommunication and radiocommunication standards
development organization.
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MoU between ITU and ETSI
Considering:
ITU as the intergovernmental and universal organization
responsible for worldwide standardization of
telecommunications
ETSI as a regional organization
Allows
Each organization to use the documents of the other in
order to advance its own work
Each will also be able to reference standards texts of the
other
Each organizations experts can participate in the others
meetings
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ITU-T and 3GPP
ITU-T participates in 3GPP PCG/OP (program coordination
group/organizational partner) meetings
Iterative process between ITU-T and 3GPP agreed in 2007
Input from ITU-T into 3GPP:
ITU-T can submit requirements on common IMS either
through
a liaison statement, or
through an individual 3GPP membership contribution
Output from 3GPP into ITU-T: specs on common IMS to be
submitted to ITU-T
Strengthening ties between 3GPP and ITU-T
ITU-T invitation to host 3GPP meetings
3GPP as an ITU-T Focus Group?
ITU-T as a 3GPP Partner?
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ITU-T and IEEE
Feb 2007: Mutual promotion of events of common interest was
agreed in February 2007
May 2007: IEEE Global Standards and Developing Economies:
Broadband Access and Infrastructure Seminar, Tunis May 9-10.
ITU-T participation in IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG)
May 2007: IEEE 802.1 and 802.3 Interim Meeting hosted by ITUT in Geneva May 28-31
May 2007: Joint ITU-T/IEEE Workshop on Carrier-class Ethernet in
Geneva May 31-June 1
June 2007: ITU-T welcomes IEEE 802 participants to its
4-15 June SG15 meeting
Formal MoU will be signed May 2008 at joint ITU-T/IEEE
Kaleidoscope event
Joint ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Next Generation Optical Access
Systems: 19-20 June, Geneva
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ITU-T and IETF
ITU-T / IETF Leadership Gathering
21 July 2007
Area Directors and Study Group chairmen
First Joint ITU-T/IETF group formed March
2008 (T-MPLS)
ITU-T and ICANN
October 2007 First ITU member of ICANN Board:
Reinhard Scholl, TSB Deputy Director
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Common IPR Policy
WSC = World Standards Cooperation (ISO, IEC and ITU)
Common IPR Policy based on ITU-T policy
… strongly encourages the disclosure of known patented
technology from the outset.
Allows for companies’ IPR to be included in standards as long
as it is made available under reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions.
WSC also adopted Guidelines for the Implementation of the
Common Patent Policy and a Patent Statement and License
Declaration Form.
Each of the three WSC organizations also has an online
patent database.
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First Global Standards Symposium
To be held day before next ITU World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly (WTSA), 20 October 2008,
Johannesburg
Aims to bring together all standards making bodies
Themes:
Reducing the standardization gap
Improving collaboration
Climate change
Accessibility
Marc Fossier speaking
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World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
October 2008
WTSA sets direction and structure for ITU-T
Meets every four years
Defines the general policy for the Sector
Establishes the study group structure
Approves the work programme
Appoints their chairmen and vice-chairmen
For first time will include exhibition at start
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World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
October 2008
Possible results:
New SG structure with fewer SGs
Over 60% new Chairmen and vice-chairmen
New fee structure
Branding
Resolution on ICTs and climate change
New working methods to include remote participation
New priorities
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Why participate?
Only UN agency dealing with ICT standards
Outreach to 191 countries
High credibility in emerging markets especially Africa,
China and more recently India
Opportunities for exercising corporate social responsibilities
Excellent meeting facilities, convenient location
Open, transparent and flexible
Fast working
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Background slides
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Multimedia
Extension of voice telephony to wider bandwidth (key contribution from
FT/CNET). Examples:
Ubiquitous voice codec – G711.1 – upgraded to wideband – key
for mobile operators
Superwideband G.722.1, embedded variable bitrate codecs
IPTV work in new stage – IPTV GSI – deliverables published in online
compendium
Technology Watch ITU-T Briefing Report on Telepresence
New generation of multimedia protocols: H.325 or Advanced Multimedia
Systems (AMS), taking into consideration security, flexibility, QoS, and
support for mobile devices.
Widely adopted (Apple, Adobe, Blu-Ray) H.264 video codec
New Question on multimedia application platforms and end systems for
IPTV in Study Group 16. Proposed new Question on USN.
Joint Co-ordination Activity on Home Networking JCA-HN
Draft new Recommendation for home networking transceivers
using any metallic media in the home.
Draft new Recommendation G.hnta on home network transport
architecture.
Three new Recommendations providing architecture for advanced
set-top boxes
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FTTH
GPON interoperability demos at trade shows around the world
Upgraded to fibre optic specs to take into account FTTH applications
(G.651.1, G.657)
ITU-T G.984 Recommendation – G-PON
SG 15 looking at energy efficiency in Access technologies
ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Next Gen Optical Access Systems, 19-20 June
VDSL 2 standardized in 2005
IP Interconnectivity
SG 3 submitted a paper, outlining its activities and future work plan on
international internet connectivity (IIC).
H.325 or Advanced Multimedia Systems (AMS), set to replace SIP, H.323
for VoIP etc
Protocol work in SG11
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IP QoS
Recommendation G.1070 gives an algorithm that estimates videophone
quality in terms of quality of experience/quality of service (QoE/QoS)
ITU-T Recommendation Y.1562, may be used by service providers in the
planning, development, and assessment of IP service to check that it
meets user performance needs
IPTV and other multimedia QoS and QoE issues will see increasing
attention in SG12 moving forward
Recommendation Y.111 defines the related requirements and functional
architecture covering aspects such as resource reservation, admission
control and gate control, Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) and
firewall control, and Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal.
QoS classes defined in Y.1541. Each class is designed to support a group
of applications, VoIP, or IPTV for example.
G.1030 - provides a framework of tools to estimate end-to-end IP
network performance for some user applications.
G.1040 - defines a performance metric in IP networks for short
transactions, such as trading of stocks, automated banking, and credit
card point of sale transactions.
G.1050 - addresses Network Model for Evaluating Multimedia
Transmission Performance Over Internet Protocol.
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Mobile
Annex K of Recommendation H.324, also known as media oriented
negotiation acceleration (MONA) addresses the problem of long set up
times for video calls that many perceive as stalling consumer acceptance.
Recommendation - Q.1706 - describes the requirements for providing
‘mobility management’ including authentication, authorization, location
updating, paging and download of user information.
Recommendation Q.1762 / Y.2802 describes the considerations for fixed
mobile convergence (FMC), including the fundamental characteristics,
service requirements, network capabilities, approach, scenarios and the
relevant network environments.
Recommendation Q.1763/Y.2803 goes further into the details and provides
an example of the implementation of the converged service. It defines the
service features, service architecture, and capability requirements of the
convergence service between legacy PSTN and ISDN and mobile
networks.
Q.174X series Recommendations going into the next layer of details
describing operation of existing mobile systems.
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Network Infrastructure
From standards for optical transport through network
management, signalling, performance and QoS through to
electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), architecture and
interoperability ITU-T Recommendations are the invisible force
behind the world’s information and communication
technologies.
ISDN, SDH and DSL are all familiar abbreviations to ICT
professionals and all approved as international standards by
ITU-T.
Pioneering new work in bringing Ethernet and MPLS into core
networks.
Work on passive optical networks (PONs) provides an effective
way of implementing fibre and is a crucial step towards alloptical networks.
Wave division multiplexing (WDM) technology is another
example of technology in which ITU-T standards have played a
key role.
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