Transcript PSC Europe Forum first Assembly Meeting

PSC Europe Forum first Assembly Meeting
21st and 22nd May 2007
in
Chamber of Commerce in Luxemburg
1st day
 Welcome by EU Commissioner
Viviane Reding
 Panel of Keynote Speakers from
all Stakeholders
 Constitution of the PSC Europe
Forum
 Introductions to PSC Europe
Workshops
2nd day
 Keynote Speakers
 Parallel Workshops on Key Public
Safety Communication Issues
 Workshops Conclusions
 Closing and Next Event
 Networking Reception
No 1 of 15 slides
Detailed Program 21st May 2007
No 2 of 15 slides
0900 – 1000 Opening and Welcome
Chairman Latif Ladid, President IPv6
1400 – 1530 PSC Europe Forum Constitution
Chairman K. Harald Drager, TIEMS President
• Francois Biltgen, Ministre Communications
• Jean Louis Schiltz, Ministre Recherche
• Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner
• Jean Marc Nasr, CEO EADS Secure Networks
• Marko Erman, CTO of Thales Communications
• Walter Weigel, Director ETSI
• Opening of Constitution Meeting
• Registration of PSC Europe Forum Founders
• Approval of PSC Europe Forum Constitution
• Approval of Forum Rules
• Appointment of Working Groups
• Administrative Matters and Next Meeting
• Closing of Constitution Meeting
1000 – 1030 Coffee
1530 – 1600 Coffee
1030 – 1230 Keynote Speakers Panel
Chairman Guy Weets, EU Commission
1600 – 1730 Workshop Introductions
Chairman Guy Weets, EU Commission
• Craig Jorgensen, APCO Project Director
• Manfred Blaha, Austria Ministry of Interior
• Jean Marc Nasr, CEO EADS Secure Networks
• Marko Erman, CTO of Thales Communications
• Walter Weigel, Director ETSI
• Chris van Diepenbeek, Chairman ECC
1. Operational Interoperability Challenges
2. Broadband Challenges in Europe
3. Terminology
4. Policy Issues in Public Safety Communications
5. Satellite for Emergency Communications
6. Emergency Telecommunications for Citizens
7. Harmonized Multi distribution of Warning Messages
8. Operational Scenarios
9. Security and Access Rights
10. Public Safety Communication Research
11. Spectrum Harmonization
12. IP based Public Safety Communication
Panel Discussion in Interaction with the Audience
1230 – 1400 Lunch
1730 – 2000 Networking Reception
Detailed Program 22nd May 2007
0900 – 1030 Keynote Speakers
Chairman Latif Ladid, President IPv6
• Patrice Simon, Project Manager Chorist
• Martine Couturier, Project Manager Oasis
• Jim Bound, MetroNet6 USA
• Egil Bovim, KoKom Norway
1400 – 1530 Parallel Workshops Continues
• The Parallel Workshops are chaired by the
different moderators of the same @Forum
discussions
1030 – 1100 Coffee
1530 – 1600 Coffee
1100 – 1230 Parallel Workshops
1600 – 1730 Workshops Conclusions
Chairman Guy Weets, EU Commission
• The Parallel Workshops are chaired by the
different moderators of the same @Forum
discussions
• Reporting on Conclusions and
Recommendations from the different
Workshops and proposed Plans for further
Work
1730 – 1800 Closing and Next Event
Chairman Guy Weets, EU Commission
• Jorge Pereira, EU Commission
• Portugal representative
1230 – 1400 Lunch
No 3 of 15 slides
Workshop 1 on
Operational Interoperability Challenges
Chairman Walter Legrand, EADS Secure Networks
The following issues will be addressed:
• How can the required consensus and strong political support be ensured?
• How can Europe obtain an agreement on different TSO contents (such as event
dictionary, missions, codes, etc)?
• Which organization can assist in building such agreement?
• What other information do users want to define commonly in the different phases
of an emergency and disaster cycle?
• What is missing?
• How does it fit in a global European information model?
• What are the gaps?
• How can US work be introduced, adapted?
• Do the selected scenarios allow validation in line with the work done by ETSI
EMTEL and MESA?
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Workshop 2 on
Broadband Challenges in Europe
Chairman Vania Conan, Thales
The following issues will be addressed:
• What are the key services users expect from Broadband?
• Which scenarios (operational, functional, technology independent) would exemplify
these services best?
• Can we define some common EU picture?
• What are the process/options for influencing the standards/specification work:
• Is it sufficient to use present technology?
• Can we assemble it with existing IT/Com infrastructures?
• Are there scenarios that would be satisfied, others not?
• If new technology is required what should be the role of ETSI (MESA, EMTEL, new
tools?
No 5 of 15 slides
Workshop 3 on
Terminology
Chairman Felipe Fernández, Universidad de Politécnica de Madrid
The following issues will be addressed:
• Public safety terminology and acronym definitions are drawn from many sources.
These include communication technology, information technology, emergency
systems, safety systems and civil protection services. Its terminology has in many
cases developed in an unstructured manner with proliferation into multiple terms,
some with overlapping, alternative, or even ambiguous meanings. This situation
can be a source of confusion to both authors and readers of publications on PSC,
and a cause of difficulty in translation into other languages
• Having gathered and considered all the relevant information, suggestions and
references on this subject, PSC Europe will propose a PSC Europe Terminology
Lexicon, which will be continuously displayed on PSC Europe web-site, and put
before the Forum for discussion and future endorsement
No 6 of 15 slides
Workshop 4 on
Public Safety Communication Policy
Chairman Gordon Gow, University of Alberta
The following issues will be addressed:
• An effective public policy framework is one that will ultimately save lives through
better public safety communications systems and practices. PSC Europe Forum is
an occasion for gathering data on user needs, for technology road mapping, and
for undertaking market study reports. Together, these activities can drive forward a
public safety communications policy agenda that can fulfil the promise of new
technology for the PSC community across Europe and around the world
• The workshop will present a concept paper based on a preliminary review of
published documents by PSC organizations and related policy studies. The aim of
the workshop will be to discuss these findings, to place them in a European
context, and to further specify directions for follow-up research in a Discussion
Paper, possibly under a Policy Working Group. This Discussion Paper would then
provide the basis for subsequent meetings and research activities leading to the
creation of a Policy Roadmap
No 7 of 15 slides
Workshop 5 on
Satellite for Emergency Communications
Chairman Matteo Berioli, German Aerospace Center
The following issues will be addressed:
• The use of rapidly-deployable broadband and portable satellite system (to replace
existing narrowband solutions in the first hours after a disaster)
• The transition of the satellite solutions from the very first hours and days after an
emergency up to the re-establishment of a permanent wireless telecommunication
infrastructure
• Identify the need and developing of telecommunication standards to support this
(e.g. coordination with ETSI SES/SatEC working group)
• Allocation of satellite capacity to be made available to national governments in
case of disaster events, and potentially dedicated European satellite capacity for
this purpose (coordination with ESA is foreseen)
• Support Tampere Convention, assure that satellite activities are in line with the
Convention
• Regulatory and licensing recommendations on the use of satellite and terrestrial
frequencies in case of emergency
No 8 of 15 slides
Workshop 6 on
Emergency Telecommunications for Citizens
Chairman Olivier Paul Morandini, EENA
The following issues will be addressed:
• Standards concerning the geographical coverage of emergency telecommunication service within the EU (i.e.
no black non-covered spots because of network unavailability) as well as the coverage by all citizens including
disabled users. Users should be aware of the possibility or not to call the emergency number from an area not
covered by a network, before entering this area
• Multiple emergency numbers should progressively be abolished and replaced by the single European
emergency call number, like 112. Experience in many EU countries and the US has shown that «one number is
better than many»
• Emergency call centres should be able to reply to calls within a minimal time, to be established as a standard at
EU level. They should be able to handle calls in several EU languages and to transfer calls to the appropriate
(emergency or non emergency) services without interrupting the communication with the caller
• Operators of emergency call centres should reply and handle calls on the basis of commonly established
standardised protocols ensuring the efficient and prompt identification of the emergency and the timely
expedition of help
• Enforcing of caller localisation should be implemented in a transparent way and without violation of citizen’s
privacy, according to EU legislation in force
• Commonly agreed standards at EU level should be established for the maximum arrival time on the spot of the
emergency in urban and rural areas as well as for the quality of help offered by emergency services to the
callers
• Establishment of common indicators for the evaluation of the implementation of the quality standards
established. Periodic evaluations of the emergency call service chain should also be provided for (knowledge,
availability, quality of answering and handling calls, total intervention time, quality of services offered) at
national and EU level by independent organisations.
No 9 of 15 slides
Workshop 7 on
Harmonized Multi Distribution of Warning Messages
Chairman Mark Wood, CEASA
The following issues will be addressed:
• If we want to reach citizens with an important warning message or advisory, we
need to use a method that will be intrusive and all pervasive
• Cell Broadcasting is a very powerful tool for the initial warning, it is pervasive
throughout society and the fact that it rings the phones bell means that it is
intrusive. This is an excellent attention getter
• Accordingly we need to have technical middleware which can distribute authorized
messages over several different systems technologies. However this technology
will need to be programmed with rules so that abuses by unauthorized sources
cannot hijack the system for spamming or cyber terrorism. Accordingly there needs
to be a rigorous regime of ‘Trust Protocol Boards’, stakeholders including
government and network operators, deciding who can say what and where
• The proposed workshop will launch the idea to set up of national ‘Trust Protocol
Boards’, and a network of ‘Message service Brokers’ to administer the agreements
of the boards
No 10 of 15 slides
Workshop 8 on
Operational Scenarios in Public Safety Communication
Chairman Milt Statheropoulos, NTUA
The following issues will be addressed:
• Operational scenarios, in order to have functionality and effectiveness, need to be
relevant to today’s world situation and have to be real tools for those that they
need them most - the end users. They must have technological substance and
strong impacts in improving existing methodologies
• The aims of the workshop will be: to discuss and prepare guidelines for collection
and development of operational scenarios with emphasis on communication
issues, to standardise in a simple, functional and well understood way their
development so as to prepare a library of scenarios with the capability of updating
• The format of the collection and development will be open to discussion. Scenarios
may include events described with strong scientific background, definitions of
participants and their roles, identification of functional requirements and existing
network technologies and solutions in interoperability issues. Running these
scenarios is expected to result in proposals for potential enhancements
• The forum will also serve as a platform for discussion in regard to the
harmonization of different legal systems relevant to disasters
No 11 of 15 slides
Workshop 9 on
Security and Access Rights
Chairman Kevin Robson, BAPCO
The following issues will be addressed:
• Terminology and trust are key disablers to information sharing. But what are the
other obstacles to information access that still exist, and how might they be
overcome?
• Why are security levels non-standard and should they be defined by role or by the
possible impact of an information sharing transaction?
• Who decides?
• Is data ownership still a significant issue, and who is legally responsible for
subsequent action once disparate sources of information are collated, analysed
and new conclusions drawn?
• These questions are not meant to be all encompassing; they merely reflect a small
number of the issues associated with authorisation, authentication, security and
access, which for the most part are being dealt with on an ad-hoc basis by
individual projects rather than through the adoption of cohesive or standard
approaches. To make progress we must identify and own the problem, and
together identify pragmatic solutions
No 12 of 15 slides
Workshop 10 on
Public safety Communication Research
Chairman Adrian Boukalov, University of Luxembourg
The following issues will be addressed:
• Vision of Future Public Safety Communications (PSC) Technology. Industrial,
user, regulator and market perspective
• The key elements of PSC Technology Development Road Map
• What are the most important research issues to be addressed by future
research programs ?
• Integration of Research efforts at European and International levels
• Cooperation between IST projects in the area of PSC
• Do we need a European Technology Platform for public safety
communications ?
• Establishing of Safety Research Initiative (SRI) Work Group and Steering
Committee
No 13 of 15 slides
Workshop 11 on
Spectrum Harmonization
Chairman Jeppe Jepsen, Motorola
The following issues will be addressed:
• Public Safety organisations have limited spectrum set aside for their
mission critical voice and data needs in 380-400 MHz band. National
networks across Europe are either operational or in the process of being
established
• Organisations are now requiring higher data capabilities and access to
more spectrum is a requirement
• Work in CEPT have identified opportunities for wide band spectrum around
380-450 MHz, but is availability realistic?
• Work in CEPT have identified requirements for local area adhoc networks
for Disaster Relief efforts in 4,9 – 5,9 GHz. Is Disaster Relief too limited
an application?
• Public Safety organisations have an opportunity with the digital dividend – can we
agree a way forward?
No 14 of 15 slides
Workshop 12 on
IP Based Public Safety Communication
Chairman Jim Bound, IPv6 Task Force
The following issues will be addressed:
• The IP-based Safety Initiative (ISI) seeks to define the roadmap for the
deployment of advanced broadband applications, related radio technologies and
modern IP-based system architecture. The benefits of IP-based services (and
specifically IPv6-based) are numerous:
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Cost savings in deployment of public safety networks
Proliferation of innovative safety products (networked RFID, Sensors)
Interoperable IP capable networks nation-wide and worldwide
Enablement of Trusted End-to-End IP based Network Security
Enablement of IP based Network Management
Enablement of IP based Seamless Network and Node Mobility
Enablement of Next Generation Network Application Services to Users
Common open standards communication protocol to support multiple
wireless networks configuration and integration (e.g. Sensor, Link, Internet)
No 15 of 15 slides