Transcript GSC11_open_08 ATIS PSO Presentation

SOURCE:
ATIS
TITLE:
ATIS -- Current and Future Work
AGENDA ITEM:
GSC11/OPENING; 4.3
CONTACT:
Susan Miller ([email protected])
GSC11_OPEN_08
Alliance for
Telecommunications Industry
Solutions (ATIS) -Current and Future Work
Standards that Drive the
Business of Communications
Susan Miller
ATIS President & CEO
1200 G Street, NW, #500
Washington, DC 20005
+1 202-434-8828
e-mail: [email protected]
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In Brief...
 Established in 1983, ATIS is a United States based body
that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting
technical and operations standards for the
communications and related information technologies
industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open
approach.
 ATIS’ member companies and committee participants
represent a wide cross section of the global
communications industry.
 350+ member companies.
 22 industry standards committees and forums with 1100+ participants.
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In Brief...
 ATIS takes a market-driven approach to standards
development.
 Priorities are established by:
 the ATIS Board of Directors
 the Technology and Operations (“TOPS”) Council
 the Chief Information Officers’ (“CIO”) Council
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ATIS Technology and Operations
(TOPS) Council
 Established in 2003 as a Standing Committee of the
ATIS Board of Directors.
 Identifies the industry’s most urgent technical and
operational priorities.
 Establishes industry Work Plans for needed priority
standards work.
 Coordinates priority work in ATIS and among
appropriate industry standards groups.
 Provides industry oversight for the successful
execution of the priority work, and the creation of endto-end solutions.
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ATIS Next Generation Network
(NGN) Activities
 In 4Q2004, ATIS released the ATIS NGN Framework,
Part I: NGN Definitions Requirements and
Architecture.
 April 2005, ATIS NGN Focus Group and ETSI TISPAN
held a workshop to ensure a consistent and aligned
definition and description for NGN and to eliminate
redundant efforts.
 In 2Q2005, ATIS completed the ATIS NGN Framework,
Part II: NGN Roadmap 2005.
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ATIS NGN Activities (cont’d)
 Conducted “gap analysis” around the required service
enablers (i.e., identify what additional work needs to be
completed for timely development of enablers), starting
with the highest priority enablers.
 Standards activities are well underway on the majority
of the enablers in various ATIS committees and external
organizations.
 March 2006, ATIS and ITU-T co-hosted an NGN
Workshop, with an emphasis on NGN requirements and
standards objectives from a North American
perspective and the relationship of these with the
global standardization work of the ITU-T.
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ATIS NGN Activities (cont’d)
 May 2006, ATIS completed the ATIS NGN Framework,
Part III: Standards Gap Analysis. Work items are
assigned to key ATIS committees to:
 Expand current development efforts to include key items found,
and/or
 Contribute to or coordinate with external groups on current
activities.
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ATIS IPv6 Task Force
 The ATIS TOPS Council formed the IPv6 Task Force in
response to the United States government’s deadline of
June 2008 as the date by which all agencies’
infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6
(native IPv6 or dual-stack).
 ATIS TOPS Council agreed that industry (as
represented by ATIS member companies) would be well
served by assessing the various aspects of IPv6 and
communicating a consensus view on aspects of
deployment, transitioning, and drivers.
 May 2006, IPv6 Task Force released its findings entitled,
ATIS Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6): Report &
Recommendation, May 2006.
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ATIS IPv6 Task Force (cont’d)
 Findings/Issues (challenges facing transition to IPv6):
 Cost
 Security
 Network Address Translation (NAT)
 Impact to Existing Networks
 Impact to Current Business Strategies and Timelines
 Need to address challenges via development of an IPv6
Roadmap. Work has been launched.
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ATIS IPTV Interoperability
Forum (IIF)
 Initiated by the ATIS TOPS Council and created in June
2005 to resolve issues that may impede adoption of
IPTV.
 Mission: Enable the interoperability, interconnection, and
implementation of IPTV systems/services by developing ATIS
standards and facilitating related technical and operational
activities. Provides a venue for interoperability activities.
 Assesses IPTV issues in the context of the NGN
directions.
 Two publications released May 2006.
 Aggressively addressing defined work program and
highest priorities to provide leadership on IPTV
standards development.
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ATIS IPTV Interoperability
Forum (IIF) (cont’d)
 The IIF has established four task forces to carry out the initial IIF
work requirements. These task forces and their requirements are:
 IPTV Architecture Task Force
• Establish functional requirements for IPTV architecture, an IPTV
architecture reference model, and a roadmap for specification development
and architecture specifications.
 Digital Rights Management Task Force:
• Establish requirements and specifications for interoperability between DRM
systems, middleware, and terminal equipment.
 Quality of Service Metrics Task Force:
• Identify and define metrics, measurement points and methodologies
required to establish Quality of Service (including quality of experience) for
the IPTV application.
 Testing and Interoperability Task Force:
• Establish test plans and promote interoperability activities for IPTV
components and systems.
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ATIS TOPS Council – Next Priorities
 ATIS TOPS Council is identifying the next set of priorities:
 Wireless-Wireline Convergence*
 Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTx)*
 Broadband Services (e.g., Generic User Profiles, Video
Services over IMS)*
 NGN Identity Management
 Service Capabilities Interaction Manager (e.g., Service
Blending, Web Service Blending)
 Next-Gen WiFi (e.g., WiMAX)
 Priority Access for IP
 Out of Band Signaling for Public IP-enabled NGN
 Carrier/Infrastructure ENUM
 Protection of Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI)
 Next-Gen 9-1-1 Evolution and Sub-issues
 Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL)
* Work Launching Now
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ATIS CIO Council
 Established in 2004 and comprised of CIOs
from service providers represented on the ATIS
Board of Directors, the ATIS CIO Council’s
mission is to:
 identify and discuss IT issues of common interest that
are challenging the industry;
 frame, coordinate, and advance solutions to these
common IT issues; and
 provide perspective and direction to the development of
industry standards, guidelines, and best practices.
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ATIS CIO Council (cont’d)
 Initial role was to lead an analysis by the
telecommunications and financial services
sectors for assuring diversity of existing
National Security/Emergency Preparedness
(NS/EP) communications circuits in a multicarrier environment.
 March 2006 - The National Diversity Assurance
Initiative (NDAI) Report was issued detailing
conclusions and recommendations (report
provided).
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ATIS CIO Council (cont’d)
 In addition, the ATIS CIO Council has identified three
areas for its immediate focus:
 IPTV
• Interoperability standards for interface(s) between network elements and
Operational and Billing Support Systems;
• Security standards or conventions required to ensure usage integrity is
maintained for content providers; and
• Define common IT requirements for ordering and billing of IPTV services
that provide standards for how IP-based call detail record equivalents
should be populated and managed.
 Security
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Securing 3rd party access to service provider systems and data;
Security Metrics;
Specific security domain best practices; and
Commercial Product security issues.
 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
• Improvement of IT controls, tools that support automated access and
related processes that provide platforms in support of a SOX compliant
infra-structure.
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ATIS CIO Council (cont’d)
 Working teams for each of these three areas
have been established to define and prioritize
service provider IT-specific requirements,
deliverables and timelines.
 Initial review of these areas anticipated by end
of May 2006, with a final set of requirements
anticipated by the end of June 2006.
 Upon completion of the working teams’
activities, the most appropriate venue to
execute the work will be determined. Initial
work will be within ATIS.
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Supplemental Slides
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ATIS Is Also Addressing…
 E911 for wireless, IP and NGN service providers
 Collaboratively developing requirements for NG 9-1-1 over
wireless and VoIP networks.
 Defining NG 9-1-1 in conjunction with other interested entities.
 Formed a NG Emergency Services group.
• Mission: Coordinates emergency services needs and issues with
and among SDOs and industry forums/committees, within and
outside ATIS, and develops emergency services (such as E9-1-1)
standards, and other documentation related to advanced (i.e., Next
Generation) emergency services architectures, functions, and
interfaces for communications networks.
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ATIS Is Also Addressing…
 National Telecommunications Security
 March 2006 - The President’s National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) referenced
and utilized ATIS’s NGN Framework in its NGN Task Force
Report on ensuring telecom security in the NGN environment.
 Ordering and Billing for VoIP-PSTN interconnection
 Developing ordering and billing processes for interexchange
and local access in interconnected VoIP and PSTN networks.
 Phantom traffic and revenue fraud
 Developing strategies for preventing/mitigating revenue fraud
and phantom traffic caused by inappropriate manipulation of
data in ANI and JIP fields in SS7 Initial Address Message (IAM).
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ATIS Is Also Addressing…
 Billing and routing errors from inaccurate/missing
jurisdictional information
 Established 7 Rules for Populating the JIP in SS7 Initial Address
Message (IAM) and obtained consensus from major wireline and
wireless standards groups.
 RFID use for telcos
 Evaluating appropriate usage of RFID in telecom supply chain
and for telecom asset management.
 ANI spoofing in VoIP
 Identifying revenue fraud opportunities in VoIP services and
developing prevention strategies.
 Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
 Advising on ideas for migrating selected RUS programs to the
private sector.
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