ETSI activity since GSC-12

Jørgen FriisDeputy Director-General

ETSI

DOCUMENT #: GSC13-PLEN-02

FOR: Presentation

SOURCE: ETSI

AGENDA ITEM: 4.4

CONTACT(S): Jørgen.Friis@etsi.org

Submission Date:June 27, 2008

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ETSI Membership

546 Full Members from 40 European countries (but many headquartered outside Europe)

37 Observers from 19 countries124 Associate Members from 20 non-European countries/provinces

--------------------707 TOTAL from 62 countries/provinces

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Full Members

Associate Members

Observers

(GA#51 March 2008)

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Elected Officials

GA Chair: John Philips, Nortel Networks Europe (→11/2008)GA Vice Chair: Armin Toepfer, Vodaphone D2 (→11/2008)GA Vice Chair: Nicola Collechia, ANUIT (→11/2008)Elections due in November 2008 !

Board Chair: Francisco da Silva, Portugal Telecom (→11/2008)Board Vice Chair: Alistair Urie, Alcatel Lucent (→11/2008)Board Vice Chair: Claudio Gentile, Telecom Italia (→11/2008)Elections due in November 2008 !

Director-General: Dr. Walter Weigel (→6/2011)Deputy Director-General: Jørgen Friis (→6/2009)

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Annual Production* All Technical Bodies and all deliverable types

*: values for 2008 and 2009 are predicted values.

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ETSI Board Strategy 2008Technical Topics

• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication• Radio Spectrum• “The Internet of Things” (including RFID)• Service level Interconnection of IP-based Services• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)• Core Network Harmonization

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ETSI Board Strategy 2008Organizational Topics

• Enablers for new ETSI members – SMEs, universities and micro enterprises

• Innovative technologies and competition• Pre-Standardisation Groups• Creation of an ETSI journal• Development and Protection of ETSI Brand• Cooperation with China• ETSI Green Agenda

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• TC ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems)– created October 2007– Søren Hess (Daimler AG) appointed as Chairman– two meetings held already (December 2007 & April 2008)– meeting #3 planned for October 2008

• TC RRS (Reconfigurable Radio Systems)– created January 2008 – Peter Olanders (Telefon AB LM Ericsson) appointed as Chairman.– two meetings held already (March 2008 & June 2008)– meeting #3 planned for September 2008

New technical activities (1)

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• TC INT (IMS Network Testing)– created March 2008– Giulio Maggiore (Telecom Italia) appointed as Chairman– 1st meetings held already (May 2008)– meeting #2 planned for September 2008

• Starter Group on “Digital Content Distribution” (D-COD – created June 2008 – Truls-Erik Langeggen (Telenor) appointed as convenor.– 1st meeting planned for July 2008 to review:

• interworking on heterogeneous systems (IPTV, MobileTV, between IPTVs, between MobileTVs), starting with specific use cases,

• content distribution standards in support of : operator content distribution, internet tv content distribution, internet p2p distribution, with the idea to make better use of the booming operators peering traffic.

New technical activities (2)

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IPR issues

• IPR Special Committee (under ETSI GA)– Committee activated December 2007– Chaired by Karsten Meinhold (Nokia Siemens Networks)– 4 meetings held already– Main issues:

• Disclosure and IPR undertaking/licensing declarations with regard to Patent Families,

• Scrutiny of Competition/antitrust law issues in standardization process ,• Irrevocability of IPR undertaking/licensing declarations,• Continuity of IPR undertaking/licensing declaration when Ownership of a

Patent that is subject to such undertaking/licensing is transferred,• Revision of IPR Licensing Declaration forms, • Improvements to the ETSI IPR Database.

– Meeting #5 planned for September 2008

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• ETSI is a partner in 4 new EC projects– WALTER: Wireless Alliance for Testing Experiment

and Research, (UWB)– CUTELOOP: Customers in the loop (RFID)– GRIFS: Global RFID forum for Standardization (RFID)– CASAGRAS : Framework for Standardization of

RFID and Internet of Things

• ETSI invited to join other EC projects– TRUSTGRID– …

ETSI and EC FP 7 projects

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Interoperability is keyETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability•Protocols and Testing

– Supporting ETSI committees on the application of formal techniques in standards on a daily basis

– Development of test specifications (conformance and interoperability)

• Interoperability testing (Plugtests™)

– Validation of standards and prototypes through interoperability events www.etsi.org/plugtests

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Standards Enabling Services

IDEA

PRODUCT

When will our first specification allowing development of products be ready?

Idea - to - Product solutions for standardization activities

Two main questions – Two main services

When can we place products or services in the market with confidence?

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IDEA

PRODUCT

ETSI Services

Business Business ProcessProcessmngmtmngmt

ITIT MeetingMeeting LegalLegal

&&FinancialFinancial

Admin-Admin--istration-istration

TestTestMethodo.Methodo.

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Techn.Techn.validationvalidation TrainingTraining

TestTesttoolstools

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Interop-Interop--erability-erabilityinitiativesinitiatives

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FORAPOLISFora Hosting and Support

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INTEROPOLISTest and Interop support

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