1. DOCUMENT #:GSC15-PLEN-79 FOR:Presentation SOURCE:TTC AGENDA ITEM: GSC Plenary 6.10 GTSC 4.1 CONTACT(S):k-kenyoshi@cb.jp.nec.com NGN interoperability - TTC activities in ITU-T - Kaoru Kenyoshi, TTC Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15

2.  Resolution 76 “Studies related to conformance and interoperability testing, assistance to developing countries, and a possible future ITU Mark programme” which was approved in WTSA08 instructs to take actions to all SGs to improve NGN interoperability. TTC drives the discussion of NGN interoperability in SG11. Highlight of Current Activities(1)

3.  A contribution proposed to develop a draft recommendation for the conformance testing and interoperability testing. This contribution was discussed in SG11, SG13 and SG16.  The proposed draft recommendation for the conformance testing and interoperability testing are composed with a single framework Recommendation and series of Recommendations which include detail specifications for each service.  The framework Recommendation includes procedure, requirements, architecture and document sets as well as the scope, definition and reference. It will be general and overview descriptions for the conformance testing and the interoperability testing.  The subsidiary series of Recommendations include the detail descriptions for the specific service ant it will be created according to progress of study for each service.  SG11 is developing two draft Recommendations Q.NGN interoperability and Q.VoIP conformance testing at NGN UNI Highlight of Current Activities(2) Discussion in the NGN-GSI meeting

4. NGN interoperability 1 SCOPE 2 REFERENCE 3 DEFINITIONS 4 ABBREVIATONAS AND ACRONYMS 5 INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AND CONFORMANCE TESTING 6 CONFORMANCE TESTING 6.1 GENERAL 6.2 RWQUIREMENTS 6.3 PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION 6.4 CONFORMANCE TESTING FOR NGN PROCEDURE 6.5 DOCUMENT SETS 7 INTEOPERABILITY TESTING 7.1 GENERAL 7.2 REQUIREMWNTS 7.3 PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION 7.4 DOCUMENT SETS 7.5 INTEROPERABILITY TESTING FOR NGN PROCEDURE Draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability VoIP conformance Testing 1. SCOPE 2. REFERENCES 3. DEFINITIONS 4. ABBREVIATIONS 5. CONVENTIONS 6. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 7. PREPARATION FOR TESTING 8. TEST OPERATIONS 9. TEST REPORT PRODUCTION IPTV conformance Testing 1. SCOPE 2. REFERENCES 3. DEFINITIONS 4. ABBREVIATIONS 5. CONVENTIONS 6. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 7. PREPARATION FOR TESTING 8. TEST OPERATIONS 9. TEST REPORT PRODUCTION Add specifications for other services in future Recommendation Q.** Recommendation H.*** Add specifications for other services in future SG11 SG16 New draft Recommendations Generic frameworkDetailed Technical Spec. For VoIP For IPTV

5. Strategic Direction Proposals to improve interoperability  TTC created new work group to discuss NGN interoperability and study new series of Recommendations “NGN interoperability”.  Contributions, which include detailed technical information based on the TTC standard JT-3402, were submitted to the NGN-GSI meeting (April 2010).  Those proposals were agreed and captured in the annex to the Q.VoIP conformance testing at NGN UNI. TTC propose to share our experiences and invite technical information from various SDOs and analyze them to find the solution to achieve the NGN interoperability.

6. Proposed annex to the draft Rec. Q.VoIP conformance Testing at NGN UNI ITU-T Q.3402 TTC TR-9024 TTC JT-Q3402 TTC additional spec. Down stream Main text Annex Appendix Main text Annex Appendix TTC developed Technical Reports to specify the detailed protocol specifications at NGN UNI and NNI for interoperability between Japanese operators. TTC developed TTC standards JT-Q3401 and JT-Q3402 which consist of the translation part of ITU-T Recommendations and TTC original specifications as Annex and Appendix. ITU-T draft Rec. Q.VoIP conformance Testing at NGN UNI Technical information Annex SDOaSDObSDOc Up stream JT-Q3402

7. Challenges Remaining BIG issues  Protocol specifications are not developed in SG11 therefore no interoperability tests can be provided for PSTN/ISDN simulation services. : Task of SG11  Accelerate the on going study for VoIP conformance testing and initiate the new work item for VoIP interoperability testing. : Task of SG11  Harmonization and/or integration of separate discussions in Q.3/SG13 and Q.8, 9,10/SG11 relating to physical architecture for NGN interoperability. : Task of NGN-GSI  Iran submitted a contribution “SIP-based Call Server Test Procedures” (Iran, ASTAP17/EG.NGN/04) to the 17th ASTAP Forum (05 July 2010 - 09 July 2010 Pattaya, Thailand). Developing countries seek detailed test specifications based on ITU-T standard. Collaboration of member SDOs of GSC is needed.

8. Next Steps/Actions  This presentation introduces the TTC activities in the April NGN-GSI meeting of the discussion on NGN interoperability.  SG11 promotes to develop draft Recommendations for NGN interoperability including the general framework document and technical specifications document for VoIP conformance testing and VoIP interoperability testing.  SG16 are developing the series of the draft Recommendations for IPTV conformance testing.  The first ITU-T IPTV interop event was held in Geneva 20-23 July 2010 which is driven by SG16.  Member SDOs of GSC should promote the study of NGN interoperability in ITU-T NGN-GSI.

9. Supplementary Slides  Contributions submitting to the April 2010 NGN- GSI meeting  Contributions submitting to the September 2010 NGN-GSI meeting  New draft recommendations which are developed in SG16 for IPTV conformance testing  ITU Interop Event on IPTV

10. Contributions to the April 2010 NGN-GSI meeting TitleProposed contentsQ 1Proposed modifications to clause 5.1 and 6.1 of the draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability Proposed modifications to general descriptions for conformance testing and interoperability testing in clause 5.1 and 6.1 WP4/11 2Proposed text to clause 5.2 of the draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability Proposed text to conformance testing requirements in clause 5.2 WP4/11 Q3/13 3Proposed text to clause 5.3 of the draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability Proposed text to conformance testing physical configuration in clause 5.3 WP4/11 Q5/13 4Proposed text to clause 6.2 of the draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability Proposed text to interoperability testing requirements in clause 6.2 WP4/11 Q3/13 5Proposed text to clause 6.3 of the draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability Proposed text to interoperability testing physical configuration in clause 6.3 WP4/11 Q5/13 6Proposed text to the draft Recommendation Q.Test suites for VoIP conformance Testing Proposed text of main body to Q.Test suites for VoIP conformance Testing WP4/11 7Proposed annex to the draft Recommendation Q.Test suites for VoIP conformance Testing Proposed annex to Q.Test suites for VoIP conformance Testing based on the JT- Q3402 WP4/11 Contributions to the framework draft recommendation Contributions to the VoIP conformance testing draft recommendation

11. Contributions to the September 2010 NGN-GSI meeting TitleProposed contentsQ 1Proposed modifications to the draft Recommendation Q.NGN interoperability Proposed modifications to the main texts of Q.NGN interoperability WP4/11 2Proposed new draft Recommendation Q.VoIP interoperability testing for NGN Proposed first input to initiate a new work item for Q.VoIP interoperability testing for NGN WP4/11 3Proposed modifications to the draft Recommendation “Q.VoIP conformance testing at NGN UNI” Proposed modifications to the main texts of Q.VoIP conformance testing at NGN UNI WP4/11 Contributions to the framework draft recommendation Contributions to the VoIP conformance testing draft recommendation Contributions to the VoIP interoperability testing draft recommendation

12. New draft recommendations which are developed in SG16 for IPTV conformance testing Approved as Technical Papers at SG16 Plenary (Geneva, 30th July 2010) HTSP.IPTV-CONF.H.721(ex H.IPTV-CONF.2): H.721 conformance testing specification ： IPTV terminal device: Basic model HTSP.IPTV-CONF.H.762(ex H.IPTV-CONF.6): H.762 conformance testing specification ： Lightweight interactive multimedia framework for IPTV services (LIME) HTSP.IPTV-CONF.H.770(ex H.IPTV-CONF.7): H.770 conformance testing specification ： Mechanisms for service discovery and selection for IPTV services NOTE: These will be incorporated into the respective Recommendations as mandatory Annex so that the conformance testing will be part of Recommendations. Developing documents HSTP-IPTV-SACII ： Studies and actions on conformance and interoperability issues among IPTV Recommendations H.IPTV-CONF.1: H.701 conformance testing specification ： Content delivery error recovery for IPTV services H.IPTV-CONF.3: H.740 conformance testing specification ： Application event handling for IPTV services H.IPTV-CONF.4: H.750 conformance testing specification ： High-level specification of metadata for IPTV services H.IPTV-CONF.5: H.761 conformance testing specification ： Nested context language (NCL) and Ginga-NCL for IPTV services HSTP.IPTV-HRM.1: MAFR Common Suite ： Harmonization of Multimedia Application Frameworks

13. ITU Interop Event on IPTV  The first event took place in ITU in Geneva from 20 to 23 July 2010 Interoperability testing: 20-21, showcasing:22-23  Participations NEC, NTT, Mitsubishi Electric, OKI, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC- RIo), Sumitomo Electric Industries Cisco:showcase only Observers: Institute for Inforcomm Research(I2R, Singapore), Global ICT Standardization Forum of India (GSIFI) Certificates of participation were awarded to all participating organizations.  Target Recommendations H.721 (IPTV basic terminal), H.750 (metadata), H.762 (lightweight interactive multimedia), H.770 (service discovery) )  Next Events Singapore, September 2010; India, December 2010 http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/cdb/interop.aspx i) Interoperability testing ii) showcasing