1. TSB 1 Review of ITU-T activities between ITU & GSC 7 and GSC 8 Ottawa, Canada, 27 April – 1 May 2003 by Houlin ZHAO Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) International Telecommunication Union, Geneva Place des Nations - CH-1211 Geneva 20 - Switzerland Tel: +41 22 730 5851 Fax: +41 22 730 5853 E-mail: houlin.zhao@itu.inthoulin.zhao@itu.int ITU Home page address: http://www.itu.inthttp://www.itu.int

2. TSB 2  2002 - World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-02), Istanbul, Turkey, 18-27 March 2002 - Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-02), Marrakesh, Morocco, 23 September-18 October 2002  2003 - Radiocommunication Advisory Group (RAG), January 2003 - Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG), February 2003 - Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (TDAG), March 2003 - World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) PrepCom-2, Geneva, 17-28 February 2003 (Reference to international Standards is included in the draft Declarations) ITU Events (1)

3. TSB 3  2003 (cont’d) - Council-03, Geneva, 5-16 May 2003 - Telecom Day: “Helping all of the world’s people to communicate”, 17 May 2003 - Radio Assembly (RA), Geneva, 2-6 June 2003 and - World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), Geneva, 9 June-4 July 2003 - WSIS PrepCom-3, Geneva, 15-26 September 2003 - Telecom World 2003, Geneva, 12-18 October 2003 - WSIS, 1 st phase, Geneva, 10-12 December 2003 ITU Events (2)

4. TSB 4  1800 delegates, 100 Ministers/Vice Ministers strongly support ITU  New team:(Mr. Utsumi, Mr. Blois, Mr. Zhao, Mr. Touré: re-elected Mr. Timofeev, newly-elected to replace Mr. Jones)  Amendments to Constitution / Convention  Decisions/Resolutions/Recommendations  Financial situation  Strategic plans  Structure of ITU and its reform  International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR): no dates fixed  World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), Brazil, October 2004  “Bridging Standardization Gap”, 1 st time in ITU history (PCC.I of CITEL, CCSA of China, etc…) PP-02 Highlights

5. TSB 5  AAP successfully implemented (see separate presentation by Mr. Fishman)  Membership changes in 2002: Sector Members: 42 denunciations, + 20 new entries Associates: + 27 418 Sector Members, 57 Associates by December 2002  1 st Informal Forum/SDOs Summit, December 2001  FS-VDSL Forum becomes ITU-T SG 16 Focus Group (2002) ITU-T Situation

6. TSB 6  2002: - Satellites in IP and Multimedia - Use of Description Techniques - ITU-T and its activities - IP/Optical - IMT-2000 and Systems beyond - Security - IPv6 - Multimedia Convergence (IP Cablecom/Mediacom 2004/Interactivity in Multimedia) - Framework and Scope of formal languages - ENUM  2003: - February:Telecommunications for Disaster Relief - March:Workshop on ccTLDs ITU-T Workshops

7. TSB 7 Administrations (70/953) Members: 189 ROAs (68/563) Members: 170 SIOs (110/658) Members: 207 Associates (22/39) Members: 57 U.S.A. 150FT 73NTT 49+8AULM 6 China 113DT 43Siemens 41+6+5+4OSS Nokalva 6 U.K. 61China Telecom. Corp. 37Nortel 35+9+9Telekom Srpske 3 Japan 46BT 29Lucent Tech. 30+5+5+1DENIC 2 France 41Swisscom 28 Alcatel 14+10+7+3+2+1 Nominum 2 Germany 38Telekomunikacja Polska 22ETRI 31OFS Fitel 2 Canada 35Telenor AS 19Ericsson 26+2STELEUS 2 Brazil 30KDDI 18Cisco Systems 27Teraburst Networks 2 Italy 29 KT Corporation 15 TILAB 17 Russia 28OTE 15Huawei Tech. 14 Korea (Rep. of) 26Telekom Austria 15NEC 13+1 Switzerland 26AT&T 14Telcordia Tech. 14 Hungary 20BELGACOM 12Nokia 13 Total: 643 (67%)Total: 340 (60%)Total: 402 (61%)Total: 25 (64%) Top Members participation (2002)

8. TSB 8 TSAG (02/03)  Two meetings: June 2002, February 2003  Working Party 1 - Working methods: - Metrics showing success of AAP Rec. A.8 - Draft revised Rec. A.9 - User involvement in ITU-T work - Efficiency measures, etc.  Working Party 2 - Work Programme: - Re-structuring consideration, etc.  Working Party 3 - EDH, Promotion and Publication Policy: - Paperless meetings, web page presentation - Re-branding ITU-T, etc.

9. TSB 9  Working Party 4 - Strategy: - Linkage to ITU “Strategic plan” - Contribution to WSIS - “Business and economic benefits of standardization”, etc.  Finance ad hoc: - Linking strategic, operational and financial planning - Cost reductions - Endorsed operational plan of 2003 and the proposed budget 2004/2005 (with some comments)  CoCo - Cooperation and coordination: - A.4, A.5, A.6 (proposal to simplify procedures, see another input) - Guidelines between IETF and ITU-T - World Standards Cooperation, WSC (ITU-T/ISO/IEC management meeting), 19 February 2003 (Training programmes, Joint actions for WSIS) TSAG (02/03) (cont’d)

10. TSB 10 IPR  Patent Policy issues - Common text (ITU-T/ISO/IEC JTC1) Patent Declaration Form - Application of the Patent policy to the informative parts of Recommendations - Patent applications - “Reciprocity” - Other issues  Software copyright issues - new version of “Software Copyright Guidelines”, Version 2.1 agreed  WSIS discussion on “Open Standards” and on Intellectual Property Right (IPR) - Confusion over definition of: “Open”  A more detailed presentation on IPR is given in a separate presentation ********