1. ICT Standards Board www.oasis-open.org Keith Dickerson Chairman of the ICT Standards Board keith.dickerson@bt.com www.ictsb.org

2. ICT Standards Board l Why was it created? l What is it for? l Who is in it? l One BT Architecture l Why standards are important?

3. Why ICTSB? n Reaction to convergence of IT, telecommunications, broadcasting and entertainment industries n Need to reduce overlaps between activities of European Standards Organisations (ESOs) n Need to involve (many) fora and consortia n Provide European focus for Global ICT Standardization

4. ICT Standards Board n ANEC n ATM Forum n CEN n CENELEC n DVB n EBU n ECBS n Ecma International n EFTA Secretariat n EICTA n ERTICO n ETSI n European Commission n ISOC (IETF) n Liberty Alliance n NORMAPME n OASIS n OMA n OMG n OSGi n RosettaNet n The Open Group n TMF n W3C

5. External Interfaces Integration & application development framework Enterprise Management Service Execution Service Management Application exposure Portal Functions Trading Gateways Commercial & Customer Management Selling, Customer & Channel Management Billing Proposition Creation & Handling Front Office functions Supplier Management Portfolio Management Business Intelligence Knowledge Management & Collaboration Finance Business Support Service Fulfillment Service Assurance Mediation & Pricing Service Management agents Application Connectivity resources Network location Content Enterprise & Premises Access, Aggregate & Backhaul Metro Core Optics & MPLS 21C Network Workforce Management & Professional Services Network Management Technology Management Authentication & Authorisation Session control Media Resources Presence Messaging Profile Management Inventory Management Network Engineering on-demand Computing (application hosting) Personal Comms Devices Outsourcing Management Resource Management ICT Contract Handling Partners & OLOs Customers and users BT People 3 rd party APs

6. Why standards… n To enable new services l must operate on global basis n To reduce costs l commoditisation of equipment n To meet regulatory requirements l essential interfaces n To ensure accessibility/safety/security, etc