1 Dr. Walter Weigel Director General ETSI Cutting edge standards and interoperability schemes Standards & Interoperability, Transverse issues in ICT ETPs ETSI, October 2006

2 ICT standards organization, private not for profit Global membership (670+ Members, 80% industry, 20% overseas) Direct membership Track record of worldwide industrial successes (fixed, mobile, broadcast…) Global network of partnerships International/interregional Founding partner and home of the 3GPP Focus on interoperability (test specs, test suites, interop testing) Deliverables available free of charge ETSI in a nutshell

3 The dynamics of ICT markets (1) Fragmentation of standards making market End to end monolithic standards are last millenium ICT increasingly software intensive Priority: develop systems, components, products FAST Interoperability (interfaces) ex post Applications drive the show « Shopping » for standards Interoperability comes next (or not at all)

4 The dynamics of ICT markets (2) Stakes moving up towards middleware Infrastructure converging (e.g. IMS) Point of gravity of convergence IT/telco/broadcast/CE is in middleware - e.g. Mobile TV, home networking Convergence: not smooth, rather plate tectonics A global standards production market China, India…next? Barriers to Trade reducing how to ensure standards do not replace them? Standards & IP strategies of the new entrants on the standards making market shape ICT markets

5 Innovation Standards market creation-and market access Standardization to mutualise R&D costs Enable interoperability Reduce implementation risks and costs Enable the development of an industrial ecosystem around a technology Enable a multi suppliers and multi service provider environment

6 Timing is key Innovators Enthusiasts Adapted from: Moore, Geoffrey A.: Crossing the Chasm; HarperCollins, Timing for standards development moving earlier in the process Early Majority Pragmatists Late Majority Conservatives Early Adopters Visionaries Laggards Skeptics Standard launch window Time of diffusion of disruptive/discontinuous innovations chasm Our hypothesis

7 A network of partnerships is key Partnerships CCSA OMA IEEE WIMAX forum IPv6 Forum GCF The Parlay Group NENA CITEL GSM LA AHCIET CPqD Satlabs TETRA MoU (70+ active) International ITU-T ITU-R JTC1 ITU-D CEN/ CLC CEN/ CLC Europe EC CEPT Interregional GTSC GRSC

8 Infra, radio, MW, services & applis… Interoperability is not layer specific FixedMobileRadiocom IP Middleware Applications Satellite Radio TV XML – Enterprise Format and Metadata E-Health, e-Gov, Defense Web Services Copyright Items International

9 How we see it Its about architecture… - In a fragmented standards making market an agreed architecture is key to achieve interoperability. - Effective cooperation with other SDOs and forums « Architects of a standards world » …about interop schemes … ETSI focus on technical interoperability (inter-working) Development of an interoperability service line - Ex-ante specs: requirements, architecture, protocols - Ex-post specs: conformance tests, IOP tests …and about dosage - Need for standards/interoperability when heterogeneous systems are converging (e.g Telco/broadcast/IT/CE) - Market differentiation SDOs shouldnt over specify

10 MTS (Methods for Testing and Specification) Methodologies, techniques and languages-e.g. TTCN3 Protocol and Testing Competence Centre Development of test specifications-conformance and interop Plugtests Service Validation of standards and prototypes through interop testing events How we do it More in todays Panel 3

11 Wherever one is in the value chain… We must clearly understand the fundamental law of standards development which is that standards are never neutral… They reflect the strengths and innovations of those who offer them to the committees… Not participating in standards abdicates the decision-making to the competition, whether it be by company or nation. William J. Hudson, President Amp Inc. World Standards Day, 1995

12 President Barroso Communication to the Spring EU Council, « Our innovation performance is crucially dependent on strengthening investment and the use of new technologies, particularly ICTs, by both the private and public sectors. Taking the lead internationally in the field of R&D and innovation creates a first-mover advantage which can be long-lasting, all the more so as technological breakthroughs enable Europe to set international standards ».

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