GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Update on ITU-T NGN activities since GSC10 Brian Moore Lucent Technologies Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 SOURCE:ITU-T TITLE:Update on ITU-T NGN activities since GSC10 AGENDA ITEM:GTSC4 Agenda Item: 5.0 CONTACT:Brian Moore GSC11_GTSC4_03r1

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications After 18 months of intensive activity the NGN Focus Group, at end of 2005, handed over its results to Study Group 13 and other relevant study groups to continue the development of global NGN standards ITU-T NGN Focus Group

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Ongoing arrangements At its meeting in September 2005 Study Group 13 put in place the arrangements for the ongoing NGN work A major consideration in the future planning was the need to continue to have a visible focus for the NGN work and to maintain as far as possible the co-location of the closely related NGN work performed under the umbrella of a coordinated work plan

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications To achieve this the ITU-T NGN Global Standards Initiative (NGN-GSI)* was established under which the ongoing work is being done by the Study Groups and their Rapporteur Groups meeting together as necessary according to an NGN work plan being coordinated by Study Group 13 * See The ITU-T NGN-GSI

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Technical and Strategic Review It was also agreed to set up under the NGN Joint Coordination Activity (NGN- JCA)* a new Strategic and Technical Review function (TSR) which would at every NGN-GSI event perform technical coordination of the NGN work across the various study groups * See

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Expansion of the NGN-JCA In addition representatives of the GSC PSOs were invited to participate in the NGN-JCA in order to help provide the strategic direction to the ongoing global NGN standardisation work and to help foster good collaboration amongst the various organisations

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications GSI:Umbrella over the NGN standardisation programme JCA:ITU-T,GSC PSOs and IETF managers: oversees coordination and planning of work TSR: Review results, identify issues to JCA Technical standardisation work NGN Global Standards Initiative (led bySG13) SGs NGN-Joint CoordinationActivity Technical & Strategic Review (TSR) SG13 NGN project planning ETSI TIA ATIS NGN-GSI overview

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications NGN-GSI events Two NGN-GSI events have so far been held –Meetings of Study Groups 11, 13 and 19 together with WP2/17 and representatives of Study Groups 12 and 16 were held in Geneva, 16 to 27 January 2006 –Co-located NGN Rapporteur meetings were held in Kobe, Japan, 22 to 27 April 2006

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Highlights of the Kobe NGN-GSI event 16 Rapporteur groups of Study Groups 11, 13 and 19 met Over 200 contributions Over 200 delegates from 79 companies and 19 countries Over 30 draft recommendations progressed of which 11 are candidates for consent/determination at the July 2006 meeting: –NGN R1 requirements –Functional requirements and architecture of the NGN

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications –NGN mobility management requirements –IMS for Next Generation Networks –Functional architecture and requirements for resource and admission control functions –NGN security requirements –PSTN/ISDN evolution to NGN –PSTN/ISDN emulation architecture –PSTN/ISDN emulation and simulation –Call Server based PSTN/ISDN emulation –Tandem free operation (TFO)–IP network interworking – user plane interworking

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Future NGN-GSI events so far scheduled are: –July 2006 Study Group and Rapporteur meetings –October 2006 NGN Rapporteur meetings –January 2007 NGN Rapporteur meetings –April 2007 Study Group and Rapporteur meetings –September 2007 NGN Rapporteur meetings Future NGN-GSI events

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Workshops on NGN The following workshops have been held: –NGN Industry Event, London, 18 November 2005 –Joint ITU-T/ATIS workshop on NGN Technology and Standardisation, Las Vegas, March 2006 –Workshop on NGN and its Transport Networks, Kobe, April 2006 –Workshop on NGN, Hanoi, May 2006 Joint ITU-T/GGF workshop on NGN and Grids to be held in Geneva, October 2006

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications New topics The NGN space is expanding. New topics having an impact on NGN include: –RFID –IPTV –Grids The scope of the NGN programme will be expanded to include the necessary standards work

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Activities of the NGN Management Focus Group (Provided by Chairman of Study Group 4)

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications NGN Management Focus Group (NGNMFG) Established by ITU-T SG 4 in Sept 2004 at FGNGN request to support NGN Release 1 Involves leaders and other participants of major SDOs, forums, and consortia Focused on the following (FCAPS) management interfaces: –Network Element – Management System –Management System – Management System (FCAPS - Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security Management)

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications NGNMFG – Status Updating NGN Management Specification Roadmap focused on Release 1 which identifies –Requirements –Framework, principles, and architecture –Interface specifications, both protocol-neutral and protocol-specific Generic information models latest addition Identifying specification overlaps and stimulating their owners to harmonize them Identifying gaps and best organization(s) to fill the gaps

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications NGNMFG Harmonization Activity Management architecture: SG4, TISPAN, TMF Alarm reporting: TMF, 3GPP, SG4, DMTF State management: TMF, 3GPP Accounting, charging, and billing –At request of NGNMFG/SG4, ATIS TMOC and 3GPP SA5 proposed application guidelines Ethernet management: SG4, MEF, TMF Information Models (many SDOs/forums) –2 fold focus: generic, NGN functions XML-based framework and models (many SDOs/forums)

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications NGNMFG - Summary Leadership –Chair: Dave Sidor (Nortel Networks) –Vice Chair: Leen Mak (Lucent Technologies) Participation –Open; individuals from founding organizations encouraged –Registration required: see Time schedule –Roadmap Version 1 submitted to SG 4: September 2005 –Roadmap Version 2 to SG 4: May 2006 Working methods –Decision-making via consensus –Virtual meetings, but f2 f meetings allowed –Any specifications produced are candidates to be SG 4 Recommendations

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Thank you for your attention