24th Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition on Connect the Caribbean July 2008 Paolo Rosa Workshops and Promotion Division Head, Workshops and Promotion DivisionTelecommunicationStandardizationBureau

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ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU Structure Plenipotentiary Conference ITU Council ITU-T World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly ITU-R World Radiocommunication Conference Radiocommunication Assembly ITU-D World Telecommunication Development Conference General Secretariat ITU-T:Telecommunication standardization on a world-wide basis on technical, operating and tariff, Questions. TSB: ITU-T Secretariat ITU-R:Radio communications and wireless ITU-D:Use and deployment of telecom networks and services in developing countries and countries with economy in transition Gen. Sec.:Coordinates the Union's activities and the overall management of the union

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Regional working 5 ITU Regional Offices: Africa Region Americas Region Arab Region Asia & Pacific Region Europe & CIS Region 6 Regional Organisations: APT Arab Group ATU CEPT CITEL RCC Various regional groups

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU Membership Member States (voluntary financial contributions) »ITU 191 Sector Members (usual fee 31,500 CHF per annum) »ITU-T 303 »ITU-R »ITU-D 299 Associates (10,600 CHF per annum) »ITU-T 121 »ITU-R »ITU-D 7 Total: 715 Total ITU-T 424

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU-T Structure (SG) TSAG WTSA WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION ASSEMBLY S.G. Workshops, Seminars, Symposia, … IPR ad hoc WP Q = Question: Develops Recommendations Study Group WP Q Q Q Q Q Q Focus Groups WTSA TSAG Study Groups Working Parties Questions Regional Groups Academia WP Study Group Q Q Q Q Q Q WP

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Unique partnership of private sector (Sector Members) & government (Member States) Today, 95% of work is done by private sector Remaining 5% due to regulatory impact Truly global and not-discriminatory standards Working together for consensus decisions Very flexible to start new initiatives Fast & transparent procedures Brand name IPR Policy and copyright Why ITU-T is different

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU-T is fast start work: 1 day / few weeks (2-4yrs) develop work: from weeks to 2-3 yrs (2-3 yrs) approve standards: 2 months (4 yrs) Alternative Approval Process (= AAP) for technical standards (= 95%+ of work) publish work: couple of days after approval (2-4 yrs)

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU-T product Around 210 new and updated Recommendations are produced each year Approx. 90% approved under AAP rules –9 ½ weeks average approval time AAP cut approval time by 80 to 90% to as little as five weeks More than 3300 ITU-T Recommendations are in force

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Free Recommendations From the beginning of 2007, ITU-T Recommendations are available without charge for a trial period. With only a small number of exceptions all in-force ITU-T Recommendations are available in PDF form via a simple mouse click. itu.int/ITU-T/publications/recs.html

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Why participate? Only UN agency dealing with ICT standards in a public- private in an open, transparent, flexible and global consensus based forum Outreach to 191 countries High credibility in emerging markets especially Africa, China and more recently India Opportunities for exercising corporate social responsibilities Excellent meeting facilities, convenient location Fast working

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May What are we doing then?

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Dynamic Environment Looking towards technologies of the day after Organizing SG, WP and Rapporteurs meetings, workshops on standards worldwide to involve more the experts from the regions also assisting in the creation of Regional Groups Increase opportunities to create Focus Groups for very hot issues urged by the market & new topics Establish GSI environment to provide opportunities to work on the same subject encourage osmosis among the experts study groups Improve dissemination of information, communication and promotion, adoption of specific e-tools: the “ Lighthouse ”, webinars, podcast, e-flash, Youtube, press, events … Looking towards the standards of the future cooperating with Academia and R&D institutions

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU-T hot topics Next generation network (NGN), IPTV Home networking Cybersecurity & identity management (IdM) Ubiquitous networks Next generation multimedia conferencing, videocoding Broadband access and transport network, optical fibres Packet based transport Accessibility ICT & climate change

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU-T’s Focus Group concept (Recommendation A.7) Create forum-like entities as an “ arms-length ” organization under ITU-T Study Group Goal: –Encourage participation of non-members / members of other organizations (forums) / experts / individuals Organizational freedom to establish its own rules –can keep own brand name and at the same time benefit from ITU’s branding, have its own deliverables

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ITU-T Focus Groups FS-VDSL: the first ITU-T FG (2002) agreed in Boulder In operation NGN Management From/In/To Cars Communication Concluded activities Identity Management IdM => GSI IPTV not only entertainment => GSI NGN => GSI Security Baseline for Network Operators Open Communications Architecture Forum (OCAF) …

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May The Global Standards Initiative Concept Hot topics work is carried forward by ITU-T’s Global Standards Initiative (GSI) environment, which encompasses all the relevant study item work across ITU-T Study Groups. It is implemented by co-located meetings of concerned Study Groups and Rapporteur Groups from the various study groups to jointly progress the work under the auspices of the GSI. The goals are: to address the market needs for standards and to produce global standards to further strengthen the ITU-T’s leading role amongst the other SDOs to keep visibility of the work spread between different technical groups in ITU-T

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Global Standard Initiative: GSI

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Regional Groups Set up on a case-by-case basis cooperating with regional organizations and to improve the level of participation by the regions in standardization activities. ITU-T secretariat (TSB) support

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Workshops: some activities in 2008 Past The Fully Networked Car – A Workshop including Demonstrations on Information and Communication Technologies in Motor Vehicles Geneva, 5 – 7 March 2008 ITU Symposium 2 on ICTs and Climate Change, London, United Kingdom, 17 – 18 June 2008 ITU-T/IEEE workshop on the next generation optical access Geneva, 19 – 20 June 2008 ITU Workshop: “ICT Standards and Intellectual Property Rights”, 1 July 2008 Coming Workshop on "From Speech to Audio: bandwidth extension, binaural perception", Sep 2008 Workshop on IPv6, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 – 5 September

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May “The day after” ITU-T is ready !

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Technology Watch Technology Watch surveys the ICT environment for new study topics Technology Watch Briefing Reports provide an up-to- date assessment of promising new technologies. Recent papers: Remote collaboration tools Ubiquitous Sensor Networks ICTs and Climate Change Telepresence High-performance video-conferencing Intelligent Transport Systems Technology Watch Symposium: Networked robotics, Seoul July 2008

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May ICTs and global warming ICTs (excluding broadcasting) contribute an estimated 2-2.5% of global Greenhouse Gas emissions Around 0.9 tonnes GtCO2e in 2007 Telecoms contributed around one quarter of this total But think : Where we would have been without ICTs? Source: Gartner Group (2007)

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Cooperation between ITU-T and Universities Given the knowledge that many new technologies find life in the minds of the academic and research communities, ITU is increasingly looking to attract more involvement from the world ’ s universities and other academic institutions Following the Consultation meeting held in January 2007 an informal discussion group has been formed to discuss ways to increase this cooperation with participation of ITU-T and academia, which is open to all interested parties. To participate in the discussion please join the mailing list by sending a request to (see

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Direct participation mechanisms in ITU-T work Invited experts –Cannot submit written proposals –Contribution source not acknowledged Sponsored by members (countries and private sector) –No membership fee –Contribution source not acknowledged –Level of participation limited according to national processes or company rules Associate members –Contribution source properly acknowledged –Participation limited to one SG; can have only a limited number of roles –Membership fee (CHF per year) Sector members –Participation in any SG of the sector x higher fee (CHF per year) Membership in special groups: Focus Groups; Joint groups with ISO/IEC; Coordination activity on RFID

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Some opportunities already offered by ITU-T Open and free participation in meetings of some Focus Groups Free participation by invitation to SG and Rapporteur’ groups meetings as experts Free participation in Workshops and Seminars Available web-based collaboration tool (Technology Watch) Free Recommendations on line Possibility to provide secretariat support Availability to co-organize events Broker for research project sponsors Internships (e.g. visiting professors, students, researchers)

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Kaleidoscope Conferences In order to solicit standardization work on emerging technologies, ITU-T organizes multi-topic events (Kaleidoscopic Conferences) with the aim to enhance participation of Academia and research organizations in ITU-T activities The first “ Innovation in NGN took place on May 2008 (see: More than 220 people from 43 countries participated. One place to share knowledge, procedures, experiences and results by experts, scientists, visionaries and academics from all over the world Unique networking environment in which to discover new standardization areas and new technologies those can be input into ITU-T Study Groups and Technology Watch- Correspondence Group

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Innovations in NGN – Future Network and Services An ITU-T Kaleidoscope Event Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Geneva May 2008 Track 1: NGN architecture evolution Track 2: Application and services over the NGN Track 3: Social, economic and policy issues in the ubiquitous societies Awards Awards will be granted to selected best papers, as judged by the organizing and programme committee. Details will be announced later.

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Conclusions Big effort in offering the membership a more and more transparent, dynamic, innovating, evolving, global and unique public/private standardization environment, ready to listen to the needs of the regions: ITU-T: The place for ICT global standards

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ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 ITU’s perspectives on standards and IPR issues

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 Global Standards: Supporting innovation ITU standards’ work done mostly in Study Groups (13 in total) Produce recommendations (standards) -e.g. G (ADSL); G993.1 (VDSL), H.264 (video compression) Partnership between private sector & government Global consensus, flexible process Fast, transparent procedures

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 ITU’s standardization activities: Legal aspects ITU Recommendations may include patented technology -Common patent policy for ITU/ISO/IEC and related guidelines ITU Recommendations may also include copyrighted software -ITU’s software copyright guidelines

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 ITU’s position towards patents No ownership Provides information on third-party patent claims -No evaluation of validity -No evaluation of essentiality Disputes

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 Common Patent Policy for ITU/ISO/IEC Historical background World Standards Cooperation (WSC) Patent Task Force General Structure Organization-specific provisions

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 ITU’s Software Copyright Guidelines Guidelines apply to software which is part of a Recommendation Incorporation of copyrighted software in ITU Recommendations is strongly discouraged. Normative software should only be incorporated in exceptional situations: highly complex algorithms requiring precision, e.g. speech coders. The structure of the Software Copyright Guidelines is similar to the guidelines for the Common Patent Policy.

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 Potential improvements to the Patent Guidelines: topics under discussion Removal of declaration no longer essential Patent searches made in common outside ITU Transfer and Assignment of patent rights Complex IPR cases

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Common Patent Policy for ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC “Code of practice” The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) and the offices of the CEOs of ISO and IEC are not in a position to give authoritative or comprehensive information about evidence, validity or scope of patents or similar rights. It is desirable that the fullest available information should be disclosed. Any party participating in the work of ITU, ISO or IEC should, from the outset, draw the attention of the Director of ITU-TSB, the Director of ITU-BR, or the offices of the CEOs of ISO or IEC, respectively, to any known patent or to any known pending patent application, either their own or of other organizations, although ITU, ISO or IEC are unable to verify the validity of any such information.

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May If a Recommendation | Deliverable is developed and such information as referred to above has been disclosed, three different situations may arise:  The patent holder is willing to negotiate licences free of charge with other parties on a non-discriminatory basis on reasonable terms and conditions. Such negotiations are left to the parties concerned and are performed outside ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC.  The patent holder is willing to negotiate licences with other parties on a non-discriminatory basis on reasonable terms and conditions. Such negotiations are left to the parties concerned and are performed outside ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC.  The patent holder is not willing to comply with the provisions above mentioned; in such case, the Recommendation | Deliverable shall not include provisions depending on the patent.

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Geneva, 1 July 2008 Useful links ITU home page: History and landmarks: ITU-T home page (ITU’s standardization activities): IPR Policy: Patent database: Software database:

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs)

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Purpose And Scope of ITRs General principles related to international telecommunication services and its transport means. Interconnection and interoperability of telecommunication facilities. Giving precedence for the Radio Regulations in case of contradiction. Allowing, within its framework, mutual agreements between countries. To set primary rules for accounting and settlements between members.

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May When Was It Adopted? The ITR treaty was adopted in the World Administrative Telegraph and Telephone Conference (WATTC) held in Melbourne, Came into force on July 1st, Since then, no update has been made to any of the ITR provisions.

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Decisions PP-06 Decisions on review of the International Telecommunication Regulations and subsequent actions The ITU Antalya Plenipotentiary Conference adopted Resolution 146, which resolved that a review of the International Telecommunication Regulations should be carried out.Resolution 146International Telecommunication Regulations The fourth World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) should consider emerging telecommunications policy and regulatory issues, with respect to international telecommunication networks and services, for the purpose of understanding them and possibly developing opinions as appropriate.World Telecommunication Policy Forum The Council should take actions as appropriate, and adopt the agenda and fix the dates of a World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) by Membership is invited to contribute to the review of the ITRs and to the preparatory process of WCIT. Director of TSB has created an expert group to review the ITRs

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Future work The Expert Group on Review of the ITRs will  identify any duplication between the ITU Constitution or Convention and the ITRs;  identify which of the provisions of the ITRs most appropriately reside in treaty-level instruments or ITU-T Recommendations;  identify any operational provisions in the ITRs that could be adequately reflected in ITU-T Recommendations, and advising on whether they might be removed from the ITRs;  identify whether the text of any of the existing provisions of the ITRs should be changed or suppressed, in particular obsolete provisions, taking into account any changes in international telecommunications since 1990;  prepare reports for the TSB Director to provide for submission to Council: an interim report in time for consideration by Council 2008, and a final report in time for consideration by Council 2009; The review may include the identification of how the ITRs are currently used by Member States or Sector Members(for example, which provisions countries and operators rely on for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of international traffic, timely payments, service provision); C

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Third meeting of the expert group Geneva, 26 June-1 July 2008 Telecommunications policy and regulatory issues with respect to international telecommunication networks and services Cybersecurity Fraud Provisions regarding dispute resolution, in particular to address problems raised by the unequal bargaining powers of operators in small countries with respect to operators in big countries. Modify 3.2 to include reference to preventing misuse of facilities and/or numbering resources. More specifically, add at the end of 3.4: “Misuse should be prevented to the greatest extent practicable, by implementing the relevant ITU-T Recommendations and, as appropriate, by transposing them to national laws.” New article 3.5: “Not withstanding the provisions of Art.1, §1.4 and §1.6, and to enshrine the purpose set out in the Preamble; in Art. 1, §1.3; in Art.3, §3.3.; and taking into account Art.3, §3.1, Member States should encourage administrations, recognized operating agencies, and operating agencies which operate in their territory and provide international telecommunications services offered to the public, to apply the ITU-T Recommendations relating to naming, numbering, addressing and identification, including any Instructions forming part of, or derived from, said Recommendations.”

ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Add at the end of 4.3.a): “harm to technical facilities and personnel shall be construed to include spam, malware, etc. as defined in relevant ITU-T Recommendations, as well as malicious code transmitted by any telecommunication facility or technology, including Internet and Internet Protocol. Furthermore, the said provision shall be construed to prohibit connection of terminals that cause harm to technical facilities or personnel.” New 5.4 in the ITRs (see ITR-EG – C 3): “Not withstanding the provisions of Art.1, §1.4 and §1.6, and to enshrine the purpose set out in the Preamble; in Art. 1, §1.3; in Art.3, §3.3.; and taking into account Art.3, §3.1, Members shall require that administrations, recognized operating agencies, and private operating agencies which operate in their territory and provide international telecommunications services offered to the public, apply the ITU-T Recommendations relating to safety of life, priority telecommunications, disaster recovery and emergency telecommunications, including any Instructions forming part of, or derived from, said Recommendations.” In article 6 (or elsewhere as appropriate) add a new sub-article stating “Transit administrations shall identify and transmit to termination administrations the origin of traffic that they receive, in particular by supplying the Calling Line Identifier (CLI) or other origin identifier”. In article 9.1 (b) “avoid technical harm” should read “avoid financial and/or technical harm”. That is, expand the scope to also cover financial issues, to the extent that these are not already included in the expression “technical harm”. This non-exhaustive list was prepared on the basis of contributions submitted and discussions at meetings, regarding possible revisions to the ITRs.

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ITU Forum Bridging Standardization Gap: Brasilia May Muchas Gracias Thank you Paolo ROSA Head, Workshop and Promotion Division ITU - Telecommunication Standardization Bureau ITU Committed to Connecting the World