1. Opening session report
Document No:
GSC(14)18_040
Source:
GSC-18 Chair
Contact:
Dirk Weiler
Agenda Item:
8.1
Opening session report
Dirk Weiler, GSC-18 Chairman
GSC-18 Meeting, July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France

2. GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis
GSC-18 Programme
Time \ Date
Monday
July 21
Tuesday
July 22
Wednesday
July 23
08:00-09:00
Registration
09:00-10:30
Opening Session
Strategic Topic
Session 2 (SDN/NGV -continued)
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-12:30
Session 1 (M2M/IoT)
Session 3
(Critical Communications)
12:30-14:00
(12:30-14:30)
Lunch
HoD-only
14:00-15:30
(14:30-16:00)
Strategic Topic Session 1 (M2M/IoT -continued)
Session 3 (Critical Communications – continued)
15:30-16:00
(16:00-16:30)
17:00-18:00
(16:30- 18:00)
HoD Preparation meeting
Strategic Topic Session 2
(SDN/NFV)
Closing Session
18:00-20:00
Welcome Cocktail
GSC Dinner
18h30-22h30
GSC-18, July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

3. GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis
Attendance
Members (65 Delegates) :
ARIB : 6
ATIS : 6
CCSA : 6
ETSI : 16 (including GSC Secretariat)
IEEE-SA : 7
ITU : 4
TIA : 5
TTA : 10
TTC : 5
IEEE-SA was welcomed as a new member of GSC
Guests (12 Delegates) :
Continua Health Alliance
DOT India
GISFI
General Motors
HGI
ISO
ISO/IEC JTC1
OMA
TCCA
TSDSI
W3C
GSC-18, July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

4. GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis
Contributions
Opening session: 14 Topic 1 - M2M/IoT: 9 Topic 2 – SDN/NFV: 5 Topic 3 – Critical Communications: 9 Closing session: 5 All documents can be found at: or
GSC-18, July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

5. Presentations in opening plenary
The ETSI Director General welcomed the GSC 18 participants;
The GSC 17 Chairman (TTA) gave a summary of the previous GSC;
The long standing GSC members presented the developments in their organizations since the last meeting;
IEEE-SA, being a new member, presented their principal activities and their way of working;
The Indian government presented their approach to telecommunication standardization, announcing that TSDSI is the Indian Telecommunications Standard Development Organisation (TSDO) as identified in the National Telecom Policy 2012 (NTP 2012);
TSDSI and GISFI presented their activities.
GSC-18, July 2014, Sophia Antipolis