International Telecommunication Union ITU: Committed to connecting the world ITU-T: Providing the global standards Malcolm Johnson Director, ITU Telecommunication.

InternationalTelecommunicationUnion

ITU:ITU:Committed to connecting the worldCommitted to connecting the world

ITU-T:ITU-T:Providing the global standardsProviding the global standards

Malcolm JohnsonMalcolm JohnsonDirector, ITU Telecommunication Standardization BureauDirector, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

France Telecom, 4 April 2008


ITU characteristics

UN specialised agencyUnique international public/private partnershipSenior management of 5 elected officials4 year term, one possible renewalCurrent management team started January 20073 Sectors: Standards; spectrum; developmentITU standards called RecommendationsProvide the basis for much of today’s information and communications


Membership

300 Sector Members

125 Associates

191 Member States

REGION Contributory Units (sector members and associates)

Africa 4.16

Asia Pacific 41.04

Arab States 17.16

Europe and CIS 54.34

Americas 58.66


ITU-T CharacteristicsContinuous adaption to market needs

Strong developing country participation

Work (mostly) done in Study Groups (13 of them)

Today, 95% of work is done by private sector

Truly global

Consensus driven

Very flexible

Fast, transparent proceduresstart work: 1 day / few weeks

develop work: weeks to 2-3 yrs

approve work: average 2 months AAP for technical standards (= 95% of work)

publish work: couple of days after approval

Common IPR Policy


ITU-T Structure

Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group

Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group

WTSA World TelecommunicationStandardization Assembly

Study GroupStudy Group SGSG

Workshops,Seminars,

Symposia…

IPR

Working Party

Questions: Develop

Recommendations

SGSG

WP WP WP

Q Q Q

Q Q Q

Focus Group


ITU-T hot topics

Next generation network (NGN)

ICTs and climate change

Bridging the standardization gap

IPTV

The fully networked car

Cybersecurity including identity management (IdM)

Ubiquitous networks

Videocoding and next generation multimedia conferencing

Accessibility

Broadband access

Packet based transport

Fibre optics


Work highlights 2007Restructuring of the secretariat (TSB) for increased efficiency

13% more standards published, 39% increase in meetings, 5% reduction in staff

Free ITU-T Recommendations (3 million downloaded)

The first set of global standards for IPTV

First in series of regional Forum on bridging standards gap

Direct liaison with 3GPP established

ITU member of ICANN Board

Joint IETF/ITU-T leadership meeting

Common ITU/ISO/IEC IPR policy and guidelines adopted

Global NGN standards progressed rapidly (30 Recommendations: requirements, architecture, OAM, signalling protocols, resource control, NNI signalling, NGN testing, and security)


Upcoming workshops

Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change: April 15-16, Kyoto, and 17-18 June, London The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for ICT Standards: 21 April, Geneva Innovations in NGN: 12-13 May Geneva Joint ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Next Generation Optical Access Systems: 19-20 June, Geneva

Regional Development Forums: Bridging the standardization gap: May: Brasilia, Accra; June: Tashkent; July: Damascus; September: Hanoi

ICT Standards and IPR: 1 JulySpeech and audio coding: 29 August From Speech to audio: bandwidth extension, binaural perception: Lannion, 10-12 SeptemberIPv6: Gulf, September (joint with NRO)


Innovations in NGN 12-13 May 2008

Part of initiative to increase dialogue between academia/ITU

Follows January 2007 consultation meeting

First in a series of ‘Kaleidoscope’ events

Will identify new topics for standardization

IEEE Communications Society technical co-sponsor


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

Under study speech technology; lawful interception (LI); networked robotics;


Relationship with other standardisation bodies


Global Standards Collaboration

GSC 13, 14-17 July 2007, Boston, USA

The mandate of GSC is to provide a venue for the leaders of the Participating Standards Organizations and the ITU to:

...exchange information on the progress of standards development…

Collaborate in planning future standards development to gain synergy and to reduce duplication.

…the mandate of GSC is to provide a venue… to:

Support the ITU as the preeminent global telecommunication and radiocommunication standards development organization.


MoU between ITU and ETSI

Considering:

ITU as the intergovernmental and universal organization responsible for worldwide standardization of telecommunications

ETSI as a regional organization

Allows

Each organization to use the documents of the other in order to advance its own work

Each will also be able to reference standards texts of the other

Each organizations experts can participate in the others meetings


ITU-T and 3GPP

ITU-T participates in 3GPP PCG/OP (program coordination group/organizational partner) meetings

Iterative process between ITU-T and 3GPP agreed in 2007

Input from ITU-T into 3GPP:

ITU-T can submit requirements on common IMS either through

a liaison statement, or

through an individual 3GPP membership contribution

Output from 3GPP into ITU-T: specs on common IMS to be submitted to ITU-T

Strengthening ties between 3GPP and ITU-T

ITU-T invitation to host 3GPP meetings

3GPP as an ITU-T Focus Group?

ITU-T as a 3GPP Partner?


ITU-T and IEEE

Feb 2007: Mutual promotion of events of common interest was agreed in February 2007

May 2007: IEEE Global Standards and Developing Economies: Broadband Access and Infrastructure Seminar, Tunis May 9-10. ITU-T participation in IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG)

May 2007: IEEE 802.1 and 802.3 Interim Meeting hosted by ITU-T in Geneva May 28-31

May 2007: Joint ITU-T/IEEE Workshop on Carrier-class Ethernet in Geneva May 31-June 1

June 2007: ITU-T welcomes IEEE 802 participants to its 4-15 June SG15 meeting

Formal MoU will be signed May 2008 at joint ITU-T/IEEE Kaleidoscope event

Joint ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Next Generation Optical Access Systems: 19-20 June, Geneva


ITU-T and IETF

ITU-T / IETF Leadership Gathering21 July 2007

Area Directors and Study Group chairmen

First Joint ITU-T/IETF group formed March 2008 (T-MPLS)

ITU-T and ICANN

October 2007 First ITU member of ICANN Board: Reinhard Scholl, TSB Deputy Director


Common IPR Policy

WSC = World Standards Cooperation (ISO, IEC and ITU)

Common IPR Policy based on ITU-T policy

… strongly encourages the disclosure of known patented technology from the outset.

Allows for companies’ IPR to be included in standards as long as it is made available under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions.

WSC also adopted Guidelines for the Implementation of the Common Patent Policy and a Patent Statement and License Declaration Form.

Each of the three WSC organizations also has an online patent database.


First Global Standards Symposium

To be held day before next ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), 20 October 2008, Johannesburg

Aims to bring together all standards making bodies

Themes:

Reducing the standardization gap

Improving collaboration

Climate change

Accessibility

Marc Fossier speaking


World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly

October 2008

WTSA sets direction and structure for ITU-T

Meets every four years

Defines the general policy for the Sector

Establishes the study group structure

Approves the work programme

Appoints their chairmen and vice-chairmen

For first time will include exhibition at start


World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly

October 2008

Possible results:

New SG structure with fewer SGs

Over 60% new Chairmen and vice-chairmen

New fee structure

Branding

Resolution on ICTs and climate change

New working methods to include remote participation

New priorities


Why participate?

Only UN agency dealing with ICT standards

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

Open, transparent and flexible

Fast working


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Background slides


MultimediaExtension of voice telephony to wider bandwidth (key contribution from FT/CNET). Examples:

Ubiquitous voice codec – G711.1 – upgraded to wideband – key for mobile operators

Superwideband G.722.1, embedded variable bitrate codecs

IPTV work in new stage – IPTV GSI – deliverables published in online compendium

Technology Watch ITU-T Briefing Report on Telepresence

New generation of multimedia protocols: H.325 or Advanced Multimedia Systems (AMS), taking into consideration security, flexibility, QoS, and support for mobile devices.

Widely adopted (Apple, Adobe, Blu-Ray) H.264 video codec

New Question on multimedia application platforms and end systems for IPTV in Study Group 16. Proposed new Question on USN.

Joint Co-ordination Activity on Home Networking JCA-HN

Draft new Recommendation for home networking transceivers using any metallic media in the home.

Draft new Recommendation G.hnta on home network transport architecture.

Three new Recommendations providing architecture for advanced set-top boxes


IP Interconnectivity

GPON interoperability demos at trade shows around the world

Upgraded to fibre optic specs to take into account FTTH applications (G.651.1, G.657)

ITU-T G.984 Recommendation – G-PON

SG 15 looking at energy efficiency in Access technologies

ITU-T/IEEE workshop on Next Gen Optical Access Systems, 19-20 June

VDSL 2 standardized in 2005

FTTH

SG 3 submitted a paper, outlining its activities and future work plan on international internet connectivity (IIC).

H.325 or Advanced Multimedia Systems (AMS), set to replace SIP, H.323 for VoIP etc

Protocol work in SG11


Recommendation G.1070 gives an algorithm that estimates videophone quality in terms of quality of experience/quality of service (QoE/QoS)

ITU-T Recommendation Y.1562, may be used by service providers in the planning, development, and assessment of IP service to check that it meets user performance needs

IPTV and other multimedia QoS and QoE issues will see increasing attention in SG12 moving forward

Recommendation Y.111 defines the related requirements and functional architecture covering aspects such as resource reservation, admission control and gate control, Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) and firewall control, and Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal.

QoS classes defined in Y.1541. Each class is designed to support a group of applications, VoIP, or IPTV for example.

G.1030 - provides a framework of tools to estimate end-to-end IP network performance for some user applications. G.1040 - defines a performance metric in IP networks for short transactions, such as trading of stocks, automated banking, and credit card point of sale transactions. G.1050 - addresses Network Model for Evaluating Multimedia Transmission Performance Over Internet Protocol.

IP QoS


Annex K of Recommendation H.324, also known as media oriented negotiation acceleration (MONA) addresses the problem of long set up times for video calls that many perceive as stalling consumer acceptance.

Recommendation - Q.1706 - describes the requirements for providing ‘mobility management’ including authentication, authorization, location updating, paging and download of user information.

Recommendation Q.1762 / Y.2802 describes the considerations for fixed mobile convergence (FMC), including the fundamental characteristics, service requirements, network capabilities, approach, scenarios and the relevant network environments.Recommendation Q.1763/Y.2803 goes further into the details and provides an example of the implementation of the converged service. It defines the service features, service architecture, and capability requirements of the convergence service between legacy PSTN and ISDN and mobile networks.Q.174X series Recommendations going into the next layer of details describing operation of existing mobile systems.

Mobile


Network InfrastructureFrom standards for optical transport through network management, signalling, performance and QoS through to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), architecture and interoperability ITU-T Recommendations are the invisible force behind the world’s information and communication technologies.ISDN, SDH and DSL are all familiar abbreviations to ICT professionals and all approved as international standards by ITU-T. Pioneering new work in bringing Ethernet and MPLS into core networks. Work on passive optical networks (PONs) provides an effective way of implementing fibre and is a crucial step towards all-optical networks. Wave division multiplexing (WDM) technology is another example of technology in which ITU-T standards have played a key role.

International Telecommunication Union ITU: Committed to connecting the world ITU-T: Providing the global standards Malcolm Johnson Director, ITU Telecommunication.

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