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More about ETSI and open standards

Margot DorDirector Business Development & Partnerships

@LIS Global Project Coordinator ETSI

Study Trip of the Secretaria de Salud de MexicoSophia Antipolis, 3-4 April 2006

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ETSI: A Standardization Success Story

ETSI since its establishment in 1988 has established itself in a relatively short time as a premier multinational SDO

ETSI has flourished as deregulation took hold and as the European Community expanded, increasing the importance of telecommunications standards

ETSI success is based on developing high quality standards and continuing to attract new Members based on advocating the benefits of standards

– enable interoperability – helps prevent the duplication of effort – encourages innovation– creates trust and confidence in products – expands the market, brings down costs

and increases competition

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Nortel “why ETSI?”

« Direct participation by members

The place where our customers and regulators go

Innovative, well respected and well connected world wide

Shared development cost with the complete industry

A great place to see and drive the convergence of IT and electronic communications based on complete system design expertise”

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Vodafone- Why ETSI?

“Has highest reputation as the place for telecom standards

Basis of many world-renowned standards such as GSM from 3GPP, with Mobile Competence Centre

Partnership with US, Japan, China, Korea

Recognised by EU and ITU – and most other standards bodies

Overheads lower with more projects to share these costs”

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Reference to standards & recommendations (ITU, ETSI…) fortenders, licencing schemes, optimum spectrum usage, numbering, dispute resolution etc.

Policy makers’ job is to make decisions that will structure the market on a long term basis with a view to cater to end user interests.

Regulators & policy makers Identify potential policy/regulatory issues embedded in standard-making Impact on elaboration of standards to fulfill competition rules, national

policies, optimum use of scarce resources, etc Ensure they operate on (and contribute to) open and fair markets conditions

Policy makers’ & regulators’ perspective

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Global Standards Collaboration

Interregional collaboration on selected standardization subjects between

ISACC (Canada)

ATIS (USA)

TIA (USA)

ITU(International)

TTC(Japan)

TTA(Korea)

ACIF(Australia)

ARIB(Japan)

(China)

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ETSI Partnership Projects

3rd Generation Partnership Project

-specifying 3rd Generation mobile technologies, based on an evolution of the GSM core network, and members of the ITU’s IMT-2000 family

Organizational Partners:

ARIB (Japan), CCSA (China), ETSI, TTA (Korea), TTC (Japan), ATIS (USA)

Market Representation Partners:

GSA, GSM Association, UMTS Forum, IPv6 Forum, 3G Americas, TD-SCDMA Forum, TDIA

http://www. 3gpp.org

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ETSI Partnership Projects

Mobile Broadband for Emergency and

Safety Applications

Formerly: Public Safety Partnership Project

initiated by ETSI Project TETRA (under the name of DAWS)

and by TIA and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) under APCO's Project 34.

Organizational Partners:

ETSI, TIA (USA)

Observers:

ISACC (Canada), TTA (Korea)

http://www. projectmesa.org

                           

   

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Open meetings All stakeholders may participate in the standards development process

Consensus All interests are discussed and agreement foundDue Process Balloting and appeal process may be used to find

resolution

Open IPR Holders of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) must identify themselves during the standards development process

Open World Same standard for the same function world-wideOpen Access Open access committee: documents, drafts and

completed standards

On-going Support Standards supported until user interest ceases rather than when provider interest declines

Open Interfaces Allow additional functions, public or proprietary

Open Use Low or no charge for IPR necessary to implement an accredited standard

Open markets Interoperability users are not locked in with one supplier/service provider

Open Standards

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Open standards are a key variable in leveling the playing field

Standards Facilitate a multi-supplier environment thereby providing for

– competitive pricing of equipment

– more robust and assured supply channels

– innovation in order to differentiate product and retain customers

Increase the likelihood of interoperability in a multi-equipment provider and multi-service provider environment

Standards enable the development of profitable industrial ecosystems

Open standards > user in the driving seat

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Open standards and service creation

Standards facilitate a multi-service provider environment thereby providing for

competitive pricing of services interchangeable end user terminal equipment

This is highly critical in countries/regions Where local manufacturing industry cannot compete on

a global scale (yet) That are standards adopters (so far) That have highly educated and competent workforce is

SW development Where the service industry is highly creative and

competitive Where there is a strong political push to rely on ICT and

education to develop.

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DVB-RCS is an is an Open standard

Scrutinised, optimised, built by consensus

Based on commercial requirements

Broad range of services and applications supported

Future-proof (e.g. DVB-S2)

Based on successful DVB-S

Availability of mass market low cost satellite TV receivers

Enables interoperability between products

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Changing environment: our analysis

1. Fragmentation of standards making market End to end monolithic standards are behind us

2. Usage/applications-driven standardization « Shopping » for standards

Interoperability ex-post

3. So long the split standards makers/standards takers China, Latin America…who’s next?

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Changing environment: our analysis

4. ICT increasingly software intensive Priority: develop systems, components, products FAST Interoperability (of components) comes next

5. Stakes moving up towards middleware Infrastructure converging (IMS) Point of gravity of convergence IT/telco/broadcast/CE is in

middleware - e.g. Mobile TV Convergence: no picnic, rather plate tectonics

6. Open standards are necessary, but not sufficient To start with, there are plenty of very good ones to choose from What standards to enable the creation of value/industrial

ecosystems around a technology?

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We believe it’s about Interoperability

But the very meaning of “Interoperability” changes

From specifying end to end systems to a logic of assembling (standard & non-standard) building blocks From standardizing interfaces ex ante to

addressing interoperability of components ex post

Standardization has always been about interoperability

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We believe it is about standards integration (1)

In a fragmented standards making market an agreed architecture is key to achieve interoperability.

ETSI focus is on technical interoperability (inter-working) Ex-ante specs: requirements, architecture, protocol (profiles) Ex-post specs: conformance tests, interoperability tests

Standards architect: system integrator (design for interoperability) and project coordinator

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Standards integration (2)

Efficient collaboration with other standards bodies and forums is a pre-requisite e.g. GSMA, OMA, WIMAX forum etc

Development of the ETSI interoperability “product line” In addition to conformance testing and IOT Creation of a group on IOP (Interoperability process) to

coordinate generic aspects of interoperability Hub of 3G/IMS/NGN test-beds in process EU/LA initiative on interop profiles for e-gov applications

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We believe it is about dosage

What/when to standardize to meet players’ strategies?

Need for standards/interoperability when heterogeneous systems are converging (e.g FMC, Telecoms/broadcast/IT)

Market differentiation standard bodies shouldn’t be over religious with interoperability

An interesting case interoperability strategies of IM players entering the “telecom” market…and vice versa - see announcements at 3GSM (“15 cellcos take mobile IM interoperability pledge”)

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Last but not least, it’s minding other variables of the equation

Competition/competitiveness Global standards/regional blocks EU policy making (incl. spectrum, competition, etc) Impact of OSS IPRs in standards etc “It’s not peace we’re seeking, it’s meaning”

Ears to the ground Members driven changes