August 28 – September 2, 2005

GSC

Global Standards CollaborationGSC-10

28 August – 2 September 2005Sophia Antipolis, France

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ISACC Opening Plenary Presentation to GSC-10

Agenda Item: 4.5

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GSCISACC

Formerly known as Telecommunications Standards Advisory Council of Canada, TSACC

To reflect global convergence, we have changed our name in 2004 to the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada

www.isacc.ca

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IETF

National

International

GSC

Partnership is key to success Partnership is key to success

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GSCStructure

ISACC accomplishes its work in three ways semi-annual plenary sessions

• Topical presentations are made on ICT standards issues, discussions are held on the progress of task groups and rapporteurs

special task groups• Formed as needed to develop Canadian views on

international ICT standards that may contain regulatory, legal, security and policy aspects

Rapporteurs• Rapporteurs have been assigned to monitor areas of high

interest

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GSCCurrent Rapporteurs

E-commerce Security ENUM Intellectual Property Rights SPAM ICANN

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GSCMajor Focuses

Since the last GSC-9 meeting in Korea, our focus has been on: NGN Security Internet Governance SPAM

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GSCNGN

Challenges and future impact of NGN Independence of service-related functions from underlying

transport technologies Data network providers, traditional wireline and wireless carriers

are converging and able to offer equivalent forms of NGN access and services.

Industry Canada is undergoing a Telecom Policy Review to deal with impact of convergence

Federal Regulator (CRTC) issued statement that VoIP is a regulated service for incumbent carriers

Convergence between Wireline and Wireless Support for mobility Common IMS Network enables integrated services

Service Enabled Multimedia VoIP Unrestricted access by users to different services and/or service

providers Security

Important to provide a robust and secured telecom infrastructure

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GSCSecurity

Fall 2004 ISACC Plenary focused on security Cyber-crime

New threats constantly emerge Issues surround legal enforcement and getting a

conviction The foundation of any secure deployment of any

application is a secure underlying infrastructure IP Telecom Cyber Security Program (Industry Canada)

Objective: Ensure critical telecom infrastructure protection • Investigation and Analysis

– Investigate and analyze impact of vulnerability incidence reports

• Verification– Verify identified vulnerabilities

• Discover– Identify potential vulnerabilities in telecom network architectures

and protocols

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GSCSecurity (cont.)

IP Telecom Cyber Security Program (Industry Canada) Protocol Analysis Lab

• Funded security research with three Canadian universities

– Encourage and promote research interests in network security amongst Canadian academia

– VOIP, Wireless etc

• Collaboration with industry

• Findings assist in guiding security policy and standards work

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GSCNew Wireless Technology and Services

Ultra-wideband Broadband over power lines WiMax Wi-Fi Public Safety spectrum 700 MHz and 4.9 GHz New spectrum access techniques

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GSCInternet Governance

ISACC has begun to examine Global Governance issues such as Cyber-Crime SPAM

Ensuring that everyone is represented Focus is consistent with the core mandate of the ITU-T Encourages the development of a predictable and

secure Internet Impact of new technology

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GSCTask Force on SPAM

ISACC participated in the Federal Task Force on SPAM. Keys areas included:

• Email Certification Principles and Methodologies

• Commercial Email Validation

Final report submitted to the Minister of Industry Next Steps are being Evaluated