standards in the digital single market: setting priorities...

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Case Id: 05d6b79a-7326-4f95-ab6c-0e0f3f7ab5e7Date: 24/12/2015 12:30:14

Standards in the Digital Single Market: setting prioritiesand ensuring delivery

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Is your organisation active in ICT standardisation?YesNo

*Please indicate the Standard Setting Organisations in which you are active:

ETSI, ITU, GSMA, 3GPP, oneM2M, OMA, BBF, OPNFV, MPEG, W3C, IETF and

others (more than 30 in total).

And if possible:

- The approximate number of person-months devoted to standardisation related activities.

- The percentage this means to the total of your resources.

Questions

II.1 Questions on general framework and problem statement

It is of particular interest to understand if the standards currently under development effectivelymatch interoperability and successfully creating a Digital Single Market. In addition, it isespecially interesting to identify those actions in standards development that could act as asolution for wider industry and public needs, not limited to the specific technologies that havebeen standardized.

Please indicate whether you agree to the following statements and explain your answerbriefly.

Q1.1 - Do you share the Commission's analysis in Part 2 of?this document

YESPARTLYNONO OPINION

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Telecom Italia is in favour of the Commission support of key priorities

for standardisation purposes but we do not deem necessary regulatory

imposition in this filed.

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http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/document/2015-39/analysis_10888.pdf

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Q1.2 - ICT is assuming a greater role in sectors of the economy which were not previouslysignificant users of ICT. How do you see for the economy, in particularthe role of ICT standardsbeyond the ICT sector?

Very ImportantImportantModest importanceNot importantNo opinion

*Your comment, indicating a specific sector:

We do not think that is a good idea to address standardization by

sector/domain. To let DSM to flourish, it is needed to focus on standard

solutions which allow reusing communication and ontologies across

different sectors. This is for obvious cost reasons, but more relevantly

to exploit the opportunities given by cross-sector services, which are

presumably more significant than the sum of each sector business. It is

important to give priority to standard solutions able to support

inter-domain services and information sharing and able to easily

interwork with legacy systems.

Q1.3 - Do you agree that setting priorities for ICT standards at EU level, accompanied by cleartime-tables, could help standard-setting organisations in better organising their work andsupport the Digital Single Market?

YESPARTLYNONO OPINION

*Please explain why:

ICT is a complex environment. Priority will help especially if a

particular attention will be devoted to the activities related to

interworking and combination of services. It is important to give

priority to standards that are able to limit the fragmentation of the

solutions and are able to combine vertical markets together.

Q1.4. - What other steps should be considered to ensure that any such prioritisation wouldenjoy broad support of key stakeholders?

A Comunity Building around the concept of developing common and

interoperable solutions is the only way to favour DSM.

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Q1.5 - What would be the most effective instrument at EU level to ensure that any suchprioritisation is taken up by relevant standard-setting organisations? (please select and rank upto 3 instruments)

1 2 3

A Commission Communication

A Commission Recommendation

Standardization requests issued to EU standard-setting organisations andincluded in the Annual Union Work Programme for Europeanstandardisation

Regulation

Priorities stated in the Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation

No opinion

None of them

Your comment:

EC should continue to stay in constant contact with the main EU standard

organizations. Regulatory impositions should be limited only to specific

cases where the market is not matching the expectations. EC should

instead foster an industry driven standard development in official SDOs.

Q1.6 - What would be the impact of a priority ICT standards plan defined at the level of the EUon Europe's effort ?to pursue leadership in global standard-setting

POSITIVENEUTRALNEGATIVENO OPINION

*Please explain:

The result will be positive insofar as EC gives concrete support for the

promotion of projects that favour the European industry ecosystem

development. The plan should aim at limiting fragmentation of the

solutions, focusing the work and avoiding the dispersion of resources.

Additionally it will help developing all those services for which the

return of investment is uncertain due to the cost of the solution

determined by the fragmentation.

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Q1.7 - What would be the impact of a priority ICT standards plan defined at the level of the EUon the ability of European companies ?to capture new global market opportunities

POSITIVENEUTRALNEGATIVENO OPINION

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It will help clarifying the directions of the market. The uncertainty

due to the current fragmentation of the solutions is limiting the

investment of manufacturers and service providers. An appropriate EU

regulatory approach in the Vertical spaces (automotive, health, smart

cities...) that facilitates industrial relationships among Verticals and

ICT Companies promoting inter-vertical standardised technologies should

be taken.

Q1.8 - Besides establishing a priority ICT standards plan, what other measures could theCommission (or other EU institutions) take to ensure that standardisation plays its role inachieving a Digital Single Market?

It is necessary to privilege solutions that integrate current legacy and

emerging solutions in a single communication and data sharing

interworking framework. It is also necessary to build a community which

leverages on selected standards and open source initiatives. Moreover EU

funds should be made available for the promotion of large scale research

and innovation projects, such as 5G, which could favour the European

industry ecosystem development.

Q1.9 - How should standard-setting organisations best respond to the increasing speed oftechnological development and the integration of technologies in business processes across allindustrial sectors?

A - Regarding the adaptation of existing standards tonew developments:

Ensuring that the standards are leading to interoperable, or at least

interworkable solutions. It should be avoided to legitimate as standards

duplicated and competing solutions. Standards should not be used to

ratify the fragmented market status, but to define interworkable

solutions in the market.

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B - Regarding the introduction of new standards for new:technologies/products

It should be avoided to legitimate as standards duplicated and competing

solutions.

Q1.10 - How do you see the involvement of European ICT Standardization experts ininternational standardisation organisations (ITU, ISO, IEC) and global standard settingorganizations (i.e. IEEE, IETF, OASIS, W3C, ECMA international)?

A - The :SCOPE (or LEVEL?) of involvementIs appropriateShould be increasedShould be decreasedNo opinion

Please explain:

The European presence is in general still very significant, especially

in 3GPP and oneM2M. The European ICT experts should be involved in

particular in the key organisations to limit the fragmentation of the

solutions.

B - The :QUALITY of involvementIs appropriateShould be improvedNo opinion

Please explain:

The strategy in standardization is only partially harmonized among

European ICT organizations. A European harmonized position may improve

the European strength in addressing the standards. The European work

should be concentrated in the fields where European players are stronger

and the results can be effective on the global market.

II.2 Questions on priority domains for standardisation in the Digital SingleMarket

In this section, the Commission invites survey participants to express opinions and ideas onsetting priorities for ICT standardisation.

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The Commission has identified 10 domains set out below, as well as a set of sub-domainswithin each domain. Please note that domains and subdomains are interrelated and thatoverlaps are possible and desirable in particular with respect to synergies between differentsectors. Some domains are horizontal and may benefit a large number of sectorialapplications; some other domains are more sectorial and were identified as areas where ICTstandardisation would bring important benefits.

First check whether the list of domains is complete and relevant. If the list is consideredincomplete, please complement it with additional domains that you consider priority.

Q2.1 - Please identify and rank the domains (up to 5) and subsequently subdomains (up to 3per domain) within each domain that you consider a priority. If specific domains or subdomainsare missing please add them.at most 5 answered row(s)

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Domain 1: 5G communications

Domain 2: Cloud computing

Domain 3: Cybersecurity

Domain 4: Data driven services and applications

Domain 5: Digitisation of European Industry

Domain 6: eHealth and aging

Domain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

Domain 8: Internet of Things

Domain 9: Smart Cities

Domain 10: Smart and Efficient Energy Use

Others

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Subdomains of Domain 1: 5G communicationsat most 3 answered row(s)

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Architecture definition

Channel model characterisation for innovative usages (e.g. V2V)

Converged control plane (fixed mobile)

Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

Multi domain SDN interoperability

Multi tenancy and multi technology C-RAN

Network slicing

New radio access technologies and waveforms, including backhaul/fronthaul integration

Resource identification

SDN Northbound interface

Others

Domain 2: Cloud computingat most 3 answered row(s)

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Application portability

As a service solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

Cloud networking infrastructures

Cloud platforms

Moving non-personal data between service providers

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Process Computation Integrity

Others

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at most 3 answered row(s)

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Cyber security design requirements

Process standard for incident reporting

Process standard for cyber risk management

Process standard for vulnerability disclosure

Technical standards for encryption

Technical standards for public key infrastructure

Technical standard for security and privacy by design

Others

Domain 8: Internet of Things


1 2 3

Advanced Manufacturing / M2M

Building and Home automation

Energy / Environment monitoring

Medical and health care systems

Reference architectures and related standardised interfaces

Smart cities and communities

Smart living environment for ageing well

Smart farming and food security

Transportation (including ITS, C2C, C2I, automated driving)

Wearables

Others

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Application Programming Interfaces for urban platforms

Urban Indicators

Urban Management System (city planning)

Urban Ontologies (for specific domains (including city objects, geometricelements and themes) or cross-domain)

Urban Platforms

Urban transactions (payments, identification, etc.)

Others

Please answer to Q2.2 to Q2.6 . In your answer pleasefor each of the domains selectedspecify if applicable the subdomains that you have selected.

*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 1: 5G communicationsplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them. We copy the criteria foryour convenience.

Link to DSM objectives and other EU policies

Competitiveness of the European industry

Clear and achievable targets

Evidence of market relevance and stakeholders needs

Domains where standard setting has direct benefits for consumers

The 5G communications as defined by 3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R, are in line with

the DSM objectives and the EU policies. Being a global initiative, the

benefits are for the overall community and remains in the hand of

European players to take the maximum benefits from the 5G specification.

The targets are in line with the market evidences and the stakeholders’

needs that reflect the European competitive market.

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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 1: 5G

and sub-domains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichcommunications time-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

All the major gaps are expected to be addressed by the current on-going

standardization activities, in particular those inside the 3GPP.

Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 1: 5G and sub-domains which you have selected.? Please rank the list below andcommunications

explain your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

• Mandating EuropeanStandardisation Organisations(ESOs) for fast delivery ofstandards/technicalspecifications.

• Foster cooperation amongstandards developmentorganisations for ICT priorities

• Support Research & Innovationprojects to contribute tostandardisation

• Community Building

• Support creation ofpublic-private partnerships - PPP

• Increase strategic coordinationof ICT standardisation at EUlevel.

• Ensure consistent application ofexisting standards

• Accelerate the identification ofICT technical specifications mostcommonly used for theirreference in public procurement

• Other

• No opinion

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*Please explain:

5G is under definition in 3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R. We think that further

standardization actions should be carefully evaluated to avoid delaying

the delivering of 5G.

Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and sub-domains which you haveDomain 1: 5G communicationsselected., and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

Particular attention should be given to ensure that the 5G system is

globally interoperable, like it is for LTE, UMTS e GSM. While on the

radio technologies this is still ensured, on the network part there is a

certain tendency to relax the level of standardization in favour of

dedicated solutions. This area should be a priority to ensure service

roaming across Europe and to avoid the increase of the interworking

costs. 3GPP is the appropriate organization where these issues can be

addressed.

Q2.6 - Would your organisation be prepared to invest resources in standard-setting to achievethe priority standards within the proposed time-frames?

Please answer this question only if you are responding as the representative of an

organisation/company/institution.

YESYES, provided some conditions are metNONo opinion

*Please explain your choice and specify conditions:

Telecom Italia is already involved in 5G standardization inside 3GPP,

GSMA, ETSI ISG NFV, NGMN and inside OMA and oneM2M for the service

aspects. We believe that actions in these groups are sufficient to

achieve the priority goals in standards. Nevertheless this level of

involvement is likely going to be reduced due to the costs. The

standardization activities require a big effort with a big component of

innovation and research investment; most of them are shared with the ICT

community. A financial support from the EU institutions could help

maintaining the European excellence in standards definition.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 2: Cloud computingplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.

:We copy the criteria for your convenience






The current Cloud computing standardization activities are in line with

the DSM objectives and the EU policies. Being part a global initiative,

the benefits are for the overall community and remains in the hand of

European players to take the maximum benefits from the cloud

specifications and open source implementations.

Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 2: Cloud

and sub-domains which you have selected.. Please also indicate within whichcomputing time-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

As an extension of current cloud, it is important to support the

initiatives in the area of Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 2: Cloud computingand the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain yourchoice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

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The relevant specifications have been already identified in the ETSI

Cloud initiative and in the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group. A

common European strategy could help speeding up the standards

deployment.

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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 2: Cloud computingselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

A common European support to the open-source initiatives in the

cloud/NFV areas could help speeding up the implementation of the

solution and could help reaching the goals of DSM. 3GPP and ETSI ISG NFV

are the best places where the activities can be carried out.






We are already involved in the Cloud/NFV standardization activities

inside ETSI ISG NFV, 3GPP and GSMA. Nevertheless this level of

involvement is likely going to be reduced due to the costs. The

standardization activities require a big effort with a big component of

innovation and research investment; most of them are shared with the ICT

community. A financial support from the EU institutions could help

maintaining the European excellence in standards definition.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 3: Cybersecurityplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.







The current standardization Cybersecurity activities are in line with

the DSM objectives and the EU policies. The current technology provides

sufficient mechanism to support Cybersecurity, nevertheless there is a

gap in the definition of common processes, starting from the selected

subdomains. New mechanisms to ensure privacy and security will be

required in relation to the technology developments, e.g. 5G and IoT.

Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 3:

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within which Cybersecuritytime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

The major gap is related to the definition of common process as said

above and re-listed here:

• Process standard for incident reporting

• Process standard for cyber risk management

• Process standard for vulnerability disclosure

This gap should be addressed as early as possible, because it is a

limiting factor that reduces the efficacy of all the available

technologies.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the anDomain 3: Cybersecurityd the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 3: Cybersecurityselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

3GPP and ETSI TC CYBER are the organizations that are currently more

impacting the ICT environment.

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Telecom Italia is already involved in the Cybersecurity standardization

activities in almost all the standardization bodies. We are particularly

involved in 3GPP for the communication aspects and in ETSI TC CYBER.

Nevertheless this level of involvement is going to be reduced due to the

costs. The standardization activities require a big effort with a big

component of innovation and research investment; most of them are shared

with the ICT community. A financial support from the EU institutions

could help maintaining the European excellence in standards definition.

*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected,Domain 8: Internet of Thingsplease explain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.







The Internet of things as defined by oneM2M is in line with the DSM

objectives and the EU policies. Being a global initiative, the benefits

are for the overall community and remains in the hand of European

players to take the maximum benefits from the oneM2M specifications. The

work in oneM2M, supported by ETSI TC SmartM2M, has a significant link

with EU driven initiatives, such as the standardization of Smart

Appliances, the AIOTI initiative, the Smart metering (M/441) and Smart

grid (M490) mandates. The targets are in line with the market evidences

and the stakeholders needs, which reflect the European competitive

market and therefore are addressing the customer expected needs.

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Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 8: Internet of

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichThingstime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

The current major problems, which IoT is facing, are the fragmentation

of service enablement platform and the definition of common

semantics/ontologies, besides the need to interwork with legacy and

vertical solutions. Currently the only major standardization

organization in this area is oneM2M and its precursor ETSI TC smartM2M.

OneM2M has already addressed the fragmentation and partially the

ontologies/semantic problems, and it is expected to complete the work

regarding the ontologies/semantic part by middle 2016.

The alternative to the standard is represented by a wide set of

industrial initiatives, that are very fragmented between the vertical

business domains and also inside the vertical business domains, with a

dramatic lack of cross domain interworking.

The landscape, the major gaps and the requirements are well known and do

not need further analysis.

On the contrary EU driven initiatives to support the oneM2M standard and

the ecosystem building could helping speed up the DSM construction.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the Domain 8: Internet ofand the subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain Things

your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

*Please explain:

NC

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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 8: Internet of Thingsselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

Achieving the DSM depends on cross domain data sharing and interworking

and oneM2M is currently the only place where this is standardized by

means of the oneM2M interworking framework. This is also reflected in

ETSI TC SmartM2M in specific areas such as Smart Appliances. OneM2M is

under endorsement also by ITU-T SG 20.

Initiatives to enlarge community building to support common ontologies

and semantic interworking will help achieving the DSM.

ETSI TC SmartM2M is in charge of coordinating ETSI activities related to

oneM2M and should be the focus of EU effort to support standards in this

domain.






Telecom Italia is already involved in oneM2M, ETSI TC smartM2M. We

believe that actions in these groups will be sufficient to achieve the

expected goals for DSM. We are also already involved in the related

IoT/M2M activities in 3GPP, OMA, HGI, BBF ,ITU-T and ETSI TC ITS.

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*Q2.2 - For the and the subdomains which you have selected, pleaseDomain 9: Smart Citiesexplain briefly how the criteria indicated in Box I apply to them.







Smart cities are the combination of multiple services and systems and

are excellent examples of IoT. See also answers on IoT.

Q2.3 - The Priority ICT standards plan should lead to the production of technical specifications,standards or architectures where there is a need/gap, but could also propose any other type ofstandardisation action such as landscape analysis, gap finding, roadmaps or, ecosystembuilding that could contribute to ensure that standardisation plays its role in achieving a DigitalSingle Market. Please explain if a standardisation need/gap exists in the Domain 9: Smart

and the subdomains which you have selected. Please also indicate within whichCitiestime-frame such need could be addressed. Please limit to a maximum of five needs/gaps perdomain or sub-domain:

The current major problems, which Smart cities are facing, are the

fragmentation of service enablement platform and the definition of

common semantics/ontologies besides the need to interwork with legacy

and vertical solutions. See also answers on IoT.

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Q2.4 - Among those below, which action could be a priority in the andDomain 9: Smart Citiesthe subdomains which you have selected? Please rank the list below and explain your choice.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9









• Other

• No opinion

*Please explain:

NC

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Q2.5 - Please indicate any other standardisation initiatives which would help achieving theDigital Single Market in the and the subdomains which you haveDomain 9: Smart Citiesselected, and who in the standardisation landscape would be best placed to lead on theseinitiatives:

Smart Cities are part of IoT and are sharing the same problems with

dramatic evidence due to the Smart Cities multiservice multi-domain

nature.

The major problem is the fragmentation, data sharing and the definition

of common ontologies/semantics and their interoperability and

interworking. Support and community building around oneM2M, as an

interworking framework able to glue together the legacy and the specific

vertical solutions will help achieving the DSM.






Telecom Italia is already involved in significant initiatives of

standardization that will support smart cities such as oneM2M, HGI, ETSI

TC SmartM2M, ETSI TC ITS, as well in relevant industrial consortium such

as Energy@home. Nevertheless this level of involvement is going to be

reduced due to the costs. The standardization activities require a big

effort with a big component of innovation and research investment, most

of them shared with the ICT community. A financial support from the EU

institutions could help maintaining the European excellence in standards

definition.

II.3 Other Comments

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Other comments:

We are interested in all the domains identified in this questionnaire

and we believe that there are as well a lot of other relevant domains.

At the same time we see the questionnaire is going in multiple

directions

The first 4 domains are a sort of system wide enablers of the

communication and storage.

Domain 1: 5G communications

Domain 2: Cloud computing


Domain 4: Data driven services and applications

The remaining domains are component of Domain 8: Internet of Things

Domain 5: Digitisation of European Industry

Domain 6: eHealth and aging

Domain 7: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)


Domain 10: Smart and Efficient Energy Use

And the list can be further extended to other relevant domains.

In general, we agree on some relevant peculiarities of each of these

domains, but we think that these domains overlap and are

inter-correlated.

For this season is preferable not to address them separately, because

the great enemy of the DSM is fragmentation and the major priority is

the selection of solutions capable to address the integration of

services and technologies among these domains. These domains will

continue to have specific protocols and solutions, but it is important

to enable the information sharing at the application layer between

domains and to ensure interworking whenever direct interoperability is

not achievable.

For this reason we have focused our attention on IoT, and on the Smart

Cities domain as champion of all the DSM related domains.

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