WTSA-08 Resolutions: Action Plan and Resolution 76 in view of the Council-09

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WTSA-08 Resolutions Action Plan and Resolution
76 in view of the Council-09
ForumImplementation of decisions of the World
Telecommunication Standardization Assembly-08
(WTSA-08)Quito, Ecuador 7 July 2009
Paolo Rosa Head, Workshops and Promotion
Division Telecommunication Standardization
Bureau
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WTSA-08 Resolutions

• 49 Resolutions approved
• 21 are new Resolutions
• Resolutions taking into consideration the needs
  of developing countries
• Standardization gap 17, 44, 56, 59, 72
• Internet 64, 69
• Conformance and interoperability testing 76
• Other 26, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 43, (50), 52, 53,
  54, 58, 61, 63, 68, 71, 73, 74

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WTSA-08 Resolutions Organization and Working
Methods

• 18 Resolutions 1,2, 18,22,26, 31,32,35,38,40,43,4
  5,53,56,57,66, 67, 68 .

• and Series-A
• Recommandations

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WTSA-08 ResolutionsStrategies and Cooperation

• They call the attention of developed countries
  about the need to help and assist developing
  countries BUT also the attention of developing
  countries to put in place structures able to
  better contribute..

• 16 Resolutions concerning strategies and
  cooperation 7,11,17,33,34,44, 54,55,58,59,62,69,7
  0,71,74, 75
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WTSA-08 Resolutions Technical issues

• 15 Resolutions for operational and technical
  issued
• 20,29,47,48,49,50,52,60,61,63,64,65,72,73,et 76

• Study Groups activities to produce
  Recommendations,, handbooks, supplements
• Hot topics
• cybersecurity
• NGN
• Climate change
• Accessibility
• Home Networking
• Future Networks
• ITU Conformity Mark

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Actions

• Actions for Member States
• Actions for Sector Membres Associate
• Actions for the TSB Director
• Actions for the Study Group
• Considerations by the Council-09
• Cooperation with other ITU Sectors

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Implementation from Members

• Awareness and Promotion
• National basic structures to be put in place
  (CIRTs, Labs, NABs, Groups)
• Contribution to the SGs studies
• Participation in meetings
• Dissemination of information and reporting

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Implementation TSB

• TSB developing an Action Plan for implementation
  of all WTSA-08 Resolutions
• Increased number of study group / regional groups
  meetings in the regions planned
• TSB plans workshops on implementation of WTSA-08
  actions in regions with assistance of or
  coordination with of BDT and Regional Offices
• Fellowships now available for all ITU-T study
  group meetings
• Consultancy contracts for production of handbook
  on fibre optics and implementation of Resolution
  70 (accessibility)
• Financial implications of WTSA-08 decisions to be
  incorporated in draft budget to present to
  Council

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Objectives

• Reduce the Standardization gap and of the digital
  divide
• Implement WTSA-08 and prepare to WTSA-12
• Regional and sub-regional cooperation for
  standards, conformity assessment and
  interoperability
• Consider the 2015 objectives of WSIS

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Expected benefits

• Rational utilization of technologies
• Motivation of universities and RD institutions
• Effectiveness of Information
• Facilitation for strategic choices
• Contribution to share knowledge

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Factors !

• Go towards expertise and not wait for it,
  capacity building
• Political decisions to implement Resolutions
• Motivation and formation of youngsters
• Contribution proportional to the available
  resources to ITU-T activities
• Be the Actor and not the Spectator of the future
  of ICTs !

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WTSA-08 Action Plan Who, What, When,

• TSAG-TD 18 informs on TSB Director detailed
• actions to implement all 49 Resolutions
• Action
• General Secretariat, TSB, MS, SM, Study Groups,
  TSAG
• Cooperation with
• General Secretariat, BDT, BR
• Reporting to
• Annually to the Council
• To Council-09 and -10
• To WTSA-12
• To TSAG

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Reporting to Council-09

• Resolution 32 - Strengthening electronic working
  methods for the work of ITU-T
• Resolution 33 - Guidelines ITU-T strategic
  activities
• Resolution 43 - Regional preparations for WTSAs
• Resolution 56 - Roles of TSAG and ITU-T study
  group vice-chairmen from developing countries
• Resolution 64 - IP address allocation and
  encouraging the deployment of IPv6
• Resolutions 71 74 - Admission of academia,
  universities and their associated research
  establishments, Sector Members from developing
  countries to participate in the work of ITU-T
• Resolution 76 - Studies related to conformance
  and interoperability testing, assistance to
  developing countries, and a possible future ITU
  mark programme

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WTSA-08 Action Plan(TD 18/TSAG)
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WTSA-08 Resolution 76(famous as the Resolution
on the ITU mark)

• STUDIES RELATED TO CONFORMANCE AND
  INTEROPERABILITY TESTING, ASSISTANCE TO
  DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1), AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE
  ITU MARK PROGRAM

(1) - These include the least developed
countries, small island developing states and
countries with economies in transition.
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Conformity

• Ability of a product to meet the requirement(s)
  of a standard

Interoperability
Ability of two or more systems or applications
or network management products and services from
different suppliers to exchange information and
to mutually / fruitfully make use of it
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WTSA-08 Resolution 76

• resolves
• 1 that ITU-T Study Groups develop the necessary
  conformance testing ITU-T Recommendations for
  telecommunications equipment asap
• 2 that ITU-T Recommendations to address
  interoperability testing shall be progressed
  asap
• 3 that ITU-T in collaboration with the other
  Sectors as appropriate, shall develop a program
  to

• assist developing countries in capacity-building
  and training opportunities in conformity and
  interoperability testing
• assist developing countries in establishing
  regional or sub-regional centres suitable to
  perform conformity and interoperability testing
  as appropriate

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WTSA-08 Resolution 76

• 4 that conformance and interoperability testing
  requirements shall provide for verification of
  the parameters defined in the current and future
  ITU-T Recommendations
• instructs the Director of the Telecommunication
  Standardization Bureau

1 in cooperation with the BR BDT, to conduct
exploratory activities in each region to identify
and prioritizing the problem faced by developing
countries related to achieving interoperability
of ICT equipment and services

• 2 based on results of instructs the Director of
  TSB 1 above, to study the items below
• a) the overall effect on ITU and manufacturers
• b) legal and national and international
  regulatory implications
• c) cost of set up of facility
• d) location of testing facility
• e) measures to be taken to build the necessary
  human resource capacities

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WTSA-08 Resolution 76

• 3 to carry out the necessary studies with the
  view to introduce the use of ITU Mark as a
  voluntary program permitting manufacturers and
  service providers to make a visible declaration
  that their equipment conform to ITU-T
  Recommendations, and to increase the probability
  of interoperability and to consider its possible
  application as an indication of a degree of
  interoperability capability in the future
• 4 to study the financial and legal implications
  for the ITU-T and ICT industries, and all other
  concerns raised with regard to this proposal
  regarding the possible introduction of the ITU-T
  Mark

• 5 to involve experts and external entities as
  appropriate
• 6 to submit the result of these studies to
  Council-09 for its consideration and required
  actions

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WTSA-08 Resolution 76

• instructs the study groups
• 1 to identify as soon as possible those existing
  and future ITU-T Recommendations candidates for
  interoperability tests e.g. interoperability of
  NGN equipment, terminals, audio video codecs,
  access and transport network that are capable of
  providing end-to-end interoperable services on a
  global scale
• 2 to prepare those ITU-T Recommendations with a
  view to conducting conformity and
  interoperability tests as appropriate

• invites the Council
• 1 to consider the report of the TSB Director
  above,
• 2 to report as appropriate on this matter to the
  2010 Plenipotentiary Conference taking into
  account Resolution 158 (Antalya, 2006) Financial
  issues for consideration by the Council
• invites Member States and Sector Members
• 1 to contribute to the implementation of this
  Resolution
• 2 to encourage national and regional testing
  entities to assist
• ITU-T in implementing this Resolution.

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ITU IEC - ISO

• In June 2008, the 7th meeting of the World
  Standards Cooperation (WSC) recognized that
• global conformity assessment the accepted way
  of demonstrating that a product or service
  adheres to an International Standard, and its
  increasing importance in the context of the
  commitments of WTO Member States under the TBT
  Agreement.
• The promotion of standardization and conformity
  assessment was seen as facilitating global trade
  and providing tangible benefits to users of both
  standards and conformity assessment.

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ISO/CASCO (ITU-T A liaison org.)

• ISO/CASCO is ISO's policy development committee
  on conformity assessment preparing documents
  concerning the practice and operation of
  conformity assessment, and to promote their use.
• Study means of assessing the conformity of
  products, processes, services and management
  systems to standards
• Prepare standards and guides relating to the
  practice of testing, inspection and certification
  of products, processes and services, and to the
  assessment of management systems, testing
  laboratories, inspection, certification and
  accreditation bodies, and their operation and
  acceptance (Toolkit including ISO 17007 - 17011
  - 17025 17050 17065 )
• Promote mutual recognition and acceptance of
  national and regional conformity assessment
  systems.

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Some reasons WHY Res. 76 exists

• A number of Member States, Sector Members and
  end-users have reported problems with an increase
  in the supply of poor quality and even dangerous
  equipment, not interoperable of which a
  proportion has proved to be counterfeit or to
  have been illegally imported.
• Some Governments lack effective systems to ensure
  that appropriate technical regulations, based on
  international standards, are in place and
  enforced in order to meet their obligations to
  protect the safety of their citizens using
  telecommunications equipment and services and to
  meet their requirements for quality of service.

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Some results from the studies_1

• Need of testing for conformity assessment and
  interoperability in a Certified/Accredited
  voluntary programme to demonstrate compliance of
  products to standards
• Need to establish reciprocal international
  recognition of laboratories and certifiers to
  reduce costs of multiple repeated testing and
  creation of barriers to trade (ILAC, IAF) two or
  more partners recognizes respective laboratories
  to have equivalent competence to carry out the
  same conformity assessment tasks.
• Industry reaction? Massively involved (WiFi
  Alliance, WiMAX , IEEE-ICAP, ) in certification
  and interoperability testing

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Some results from the studies_2

• Positive impact on
• ITU (Recomm, ITU mission, Promo Recs)
• Industry (costs, widen market ? MRAs, no TBT
  issues)
• End Users (Regulators, QoS, interoperability)
• Developing Countries (capacity building
  opportunities, labs, stand. Gap, testing culture)
• Need to allocate budget and human resources to
  fully implement the programme (resolves and
  instructs)

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Some fundamental elements

• The vendors decision for testing is voluntary
• Tests in1st, 2nd, 3rd party labs
• Role of a independent Accredited Certifier
• Possible accreditation by a National
  Accreditation Body (NAB) , ensuring that they
  comply with specific requirements for independent
  activities (ISO).
• Possible affiliation to ILAC / IAF for MRAs and
  MLAs (Mutual Recognition or Multi Lateral
  Agreements)
• Certification of Conformity always conducted by
  an accredited third party entity
• A Suppliers Declaration of conformity issued by
  an executive expressly designated by the vendor
  that, after e.g. 1st or 3rd party testing) ,
  according to ISO 17050

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ITU conformity programme

• Encourage and assist for Conformity Assessement
  and Interoperability Testing Developing Countries
  laboratories and capacity building opportunities
• Encourage vendors to carry out conformity
  assessment and interoperability testing
• Develop and operate a voluntary ITU Conformity
  Mark scheme to
• enable vendors to make reference and/or to give
  visibility to ITU when conformity and, when
  possible, inter-operability requirements have
  been demonstrated in the context of the scheme
• to stimulate and develop the culture of the need
  of conformance assessment testing, capacity
  building, surveillance worldwide

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The Vendor

• A vendor who receives a certificate issued by an
  accredited certifier indicating its equipment has
  been tested to show conformity or
  interoperability to ITU-T Recommendation(s), or
  provides a declaration by a high ranking
  executive of the company to that effect, may
  request ITU to acknowledge the availability of
  the certification or declaration and permit the
  visible recognition by means of an ITU Conformity
  Mark

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The ITU conformity mark scheme ITU (inside)
concept

• a scheme relying on accredited testing and
  certification. Accreditation will provide
  confidence in the results of the conformity
  assessment process.
• The accreditation filter
• route 1 Accredited laboratory and Suppliers
  declaration
• route 2 testing performed under the
  responsibility of an accredited certifier

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Suppliers declaration, When?

• risk associated with non compliance is low and
  penalties for placing noncompliant products on
  the market are affordable, and
• removal efforts from the market of noncompliant
  products is adequate.

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3rd Party Certification, when?

• Certification is always conducted by a third
  party and is adopted if the risks associated with
  non-conformity are from moderate to high
• Certification includes evaluation of test results
  and the attestation of the compliance to referred
  standards
• Conformity and Certification to foresee a sort of
  in-factory / market/ periodical form of
  surveillance to ensure ongoing conformity

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Suppliers Declaration / Certification Risk
relationship
RISK
Certification
Moderate
Low
High
Suppliers Declaration
Need of Independence
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ITU-T Recs test suites
Vendors testing Process
Accredited Certifier Superv.
Suppliers Supervision
Suppliers conformity testing decision
The Filter 1st 2nd or 3rd party accredited
laboratory ISO 17025
Testing Laboratory ITU-T X.290
The Filter 3rd Accredited Party Evaluation
Testing ITU-T X.290 Evaluation
Testing ITU-T X.290 No Filter Evaluation
No
No
Vendors non-conformity procedure
Yes
Yes
Conformity Certificate issued by Certifier
Vendors Declaration of Conformity
Voluntary Suppliers participation in
ITU Conformity Programme
ITU Mark Scheme
Possible Annexed Documentation ) Product(s) info
concerned Recs ) Test reports/results )
Conformity Certificate / Suppliers
Declaration ) Labs data )
ITU conformity Mark license May be issued
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TSB Directors report to Council-09

• TSB Directors Experts and consultants to help in
  the preparation of the TSB Directors report to
  the Council
• ITU TSB, BDT,BR and Legal Affairs experts
• Representatives of Administrations
• Experts in training, testing, certification,
  market analysis
• Representatives of Regulators and Industry
• Participation in and organization of events
• (Geneva 20-21 JULY 09)
• CONSULTATION MEETING ON CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT AND
  INTEROPERABILITY

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Conclusions on Res. 76

• The Res. 76 standardization, testing program and
  suppliers declaration / certification to meet
  the needs of Developing Countries for conformance
  and interoperability
• The conformity as a first step to increase the
  probability of interoperability between different
  manufacturers, vendors, service providers
• The identification of Labs able to carry out
  tests according to the ITU-T Recommendations
  requirements and training programs
• The voluntary based ITU conformity programme as a
  demonstration of conformance to ITU-T Recs.
• The increased business opportunities and benefits
  to both suppliers and customers
• Need of a surveillance strategy

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• Muchas gracias!
• Unas preguntas?
• Paolo Rosa
• Head, Workshops and Promotion Division
• Telecommunication Standardization
• Bureau
• paolo.rosa_at_itu.int

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