A brief look at ETSI

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_at_METIS Kick off meeting March 30-31 WELCOME to
ETSI
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The family tree
EC Green Paper (1987)
CEPT (1959)

MoU January 1988
ETSI, March 88
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Who is who in Europe?

• EU (25) Regulatory framework
• CEPT (43) Frequency issues
• ETSI (55) ICT Standards

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ETSI

• Not-for-profit organization created in 1988
• A recognized European standards organization
• Setting globally applicable standards for
• telecommunications and ICT
• radiocommunications
• broadcasting
• Direct participation
• More than 14,000 publications
• Freely available on the web

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ETSI today

• Wireline, wireless, NGN, VoIP, QoS, Security,
  Satellite comms, Digital TV and radio,
  Interoperability testing, accessibility etc.
• 26 Technical bodies (125 working groups)
• 2 Partnership Projects (22 working groups)
• 21M budget/contribution EC/EFTA 15
• Brand image one of the best in class 
• A track record of industrial successes worldwide

3GPP MESA
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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 standardized cross borders solutions
• ETSI success is based on attracting new Members
  and developing high quality standards that
• enable interoperability
• encourage innovation, open up new markets
• create trust and confidence in products
• bring down costs and increases competition
• avoid duplication of effort

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Membership by Category (Jan. 2005)
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ETSIs relations with ITU, IEC ISO and other
standards bodies
International bodies
ITU-T
ITU-R
JTC1
Fora / Consortia
Interregional Co-operation

• IEEE
• IPv6 Forum
• GSM Association
• DVB Project
• EBU
• Parlay
• IMTC
• WIMAX forum
• TETRA MoU
• ICANN
• 50 others

CENELEC
CEN
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Global Standards Collaboration
Interregional collaboration on selected
standardization subjects between
ARIB(Japan)
TTC(Japan)
ISACC (Canada)
TTA(Korea)
TIA (USA)
ITU(International)
T1 Committee (USA)
ACIF(Australia)
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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 to retain customers
• Standards enable the development
• of profitable industrial ecosystems
• Increase the likelihood of interoperability
• in a multi-equipment provider and
• in a multi-service provider environment

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Standards and service creation

• Standards facilitate a multi-service provider
  environment thereby providing for
• competitive pricing of services
• interchangeable end user terminal equipment
• Standardized solutions
• in the lower and middle layers enable the
  development
• of value added services and applications
• This is highly critical in regions where
• local manufacturing industry
• cannot compete on a global scale (yet)
• the service industry is highly creative and
  competitive
• there is a strong political push to rely on ICT
  and education to develop.

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In case you think standardizers are idealists
ICT sector is a 650billion USD per annum global
industry, the largest sector in the world,
accounting for more than 2 of world GDP and
representing nearly 20 of world trade.
(lirne.net)

• Up to 80 of trade (4 trillion USD per annum)
• is affected by standards or associated technical
  regulations.
• (OECD)

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About Interoperability and Standards
Standards allow different entities to create
technically compatible equipment and services.
It should be noted that interoperability
requires more than mere technical
compatibility. However, without standards
neither compatibility nor interoperability would
be possible.
Report of the High Level Group on DRM, July 04
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• INDEED, SOCIETY, USERS, WE
• ARE NOT INTERESTED IN STANDARDS!

THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS HOW TO MAKE BEST USE
OF STANDARDS TO BUILD SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
THAT WILL BEST SERVE USERS AND MARKETS
INTERESTS
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• WE USERS WANT TO PLUG AND PLAY!
• WE WANT, NEED, INSIST IN
• INTEROPERABILITY!

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Fragmentation of standards making market and
usage driven standardization (e.g. e-gov) ?huge
consequences on Interoperability

• End to end monolithic standards are behind us
• Complex value chains
• Service platform approach
• with multiple horizontal layers
• Standard non-standard
• building blocks for platforms

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Therefore

• The very meaning of interoperability evolves
• with stakeholders and markets needs
• From specifying end to end systems
• to a logic of building blocks
• From standardizing interfaces a priori to
  addressing interoperability of components a
  posteriori
• Very hot topic on ETSIs strategic agenda

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Objectives of _at_METIS

• Create a Europe/Latin America think thank
• on specifications and Interoperability
  profiles
• for e-government applications
• Policies
• Technology strategies
• Enable the development of joint deliverables
  (strategic and/or technical)

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Objectives of the meeting

• Get to know each other better
• Explore common possible strategies and projects
• Highlight areas of common interest
• Select (technical) topics for potential
  ccoperation
• Identify methods for cooperation
• Start elaborating a roadmap

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Agenda-day 1
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Agenda-day 2
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• Gracias, Obrigado, Thank you

Karl Heinz Rosenbrock rosenbrock_at_etsi.org