Standardization

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• Standardization -
• Welcome to the Market Place
• Dr. Helmut Schink
• helmut.schink_at_icn.siemens.de
• ETSI

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Outline

• Standardization - Welcome to the Market Place
• ETSI - Facts, Overview, main topics
• TIPHON - A Bit of a Rebel
• Ideas - (Nothing Official !)

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The Standards Market

• Very competitive due to
• - Liberalization of the Telecommunications
  Market
• - Internet
• Some big players
• - ETSI (Excellent Telecommunication Standards
  Institute)
• - ITU (International Telecommunications Union)
• - IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
• - and lots of fora ...

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Measuring Success

• There is a perfect measure for the success of a
  standard

--gt its the MARKET
However, we dont have crystal ball when start
the work

• In the meantime, can have other (imperfect)
  measures

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Measuring Success

• of deliverables / pages, finished on time
• of Technical Documents contributed
• of new ETSI members attracted
• of attendees
• Recognition among the main players
• Quality of people coming to standards meetings
• contributing to mailing lists
• Citation-index how many times does a standards
  
• project get referenced (mailing lists, press
  releases) ?
• Results of the evaluation questionnaire
• Spin-off activities
• Innovations

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Each forum can potentially impact our business,
either positively or negatively (Nortel)
Number of fora/consortia
Year
Source Nortel report by Roy Mills March 1999
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Further Motivation for Fora

• Every manufacturer would like to do without
  standards ...
• if he had the market clout
• Weird situation big manufacturers are members of
  all standards bodies and most fora
• --gt forum cartel ?!
• Fora want to circumvent the (sort-of-)democratic
  / open standards process of established bodies

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Comparative analysis of fora/consortia..

• Organizations evaluated
• IMTC
• WAP Forum
• OpenGroup
• IETF
• ATM Forum
• OMG
• SoftSwitch
• W3C
• Bluetooth
• IEEE

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Findings of the comparative analysis

• Trans-national membership
• Development of international markets
• Perceived as market responsive
• Well-defined objectives
• Strong branding policies
• Interoperability
• IP Focus
• Small Boards (5-10)
• Founding members set the direction
• Post-ETSI creation
• Pay-as-you-go

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Fora are far from perfect...

• STRENGTHS
• Can produce quick results
• Focused
• Strong customer engagement
• Easy to join in
• Global
• Market-creating

• WEAKNESSES
• Lack of structure
• No formal government endorsement
• Uncertainties about outputs (technical quality)
• Can be driven by strong personalities

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But they have a perceived niche in the market
Quality of outputs
FORA create technology
Fast Followers
First Movers
Late adopters
Time
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• ETSI -
• Facts

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What Who is ETSI?

• A standards organization, active in all areas of
  telecommunications
• Industry led market driven
• ETSI Secretariat situated in France
• Created in 1988
• Most known for GSM standard
• All standards available free of charge

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Network Operators 18
Users 4
Research Bodies Service Providers Others 17
Administrations 9
Manufacturers 52
700 members 50 countries across 5 continents
Composition of Membership (4/99)
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Membership by country (23/04/99)
Total number of Members 552 (35 countries) plus
Observers 62 (18 countries) plus
Associate Members 83 (15 countries) TOTAL
697
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ETSI Strategic Objectives

• Leadership in 3rd Generation Mobile
• Recognized player in IP
• Driver in fixed networks

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Big ETSI Technical Projects

• TIPHON Connecting Voice over IP Phone Networks
• UMTS Universal Mobile Telecom. System
• IN Intelligent Networks
• DECT Cordless / RLL / Mobility
• ERM EMC Radio Spectrum
• SES Communication via Satellite
• TMN Telecommunications Management Networks
• TETRA Terrestrial Trunked Radio
• etc.

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3rd Generation Partnership Project
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3GPP Partners
Organization Partners SDOs ETSI T1 Committee
1 - Telecommunication ARIB Association of Radio
Industries and Businesses TTC Telecommunication
Technology Committee TTA Telecommunication
Technology Association CWTS China Wireless
Telecommunication Standards
Market Representation Partners UMTS Forum GSM
Association GSA Global Mobile Suppliers
Association UWCC Universal Wireless
Communication Consortium
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Broadband Radio Access
ETSI BRAN - Broadband Radio Access Networks

• HIPERLAN
• 25 Mb/s short range, 5 GHz band, cordless, up
  to 200 m, indoor/campus license exempt
• HIPERACCESS
• 25 Mb/s long range, up to 5 km, licenced or
  license exempt (short range), residential,
  small/medium business access
• HIPERLINK
• 155 Mb/s interconnect HIPERACCESS HIPERLAN ,
  license exempt

Collaboration with IEEE 802.11
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ETSI IP-related activities

• ETSI SPAN Services and Protocol for Advanced
  Networks
• ETSI TIPHON
• ETSI UMTS
• 3GPP
• (ETSI BRAN, ETSI TETRA, )

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• TIPHON -
• A Bit of a Rebel

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What is ETSIs Project TIPHON ?

• No standard way of pronouncing TIPHON -)
• No one remembers what acronym stands for -)
• Cool name though IP, Phon(e), Typhoon
• TIPHON Connecting VoIP and phone networks
• Founded May 1997

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Example Scenario 1 IP --gt Phone

• Authentication Authorization of Internet users
• SS7 interworking

Originator H.323-Terminal

• Some Issues
• How to find appropriate gatekeepers gateways?
• How do service-providers assure quantifiable QoS
  across different networks?

Gateway
Target SCN Terminal
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TIPHON is exploring new ways within ETSI

• TIPHON is international (dont even think about
  spelling out the E in ETSI)
• Meetings outside Europe (USA, Asia)
• Mailing lists are public
• All Documents (incl. working docs) are public and
  free of charge
• Philosophy of Running Code

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2 Religions Conformance Testing vs. Running
Code

• Conformance testing
• Testing an implementation against a test machine.
• Abstract Test Suites, written in TTCN (comp.
  language)
• ISO standard on conformance testing
• Interoperability testing (running code)
• Testing an implementation against another
  implementation
• A corner stone in standards process of IETF

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Running Code in TIPHON

• Interoperability Events, jointly with IMTC
• 1_at_ ETSI, Jan. 99 (30 comp., 80 engineers)
• 2, Boston, April 99 (30 comp., 80 engineers)
• 3_at_ ETSI, June 99 (20 comp., 50 engineers)
• Right now IMTC SuperOp!, Sept 99, Hawaii

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• Ideas -
• (Feedback appreciated )

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What is ETSIs Future Role?

• Training acitivites to bring newcomers up to
  speed?
• Run seminars to explore and explain techn.
  concepts?
• Develop capability for remote meeting
  participation?
• Become open to alternative technologies?
• Create a forum-hostingcapability?
• Look into validation of standards also via
  interop testing?

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Standards Validation (also) via Interoperability
Testing - An ETSI Initiative

• Standards validation not only through
• conformance testing, but also through
• interoperability testing
• Successful non-commercial models
• University of New Hampshire
• TU Berlin

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Organization (logical)
Standards Validation via Interop Testing
Interop Consortia
TIPHON
ADSL
Hiperlan
...

• Project/Technical Body decides
• ETSI issues Call for interop testing expertise
• Universities (and test houses ?!) apply
• (Geographically) distributed interop consortia

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Interop Services

• Writing interoperability test cases (in prose
  and/or programming language)
• Building test tools
• Executing interoperability events (face-to-face
  remote)
• Providing feedback to ETSI

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Membership Financing

• Open (also to non-ETSI companies)
• Membership fee separate from regular ETSI
  membership fee
• Annual fee (ETSI members pay less)
• Members may or may not leave equipment on site
  (case-by-case)

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ETSI in ICANN
ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers
ASO Address Supporting Organization the
system of IP adresses DNSO Domain Name
Supporting Organization the domain name
system PSO Protocol Supporting Organization
assignment of parameters for Internet protocols
ETSI has already signed the PSO MoU and intends
to also sign for ASO and DNSO
ETSI is a member of CORE
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