Emergency Telecommunication Service ETS Standards Initiatives

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Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS)
Standards Initiatives

• Hal Folts
• Senior Systems Engineer
• Priority Services Team - Internet
• 703 607-6186
• foltsh_at_ncs.gov

Presentation for EMTEL Workshop ETSI
Headquarters Sofia Antipolis, France 26-27
February 2002
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Agenda

• Background
• Issues Under Consideration
• Objectives and Focus of work
• Project TIPHON Work Items
• Progress and Accomplishments
• Time Line
• Following the Action
• Abbreviations

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Emergency Communications
Telecommunication services to support recovery
operations
Ensure effective communications to support
recovery operations through severely congested
and impaired resources during times of disaster
e.g. earth quakes, hurricanes, floods, volcano
eruptions, terrorist attacks
Authorized users e.g. medical services, fire
brigades, police, government and industry
recovery teams
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Why ETS
Serious Disasters happen any place, any time,
unexpectedly
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GETS
The Government Emergency Telecommunications
Service (GETS)
GETS established to provide emergency access and
specialized processing in local and long-distance
telephone networks for authorized users
GETS access is through a simple dialing plan and
personal identification number (PIN)
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Telecom Evolution
FUTURE OF NS/EP COMMUNICATIONS
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Goal
Fully integrated NS/EP services received through
execution of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with
service providers using standard capabilities
inherent in infrastructure
i.e. avoid retrofits
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ETS
IEPS International Emergency Preference Scheme
ITU-T Recommendation E.106 IEMS International
Emergency Multimedia Service ITU-T Draft
Recommendation F.706
are collectively being referred to as Emergency
Telecommunications Service (ETS)
ETS can then be used in either an international
or national context
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Objectives of ETS

• Selection of multimedia telephony services
• Rapid authentication of authorized ETS users
• Security protection of ETS traffic
• Preferential access to telecom facilities
• Preferential establishment of ETS communications
• Preferential routing of emergency ETS traffic
• Preferential use of operational resources for ETS
• Preferential completion of ETS traffic
• Optional pre-emption of non-emergency traffic
• Allowable degradation of QoS for ETS traffic
• Interchange of critical service management info

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Fulfillment
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Issues Being Pursued
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TIPHON Initiative
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Many Considerations

• Technical solutions being sought

• Industry networking standards that fulfill ETS
  requirements

• Enhance ETS operations with value-added
  capabilities

• Operational
• Policy
• Legal
• Regulatory

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Progress
Established ETS Requirements in all major
industry standards bodies
Approved and advanced drafts of ETS framework
Enthusiastic industry support
First drafts of ETS technical specifications
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Time Line
January 2001 Identified initial work areas for
technical focus and initial technical area for
enhanced features
December 2001 ETS requirements adopted in work
programs of ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, ANSI T1, and TIA
March 2001 December 2003 Proactively provide
technical contributions and participate in work
of specific technical areas of industry standards
activities
Autumn 2002 ? First meaningful standards to be
established and adopted by industry
FY 2002 2004 ? Prototyping work to validate
applications of newly agreed upon industry
standards
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Following the Action
Interact on the issues
Technical discussions ieprep_at_ietf.org
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Lets All Work Together
Please visit www.iepscheme.net for more
information.
Thank You
Hal Folts
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Back-up Slides
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Accomplishments - 1

• ITU approval of E.106, IEPS
• ITU Pending approval of F.706, IEMS
• ETS Rqmts in ITU-T SG-4, 11, 13, 16, SSG
• Draft M.ieps, critical mgt data interchange, SG-4
• SG 13 Draft Y.roec recommendation for emergency
  communications
• T1A1 Draft TR on ETS in Emerging Networks
• Draft H.priority under development, SG-16
• Revisions to H.246 new H.gef.4 for call control
  (H.323)
• Draft H.ets-security under development in SG16

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Accomplishments - 2

• ETS Rqmts in ETSI TIPHON Release 3 Documents
  1008, 1009, 3016
• ETS Major work items in ETSI TIPHON Release 4 5
  programs
• Four RFCs in progress in IETF ETS Framework,
  ETS Security, RTP addition, ETS White Paper
• BOF session on ETS at IETF 52, December 2001
• Project established in T1M1 for ETS
  service/network mgt aspects
• Work underway in T1S1 on revisions to T1.631 HPC
  standard
• Several work actions in 3d generation wireless
  activities

Standards development is a process of
consistency, persistence, patience
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Abbreviations
ANSI American National Standards Institute ETS
Emergency Telecommunications Service ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards
Institute IAA I Am Alive IEMS International
Emergency Multimedia Scheme IEPS International
Emergency Preference Scheme IETF Internet
Engineering Task Force ISAC Information Sharing
and Analysis Center ISDN Integrated Services
Digital Network ITU-T International
Telecommunication Union, Telecommunication
Standardization Sector NGN Next Generation
Network NS/EP National Security and Emergency
Preparedness NSTAC National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee PLMN
Public Land Mobile Network PSTN Public Switched
Telephone Network SC Telecommunications Service
Customer SP Telecommunications Service
Provider TIPHON Telecommunication and Internet
Protocol Harmonization over Networks TIA
Telecommunications Industry Association (N.
America)