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International Electrotechnical Commission
Sector Board 4 Infrastructure of
Telecommunications Networks Bringing market views
into the standardization process Michel P. de
Vecchis Director, Standards Alcatel Optical
Fiber Division Chairman Sector Board 4
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IECs mission

• Founded in 1906 to promote international
  co-operation on all questions of standardization
  and related matters in the field of
  electrotechnology

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IECs mission (cont.)

• To achieve this mission, the IEC
• through its National Committee members,
• through cooperative agreements, and
• directly
• encourages national use of IEC International
  Standards and IEC Conformity Assessment Schemes
• stimulates world trade and business by
  continually striving to assure
• product results are globally market relevant,
• suitable for conformity assessment use, and
• applicable for worldwide use and voluntary
  adoption
• provides the framework for Conformity Assessment
  in global markets

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Types of participation

• Membership one member per country
• 52 members
• 11 Associate members
• Total members 63
• Affiliate Country programme
• 51 countries have joined

2002-04-30
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NCs what they are

• Member bodies of the IEC are the National
  Committees, NCs one per country
• NCs represent in IEC each nations
  electrotechnical interests
• manufacturers, providers, distributors, vendors
• consumers, users
• governmental agencies (all levels)
• professional societies, trade associations
• standards developers

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NCs what they do

• Support the use of IEC conformity assessment
  schemes and standards within each nation and
  region
• Coordinate each nations consensus viewpoint and
  present in IEC via participation in the meetings
  
• International consensus standards development,
• Conformity assessment scheme operations, and
• IEC governance
• Members may vote on all policy issues and
  technical matters one country, one vote

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TCs how they work

• Technical committees and subcommittees are made
  up of
• a secretariat
• a chairman
• members, which are NCs
• All NCs are free to take part in the work of any
  TC, either
• actively (P-members), carrying the obligation to
  vote on drafts and to attend meetings or
• as observers (O-members), with a right to vote on
  FDIS

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Organization chart
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Direct industry influence

• Presidents Advisory Committee on future
  Technologies (PACT)
• top-level industry players long-term planning
• Industry Sector Boards
• brings industry managers into the
  priority-setting process for standardization
  medium-term planning
• Direct industry liaisons
• designed for IEC-PAS
• Systems committees
• groups related TCs and SCs

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Benefits to business

• Influence the developments and content of IEC
  standards
• Early warning of developing markets, establish
  customer contacts
• Improve product safety and quality
• Rationalization and cost reduction in design and
  manufacturing

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Benefits to business (cont.)

• Acceptance of products on world markets
• Meet future environmental demands
• Access to the latest technology
• Adds up to
• Reduced transaction costs
• Increased trade

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Benefits to governments

• International standards are best source for
  governments for
• legislation/regulation
• issuing tenders
• Recognized source for WTO compliance
• contributing towards fulfilment of the World
  Trade Organizations Agreement on Technical
  Barriers to Trades
• Standards provide detailed technical
  interpretation of the law

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What are Sector Boards?

• Advisory committees to the SMB (Standards
  Management Board)
• In one industry sector
• Main objectives
• setting of priorities by market relevance
• systems approach to standards needs
• long-term strategy for standards in the sector
• Not responsible for coordination or implementation

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Priority setting

• Main task of a Sector Board
• May involve
• proposing work on an urgent item not (yet) in
  work program
• raising the priority of an existing work item
• recommending no effort, or less effort, on an
  existing work item whose market priority is seen
  to be lower
• Chief criterion is always market relevance
• Technical complexity / maturity may also play a
  role

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Effect of SBs recommendations

• SB must express opinion on new work proposals
  (NP) and work items
• recommend high or low priority
• If SB recommends terminating a project
• frees up experts time for something more
  important
• quality image of IEC work is improved
• If SB recommends high priority for a project
• increases strength and legitimacy of project
• Recommendations only can always be discussed

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SB 4s industrial sector

• Infrastructure of telecommunications networks
  Basic building blocks to support
  telecommunications systems
• expected lifetime longer than the applications
  using it
• used by different applications sequentially or
  simultaneously

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SB 4s industrial sector (cont.)

• Includes
• all types of physical media their means of
  interconnection
• physical interface to the media
• installation, testing, validation and maintenance
• rules of safety, compatibility (e.g. EMC),
  non-interference

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SB 4 in brief

• Established in 1998
• 13 countries
• About 20 members representing
• industrial companies (MNCs and SMEs)
• users (telecom operators)
• end consumers
• Meetings 12/98, 5/99, 10/99, 3/00, 9/00,
  4/01, 10/01 and 4/02

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SB 4 in brief (cont.)

• Recommendations to the SMB in 10/99, 3/00, 10/01
  and 4/02
• 3 task forces on specific items
• Future Watch Group (FWG)
• industry participation
• review group New Work Proposals (NWP)

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SB 4 main points

• Produce recommendations based on market relevant
  priorities (installation, EMC, xDSL, DWDM)
• Establish a Future Watch Group (FWG) with
  internal reports
• Launch a New Work review process
• Promote and support IEC work (support experts
  work, promotional event)

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SB 4 main points (cont.)

• Need for high speed publications (pre-standards)
  accepted in Oct. 2000
• for fast moving technologies
• help IEC to maintain its pre-eminent position
  over consortia/fora
• Recommendations on relationships between system
  and component committees to avoid confusing the
  market

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Related technical committees

• TC 46 Cables, wires, wave guides, R.F.
  connectors and accessories for communication and
  signalling
• TC 48 Electromechanical components and
  mechanical structures for electronic equipment
• TC 86 Fibre optics

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Related TCs (cont.)

• TC 100 / TA 5 Cable distribution networks
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 Interconnection of
  information technology equipment
• Cooperation with ITU-T ( SG6 and SG15 in
  particular)

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Main priorities

• Pre-standards for high-technology (fibre
  optics)
• Standardizing installation conditions
  instructions
• DWDM-techniques optical amplifiers, fibres
• xDSL-techniques installed/new passive
  infrastructures
• Major changes in fibre types influence on
  standards

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Future Watch Group

• First report published
• Describes
• expected (future) traffic growth
• telecommunications services offered
• techniques used
• migration paths
• developments needed to realise traffic expansion
• Recommends standardization in
• five items listed on previous slide, and also for
• new developments in Multimedia Home Cabling

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Pre-standards background

• Need for a quick way of publishing orientation
  documents identified by SB 4
• For quickly evolving technologies it is important
  to provide orientations to the market when
• there is a sufficient technical consensus
• it could be a basis for a future Standard
• it is not possible to wait for the time needed to
  reach a full consensus
• Example of foreseen field of application
• optoelectronic components

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Pre-standard situation

• Proposal made by SB 4 to the IEC Standardization
  Management Board
• accepted on a trial basis of three years in the
  Stockholm General Meeting, October 2000, as
  internal PAS (Publicly Available
  Specifications)
• already several Pre-Standard proposals made and
  accepted or under voting

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Strategic review of TCs

• First time in Firenze (10/01) with TC 86 and SCs
• Five priorities for future discussions
• 1. Cooperation IEC SC 86A / ITU-T SG6 on Cable
  Systems concerning new solutions - ??
• 2. Possibility of having a single, joint type of
  deliverable from ITU-T SG15 and IEC SC 86A
  concerning fibre - ??
• 3. Is the number of connector standards too
  large?
• 4. Need to consider new Plastic Optical Fibres -
  ??
• 5. Access loop and FTTx