A S T A P Seoul 47 Aug 2003

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• Trends in Standardization
• Gary Fishman
• ITU-T TSAG Chairman
• ASTAP
• Seoul, 4-7 August 2003

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• Trends in Telecom and ICT
• Convergence
• Next Generation Networks
• Technologies optical, IP, wireless, .....
• Applications security, mobile,
• multimedia, ....

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• What will be standardized in the future?
• The marketplace, technologists, users and
  dreamers will propose the WHAT. These will be
  the future trends in standards.
• However, Trends in Standardization and Trends in
  Standards are not the same thing.
• Trends in Standardization is the HOW

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• Trends in Standardization
• Process right speed, openness, ease of use
• Costs lower costs for SDOs and users
• Funding Models who pays for what
• Structure right structure to do work and
• attract participation
• IPR in standards RAND or Royalty Free

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• Trends in the Environment

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• Trends in Standardization
• Examine some issues and trends
• See how some national, regional and
• International SDOs have adapted
• Japan/TTC, USA/T1, Europe/ETSI,
  International/JTC-1

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• TTC
• STRUCTURE PROCESS
• - SWG draft standard went to WG WG sent to TC
  TC sent to TA TA approved standard
• gt eliminated TC level
• gt Strategy Committee created to oversee WGs, set
  work methods, create and delete WGs
• APPROVAL PROCESS
• - working level decision-making was based on
  consensus
• - introduced majority voting

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• TTC (continued)
• WORKING METHODS
• - increased use of electronic working and
  paperless meetings
• IPR policy revisions to harmonize wording with
  ITU-T Patent Policy
• OBSERVATIONS Majority voting, faster creation of
  WGs, e-working, harmonized wording of patent
  policy
• TREND Create the right groups as needed,
  majority voting, RAND patent policy

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• Committee T1
• Harder for members to host and attend meetings of
  Technical Sub-Committees (TSCs)
• gt Smaller TSCs hotels wouldnt commit
• gt Members had smaller travel budgets
• Considered and rejected structural consolidation
  to fewer TSCs
• Solution Co-locate TSC meetings, hosted by
  Secretariat, paid by higher dues
• gt Shares costs among all members

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• T1 (continued)
• OBSERVATIONS Used operational solution instead
  of structural mergers facilitated joint
  meetings reduced member costs combined
  attendance satisfied hotel requirements
• TREND Funding model changed to shift costs from
  a few members to all members innovative
  operational changes avoided disruptive procedural
  or structural changes

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• ETSI
• Technical Organization Reform (TOR) report to
  ETSI Board
• gt No perceived distinction between Technical
  Committees (TC) and ETSI Projects (EP)
• gt Only one type of technical group is needed
• IPR Policy
• gt Decided not to modify policy but to review
• implementation of the policy, improve
  understanding and prepare implementation
  guidelines, similar to what ITU-T has done

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• ETSI (continued)
• OBSERVATIONS Subtle differences in working
  structures, while loved by standards
  parliamentarians, are not meaningful to higher
  levels in the organization nor to users of the
  output products
• TREND Keep structures simple raise awareness of
  IPR policy implementation rules.

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• JTC-1
• Much of initial work was done participation was
  dropping
• Radical changes were attempted
• - Proposals to flatten its structure failed
• - Proposals to expand national delegations with
  company participation failed
• - Attempts for fast-track approval of Publicly
  Available Specns have not been successful
• gt Rubber-stamping role was not attractive
• gt Possibly would diminish parent body
• revenue from sale of standards

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• JTC-1 (continued)
• Successful areas
• gt Started new work in biometric security
• gt Instituted paperless meetings and balloting
• OBSERVATIONS Having 2 parent bodies makes change
  difficult new work preferred to rubber-stamping
  work of others national standards are not
  accepted as is as international standards
• TREND Experts attracted by meaningful work, not
  internal reforms hierarchical decision-making
  reduces effectiveness finances are important

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• What can we learn from these trends?
• The right work projects, created when needed,
  will attract experts
• Keep structures clear and simple
• Increase IPR awareness
• Need a rational funding model
• Change without disruption is possible

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• Why are so many SDOs looking at change?

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• Teenager Theory of Standardization Trends
• Teenagers
• - need to assert their own identity
• - dont want to look like their parents
• - dont want to act like their parents
• Teens, and SDOs in their teens, will behave in
  strange ways
• - some good and some not so good
• - Some innocent and some serious
• - Some lead to growth and some to errors

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• What comes next for standardization?
• The elders should
• - Allow questioning and growth
• - Provide a stable environment
• - Provide guidance, reason and consistency
• - Accept that some change is inevitable and can
  be positive
• Teenagers will find there is value in, and that
  they can learn from, past experience

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