TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT

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TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT

• Anil Kripalani, Chair
• August 2002 Board Meeting

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Overview

• Technical Committee Activities
• International Standards
• ANSI-related activities
• Cost controls
• ATIS/T1 Update
• Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and
  Homeland Security
• WLAN activities
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) brief

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Technical Committee Activities

• TC has not met since last Board meeting
• Next TC meeting on September 5, 2002
• IPR Working Group has met and other work being
  done electronically
• Planning Legal Seminar for legal reps from
  participants in standards program
• SDO Liability, Antitrust, IPR related to
  standards
• Engineering Manual in place, accepted by ANSI
• Elections conducted, training underway
• Engineering Manual Ad Hoc reactivated for further
  enhancements in process Chair Steve Swanson

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International Standards

• Presented briefings on Project MESA --Mobility
  for Emergency and Safety Applications
• Next MESA meeting in September in Copenhagen
• Continue to cover ITU activities but at reduced
  level due to reduction in force and travel
  constraints
• TIA added to Steering Committee for
  Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)
  preparations
• Preparations underway for next ICSCA meeting in
  Austin, TX in November and Global Standards
  Collaboration (GSC) meeting in Ottawa in April
  2003

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ANSI - related Activities

• ANSIs 5-year audit for TIA scheduled for April
  2003, preparing now
• 1998 Audit 216 ANStds, 22 audited, cost to TIA
  24,487
• 2003 Audit est 550 ANS, 40 expected audits,
  cost 54,300
• Reviewing ANSI National Standards Strategy (NSS)
• To be discussed with Technical Committee
  membership for possible TIA endorsement
• Restructuring of ANSI approved for implementation
  in 2003
• speed up ANSI decision making and allow greater
  participation
• TIA staff (D. Bart) on ANSI Board Exec Comm
  also Chair of Organizational Member Council

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Standards Cost controls

• Staff in Standards and Technology Dept reduced by
  3.5 HC
• Cost reductions for Meeting expenses
• centralize locations for Formulating Group
  meetings
• planning to outsource meeting planner function
• preferred hotel chains
• Cost reductions for 2002 Standards and Technology
  Annual Report (STAR)
• electronic only, no printing or mailing costs
• will be on web site and standards catalog CD.
• Use of in-house list servers for e-mail
  distribution is in implementation
• terminating contract with Lyris
• Expense budget, particularly head count, travel
  and training, down 444K for 2002

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Additional Cost / Revenue Items

• Examining Engineering Committee structure
• potential reduction in number of Engineering
  Committees
• begun discussions with Chairs on future
  directions for TIA standards program
• TIA co-hosting international IEC Sector Board 4
  mtg
• meeting in Atlanta, planned for November
• domestic co-hosting cost and domestic travel much
  less expensive than attending an international
  meeting abroad
• Potential Revenues
• Non-TIA member Engineering Committee
  Participation revenues expected to be better than
  forecast
• helping to offset reduced standards royalty
  revenues
• Seeking federal funding for portion of MESA
  support costs
• Standards Education opportunities?

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ATIS / T1 Update

• Committee T1 reported reduced membership
• Down to 68 voting T1 members and 45 are
  manufacturers
• ATIS/T1 under financial pressure
• reversed decision to give away free standards
• made other expense cuts
• TIA staff continues to cooperate and attends T1
  and T1AG meetings
• Reducing our portion of joint T1P1 / TR-46
  meeting expenses, after audit of participation
  levels

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CIP and Homeland Security

• Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• TIA is one of 4 Coordinators for Information and
  Communications Sector (IC) for CIP
• TIA has provided input to the National Strategy
  to Secure Cyberspace, (Clarke Plan)
• to be released by White House in September 2002
• TIA is on the Board for the Partnership for
  Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS)
• TIA provided sector input for cross
  -sector/interdependencies issues
• Gave briefings for CIP International Outreach in
  Rome, Italy, and hosted Japanese delegation at
  TIA DC
• Homeland Security (HS)
• Review of National Strategy for Homeland
  Security, released in July (Gov. Ridge Plan)
  (Summary in BOD Book)

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CIP and Homeland Security

• CIP / HS Contd
• Participated in White House briefings with
  Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs).
  
• Need for trusted information sharing between
  government and industry required
• Richard Clarke, special adviser to President Bush
  for cyberspace, also concerned about the security
  of wireless LANs.
• Chicago Sun-Times story reporters were able to
  get behind the network firewalls of law firms,
  commodity traders, a federal district judge, and
  a health care system
• TIA is now more active in National Security
  Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)
  activities, in particular, Wireless Task Force

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WLAN / Wi-Fi Issues

• Wireless LAN Security is a hot topic in the
  industry due to growing deployment
• War driving, War chalking, added to jargon
  and the trade press abounds with stories
• Wi-Fi cells require a fixed-line connection to
  the Internet and most ISPs and telecom providers
  forbid the sharing or resale of service
• Pentagon is poised to introduce a policy that
  would restrict how personnel use wireless devices
  including BlackBerry handhelds and cell phones
• Prosecutions of WLAN hackers, including
  consultants, have begun

Most organizations install Wi-Fi systems without
built-in security options, and even those
networks with basic security features are
vulnerable to attacks.
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WLAN / Wi-Fi Issues

• TIA staff has begun researching issues / players
  / possible recommendations for TIA involvement
• Discovered not just technical issues but legal,
  channel and user education
• GEMD VAR group organized a WLAN security briefing
  May 9 by Ron Williams, Senior Enterprise
  Architect Security, IBM Corp.
• WLAN is and will be insecure for the
  foreseeable future
• The impact of WLAN security characteristics can
  be readily mitigated where they are felt
• Access Points separated by Firewalls from
  critical resources
• VPN Access for WLAN clients access enterprise
• Authorization proxies/engines for authenticated
  and authorized user access to enterprise
  application resources
• The risks lie not in what we know about WLAN, but
  in ignoring its fundamental characteristics

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Possible TIA Initiatives related to WLAN

• Technical issues will be discussed at September
  TC meeting
• Interoperability with other technologies not
  adequately addressed
• Also propose a TIA Subject Matter Expert meeting
  in the Fall among TIA members to identify areas
  where TIA can provide value
• need marketing, legal, technical perspectives
• provide guidance to TIA for 2003 projects
• IEEE 802 has started standards work to tighten
  up security, but largely not addressing the
  strength of the locks, but failure to lock the
  doors
• Some TIA members concerned that TIA not
  duplicate work being done in other fora

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Open Mobile Alliance

• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) www.openmobilealliance.
  org formed to consolidate 6 other groups
• WAP Forum www.wapforum.org the largest
• Open Mobile Architecture Initiative
• Location Interoperability Forum
• SyncML Initiative
• MMS Interoperability Group (MMS-IOP)
• Wireless Village
• 200 companies representing the whole mobile
  services value chain, including the worlds
  leading mobile operators, device network
  suppliers, information technology companies and
  content providers.

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Open Mobile Alliance

• A center for mobile service standardization work,
  stimulating and contributing to the creation of
  interoperable services across countries,
  operators and mobile terminals to meet the needs
  of both the consumers and business users.
• Products and services are based on open, global
  standards, interfaces and APIs and are not locked
  to proprietary technologies
• The applications layer is bearer agnostic (GSM,
  GPRS, EDGE, UMTS/WCDMA, CDMA2000, etc)
• The alliance framework and service enablers are
  independent of Operating Systems (OS)
• By Combining 6 existing Fora into OMA
• Will have 40-member Board, 25 Sponsors
  (150-200K), 15 to be elected

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Open Mobile Alliance

• TIA staff in dialogue with OMA leadership as they
  consider an RFP for Secretariat/Admin services