ISTO Liaison Report

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ISTO Liaison Report
IEEE - SA Board of Governors Standards
Board Corporate Advisory Group December,
2005 Chuck Adams IEEE-SA / ISTO Liaison
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ISTO Highlights

• Industry standards forum to support
• Consortium-like development activities
• LAUNCH January 1, 1999
• 3rd 4th Quarter 2005 Highlights
• Keith Gray joins ISTO Board
• 3rd quarter initiation
• Power.Org
• 4th quarter initiation
• Apdek Alliance
• Carrier Grade User Association
• Open Mobile Terminal Platform
• Operation support
• Bivio Software (Boulder,Colorado), provides IT
  infrastructure support.
• Consultant support employed to assist
  implementation of marketing / communication plan.
• Financial
• On track to meet LOC commitments to BOG
• Board Organization
• Jeffry Paynes, new IEEE Executive Director,
  replaced Dick Schwartz, as IEEE representative to
  ISTO

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2005 ISTO Board of Directors and Officers

• 2005 Board of Directors (7)
• Gerry Lane IBM (Chairman)
• Marco Migliaro (President CEO)
• Roger Martin AOL
• Mike Pellon Motorola
• Bill Smith Sun
• Don Wright Lexmark
• Keith Gray ABB Inc (Technology Director, Circuit
  Breaker Technology Solutions, Aug 2005 Dec
  2007)
• ISTO Officers (3)
• Gerry Lane IBM (Chairman)
• Marco Migliaro (President CEO)
• Peter Lefkin (COO/CFO)

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IEEE-ISTO Ten Industry Programs (Two Pre-4th
quarter 2005 and Three 4th quarter Initiations)

CGUA APDEK OMTP

• Approximately 8 Programs in Exploratory Stage
• 3 Programs under active discussion
• 5 Programs as potential candidates

Power.Org
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Program Highlights2005 Initiations

• Ultra-Wide Band Alliance UWB
• (Ensure interoperability of standards-based
  Ultra-Wideband products from multiple vendors)
• 2nd quarter 2005 Initiation
• Power.Org
• (Power architecture ecosystem development)
• 3rd quarter 2005 announce
• Member growth at 36 members (9 Founders/7
  Sponsors/20 Participants)
• Application Performance Index APDEX
• (Effectiveness of IT investments)
• Open Mobile Terminal Platform OMTP
• (Carrier Focused Advanced Mobile
  Platform Ecosystems)
• Carrier Grade User Association CGUA

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ISTO IEEE SA Strategic Positioning

• IEEE SA Inter-Op Program
• ISTO / CAG joint planning activities
• Compliance / Certification
• Joint marketing and conference activities

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Program Highlights2003 2004 Initiations

• Open Security Exchange OSE 2003 Initiation
• (Physical IT Security Integration)
• Focusing on Organization Strategy, Membership
• Evaluating external formal liaisons to expand
  focus
• Assessing Security Industry Association (SIA)
  functional relationship
• UXPi 2003 Initiation
• (10Gbps Implementation)
• Pursuing external compliance program and
  Coordination with IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet over
  backplane) and OIF (Optical Internetworking
  Forum).
• Evaluating 2006 continuance
• Seamless Converged Communication Access Networks
  SCCAN 2004
  Initiation
• (Interoperation between dual-network handsets,
  Wi-Fi infrastructure, IP-PBXs across WLAN and
  cellular networks)
• Engaging WiFi Alliance on adoption of SCCAN
• Focus on membership recruitment
• Program activities in dormancy as membership is
  developed
• Evaluating 2006 continuance

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Program HighlightsPre 2004 Initiations

• Liberty Alliance
• (Network Identity)
• Extending focus to Identity Theft development and
  marketing.
• Voice XML
• (Voice eXtensible Markup Language)
• Focus on strategic relationships with other
  industry and standards groups and development of
  certification programs
• Biometric / Speaker verification (INCITS M1
  collaboration on data exchange formats)
• IETF MRCP collaboration (Media Resource Control
  Protocol - managing distributed system speech
  processing servers)
• Printer Working Group PWG
• (Application/Operating System Integration)
• Continuing focus on specification and white paper
  development.
• Continuing member growth
• Mobile Industry Processor Interface- MIPI
• (Mobile Application Processor Interface)
• Focus on Developing Long Term Technical Roadmap
  and Membership Development
• Experiencing membership growth