More about ETSI and open standards

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More about ETSI and open standards
Study Trip of the Secretaria de Salud de
Mexico Sophia Antipolis, 3-4 April 2006
Margot Dor Director Business Development
Partnerships _at_LIS Global Project Coordinator
ETSI
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ETSI A Standardization Success Story

• ETSI since its establishment in 1988 has
  established itself
• in a relatively short time as a premier
  multinational SDO
• ETSI has flourished as deregulation took hold and
  as the European Community expanded, increasing
  the importance of telecommunications standards
• ETSI success is based on developing high quality
  standards and continuing to attract new Members
  based on advocating the benefits of standards
• enable interoperability
• helps prevent the duplication of effort
• encourages innovation
• creates trust and confidence in products
• expands the market, brings down costs
• and increases competition

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Nortel why ETSI?

• Direct participation by members
• The place where our customers and regulators go
• Innovative, well respected and well connected
  world wide
• Shared development cost with the complete
  industry
• A great place to see and drive the convergence of
  IT and electronic communications based on
  complete system design expertise

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Vodafone- Why ETSI?

• Has highest reputation as the place for telecom
  standards
• Basis of many world-renowned standards such as
  GSM from 3GPP, with Mobile Competence Centre
• Partnership with US, Japan, China, Korea
• Recognised by EU and ITU and most other
  standards bodies
• Overheads lower with more projects to share these
  costs

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Policy makers regulators perspective

• Reference to standards recommendations (ITU,
  ETSI) for
• tenders, licencing schemes, optimum spectrum
  usage, numbering, dispute resolution etc.
• Policy makers job is to make decisions that will
  structure the market on a long term basis with a
  view to cater to end user interests.
• Regulators policy makers
• Identify potential policy/regulatory issues
  embedded in standard-making
• Impact on elaboration of standards to fulfill
  competition rules, national policies, optimum use
  of scarce resources, etc
• Ensure they operate on (and contribute to) open
  and fair markets conditions

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Global Standards Collaboration
Interregional collaboration on selected
standardization subjects between
ARIB(Japan)
(China)
TTC(Japan)
ISACC (Canada)
TTA(Korea)
TIA (USA)
ITU(International)
ATIS (USA)
ACIF(Australia)
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ETSI Partnership Projects

• 3rd Generation Partnership Project
• specifying 3rd Generation mobile technologies,
  based on an evolution of the GSM core network,
  and members of the ITUs IMT-2000 family
• Organizational Partners
• ARIB (Japan), CCSA (China), ETSI, TTA (Korea),
  TTC (Japan), ATIS (USA)
• Market Representation Partners
• GSA, GSM Association, UMTS Forum, IPv6 Forum, 3G
  Americas, TD-SCDMA Forum, TDIA
• http//www. 3gpp.org

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ETSI Partnership Projects

• Mobile Broadband for Emergency and Safety
  Applications Formerly Public Safety
  Partnership Project
• initiated by ETSI Project TETRA (under the name
  of DAWS)
• and by TIA and the Association of Public-Safety
  Communications Officials (APCO) under APCO's
  Project 34.
• Organizational Partners
• ETSI, TIA (USA)
• Observers
• ISACC (Canada), TTA (Korea)
• http//www. projectmesa.org

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Open Standards

• Open meetings All stakeholders may participate
  in the standards development process
• Consensus All interests are discussed and
  agreement found
• Due Process Balloting and appeal process may be
  used to find resolution
• Open IPR Holders of Intellectual Property
  Rights (IPR) must identify themselves during
  the standards development process
• Open World Same standard for the same function
  world-wide
• Open Access Open access committee documents,
  drafts and completed standards
• On-going Support Standards supported until user
  interest ceases rather than when provider
  interest declines
• Open Interfaces Allow additional functions,
  public or proprietary
• Open Use Low or no charge for IPR necessary to
  implement an accredited standard
• Open markets Interoperability ? users are not
  locked in with one supplier/service provider

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Open standards are a key variable in leveling
the playing field

• Standards Facilitate a multi-supplier environment
  thereby providing for
• competitive pricing of equipment
• more robust and assured supply channels
• innovation in order to differentiate product and
  retain customers
• Increase the likelihood of interoperability in a
  multi-equipment provider and multi-service
  provider environment
• Standards enable the development of profitable
  industrial ecosystems
• Open standards gt user in the driving seat

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Open standards and service creation

• Standards facilitate a multi-service provider
  environment thereby providing for
• competitive pricing of services
• interchangeable end user terminal equipment
• This is highly critical in countries/regions
• Where local manufacturing industry cannot compete
  on a global scale (yet)
• That are standards adopters (so far)
• That have highly educated and competent workforce
  is SW development
• Where the service industry is highly creative and
  competitive
• Where there is a strong political push to rely on
  ICT and education to develop.

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DVB-RCS is an Open standard

• Scrutinised, optimised, built by consensus
• Based on commercial requirements
• Broad range of services and applications
  supported
• Future-proof (e.g. DVB-S2)
• Based on successful DVB-S
• Availability of mass market low cost satellite TV
  receivers

Enables interoperability between products
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Changing environment our analysis

• Fragmentation of standards making market
• End to end monolithic standards are behind us
• Usage/applications-driven standardization
• Shopping for standards
• Interoperability ex-post
• So long the split standards makers/standards
  takers
• China, Latin Americawhos next?

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Changing environment our analysis

• 4. ICT increasingly software intensive
• Priority develop systems, components, products
  FAST
• Interoperability (of components) comes next
• 5. Stakes moving up towards middleware
• Infrastructure converging (IMS)
• Point of gravity of convergence
  IT/telco/broadcast/CE is in middleware - e.g.
  Mobile TV
• Convergence no picnic, rather plate tectonics
• Open standards are necessary, but not sufficient
• To start with, there are plenty of very good ones
  to choose from
• What standards to enable the creation of
  value/industrial ecosystems around a technology?

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We believe its about Interoperability
Standardization has always been about
interoperability

• But the very meaning of Interoperability
  changes
• From specifying end to end systems to a logic of
  assembling (standard non-standard) building
  blocks
• From standardizing interfaces ex ante to
• addressing interoperability of components ex
  post

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We believe it is about standards integration (1)

• In a fragmented standards making market an agreed
  architecture is key to achieve interoperability.
• ETSI focus is on technical interoperability
  (inter-working)
• Ex-ante specs requirements, architecture,
  protocol (profiles)
• Ex-post specs conformance tests,
  interoperability tests
• Standards architect system integrator (design
  for interoperability) and project coordinator

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Standards integration (2)

• Efficient collaboration with other standards
  bodies and forums is a pre-requisite
• e.g. GSMA, OMA, WIMAX forum etc
• Development of the ETSI interoperability product
  line
• In addition to conformance testing and IOT
• Creation of a group on IOP (Interoperability
  process) to coordinate generic aspects of
  interoperability
• Hub of 3G/IMS/NGN test-beds in process
• EU/LA initiative on interop profiles for e-gov
  applications

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We believe it is about dosage

• What/when to standardize to meet players
  strategies?
• Need for standards/interoperability when
  heterogeneous systems are converging (e.g FMC,
  Telecoms/broadcast/IT)
• Market differentiation ? standard bodies
  shouldnt be over religious with interoperability
• An interesting case ? interoperability
  strategies of IM players entering the telecom
  marketand vice versa - see announcements at 3GSM
  (15 cellcos take mobile IM interoperability
  pledge)

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Last but not least, its minding other variables
of the equation

• Competition/competitiveness
• Global standards/regional blocks
• EU policy making (incl. spectrum, competition,
  etc)
• Impact of OSS
• IPRs in standards
• etc
• Its not peace were seeking, its meaning
• Ears to the ground
• Members driven changes