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From RD to Competitiveness - notes on the
standardisation link

• Francisco da Silva
• Portugal Telecom
• Chairman of ETSI Board

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INTRODUCTION

• Since the beginning of ETSI existence, the
  preoccupation was already there.
• With the ETPs we are entering a new phase
• The different phases of the food chain, namely
  RD, or standardisation, have some sort of
  specific business rationality in the background.

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STANDARDISATION IN THE LANDSCAPE

• The gap, chasm, the need for industrial
  mediation, is a main task of standardisation
  and including the user requirements.
• Standardisation is part of the market
  preparation phase,
• appropriate simple solutions, with usability
  and deployability in sight
• e.g., backward compatibility is a permanent
  condition and preoccupation in standardisation

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PARTICIPATION

• Standardisation organisations have to maintain
  balanced consortia
• The use is to decide by consensus
• In particular, ETSI is a membership driven
  organisation

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IPR NEED TO CARE ABOUT IT

• ETSI has since the nineties been a leader in IPR
  policy
• As soon as detected new problems, ETSI played the
  game and the final results are there to be
  submitted to the next GA.
• The IPR subject should not be dismissed with the
  argument that everything is already done
• IPR frameworks adopted in earlier stages, such as
  in RD have non negligeable impacts in the
  standardisation process

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STAKEHOLDERS OBJECTIVES

• Different stakeholders may have different main
  objectives in standardisation.
• E.g. Operators need interoperable products - they
  operate networks this is vital.
• Network operators are more and more acknowledging
  the role standardisation activities may play to
  minimize CAPEX.

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CONSENSUS IN STANDARDISATION

• More complex conditions in order to obtain
  consensus prevailing in the standardisation
  environment than in the RD phase.
• In the standardisation phase, e.g. IPRs become a
  big issue.
• However IPRs and legitimate vested interested
  interest are already present in the RD phase.
• As soon as the activities have got a real chance
  to go to the market, the case is ripe to a
  rough standardisation activity and almost all
  standardisation results are approved by
  consensus

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ETSI COOPERATION TRACK RECORD

• ETSI co-operates with a lot of relevant SDOs and
  fora.
• It aims not only at avoiding overlaps but at the
  materialization of widest possible synergies
  (regional, global and international).
• In particular, ETSI Board has spent a big part of
  its time in this issue, structuring the type of
  relationships and including the issue of
  compatibility of IPR policies.
• By ETSI initiative 3GPP was created and now new
  synergies and avoidances of overlaps is also
  taking place with IMS.
• By ETSI initiative, ICT SDOs have an annual
  global collaborations (GSC).