IEEE-ISTO: A Complementary Forum for Standards - Related Activities

1. IEEE-ISTO: A Complementary Forum for Standards - Related Activities Presented by: Richard Holleman, IEEE-ISTO Representative ITU-T Informal Forum Summit Meeting 3-4 December, 2001 Geneva, Switzerland

2. The IEEE-ISTO • 15 November 1998 - approved by IEEE Board of Directors • Launched on 1 January 1999 • Affiliated with the IEEE and the IEEE-SA • Independent, Not-For-Profit Corporation • Complement to the IEEE-SA

3. The IEEE: Quick Facts • A leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others. • Over 352,000 members in 150+ countries • 35% of members from outside US • 297 Sections, 1,188 Chapters, 36 Technical Societies • 108 Periodicals; 419,000 pages published in 1999; 581,000 documents in IEEE’s Digital Library • Produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology

4. The IEEE Standards Association • A Century+ of IEEE Standards Activity (1890 - present) • Standards Association created in January 1998 • Supported by a 13-member Board of Governors, 26-member Standards Board, and a professional staff of 45+ • Individual and Corporate membership • Strategic initiatives include: • Globalization, Outreach to IEEE Societies and Members, New products and services, Membership development • IEEE-SA membership - 5000 individual members in 80 countries. • 869 Active Standards ; 354 Standards Projects • http://standards.ieee.org

5. The IEEE-ISTO • What it is: • A financially self-supporting, complementary standards forum in which consortium-like standards development activity can be organized. • Flexible, innovative, alternative development processes and procedures. • A forum not only to develop standards, but also to facilitate the activities that support implementation and acceptance of standards in the marketplace. • Extends the scope of standards activities the IEEE is able to support. • A recognition and response to the changes in the standards environment.

6. IEEE-ISTO: Board of Directors IEEE-ISTO managed by its President & Secretary Treasurer under direction of IEEE-ISTO BoD: • George W. Arnold, Vice President, Standards & Intellectual Property, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories • Gerald T. Lane, Corporate Director, Standards Practices, IBM • Marco W. Migliaro, P.E. (Chairman), Chief Electrical/I&C Engineer, Nuclear Division, Florida Power & Light • Edward M. Roney, Corporate Vice President and Director of Standards and Technology Transfer, Motorola, Inc. • Andrew Salem, President and CEO,IEEE-ISTO • James R. Williamson, Director, Technology Standards Office, Sony Electronics, Inc. • Don Wright, Director, Alliances and Standards, Lexmark • Dick Holleman, IEEE-SA Representative to IEEE-ISTO BoD

7. IEEE-SA + IEEE-ISTO = IEEE Standards Activities Synergies between the two organizations produce opportunities and benefits for both that neither could enjoy alone • IEEE-SA – 501(c)(3) • Measurement Terminology • Standardization of Long Established Practices • IEEE-ISTO – 501(c)(6) • Industry Standards • Market Acceptance • Implementation and Interoperability Demonstrations • Bridge: Leading Edge Technologies • Community Acceptance • Rapid Industry Deployment IEEE is able to meet the needs of its customers through complementary processes

8. IEEE Standards Today – The Complete Spectrum

9. Strategic Planning and Implementation Trademarks, Intellectual Property and Licensing HQ Office and Identity Record Keeping Financial Management Membership Support General Promotion, Marketing, and Press Relations Planning, Meeting Management and Forum Activities Publication and Document Mgmt. IP Mgmt. and Admin. Conformance Testing and Interop Process On-Line Support and Communications IEEE-ISTO: Offerings and Secretariat Resources

10. The IEEE-ISTO and Industry Programs Industry Programs of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization, are able to…. • Maintain unique identity and flexibility in direction and actions • Operate under their current or modified rules and procedures • Maintain complete control of its budget and operational expenses • Accommodate unique IP procedures • Legally exist • Gain recognition through affiliation with the IEEE • Operate w/o risk associated with unincorporated assoc. • Utilize resources on an as needed basis • Easy startup and disband

11. VoiceXML Fixed Broadband Wireless Synchronization and Device Management Printing Technologies Medical Device Communications Learning Technologies Mobile Instant Messaging and Presence Embedded Processors Mobile Games for Cellular Handsets Current IEEE-ISTO Program Technologies

12. IEEE-ISTO Industry Programs (11) Mobile Games Interoperability Forum

13. 1355 Association • Goal is to promote implementation and acceptance of the IEEE 1355-1995 Standard (ISO/IEC 14575) • IEEE 1355 is a standard for scalable, heterogeneous interconnect • Currently being implemented in SpaceWire project - http://www.estec.esa.nl/tech/spacewire/  • http://www.1355.org/

14. Broadband Wireless Internet Forum (BWIF) • An association working together to ensure adoption of a single, unified broadband wireless access industry specification • Vector Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (VOFDM) • BWIF members agree to cross-license to other BWIF members, the technologies required to implement the specifications on a worldwide, royalty-free basis. • http://www.bwif.org/

15. Cleo Lab • The Customized Learning Experience Online (CLEO) Lab • A research collaboration between corporations interested in e-learning, academic researchers and the U.S. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). • Founded by Cisco Systems, Click2Learn, IBM Mindspan Solutions, Microsoft and NETg • Goal is to conduct focused, applied research on technical and pedagogical issues related to the ADL Sharable Content Reference Model (SCORM) • http://www.cleolab.org

16. Medical Device Communications Industry Group (MDCIG) • Organized to support and promote the activities and adoption of the IEEE 1073 (Medical Information Bus) Standards. • A forum to support and accelerate the development of the IEEE 1073 Standards • Market and demonstrate the capabilities of standardized medical data communications through interoperability demonstrations • http://www.mdcig.org/

17. MessageML • Founded to develop and promote MessageML, an emerging electronic communications standard that applies XML to device independent messaging. • Gives senders the ability to deliver message content independent of the receiving device • Recipients have the ability to prioritize and route their messages based on its content to the predefined messaging device. • http://www.messageml.org

18. Mobile Games Interoperability Forum • Founded by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens. • MGIF to define and certify mobile games interoperability specifications and application programming interfaces (APIs) for network-based servers. • Enable game developers to produce and deploy mobile games across multiple game servers and wireless networks, and different mobile devices. • http://www.mgif.org MGIF

19. Nexus 5001 Forum • Chartered to define, develop and promote an embedded processor debug interface standard for embedded control applications. • Currently being implemented in mobile phones and automotive processors   • http://www.nexus5001.org/

20. Printer Working Group (PWG) • The PWG has been actively developing printer industry standards since 1991 • An alliance among printer manufacturers, printer server developers, operating systems providers, network operating system providers, network connectivity vendors, and print management application developers. • Chartered to develop standards necessary to make printers, applications and operating systems supporting them work together better. • http://www.pwg.org.

21. SyncML • Supports the development, promotion and certification of the leading open industry specification for universal synchronization of remote data and personal information across multiple networks, platforms and devices - SyncML. • Recently announced a project addressing device management • 650+ members • www.syncml.org

22. VoiceXML Forum • Formed in March 1999 and founded by AT&T, IBM, Lucent Technologies and Motorola. • Chartered to promote and certify conformance with the Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) - A standard method for providing voice access to Internet content and services • - MOU with W3C on technical development • 550+ members • http://www.voicexml.org

23. Wireless Village • Founded by Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia in April 2001 • Chartered to define, promote and certify conformance to a set of universal specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence services. • http://www.wireless-village.org.

24. IEEE-ISTO: Activities • Standards development activities do not necessarily stop with the publication or approval of a standard • Promote resulting standards to gain market acceptance, support implementation and product development • IEEE-ISTO supports both development and post-development activities • Certification, Conformance Testing, Proactive Marketing, Branding, Interoperability Demonstrations and Plugfests

25. Possible ITU-T Cooperation • Cooperation/MoU for formal recognition of IEEE-ISTO • Reference or Adoption of the specifications developed by IEEE-ISTO industry programs as ITU-T Recommendations • At the discretion and approval of each program • Identified path for international standardization of the technologies

26. IEEE-ISTO: Additional Information Peter Lefkin Chief Operating Officer peter.lefkin@ieee-isto.org Tel: +1 732 562 3802 http://www.ieee-isto.org