ETSI activity since GSC-12

1. ETSI activity since GSC-12 Jørgen Friis Deputy Director-General ETSI Submission Date:June 27, 2008

2. 37 124 Full Members 546 Associate Members Observers ETSI Membership 546 Full Members from 40 European countries (but many headquartered outside Europe) 37 Observers from 19 countries 124 Associate Members from 20 non-European countries/provinces -------------------- 707 TOTAL from 62 countries/provinces (GA#51 March 2008)

3. Elected Officials GA Chair: John Philips, Nortel Networks Europe (→11/2008) GA Vice Chair: Armin Toepfer, Vodaphone D2 (→11/2008) GA Vice Chair: Nicola Collechia, ANUIT (→11/2008) Elections due in November 2008 ! Board Chair: Francisco da Silva, Portugal Telecom (→11/2008) Board Vice Chair: Alistair Urie, Alcatel Lucent (→11/2008) Board Vice Chair: Claudio Gentile, Telecom Italia (→11/2008) Elections due in November 2008 ! Director-General: Dr. Walter Weigel (→6/2011) Deputy Director-General: Jørgen Friis (→6/2009)

4. Annual Production*All Technical Bodies and all deliverable types * Values for 2008 and 2009 are forecast Number of deliverables *: values for 2008 and 2009 are predicted values.

5. ETSI Board Strategy 2008Technical Topics • Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication • Radio Spectrum • “The Internet of Things” (including RFID) • Service level Interconnection of IP-based Services • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) • Core Network Harmonization

6. ETSI Board Strategy 2008Organizational Topics • Enablers for new ETSI members – SMEs, universities and micro enterprises • Innovative technologies and competition • Pre-Standardisation Groups • Creation of an ETSI journal • Development and Protection of ETSI Brand • Cooperation with China • ETSI Green Agenda

7. New technical activities (1) • TC ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) • created October 2007 • Søren Hess (Daimler AG) appointed as Chairman • two meetings held already (December 2007 & April 2008) • meeting #3 planned for October 2008 • TC RRS (Reconfigurable Radio Systems) • created January 2008 • Peter Olanders (Telefon AB LM Ericsson) appointed as Chairman. • two meetings held already (March 2008 & June 2008) • meeting #3 planned for September 2008

8. New technical activities (2) • TC INT (IMS Network Testing) • created March 2008 • Giulio Maggiore (Telecom Italia) appointed as Chairman • 1st meetings held already (May 2008) • meeting #2 planned for September 2008 • Starter Group on “Digital Content Distribution” (D-COD • created June 2008 • Truls-Erik Langeggen (Telenor) appointed as convenor. • 1st meeting planned for July 2008 to review: • interworking on heterogeneous systems (IPTV, MobileTV, between IPTVs, between MobileTVs), starting with specific use cases, • content distribution standards in support of : operator content distribution, internet tv content distribution, internet p2p distribution, with the idea to make better use of the booming operators peering traffic.

9. IPR issues • IPR Special Committee (under ETSI GA) • Committee activated December 2007 • Chaired by Karsten Meinhold (Nokia Siemens Networks) • 4 meetings held already • Main issues: • Disclosure and IPR undertaking/licensing declarations with regard to Patent Families, • Scrutiny of Competition/antitrust law issues in standardization process , • Irrevocability of IPR undertaking/licensing declarations, • Continuity of IPR undertaking/licensing declaration when Ownership of a Patent that is subject to such undertaking/licensing is transferred, • Revision of IPR Licensing Declaration forms, • Improvements to the ETSI IPR Database. • Meeting #5 planned for September 2008

10. ETSI is a partner in 4 new EC projects WALTER: Wireless Alliance for Testing Experiment and Research, (UWB) CUTELOOP: Customers in the loop (RFID) GRIFS: Global RFID forum for Standardization (RFID) CASAGRAS : Framework for Standardization of RFID and Internet of Things ETSI invited to join other EC projects TRUSTGRID … ETSI and EC FP 7 projects 10 Jørgen Friis, Deputy Director General, ETSI

11. Interoperability is key ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability • Protocols and Testing • Supporting ETSI committees on the application of formal techniques in standards on a daily basis • Development of test specifications (conformance and interoperability) • Interoperability testing (Plugtests™) • Validation of standards and prototypes through interoperability events www.etsi.org/plugtests

12. Standards Enabling Services Idea - to - Product solutions for standardization activities Two main questions – Two main services   When will our first specification allowing development of products be ready? When can we place products or services in the market with confidence? IDEA PRODUCT

13. Admin--istration IT Business Processmngmt Meeting Legal&Financial Interop--erabilityinitiatives Techn. validation Test Methodo.& Develop. Training Testtools Engineer--ing ETSI Services PRODUCT IDEA

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