GSTC Report to GSC-8 Plenary

1. GSTC Report to GSC-8 Plenary Presented by Phil Saunders - TSACC

2. GTSC Meeting Statistics • About 45 attendees – fewer once parallel seasons started • 23 papers presented and discussed in a day and a half • 7 proposed resolutions became 3 resolutions, 2 of which are Joint R/T resolutions

3. Themes from Presented Papers • Standards should have a prime priority for settling interworking issues • Resources for standards work are continuing to decline absolutely and against perceived demand • There is a place for both Fora and the traditional standardization structure. The supporters of these structures will gradually optimize these structures through cash support and direct participation. • There is broad agreement on the nature and high level structure of Next Generation Networks, but much detailed work remains to be done • Standards to address security issues are of widespread interest, but global management is still very unclear.

4. Our Sessions • Next Generation Networks • General Issues • Architecture and Protocols • End-to-End Quality of Service • Service Platforms • Network Management • Broadband Access Standards • Formal Methods • Optical Transport • ITU-T Considerations

5. Next Generation Networks • Horizontally integrated while legacy is vertically integrated • There are 2 policy domains – service and transport • Intelligence migrates to the edges • Interconnection to legacy is a huge issue • Best Effort vs. QoS is first a business issue • It may be that NGN will be largely stalled until voice moves to IP

6. Architecture and Protocols • Increasingly there are legislative forces, driven by market and security issues, impacting architectures and protocols • NGN/Legacy (inter-working and transparency) • There is an ENUM demonstration this year in Korea

7. End-to-End QoS • There is a wide tolerance by the user to QoS and it is application dependent • Acceptable packet loss is governed by: • Needs, wishes, tolerance, willingness to pay • Performance requirements for terminals is part of the QoS issue • The concept of QoS classes may be useful for both technical and business reasons

8. Other NGN Issues • Service platform developments • Network management issues • Policy and technical issues interact and must be solved within the context of NGN/Legacy migration • ITU is willing to address both policy and technical issues

9. Broadband Access • The present protocol stacks tend not to address multiple transport modes • Bundled/Unbundled access modes is a policy issue • Co-existence of present and future DSL systems presents multiple problems

10. ITU-T Considerations • Progress on the mutual right to use text, but the devil is still in the details • Several proposals were tabled and ITU-T confirmed their interest in further comments on its ongoing studies to restructure its Study Groups

11. Resolutions • #9 General Resolution (R1 from Sydney updated) (T) • #10 Emergency Communications (J) • #11 Lawful Intercept (J)

12. Future Work Areas • Broadband Access (J) • Emergency Communications (Resolution 10) (J) • Next Generation Networks (Resolution 9) (T) • Security and Lawful Intercept. (J) • This work extends beyond the earlier work for the NGN (See GSC-8 Resolution 9 (Joint Topic) and Resolution 11) and includes the existing networks, infrastructure and services.

13. There are several useful compendiums within the submitted papers We learned a lot from each other WE ENJOYED OURSELVES for the most part Summary