WTSA-08 Resolutions: Action Plan and Resolution 76 in view of the Council-09

1. ForumImplementation of decisions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly-08 (WTSA-08)Quito, Ecuador 7 July 2009 WTSA-08 Resolutions: Action Plan and Resolution 76 in view of the Council-09 Paolo Rosa Head, Workshops and Promotion Division Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

2. WTSA-08 Resolutions • 49 Resolutions approved • 21 are new Resolutions • Resolutions taking into consideration the needs of developing countries • Standardization gap: 17, 44, 56, 59, 72 • Internet: 64, 69 • Conformance and interoperability testing: 76 • Other: 26, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 43, (50), 52, 53, 54, 58, 61, 63, 68, 71, 73, 74

3. WTSA-08 Resolutions: Organization and Working Methods 18 Resolutions: 1,2, 18,22,26, 31,32,35,38,40,43,45,53,56,57,66, 67, 68 …. … and Series-A Recommandations

4. WTSA-08 ResolutionsStrategies and Cooperation 16 Resolutions concerning strategies and cooperation: 7,11,17,33,34,44, 54,55,58,59,62,69,70,71,74, 75 , … They call the attention of developed countries about the need to help and assist developing countries BUT also the attention of developing countries to put in place structures able to better contribute…..

5. WTSA-08 Resolutions Technical issues 15 Resolutions for operational and technical issued: 20,29,47,48,49,50,52,60,61,63,64,65,72,73,et 76 Study Groups activities to produce Recommendations,, handbooks, supplements… Hot topics: cybersecurity NGN Climate change Accessibility Home Networking Future Networks ITU Conformity Mark

6. Actions • Actions for Member States • Actions for Sector Membres & Associate • Actions for the TSB Director • Actions for the Study Group • Considerations by the Council-09 • Cooperation with other ITU Sectors

7. Implementation from Members • Awareness and Promotion • National basic structures to be put in place (CIRTs, Labs, NABs, Groups…) • Contribution to the SGs studies • Participation in meetings • Dissemination of information and reporting

8. Implementation TSB • TSB developing an Action Plan for implementation of all WTSA-08 Resolutions • Increased number of study group / regional groups meetings in the regions planned • TSB plans workshops on implementation of WTSA-08 actions in regions with assistance of or coordination with of BDT and Regional Offices • Fellowships now available for all ITU-T study group meetings • Consultancy contracts for production of handbook on fibre optics and implementation of Resolution 70 (accessibility) • Financial implications of WTSA-08 decisions to be incorporated in draft budget to present to Council

9. Objectives • Reduce the Standardization gap and of the digital divide • Implement WTSA-08 and prepare to WTSA-12 • Regional and sub-regional cooperation for standards, conformity assessment and interoperability • Consider the 2015 objectives of WSIS

10. Expected benefits • Rational utilization of technologies • Motivation of universities and R&D institutions • Effectiveness of Information • Facilitation for strategic choices • Contribution to share knowledge

11. Factors ! • Go towards expertise and not wait for it, capacity building • Political decisions to implement Resolutions • Motivation and formation of youngsters • Contribution proportional to the available resources to ITU-T activities • Be the Actor and not the Spectator of the future of ICTs !

12. WTSA-08 Action Plan Who, What, When, TSAG-TD 18informs on TSB Director detailed actions to implement all 49 Resolutions • Action: • General Secretariat, TSB, MS, SM, Study Groups, TSAG • Cooperation with: • General Secretariat, BDT, BR • Reporting to: • Annually to the Council • To Council-09 and -10 • To WTSA-12 • To TSAG

13. Reporting to Council-09 • Resolution 32 - Strengthening electronic working methods for the work of ITU-T • Resolution 33 - Guidelines ITU-T strategic activities • Resolution 43 - Regional preparations for WTSAs • Resolution 56 - Roles of TSAG and ITU-T study group vice-chairmen from developing countries • Resolution 64 - IP address allocation and encouraging the deployment of IPv6 • Resolutions 71 & 74 - Admission of academia, universities and their associated research establishments, Sector Members from developing countries to participate in the work of ITU-T • Resolution 76 - Studies related to conformance and interoperability testing, assistance to developing countries, and a possible future ITU mark programme

14. WTSA-08 Action Plan(TD 18/TSAG)

15. WTSA-08 Resolution 76(famous as the Resolution on the ITU mark) STUDIES RELATED TO CONFORMANCE AND INTEROPERABILITY TESTING, ASSISTANCE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1), AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE ITU MARK PROGRAM (1) -These include the least developed countries, small island developing states and countries with economies in transition.

16. Conformity Ability of a product to meet the requirement(s) of a standard Interoperability Ability of two or more systems or applications or network management products and services from different suppliers to exchange information and to mutually / fruitfully make use of it

17. WTSA-08 Resolution 76 resolves • 1 that ITU-T Study Groups develop the necessary conformance testing ITU-T Recommendations for telecommunications equipment asap; • 2 that ITU-T Recommendations to address interoperability testing shall be progressed asap; • 3 that ITU-T in collaboration with the other Sectors as appropriate, shall develop a program to: • assist developing countries in capacity-building and training opportunities in conformity and interoperability testing; • assist developing countries in establishing regional or sub-regional centres suitable to perform conformity and interoperability testing as appropriate;

18. WTSA-08 Resolution 76 4 that conformance and interoperabilitytesting requirements shall provide for verification of the parameters defined in the current and future ITU-T Recommendations instructs the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau 1 in cooperation with the BR & BDT, to conduct exploratory activities in each region to identify and prioritizing the problem faced by developing countries related to achieving interoperability of ICT equipmentand services; 2 based on results of instructs the Director of TSB 1 above, to study the items below: • a) the overall effect on ITU and manufacturers • b) legal and national and international regulatory implications • c) cost of set up of facility • d) location of testing facility • e) measures to be taken to build the necessary human resource capacities

19. WTSA-08 Resolution 76 • 3 to carry out the necessary studies with the view to introduce the use of ITU Mark as a voluntary program permitting manufacturers and service providers to make a visible declaration that their equipment conform to ITU-T Recommendations, and to increase the probability of interoperability; and to consider its possible application as an indication of a degree of interoperability capability in the future; • 4 to study the financial and legal implicationsfor the ITU-T and ICT industries, and all other concerns raised with regard to this proposal regarding the possible introduction of the ITU-T Mark; 5 to involve experts and external entities as appropriate; 6 to submit the result of these studies to Council-09 for its consideration and required actions;

20. WTSA-08 Resolution 76 instructs the study groups • 1 to identify as soon as possible those existing and futureITU-T Recommendations candidates for interoperability tests e.g. interoperability of NGN equipment, terminals, audio video codecs, access and transport network that are capable of providing end-to-end interoperable services on a global scale; • 2 to prepare those ITU-T Recommendations with a view to conducting conformity and interoperability tests as appropriate invites the Council • 1 to consider the report of the TSB Director above, • 2 to report as appropriate on this matter to the 2010 Plenipotentiary Conference taking into account Resolution 158 (Antalya, 2006) “Financial issues for consideration by the Council”; invites Member States and Sector Members • 1 to contribute to the implementation of this Resolution; • 2 to encourage national and regional testing entities to assist ITU-T in implementing this Resolution.

21. ITU – IEC - ISO • In June 2008, the 7th meeting of the World Standards Cooperation (WSC) recognized that: • global conformity assessment: the accepted way of demonstrating that a product or service adheres to an International Standard, and its increasing importance in the context of the commitments of WTO Member States under the TBT Agreement. • The promotion of standardization and conformity assessment was seen as facilitating global trade and providing tangible benefits to users of both standards and conformity assessment.

22. ISO/CASCO (ITU-T “A” liaison org.) • ISO/CASCO is ISO's policy development committee on conformity assessment preparing documents concerning the practice and operation of conformity assessment, and to promote their use. • Study means of assessing the conformity of products, processes, services and management systems to standards • Prepare standards and guides relating to the practice of testing, inspection and certification of products, processes and services, and to the assessment of management systems, testing laboratories, inspection, certification and accreditation bodies, and their operation and acceptance (Toolkit including: ISO 17007 - 17011 - 17025 – 17050 – 17065 …) • Promote mutual recognition and acceptance of national and regional conformity assessment systems.

23. Some reasons WHY Res. 76 exists • A number of Member States, Sector Members and end-users have reported problems with an increase in the supply of poor quality and even dangerous equipment, not interoperable of which a proportion has proved to be counterfeit or to have been illegally imported. • Some Governments lack effective systems to ensure that appropriate technical regulations, based on international standards, are in place and enforced in order to meet their obligations to protect the safety of their citizens using telecommunications equipment and services and to meet their requirements for quality of service.

24. Some results from the studies_1 • Need of testing for conformity assessment and interoperability in a ”Certified/Accredited” voluntary programme to demonstrate compliance of products to standards • Need to establish reciprocal international recognition of laboratories and certifiers to reduce costs of multiple repeated testing and creation of barriers to trade (ILAC, IAF): two or more partners recognizes respective laboratories to have equivalent competence to carry out the same conformity assessment tasks. • Industry reaction? Massively involved (WiFi Alliance, WiMAX , IEEE-ICAP, …) in certification and interoperability testing

25. Some results from the studies_2 • Positive impact on • ITU (Recomm, ITU mission, Promo Recs) • Industry (costs, widen market  MRAs, no TBT issues) • End Users (Regulators, QoS, interoperability) • Developing Countries (capacity building opportunities, labs, stand. Gap, testing culture) • Need to allocate budget and human resources to fully implement the programme (resolves and instructs)

26. Some fundamental elements • The vendor’s decision for testing is voluntary • Tests in1st, 2nd, 3rd party labs • Role of a independent Accredited Certifier • Possible accreditation by a National Accreditation Body (NAB) , ensuring that they comply with specific requirements for independent activities (ISO). • Possible affiliation to ILAC / IAF for MRAs and MLAs (Mutual Recognition or Multi Lateral Agreements) • Certification of Conformity always conducted by an accredited third party entity • A Supplier’s Declaration of conformity issued by an executive expressly designated by the vendor that, after e.g. 1st or 3rd party testing) , according to ISO 17050

27. ITU conformity programme • Encourage and assist for Conformity Assessement and Interoperability Testing Developing Countries laboratories and capacity building opportunities • Encourage vendors to carry out conformity assessment and interoperability testing • Develop and operate a voluntary “ITU Conformity Mark” scheme to: • enable vendors to make reference and/or to give visibility to ITU when conformity and, when possible, inter-operability requirements have been demonstrated in the context of the scheme • to stimulate and develop the culture of the need of conformance assessment testing, capacity building, surveillance worldwide

28. The Vendor A vendor who receives a certificate issued by an accredited certifier indicating its equipment has been tested to show conformity or interoperability to ITU-T Recommendation(s), or provides a declaration by a high ranking executive of the company to that effect, may request ITU to acknowledge the availability of the certification or declaration and permit the visible recognition by means of an ITU Conformity Mark

29. The ITU conformity mark scheme “ITU (inside) concept” • a scheme relying on accredited testing and certification. Accreditation will provide confidence in the results of the conformity assessment process. • The accreditation “filter” • route 1: Accredited laboratory and Supplier’s declaration • route 2: testing performed under the responsibility of an accredited certifier

30. Supplier’s declaration, When? • risk associated with non compliance is low and penalties for placing noncompliant products on the market are affordable, and • removal efforts from the market of noncompliant products is adequate.

31. 3rd Party Certification, when? • Certification is always conducted by a third party and is adopted if the risks associated with non-conformity are from moderate to high • Certification includes evaluation of test results and the attestation of the compliance to referred standards • Conformity and Certification to foresee a sort of in-factory / market/ periodical form of surveillance to ensure ongoing conformity

32. Supplier’s Declaration / Certification – Risk relationship RISK Certification Moderate Low High Supplier’s Declaration Need of Independence

33. Conformity Conformity ITU-T Recs & test suites Vendor’s testing Process Supplier’s Supervision Accredited Certifier Superv. The Filter 1st 2nd or 3rd party accredited laboratory ISO 17025 Supplier’s conformity testing decision Testing Laboratory ITU-T X.290 The Filter 3rd Accredited Party & Evaluation Testing ITU-T X.290 & Evaluation Testing ITU-T X.290 No Filter Evaluation No No Vendor’s non-conformity procedure Yes Yes Vendor’s Declaration of Conformity Conformity Certificate issued by Certifier Voluntary Supplier’s participation in ITU Conformity Programme ITU Mark Scheme Possible Annexed Documentation: ) Product(s) info & concerned Recs ) Test reports/results ) Conformity Certificate / Supplier’s Declaration ) Labs data ) …… ITU conformity Mark license May be issued

34. TSB Director’s report to Council-09 • TSB Director’s Experts and consultants to help in the preparation of the TSB Director’s report to the Council • ITU: TSB, BDT,BR and Legal Affairs experts • Representatives of Administrations • Experts in training, testing, certification, market analysis • Representatives of Regulators and Industry • Participation in and organization of events (Geneva 20-21 JULY 09) CONSULTATION MEETING ON CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT AND INTEROPERABILITY

35. Conclusions on Res. 76 • The Res. 76: standardization, testing program and supplier’s declaration / certification to meet the needs of Developing Countries for conformance and interoperability • The conformity as a first step to increase the probability of interoperability between different manufacturers, vendors, service providers • The identification of Labs able to carry out tests according to the ITU-T Recommendations requirements and training programs • The voluntary based ITU conformity programme as a demonstration of conformance to ITU-T Recs. • The increased business opportunities and benefits to both suppliers and customers • Need of a surveillance strategy

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