MARTIGNY 2 27-28 February 2001

1. MARTIGNY 227-28 February 2001 Michel DUPIRE, Bernard MARTI

2. FT Position • Summary • General remarks • ITU -T Role • Urgent objectives for ITU-T • Organisation • After Martigny 2

3. General remarks • Martigny 1 • This meeting has been very productive, has lead to many new ideas and concrete proposals. • The conclusions have been generally well perceived by ITU-T membership But • The Conclusions of Martigny 1 did not impact enough on the ITU-T Reform Process • Martigny 2 • Should re-enforce the conclusions and refine them towards concrete organisation proposals. • Martigny 2 should be more visible towards the institutional ITU bodies: TSAG, Working Group on Reform, Council, Plenipotentiary Conference • Should define concrete communication plans to urge the adoption of the proposals by decisional entities.

4. FT Position : ITU-T Role • Key role in regulation • Numbering • Accounting... • Key role in transversal standards • Global Interoperability • Global Quality of Service and performance; Security • System or service architecture • How to build a service from individual bricks, ITU-T provided or borrowed from outside • Taking existing Networks/Services into account • Redefined role in vertical or specialised standards • Take account of the existence of specialised fora • Target at complementing them instead of competing with them, • Participate in the creation of new fora/workshops (part of ITU organisation, ITU sponsored or other type of relationship)

5. FT Position : Urgent objectives for ITU-T • Increasing importance of Time-to-Market for new services : • ITU-T must be more reactive and more efficient • Increasing risk in the decisions of opening new services • ITU-T must open to the outside world • ITU-T should consider as legitimate for risk taking actors that they take themselves the corresponding technical decisions (role of consortia/fora) • ITU-T should take its part in this process : • Exemple of ISO-IEC role in PAS • ITU-T represents the « public » environment while fora represent limited (although important) private interests. ITU-T role vis-a-vis fora is to: • Check the suitability of publicly available specifications to ITU-T members interests, • Request modifications as required, • Include them in the ITU-T standards references if relevant

6. FT position : Organisation (1) • ITU-T organisation : strongly reformed but as a single entity • Redefine some of the working methods • Redefine the type of deliverables • Redefine the financing process • Incorporate ALL ITU standardization topics • ITU Projects • Open to external entities (SDOs, Fora) • Defined mandate, objectives, duration • Forum-type methods of working • Autonomy, creation of internal WGs, ... • Financing rules? (membership fees, participation of ITU, possibly by secretarial support, hosting, …) • Statutes and IPR rules

7. FT position : Organisation (2) • Develop open Workshops • Within ITU-T framework • Use conclusions to feed/create Projects and/or • Feed SGs • Redefine deliverables • ITU-T produced and approved • ITU-T approved from ITU-T Project production • ITU-T approved from external production • Define approval procedures for • Project produced specifications • External publicly available specifications

8. FT Position : after Martigny 2 • Martigy 2 position must be better known by and more visible to : • TSAG (March and November 2001 meetings) • Reform group • Council • Plenipotentiary Conference • ITU-T and partners in Martigny 2 should communicate : • Edit a leaflet, create a website, send mail to Member States/ Sector Members. • Define a communication plan so as to : • Be in a position to have emergency measures adopted in PP- 02 • If not : • ITU-T will progressively become an empty shell in the standards arena • Community will loose a precious agent in worldwide balance of standards making process