Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) -- Current and Future Work

1. GSC11_OPEN_08 Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) --Current and Future Work Susan Miller ATIS President & CEO 1200 G Street, NW, #500 Washington, DC 20005 +1 202-434-8828 e-mail: smiller@atis.org

2. In Brief... • Established in 1983, ATIS is a United States based body that is committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. • ATIS’ member companies and committee participants represent a wide cross section of the global communications industry. • 350+ member companies. • 22 industry standards committees and forums with 1100+ participants.

3. In Brief... • ATIS takes a market-driven approach to standards development. • Priorities are established by: • the ATIS Board of Directors • the Technology and Operations (“TOPS”) Council • the Chief Information Officers’ (“CIO”) Council

4. ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council • Established in 2003 as a Standing Committee of the ATIS Board of Directors. • Identifies the industry’s most urgent technical and operational priorities. • Establishes industry Work Plans for needed priority standards work. • Coordinates priority work in ATIS and among appropriate industry standards groups. • Provides industry oversight for the successful execution of the priority work, and the creation of end-to-end solutions.

5. ATIS Next Generation Network (NGN) Activities • In 4Q2004, ATIS released the ATIS NGN Framework, Part I: NGN Definitions Requirements and Architecture. • April 2005, ATIS NGN Focus Group and ETSI TISPAN held a workshop to ensure a consistent and aligned definition and description for NGN and to eliminate redundant efforts. • In 2Q2005, ATIS completed the ATIS NGN Framework, Part II: NGN Roadmap 2005.

6. ATIS NGN Activities (cont’d) • Conducted “gap analysis” around the required service enablers (i.e., identify what additional work needs to be completed for timely development of enablers), starting with the highest priority enablers. • Standards activities are well underway on the majority of the enablers in various ATIS committees and external organizations. • March 2006, ATIS and ITU-T co-hosted an NGN Workshop, with an emphasis on NGN requirements and standards objectives from a North American perspective and the relationship of these with the global standardization work of the ITU-T.

7. ATIS NGN Activities (cont’d) • May 2006, ATIS completed the ATIS NGN Framework, Part III: Standards Gap Analysis. Work items are assigned to key ATIS committees to: • Expand current development efforts to include key items found, and/or • Contribute to or coordinate with external groups on current activities.

8. ATIS IPv6 Task Force • The ATIS TOPS Council formed the IPv6 Task Force in response to the United States government’s deadline of June 2008 as the date by which all agencies’ infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 (native IPv6 or dual-stack). • ATIS TOPS Council agreed that industry (as represented by ATIS member companies) would be well served by assessing the various aspects of IPv6 and communicating a consensus view on aspects of deployment, transitioning, and drivers. • May 2006, IPv6 Task Force released its findings entitled, ATIS Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6): Report & Recommendation, May 2006.

9. ATIS IPv6 Task Force (cont’d) • Findings/Issues (challenges facing transition to IPv6): • Cost • Security • Network Address Translation (NAT) • Impact to Existing Networks • Impact to Current Business Strategies and Timelines • Need to address challenges via development of an IPv6 Roadmap. Work has been launched.

10. ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) • Initiated by the ATIS TOPS Council and created in June 2005 to resolve issues that may impede adoption of IPTV. • Mission: Enable the interoperability, interconnection, and implementation of IPTV systems/services by developing ATIS standards and facilitating related technical and operational activities. Provides a venue for interoperability activities. • Assesses IPTV issues in the context of the NGN directions. • Two publications released May 2006. • Aggressively addressing defined work program and highest priorities to provide leadership on IPTV standards development.

11. ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) (cont’d) • The IIF has established four task forces to carry out the initial IIF work requirements. These task forces and their requirements are: • IPTV Architecture Task Force • Establish functional requirements for IPTV architecture, an IPTV architecture reference model, and a roadmap for specification development and architecture specifications. • Digital Rights Management Task Force: • Establish requirements and specifications for interoperability between DRM systems, middleware, and terminal equipment. • Quality of Service Metrics Task Force: • Identify and define metrics, measurement points and methodologies required to establish Quality of Service (including quality of experience) for the IPTV application. • Testing and Interoperability Task Force: • Establish test plans and promote interoperability activities for IPTV components and systems.

12. ATIS TOPS Council – Next Priorities • ATIS TOPS Council is identifying the next set of priorities: • Wireless-Wireline Convergence* • Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTx)* • Broadband Services (e.g., Generic User Profiles, Video Services over IMS)* • NGN Identity Management • Service Capabilities Interaction Manager (e.g., Service Blending, Web Service Blending) • Next-Gen WiFi (e.g., WiMAX) • Priority Access for IP • Out of Band Signaling for Public IP-enabled NGN • Carrier/Infrastructure ENUM • Protection of Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) • Next-Gen 9-1-1 Evolution and Sub-issues • Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL) * Work Launching Now

13. ATIS CIO Council • Established in 2004 and comprised of CIOs from service providers represented on the ATIS Board of Directors, the ATIS CIO Council’s mission is to: • identify and discuss IT issues of common interest that are challenging the industry; • frame, coordinate, and advance solutions to these common IT issues; and • provide perspective and direction to the development of industry standards, guidelines, and best practices.

14. ATIS CIO Council (cont’d) • Initial role was to lead an analysis by the telecommunications and financial services sectors for assuring diversity of existing National Security/Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) communications circuits in a multi-carrier environment. • March 2006 - The National Diversity Assurance Initiative (NDAI) Report was issued detailing conclusions and recommendations (report provided).

15. ATIS CIO Council (cont’d) • In addition, the ATIS CIO Council has identified three areas for its immediate focus: • IPTV • Interoperability standards for interface(s) between network elements and Operational and Billing Support Systems; • Security standards or conventions required to ensure usage integrity is maintained for content providers; and • Define common IT requirements for ordering and billing of IPTV services that provide standards for how IP-based call detail record equivalents should be populated and managed. • Security • Securing 3rd party access to service provider systems and data; • Security Metrics; • Specific security domain best practices; and • Commercial Product security issues. • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) • Improvement of IT controls, tools that support automated access and related processes that provide platforms in support of a SOX compliant infra-structure.

16. ATIS CIO Council (cont’d) • Working teams for each of these three areas have been established to define and prioritize service provider IT-specific requirements, deliverables and timelines. • Initial review of these areas anticipated by end of May 2006, with a final set of requirements anticipated by the end of June 2006. • Upon completion of the working teams’ activities, the most appropriate venue to execute the work will be determined. Initial work will be within ATIS.

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18. ATIS Is Also Addressing… • E911 for wireless, IP and NGN service providers • Collaboratively developing requirements for NG 9-1-1 over wireless and VoIP networks. • Defining NG 9-1-1 in conjunction with other interested entities. • Formed a NG Emergency Services group. • Mission: Coordinates emergency services needs and issues with and among SDOs and industry forums/committees, within and outside ATIS, and develops emergency services (such as E9-1-1) standards, and other documentation related to advanced (i.e., Next Generation) emergency services architectures, functions, and interfaces for communications networks.

19. ATIS Is Also Addressing… • National Telecommunications Security • March 2006 - The President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) referenced and utilized ATIS’s NGN Framework in its NGN Task Force Report on ensuring telecom security in the NGN environment. • Ordering and Billing for VoIP-PSTN interconnection • Developing ordering and billing processes for interexchange and local access in interconnected VoIP and PSTN networks. • Phantom traffic and revenue fraud • Developing strategies for preventing/mitigating revenue fraud and phantom traffic caused by inappropriate manipulation of data in ANI and JIP fields in SS7 Initial Address Message (IAM).

20. ATIS Is Also Addressing… • Billing and routing errors from inaccurate/missing jurisdictional information • Established 7 Rules for Populating the JIP in SS7 Initial Address Message (IAM) and obtained consensus from major wireline and wireless standards groups. • RFID use for telcos • Evaluating appropriate usage of RFID in telecom supply chain and for telecom asset management. • ANI spoofing in VoIP • Identifying revenue fraud opportunities in VoIP services and developing prevention strategies. • Rural Utilities Service (RUS) • Advising on ideas for migrating selected RUS programs to the private sector.