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Standards First!™

Standards First!™. About IMTC… ( International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium). Dr. Istvan Sebestyen President IMTC. Mission - Goals. 2001 – IMTC Mission.

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Standards First!™

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  1. Standards First!™

  2. About IMTC…(International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium) Dr. Istvan SebestyenPresidentIMTC

  3. Mission - Goals

  4. 2001 – IMTC Mission “Promote and facilitate the development and use of interoperable, real-time, Multimedia Telecommunication products and services, based on open international standards.”

  5. Our goals are: 1. Identify obstacles to growth and success of the industry, implement or recommend solutions. 2. Promote and facilitate interoperability testing of real-time, Multimedia Telecommunication products and services. 3. Develop and advocate requirements to standards-making organizations.

  6. Goals – Cont’d 4. Advocate common industry interests through education and promotion 5. Unbiased source of information to end users, press, industry analysts, legislators, and regulators. 6. Provide opportunities for industry to meet and exchange ideas providing a guide for future direction of the organization.

  7. What is not our goal? • IMTC is primarily not a standard / specification creating organization (IETF, ITU, ISO/IEC, W3C etc... can do better) • So we do not want to compete with them • IMTC specifies only as „last resort“ (e.g. Standard Profiles – Voip IA V.1; INOW!;...) • We prefer formulate Standards requirements, or to feed-back implementation experiences gained through interoperability testing.

  8. Membership and Management

  9. IMTC Members 100 Members Worldwide Today

  10. IMTC Members by Region

  11. Raj Bansal, Nokia Robert Berntsen, Tandberg Matt Collier,Telverse Carole Hodges, WorldCom Ken Kalinoski, Forgent Greg Meyer, Intel Graham Seabrook, Ridgeway Walter Sebastion, Sony Jim Coffman, Avaya Keith Lantz, Cisco Jean Leclercq, France Telecom Mark Ludwig, Polycom Vince Meriwether, IBM Ben Schuurink, KPN Telecom Istvan Sebestyen, Siemens AG Board of Directors 2001-2003 2000 -2002

  12. IMTC Officers 2001 – 2002 President Dr. Istvan Sebestyen (Siemens) Executive Vice President Greg Meyer (Intel) Executive Vice President Carol Hodges (Worldcom) Treasurer Vince Meriwether (IBM) Office of Vice President Karen Frasier (Telverse) Marketing Secretary Jim Polizotto (Inventures)

  13. Working Structure

  14. Work Group Structure Education & Promotion WG Requirements WG Liaisons to Standards Legend White papers/News Items/Web Pages Work Group Application & Service Profiles Output from WG Protocols & Systems WG Network Infrastructure WG IMTC Test Event Flow Profiles & Test Plans Interoperability Events

  15. Current WG and AG Structure Requirements WG aHIT! Applications iNOW! Directory Services Mobility Protocols & Systems WG H.323 H.248/Megaco SIP Voice Coder H.320 Data Collab. H.324 M Network Infrastructue WG QoS & Performance IP Security Mobility Directory Services IPv6 Education & Promotion WG Marketing AG

  16. About the ITU-T/IMTC relations

  17. ITU-T/IMTC Relation • Good • Official Relation – long, since 1995 • IMTC is an „ITU-T recognized“ Forum according to ITU-T Rec. A4/5/6 • Personally:Neil Starkey (CTO IBM/Lotus) – first President of IMTC – long-time ITU-T SG8 Rapporteur on T.120Istvan Sebestyen (Siemens) – 3rd President of IMTC – very long-time ITU-T SG8/16 Rapporteur on T.8x and MM Coordination

  18. What IMTC did for the ITU-T? • Promotion, Education of ITU-T Standards:ITU-T T.120 (Data Conferencing)ITU-T H.3xx (Multimedia Platforms)(e.g. in IMTC Fora, IMTC University, etc..) • Interoperability Testing / Superop!ITU-T T.120ITU-T H.320/324/323ITU-T H.450; ITU-T H.235 etc....

  19. Conclusion • ITMC is complementing ITU-T Standardization Activities, rather than competing with it. • However, IMTC is not an „ITU-T-only pusher organization“ • IMTC sees itself as a „protocol- and standards body neutral“ organization; IMTC wants to be the umbrella organization for all conferencing standard interoperability / promotion / requirements formulation • This includes also other standard bodies, such as IETF, ETSI, 3GPP....

  20. For additional reading... • The Focus Topics of our last IMTC Forum in Seattle (October 2001), hosted by Microsoft

  21. 14th IMTC Forum • Fall 2001 – Seattle, Washington • Opportunities and Obstacles: Deploying Multimedia Communications • Previous Forum Events: • 13th - Fall 2000 – San Antonio, Texas • “Next Generation Communications: Architecting the Network and Delivering Enhanced Services” • 12th - Spring 2000 - Ottawa, Canada • “Rich Media Services, Access and Products: Scaling Multi Media to Business and Consumers” • 11th – Fall Forum 1999 – Keystone, Colorado • “Building Blocks: New Technologies for the Millennium”

  22. IMTC 2001 • The Industry is at a Crossroads • The economy is in a recession • Businesses need conferencing • But: • Protocol Confusion (ITU, IETF, proprietary) still exists • Key Implementation/Deployment issues are not being addressed • A Plethora of vertical applications exist • Interworking needed between network providers • IMTC can help deployment by focusing on base technologies and interoperability

  23. Identify Obstacles to Growth and Success of Industry & Implement or Recommend Solutions • Coordinate the industry to make things really work (e.g. focus on system component interoperability problems). • Ensure that ample interoperability testing happens. • Address intellectual property rights barriers that may be harming the industry.

  24. Promote & Facilitate Interoperability Testing of Real-Time Multimedia Telecommunication Products and Services • Continue the successful interoperability testing and SuperOp! Events (ITU-T, IETF, 3GPP,…) • Share interoperability testing experience with other groups (SIP, IETF, ETSI, etc.) - especially how to organize and schedule interoperability tests for maximum effect.

  25. Develop & Advocate Requirements to Standards-Making Organizations • Contribute technical and policy requirements for new and revised standards. • Lobby ITU, IETF, ANSI, ETSI, and other standards-making organizations to promote common interests of the industry. • Ensure interests specific to our membership are addressed and considered when formal standards are made or revised.

  26. Advocate Common Industry Interest Through Education & Promotion • Provide education seminars and tutorials • Promote interoperability events • Speak as industry voice to clarify political and public policy issues.

  27. Unbiased Source of Information to End Users, Press, Industry Analysts, Legislators, and the Industry • Use our technology to promote the industry and generate media ‘buzz’. • By ‘unbiased’ we mean: • vendor-neutral. • implementation technology-neutral.

  28. Provide Opportunities for Industry Participants to meet, exchange ideas and Information, and Guide Future Direction of the IMTC Organize and hold: • Conferences • Forum Events • Seminars • Possibly Trade Shows, etc.

  29. My expectation from the Summit: • Surprise…. Let’s see… • Go for the low hanging fruits… • Better knowledge of each-other’s Fora, personal contacts • Maybe possible to address some mutually interesting subjects, such as how to cooperate better, how to deal with eachother’s products, is a joint approach (e.g. to IPRs, cross-references, availability of spects, possible), how to avoid overlapping work?….Are we in competition or cooperation?…etc.

  30. Thanks!

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