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ITU-T and Global Standards Collaboration. 19 November 2012. Reinhard Scholl ITU, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. Collaboration – a strategic goal. Collaboration is one of three strategic goals of ITU-T:
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ITU-T and Global Standards Collaboration 19 November 2012 Reinhard Scholl ITU, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Collaboration – a strategic goal • Collaboration is one of three strategic goals of ITU-T: • “To extend and facilitate international cooperation among international and regional standardization bodies”
ITU has a long history of open standards development • Open Standards (2005): • available to the general public • ITU-T Recommendations are free since 2007 • Collaborative, consensus driven process • facilitate interoperability • intended for widespread adoption • balance • due process • intellectual property rights • quality • on-going support
Working with ISO and IEC • World Standards Cooperation: ISO, IEC and ITU • Since 2001 • 2012: started 3-year rolling plan • About 10% of ITU-T’s standards is joint work with ISO/IEC JTC1
Global Standards Collaboration • GSC • a venue for national and regional standards organizations (8) and ITU to freely exchange information on the progress of standards development • Since 1990
Cooperation agreements • MoU with ETSI • updated in 2012 • MoU w/ ARIB, CCSA, TTA, TTC • in 2011 • Collaboration guidelines w/ IETF • updated in 2012
ITU-T Recommendations on collaboration • ITU-T A.4 • Communication process between ITU-T and Forums and Consortia • ITU-T A.5 • Generic procedures for including references to documents of other organizations in ITU-T Recommendations • ITU-T A.6 • Cooperation and exchange of information between ITU-T and national and regional standards development organizations
ITU-T pilots new ways of collaboration • Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards • Creating a globally harmonized set of ITS communication standards • Promoting and cross-references existing standards • Modifying and extending existing standards by the organization in charge of these standards, and • Developing new standards where necessary