International Telecommunication Union 5th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development Beirut, May 2003 ITU-T standardization directions Greg Jones ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)

ITU-T 2 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Overview o Special projects o ITU-T workshops o ITU-T study group hot topics o Website resources

ITU-T 3 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Special Projects o IMT-2000 Network Aspects (SSG) o Call Back (SG 3) o Accounting Rate Reform (SG 3) o TMN (SG 4) o IP Cablecom (SG 9) o Quality of service and performance (SG 12) o IP (SG 13) o Global Information Infrastructure (SG 13) o Access Networks (SG 15) o Optical Networks (SG 15) o Mediacom 2004 (SG 16) o E-commerce and E-business (SG 16) o ASN.1 & Language coordination (SG 17) o Communication system security (SG 17)

ITU-T 4 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Workshops and seminars 2003 o Workshop on challenges, perspectives and standardization issues in E-Government 5-6 June 2003 o Workshop on Next Generation Networks: What, When and How?, 9-10 July 2003 Encompassing Services, Transport Convergence, mobility issues and more... o Workshop to develop a Recommendation to clarify the management of “.int” September 2003 o Workshop on Languages, 13 September 2003 o Workshop on End to End Quality of Service What is it? How do we get it?”, 1-3 October 2003

ITU-T 5 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Past Workshops and seminars o Workshop on Standardization in E-Health Geneva, May 2003 o Workshop on Member States' Experiences with ccTLDs Geneva, 3-4 March 2003 o Workshop on Telecommunications for Disaster Relief Geneva, February 2003 o see also itu.int/ITU-T/worksem

ITU-T 6 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Other Workshops and seminars o Accessibility, 17 October 2003 o Automobiles, November 2003 o Network access technologies, 2004 o see also itu.int/ITU-T/worksem

ITU-T 7 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Groups o SG 2 Operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance o SG 3 Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunications economic and policy issues o SG 4 Telecommunication management, including TMN o SG 5 Protection against electromagnetic environment effects o SG 6 Outside plant o SG 9 Integrated broadband cable networks and television and sound transmission o SG 11 Signalling requirements and protocols o SG 12 End-to-end transmission performance of networks and terminals o SG 13 Multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their internetworking o SG 15 Optical and other transport networks o SG 16 Multimedia services, systems and terminals o SG17 Data networks and software for Telecommunication o SSG Special Study Group "IMT-2000 and beyond" o TSAG Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group

ITU-T 8 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 2 o Operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance o ENUM o Internationalized Domain Names o Country Code Top Level Domains o IPv6 deployment

ITU-T 9 30 May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 3 o Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunications economic and policy issues o Interconnection rate harmonization. o Reduce the cost impact for operators while also giving a better deal to end-users. o Reduce monopoly of Internet traffic flow o Cost sharing for international circuits o Objective to help countries with low internet traffic

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 4 o Telecommunication management, including TMN o Network management is key for operators wanting to maximise network investment and guarantee QoS. o Development of network management tools using Telecom Mark-Up language (tML) o Web based management for billing, telemetry and telecom equipment. o More of a focus on IP network management principles for NGN.

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 5 o Protection against electromagnetic environment effects o Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) – guidelines to operators on the distance that base stations can be safely placed from people. o Telecommunication equipment resistibility to environmental factors o Powerline Communication o New topic - telecoms for cars

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 6 o Outside plant o Implementation and installation of facilities for access installation and protection. o Development of Recommendations that allow for multiple services – ISDN, ADSL etc - to be carried over the same cable.

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 9 o Integrated broadband cable networks and television and sound transmission o ITU-T Rec. J.202 is a new standard that allows content providers to roll out value-added interactive TV (iTV) services to any network without modification o ITU-T Rec. J.170 is aimed at increasing security in cable networks that might be vulnerable to denial of service, theft of service... o Recommendations that cover Internet over cable, VoIP over cable, videoconference over cable are all important issues.

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 11 o Signalling requirements and protocols o Signalling support for fixed line Next Generation Networks (NGN) o Work on how Intelligent Network principles can be supported in NGN o Bearer independent call control - BICC o Virtual home environment o In the future eleven may look at alternatives to ATM in the backbone

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 12 o End-to-end transmission performance of networks and terminals o Standards that make VoIP a viable solution for service providers, by providing QoS

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 13 o Multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their internetworking o SG13 is working on standards that will allow VPNs to work over all kinds of networks – optical, MPLS, IP etc o It is also concentrating on performance parameters and availability objectives for Ethernet, Optical and Satellite networks

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 15 o Optical and other transport networks o SG15 is working on ADSL 2 and VDSL o Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks (G-PONs) that are a further step towards all-optical networks. PON technology is used in the local loop to connect residential and SME end users premises in an all-fibre network o Metropolitan optical networks are the most advanced technological answer for the increasing demand for bandwidth from enterprises and service providers.

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 16 o Multimedia services, systems and terminals o ITU-T Rec. H.264 video coding likely to find use in a wide variety of applications from mobile phones to High Definition TV revolutionize video picture quality over networks such as the Internet, 3G Wireless and the PSTN. o ITU-T Rec. H per cent of all VoIP minutes use this solid standard o New topic E-Health

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Study Group 17 o Data networks and software for Telecommunication o Study group 17 does a lot of work on security – mobile, telebiometrics, communication system security o It’s work on languages sees it moving into the area of UML support by adding a UML profile to all ITU languages. Harmonization of all languages is a key objective.

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Special Study Group (SSG) o Special Study Group "IMT-2000 and beyond“ o Vision beyond IMT-2000 o Handbook on deployment of IMT-2000 o Interworking protocols o Emergency communications o Harmonization of existing and evolving systems o Convergence

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut ITU-T Recommendations o ASN.1 database to contain all ASN.1 from ITU-T Recommendations by Nov 2003 o Eventually take over OID database from France Telecom o From Nov 2003 focus on ITU-T referenced ISO standards o Since Jan 2003 formal language content of ITU-T recommendations is syntax checked o By Nov 2003 the summaries of ITU-T Recommendations will be available on web

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Freely accessible web resources   o ITU-T patent database o International numbering resources   o A.4, A.5 and A.6 recognized organizations o Terms and definitions o List of ITU-T Recommendations o ITU-T Work programme o ASN.1 module database – new

ITU-T May th Annual Meeting for Telecom Development, Beirut Databases on ITU-T website o ASN.1 Module Database o ITU-T Patents Database o International Numbering Resources o Recognized SDO's for Recs. A.4, A.5 & A.6 o Terms & Definitions Database o List of ITU-T Recommendations o ITU-T Work Programme Database ITU-T Work Programme Database Search Standardization Areas, Domains and their Codes