Availability of reference standards for standards development Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14 DOCUMENT #: GSC14-PLEN-042 FOR: Presentation SOURCE: ITU-TSB AGENDA ITEM: PLEN 13 CONTACT(S): G. Ratta Availability of reference standards for standards development ITU Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

Problem statement Reference copies of Standards for use by ITU and PSOs are becoming more difficult to obtain, in particular due to: removal of withdrawn or superseded standards from websites use of 3rd parties to manage portfolio Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

Quality assurance of references Assure that consumer of Standard can access all information identified in that standard Verify the existence, stability and availability of the referenced document. Verify the existence and relevance of the referenced clause(s), if given. ITU-T requires normative references to be “qualified” before approval of its Recommendations. Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

ITU-T qualification of references Requirements defined in Recommendation ITU-T A.5 a justification shall be presented for normative references to texts other than ITU Recs. or ISO and IEC Stds. only reference docs from qualified organizations information is to be available for study groups when approving new / changed Recs. Elements of Rec. ITU-T A.5 justification Organization information Referenced text identification Recommendation-specific justification Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

Challenges Many SDOs have stopped making superseded or withdrawn versions of documents available to public (including ITU-TSB QA team). Several SDOs have contracted with third parties to manage the distribution of their Standards; ITU-TSB QA team has no access (it will not pay). IMPACT – QA is thwarted Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

Shared challenge? It would seem that other PSOs have similar needs and challenges. Therefore, it would seem that a common solution would be useful: to make reference copies, with restricted distribution, available to ITU and PSOs during development of a standard to allow access by ITU and PSOs to superseded or withdrawn versions of standards Note – ITU-T makes all versions of its Recs. approved since 1988 freely available to the public Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

Supplementary Slides Geneva, 13-16 July 2009

Qualification of referenced org.: Supplementary Slides Qualification of referenced org.: Objectives. Organization: legal status and secretariat. Membership. Technical subject area. IPR Policy. Working methods/processes. Document publication and maintenance process. Document change control process. Geneva, 13-16 July 2009