05/02/ “Report on general ETSI activities since GSC#8” Karl Heinz Rosenbrock ETSI Director-General GSC-9, Seoul SOURCE:ETSI TITLE:Report on general ETSI activities since GSC#8 AGENDA ITEM:Opening Plenary 4.4 CONTACT:Karl Heinz Rosenbrock, GSC9_007

GSC-9, Seoul 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents ETSI’s Membership ETSI’s Technical Organization Membership contribution Strategy & Business Plan IPR Policy External Relations Next Generation Networks High Level Review Group

GSC-9, Seoul 3 EVOLUTION OF ETSI’s MEMBERSHIP

GSC-9, Seoul Members from 55 countries 520 Full Members from 36 European countries 126 Associate Members from 19 non-European countries 42 Observers (Considerable reduction during the recent two years!)

GSC-9, Seoul 5 Technical Organization issues Merger of SPAN and TIPHON into "TISPAN" –The Board approved the closure of TC SPAN and EP TIPHON –The Board approved the creation of a new TC "TISPAN" to be responsible for all aspects of standardisation for present and future converged networks including the NGN –The outgoing SPAN & TIPHON Chairmen will convene the first meeting of the new TC ( September 2003) Closure M-COMM –The Board approved the closure of EP M-COMM after the completion of the STF 221 work in July 2003

GSC-9, Seoul 6 Membership contributions Changes to RoP Article 1, Article 10, Annex 1 & Annex 2 –TTO changed to ECRT (Electronic Communications Related Turn-over). –"other Government Body" category added. –Members to declare ECRT rather than number of units. –SMEs pay 1 unit (using EU SME definition). –Users pay 1 unit. –allow multiple country memberships via a "group membership" plus 1 unit per additional subsidiary. –all other Members pay 2 units minimum

GSC-9, Seoul 7 ETSI Strategy and Secretariat Business Plan Secretariat Business Plan ETSI Strategy for 2004 –Approved by the GA Secretariat Business Plan for 2004 –Endorsed by the GA

GSC-9, Seoul 8 ETSI BUSINESS PLAN PROJECTS 2004 BP Project 1 – Work Item Sollicitation BP Project 2 – External Relations BP Project 3 – Financing BP Project 4 – Information System Review BP Project 5 – Standardization & Services Promotion BP Project 6 – Quality Improvement

GSC-9, Seoul 9 IPR Policy GA ad hoc group report –The GA accepted the report of the ad hoc group on IPR Policy operation and decided to delete Annex A (FRAND examples) –The GA approved the 30 Recommendations contained in the report and tasked the Secretariat to propose and elaborate appropriate measures for their implementation

GSC-9, Seoul 10 New External Relations 1 (2) AIDMO = Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization F-MMS Forum =Fixed Line Multimedia Messaging Service EURESCOM =Research body of Network Operators ESOA =European Satellite Operators Assocation

GSC-9, Seoul 11 New External Relations 2 (2) A3G = 3G Telecom. Network Operators Association – Russian Federation CCSA =China Communications Standards Association ICAO =International Civil Aviation Organization PayCircle =Addemdum to MoU with Parlay Group WiMAX = Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Forum

GSC-9, Seoul 12 Conclusions from GA#42 Workshop on future of standardization Need for a radical drive to NGN! Speed is essential! Radical network convergence Convergence in from the edge (access) Converged multiservice platform Extensions to 3GPP work for fixed networks Partnerships needed! Standards must be global!

GSC-9, Seoul 13 The ETSI Board decided that the NGN work has to be globalized! Next Generation Networks  Board#46 created a NGN Globalization Group (NGG) to develop a way-forward and agreed to use corridor-contacts at the next GSC and 3GPP OP/PCG meetings to talk with other regional partners  The Director-General, Karl Heinz Rosenbrock, was appointed as convenor of the group  The group is comprised of Board members plus invited Chairmen/experts from the Technical Organization  First meeting on 31 March 2004  Endorsement by GA#43!

GSC-9, Seoul 14 GA#43: The need to globalize TISPAN What to globalize? - Focus on ims and interoperability How to globalize? - As 3GPP (partnerships) With whom? - SDOs: ACIF, ATIS, CCSA, ITU-T,TIA, TSACC, TTA, TTC, etc. - Fora & consortia: IETF, TMF, OMA, MEF, IEEE, W3C, etc. When? - ASAP

GSC-9, Seoul 15 Summary The door is open For IMs from SDOs to participate in TISPAN now! For SDOs to talk with us …

GSC-9, Seoul 16 High Level Review Group (HLRG) The GA approved the creation of a High Level Review Group (HLRG) to perform a complete review of ETSI‘, its strategy, standardization policy, and structure Mr. Henninot (Ministère Délégué à l'Industrie) appointed as Chairman of the group The group shall present its final report no later than GA#45 in April 2005, so that the results can be implemented in the second half of 2005 and early 2006