1. Technical Organization and approval procedures
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2. ETSI’s Technical Committees
Access, Terminals, Transmission & Multiplexing (ATTM)
Aeronautical (AERO)
Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN)
Broadcast(Joint committee with European Broadcasting Union and CENELEC)
Cable
Cloud
Cybersecurity
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT)
eHealth
Electromagnetic Compatibility & Radio Spectrum (ERM)
Electronic Signatures & Infrastructures (ESI)
End-to-End Network Architectures (E2NA)
Environmental Engineering (EE)
Human Factors (HF)
IMS Network Testing (INT)
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Continued…
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3. ETSI’s Technical Committees
Continued…
Lawful Interception (LI)
Methods for Testing & Specification (MTS)
Mobile Standards Group (MSG)
Network Technologies (NTECH)
Powerline Telecommunications (PLT)
Railway Telecommunications (RT)
Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS)
Safety
Satellite Earth Stations & Systems (SES)
Smart Card Platform (SCP)
Smart Body Area Networks (Smart BAN)
Smart Machine to Machine Communications (Smart M2M)
Speech Processing, Transmission & Quality (STQ)
TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution (TCCE) (formerly TETRA)
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4. Industry Specification Group (ISG)
A special type of ETSI committee, focused activity, designed for quick establishment
Fast and easy to set up
Participation is governed by a Industry Specification Group Agreement
Sets out the operation rules, budget mechanism, voting rules etc.
All ETSI members can access all ISG documents
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5. Industry Specification Group (ISG)TB
ISG
Set up
ETSI BOARD approval
Minimum 4 ETSI members necessary, approved by Director General
membership
ETSI
Own (ETSI members can participate, if they sign the ISG agreement) (Non-Members of ETSI can participate, under conditions)
Decides its own work programme, approves its own deliverables
use ETSI IPR policy
Deliverables produced
EN, ES, EG, TS, TR,
Group Specifications (GS) only
Technical Working Procedures
Own (Based on ETSI Technical Working Procedures)
voting system
Each ISG can have its own (Recommended to use ETSI weighted voting, or 1 member 1 vote)
Support
Standard ETSI TB support
basic support free of charge
Participation is governed by
ETSI Directives
Industry Specification Group Agreement (Sets out the operation rules, budget mechanism, voting rules)
Budget
Global ETSI
Own (Decided and paid for by its members, invoiced to them by ETSI, usually not required) ü ü ü ü
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6. ETSI’s Industry Specification Groups
Embedded Common Interface for exchangeable CA/DRM solutions (ECI)
Information Security Indicators (ISI)
Localisation Industry Standards (LIS)
Low Throughput Networks (LTN)
Measurement Ontology for IP traffic (MOI)
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)
Operational energy Efficiency for Users (OEU)
Open Radio equipment Interface (ORI)
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
Surface Mount Technique (SMT)
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7. Fast + approved by all members
ETSI Deliverables
ETSI Technical Specifications (TSs)
ETSI Technical Reports (TRs)
ETSI Group Specifications (GSs)
Approved by the TC, Project or Group concerned
ETSI Standards (ESs)
ETSI Guides (EGs)
Approved by the full ETSI Membership
Web-based voting tool
European Standards (ENs, telecommunications series)
Harmonized Standards (HS)
Approved by National Delegations, through the National Standards Organizations (NSOs)
Fast to publish
Fast + approved by all members
Wide, formal acceptance
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8. The ETSI standards process
Drafting
Approval
Publication
IMMEDIATE
If Technical Specification or Technical Report or Group Specification
Drafting in technical committee, working group, ISG or Specialist Task Force
Approval of draft
Work Item introduced
90 DAYS
If ETSI Standard or ETSI Guide
ETSI Member vote
6 – 12 MONTHS
If European Standard
NSO Enquiry and Vote
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9. Who approves what? Technical Body Members (60 day voting period)
ETSI Technical Reports (TR)
ETSI Technical Specifications (TS)
Members (60 day voting period)
ETSI Guides (EG)
ETSI Standards (ES)
Public (National Standards Organizations)
EN (telecommunications series)
including Harmonized Standards and Community Specifications
Industry Specification Group
ETSI Group Specifications (GS)
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10. Public Approval EN (telecommunications series)
involves National Standards Organizations
involves “Public Enquiry” and “public” Vote
weighted national voting
New EN approval procedure (ENAP) combining previous OAP and TAP (one step and two step approval)
Two-step procedure (TAP)
11,5 months
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11. Why the new EN approval procedure?
ETSI is acting on the proposal from ETSI NSOs to improve the EN approval procedure on the basis of the following statement and arguments:
ETSI supports the reform of the EU standardization system undertaken by the European Commission to make the standard making process more responsive.
To ensure that technical comments from NSOs will be considered by the ETSI TB (not only in the case of a negative vote as is the case with the current OAP).
To automatically select the shorter procedure if there are no technical comments. The TB is no longer required to predict if NSOs will comment.
To improve the quality of deliverables and speed up the production of non-critical documents.
To reduce the number of editions of ENs and of the associated procedures, which is particularly important in the case of Harmonized Standards needing to be published in the OJEU.
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12. ENAP procedure
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13. The Two-step approval procedure - for ENs
Drafting by Technical
Body
ETSI
processing
1 Month
2 Weeks
4 Months
2 Months
11,5 Months
Technical Body Approval
Draft received by Secretariat
Start of Public Enquiry
End of Public Enquiry
Start of Voting
End of Voting
Adoption
Publication
Public
Enquiry
review
Technical
Voting
evaluation
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