1. Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS) Standards Initiatives
Presentation for
EMTEL Workshop
ETSI Headquarters
Sofia Antipolis, France
26-27 February 2002
Hal Folts
Senior Systems Engineer
Priority Services Team - Internet
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2. Agenda Background Issues Under Consideration
Objectives and Focus of work
Project TIPHON Work Items
Progress and Accomplishments
Time Line
Following the Action
Abbreviations
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3. Emergency Communications
Telecommunication services to support recovery operations
Ensure effective communications to support recovery operations through severely congested and impaired resources during times of disaster – e.g. earth quakes, hurricanes, floods, volcano eruptions, terrorist attacks
Authorized users – e.g. medical services, fire brigades, police, government and industry recovery teams
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4. Disasters happen any place, any time, unexpectedly
Why ETS
Telecommunications resources often experience severe stress with damaged infrastructure and very high traffic loads
Serious
Disasters happen any place, any time, unexpectedly
Initial recovery response teams need telecom support to enable organization and coordination of recovery resources immediately
Response teams must depend on readily available public telecommunications resources – Internet, Cellular, POTS
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5. The Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS)
GETS established to provide emergency access and specialized processing in local and long-distance telephone networks for authorized users
Diplomatic Telecommunications
Service (DTS)
FAX
Cellular/PCS
PBX
International
DISN
FTS2001
PSN WITH:
ACCESS AUTHORIZATION
ENHANCED ROUTING
PRIORITY TREATMENT
INMARSAT
GETS access is through a simple dialing plan and personal identification number (PIN)
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6. FUTURE OF NS/EP COMMUNICATIONS
Telecom Evolution
FUTURE OF NS/EP COMMUNICATIONS
convergence
Today
Evolving Nets
Transition with circuit/packet interworking
GETS
Yesterday
PSTN/ISDN/PLMN
Tomorrow
Fully integrated global services for NS/EP operations
NGN
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7. Goal i.e. avoid retrofits
Fully integrated NS/EP services received through execution of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with service providers using standard capabilities inherent in infrastructure
i.e. avoid retrofits
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8. ETS are collectively being referred to as
IEPS – International Emergency Preference Scheme – ITU-T Recommendation E.106
IEMS – International Emergency Multimedia Service – ITU-T Draft Recommendation F.706
are collectively being referred to as
Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS)
ETS can then be used in either an international or national context
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9. Objectives of ETS Selection of multimedia & telephony services
Rapid authentication of authorized ETS users
Security protection of ETS traffic
Preferential access to telecom facilities
Preferential establishment of ETS communications
Preferential routing of emergency ETS traffic
Preferential use of operational resources for ETS
Preferential completion of ETS traffic
Optional pre-emption of non-emergency traffic
Allowable degradation of QoS for ETS traffic
Interchange of critical service management info
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10. Fulfillment
Draw upon existing standards with minimal changes or additions, if necessary to meet objectives.
Do not impede or interfere with natural functions and operations of basic Internet infrastructure.
Support preferential treatment of emergency calls in IP-telephony service.
new applications– instant messaging & presence, registration of missing/survivors (IAA), broadcast video.
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11. Issues Being Pursued ETSI USA TIPHON 3GPP ITU-T
SG-2
SG-4
SG-9
SG-11
SG-12
SG-13
SG-16
SSG
Functional Requirements
Telephony Call Control
Backbone Signalling
Quality of Service
Architecture/framework
Customer Service Management
Multimedia Services
Security
IETF
Protocol Framework
Telephony Call Control
Backbone Signalling
Quality of Service
Multimedia Services
Security
USA
T1A1
T1M1
T1P1
T1S1
TR-41
TR-45
3GPP2
Nationally agreed upon input into international bodies and specific issues relating to USA marketplace
ETSI
TIPHON
3GPP
Functional Requirements
Protocol Profiles/templates
Quality of Service
Architecture/framework
System Description
Security
TMForum
Service Level Agreements
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12. New ETS Work Items for Releases 4 & 5
TIPHON Initiative
New ETS Work Items
for Releases 4 & 5
WI Requirement Definition Study
Technical ETS features and objective to be fulfilled
WI System Description
How standards fulfill the ETS requirements
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13. Many Considerations Technical — solutions being sought: Operational
Industry networking standards that fulfill ETS requirements
Enhance ETS operations with value- added capabilities
Operational
Policy
Legal
Regulatory
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14. Progress
Standards development is a process of consistency, persistence, patience
Established ETS Requirements in all major industry standards bodies
Approved and advanced drafts of ETS framework
Enthusiastic industry support
First drafts of ETS technical specifications
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15. Time Line
January 2001 — Identified initial work areas for technical focus and initial technical area for enhanced features
December 2001 — ETS requirements adopted in work programs of ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, ANSI T1, and TIA
March 2001 –
December 2003 — Proactively provide technical contributions and participate in work of specific technical areas of industry standards activities
Autumn 2002  First meaningful standards to be established and adopted by industry
FY 2002 – 2004  Prototyping work to validate applications of newly agreed upon industry standards
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16. Following the Action Monitor progress Interact on the issues
Interact on the issues
Technical discussions:
Status:
Send to:
in body of enter: subscribe ieps
(no other text should appear)
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17. Let’s All Work Together
Please visit for more information.
Thank You
Hal Folts
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18. Back-up Slides
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19. Accomplishments - 1 ITU approval of E.106, IEPS
ITU Pending approval of F.706, IEMS
ETS Rqmts in ITU-T SG-4, 11, 13, 16, SSG
Draft M.ieps, critical mgt data interchange, SG-4
SG 13 Draft Y.roec recommendation for emergency communications
T1A1 Draft TR on ETS in Emerging Networks
Draft H.priority under development, SG-16
Revisions to H.246 & new H.gef.4 for call control (H.323)
Draft H.ets-security under development in SG16
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20. Accomplishments - 2
ETS Rqmts in ETSI TIPHON Release 3 Documents 1008, 1009, 3016
ETS Major work items in ETSI TIPHON Release 4 & 5 programs
Four RFCs in progress in IETF – ETS Framework, ETS Security, RTP addition, ETS White Paper
BOF session on ETS at IETF 52, December 2001
Project established in T1M1 for ETS service/network mgt aspects
Work underway in T1S1 on revisions to T1.631 HPC standard
Several work actions in 3d generation wireless activities
Standards development is a process of consistency, persistence, patience
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21. Abbreviations ANSI = American National Standards Institute
ETS = Emergency Telecommunications Service
ETSI = European Telecommunications Standards Institute
IAA = I Am Alive
IEMS = International Emergency Multimedia Scheme
IEPS = International Emergency Preference Scheme
IETF = Internet Engineering Task Force
ISAC = Information Sharing and Analysis Center
ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Network
ITU-T = International Telecommunication Union, Telecommunication Standardization Sector
NGN = Next Generation Network
NS/EP = National Security and Emergency Preparedness
NSTAC = National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
PLMN = Public Land Mobile Network
PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network
SC = Telecommunications Service Customer
SP = Telecommunications Service Provider
TIPHON = Telecommunication and Internet Protocol Harmonization over Networks
TIA = Telecommunications Industry Association (N. America)
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