1. How your R&I projects can benefit from ETSI
26 May 2003
How your R&I projects can benefit from ETSI
ETSI Seminar for EC Officials
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Introduction
Technical standards are full of scientific discoveries and technologies
BUT
Not all technologies need to be standardised
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Agenda
26 May 2003
Characteristics of ICT standardisation
How standardisation/ETSI works
How ETSI helps you to transfer project results
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4. Why standardisation of ICT?
26 May 2003
Technical specifications and standards enable interoperable solutions allowing for network effects
Classic example: telephone
All ICT products are based on standards
In the ICT sector most standards are voluntary industry agreements
Standardisation aims at making markets as large and homogeneous as possible to allow for economies of scale
ICT markets are global markets
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5. What is in standardisation for a researcher?
Meet the industry and understand their technical problems
Meet the industry to understand the relevance of your research (reality check)
Disseminate and exploit research results
Present and discuss your research results
Improve existing standardised technologies
Propose alternative technologies
Anchor a patent as essential IPR in a standard
Reports and specifications included in ETSI deliverables will be maintained and made available to the public forever
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6. Standardisation of ICT is tricky
It’s a timing problem (life cycles)
It’s cooperation in order to compete
It’s consensus based
Technology convergence results in accelerated market segmentation and alternative solutions (e.g. POT vs smartphone, Skype vs RTCWeb, ...)
Shift in value chain, e.g. manufacturers operate networks
ICT drives innovation in more and more sectors (e.g. smart transport, smart grid, smart cities, ...), cross-sector standardisation
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Technology maturity matrix
High
2. Pacemaker
3. Key
DIFFERENTIATION
1. Emerging
4. Basic
Low
Low
High
INTEGRATION
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8. ICT Innovation through standardisation
Just as there is competition between technologies, there is competition between standards.
Technologies do not have a value per se (even if they generate technology push). The value of a technology results from a business model.
Research: transforms money into knowhow. Innovation: transforms knowhow into money.
Standardisation is collaborative business development to coordinate technology and market evolution.
Standards makers are those stakeholders who need the standards to develop their products and services in order to drive their business. They are also users of the standard.
Standards are pervasive in ICT, therefore ICT innovation must result in standardisation.
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Agenda
Characteristics of ICT standardisation
How standardisation/ETSI works
How ETSI helps you to transfer project results
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10. ETSI ‘Integrated Standards Engineering’
ETSI follows a life-cycle based approach to standardisation throughout all phases of commercial products/services, from conception to market introduction
‘Standards engineering’ in the ETSI sense is a pragmatic and results-oriented process. It covers:
Linking to research in order to anticipate and identify standardisation needs
Support of early consensus and community building by converting research communities into pre-standardization communities
Setting standards in a proper type of organizational setup (based on an e2e system view)
And last but not least, hands on verification of interoperable implementations of standards (not only from ETSI)
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11. How ETSI works - drafting
Consultative
Working documents
Informative
Reports
Normative
Specifications
Opinions , statements
comments
Research
input
Request for comments
Request for information in pre-standardisation
Informative: dissemination of research results
Normative: exploitation of research results
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Agenda
Characteristics of ICT standardisation
How standardisation/ETSI works
How ETSI helps you to transfer project results
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13. ETSI work for H2020 societal challenges
HORIZON 2020 Societal challenge
Current ETSI Standardization projects
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
EP eHEALTH, TC HF (Human Factors), TC SAFETY, TC USER (User group), TC EMTEL (Emergency Telecommunications), TC SmartBAN (Body Area Network)
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
TC EE (Environmental Engineering), TC M2M (Machine to Machine Communications), ISG OSG (Open Smart Grid), ISG OEU (Operational energy Efficiency for Users)
Smart, green and integrated transport
TC ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), TC AERO (Aeronautic), TC SES (Satellite Earth stations and Systems), TC RT (Railway Telecommunications)
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
TC EE (Environmental Engineering)
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
TC SCP (Smart Card Platform), TC ESI (Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures), TC LI (lawful Interception), ISG QKD (Quantum Key Distribution), ISG ISI (Information Security Indicators), ISG INS (Identity Management for Network Services), TC SAFETY, TC EMTEL (Emergency Telecommunications), SAGE (Security Algorithms Group of Experts)
Work programme at:
EP: ETSI Project, TC: Technical Committee, ISG: Industry Specification Group
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How to interact (1)
Check the ETSI work programme for ongoing work (WIs, TRs, GSs, TSs)
Use ETSI publications for state of the art analysis
Check the ETSI IPR database for patented technical solutions as part of state of the art analysis
Ask for support in funded projects (preparation, execution, exploitation phases) at different levels (ETSI may participate in meetings, as consultants for standardisation issues, to identify technologies for standardisation, or be a contractual partner in exceptional cases)
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How to interact (2)
Projects are welcome to contribute to ETSI workshops/conferences and present research results
Published as eProceedings with ISBN
Partners contribute to ongoing standardisation work as ETSI members
Expert opinion as guest
Contribute to feasibility studies to prepare for standardising the best solution (pre-standardisation)
Contributions to normative documents (specifications of implementable technology for interoperable solutions)
Create a new standardisation task/group/committee
New work item (requires 4 ETSI Members)
WG, ISG or Technical Committee
Bring product prototypes to Plugtests, e.g. Electronic Signature, engage in demonstrations of interoperability, e.g. M2M workshops, or Proof-of-Concept (PoC), e.g. NFV
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16. Plugtests™ can look like this…
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