1. 19/05/2015 Fora and Consortia A Challenge for Recognized Standards Bodies? Karl Heinz Rosenbrock ETSI Director-General 1GSC-9, Seoul SOURCE:ETSI TITLE:Fora and Consortia AGENDA ITEM:Joint 4.6 CONTACT:Karl Heinz Rosenbrock GSC9/Joint_014

2. GSC-9, Seoul Agenda -Categories of Fora and Consortia -Market overview and key challenges -Positioning of Fora and Consortia -SWOT Analysis and Conclusions

3. GSC-9, Seoul Overview Categories of Fora and Consortia SCOPE DISTINCTION: Fora and consortia – requirements providers Fora and consortia – specifications providers STRATEGY DISTINCTION: Complementing SDOs – thus reaching synergy Market Representers and needs identifiers Promoters Implementers with feedbacks Addressing new market opportunities – not yet addressed by SDOs PAS Providers - Competing with SDOs Let’s seek collaboration! To gain Synergy…

4. GSC-9, Seoul There is a process-based Synergy between some Fora/Consortia & SDOs IMPLEMENTATIONFORUM:MARKET NEEDS SDO:STANDARD DEVELOPMENT MAINTENANCE PROMOTION 12 34 56 ETSI FORAwatch: http://www.etsi.org/forawatch/http://www.etsi.org/forawatch/

5. GSC-9, Seoul Status Yesterday Recognized Standards Organizations For almost 100 years, national and international SDOs have developed voluntary, consensus-based standards

6. GSC-9, Seoul Status Today Challenges of Market-Driven Standardization Market-driven standardization in SDOs Fora and consortia are often seen as the best practice standardization organizations: –Fora/consortia have the ability to keep pace with rapid market changes –SDOs need extra time to achieve thoughtful consensus necessary for the wide market acceptance of developed standards Fora/consortia are a growing challenge and achieving significant success in providing standardization services to the same markets and technologies that the SDOs address

7. GSC-9, Seoul SDOs (ESOs): Strengths/Weaknesses Expanding standardization creates new challenges Strengths Existing procedures and well-trained staff Multinational responsibility Develop very wide consensus High brand image Synergies, one stop shopping Recognition by EU and EFTA Weaknesses Perceived dependency on EC for ESOs Financial model Missing lobby and strategic “ambassadors”

8. GSC-9, Seoul SDOs: Opportunities/Threats High need for reviewing basic principles Opportunities Need to allow integration of research/academic input possibly through new membership status Collaboration agreements between SDOs and fora/consortia facilitate overcoming the time-to-market challenge Testing to ensure interoperability became key to market The pendulum (owing to lack of money) may now move into our camp Go for global standards Co-operation with research and academic bodies Threats The funding source remains one of the most significant difference between fora/consortia and SDOs Lack of CEO awareness Difficulty in identifying market gaps and needs

9. GSC-9, Seoul SWOT Analysis - Fora/Consortia (1) STRENGHTS Time to market! Flexibility! Market orientation/focus Attractiveness! No bureaucracy! Marketing!!! Global efficiency!!! Focused funding Challenge to SDOs - to some extent Keep pace with rapid market changes and user requirements Frequent start-ups with narrow focus Don’t bother about consensus – “closed clubs approach”

10. GSC-9, Seoul SWOT Analysis - Fora/Consortia (2) WEAKNESSES Lack of test specifications Lack of Interoperability testing Lack of maintenance of deliverables Need of administrative structure - similar to SDOs No synergies Consensus? Openness? Democratic or due process? Superficial approach! Costs – need of administrative/maintenance support Coordination/control from Members difficult

11. GSC-9, Seoul SWOT Analysis - Fora/Consortia (3) OPPORTUNITIES High degree of common market interests Competitiveness Deliver “what the market wants” Oligopoly (instead of monopoly) Co-operation with SDOs and get involved in SDOs business THREATS Visibility targets mainly/only the specifications’ users Only pushers, no preventers Lack of coordination/synergy Costs (for the members)

12. GSC-9, Seoul Status Tomorrow – Quo Vadis SDOs? Rise of the expanding Standardization efforts The process of fora and consortia recognition by an accredited SDO may effectively create a new class of organization: a Market Recognized SDO (MRSDO): –The enormous success of the Internet has resulted in the recognition of the IETF –Consortia recognized by SDOs have often been successful Along with fora and consortia, the rise of the expanding standardization efforts fundamentally represent new challenges to SDOs Fora and consortia often require that each Member accepts an IPR agreement as a condition of participation. This is a significant “closed-club” advantage over the SDOs' process where identification of IPR is required, but IPR negotiation is not foreseen within the SDOs