1. Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World WTSA-08 Resolution 76: A snap view on Conformance and Interoperability Paolo Rosa Workshops and Promotion Division Head, Workshops and Promotion DivisionTelecommunicationStandardizationBureau Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Business Information Technology ITU, Geneva April 2010

2. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 2 Always on Anytime, anywhere and in any form Voice and multimedia Self service, intuitive Simple for the end user Secure, trusted and reliable Converged new services: desire for Interoperability

3. Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World INTEROPERABILITY The most complex project ever implemented by mankind is arguably the phone network. It couldn’t have been done without interoperable standards of ITU

4. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 4 Anytime AnybodyAnything Any Data, voice, video

5. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 5 Why the Res. 76 Addressing interoperability as a reason for founding ITU Major concerns were raised at WTSA-08: lack of conformance poor quality counterfeit equipment Need of developing countries to be assisted in deploying testing facilities and building capacity facilities in the regions Other standards bodies have already introduced a number of activities to address conformity and interoperability and are far ahead of ITU.

6. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 6 Open Consultation on Conformance Assessment and Interoperability Testing Geneva, 20-21 July 2009 Arena to express concerns about the lack of conformity and interoperability of products Consider possible testing ( interoperability) activities to be put in place by ITU Provide a picture of the existing scenario about the best practices performed by leading organizations worldwide Potential implementation of the ITU mark programme Provide elements useful to the implementation of Res. 76

7. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 7 Contents Consultation meetings Discussions also based on contributions:  Why Conformity ad Interoperability ?  Resolution 76 : a short review  The action lines decided by the Council-09  Impact on developing countries: benefits of the ITU C&I Programme, costs of lack of conformity and/or interoperability  Impact on industry, testing, MRAs, associated costs, time to market  Improvements to the ITU pilot database  Encouraging interoperability testing Audience Industry / Vendors Administrations Operators/service providers Standards developers Regulators Laboratories Civil society

8. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 8 TSB studies in progress with… Experts and External Organizations IEC, ISO, Regulators, Laboratories, Training institutions Governments UNIDO, WTO Accreditation bodies (ILAC, IAF, BIPM) Private sector, members and non-members of ITU

9. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 9 Council-09 endorsement Recommendations recalling Res. 76 instructions: TSB to establish a conformity database TSB to investigate industry’s interest in participating in interoperability events TSB and BDT to cooperate on capacity building on establishment of test centres in developing countries Development of a long-term business plan

10. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 10 Implementation of the ITU Conformity Programme ITU-T Recs & test suites Supplier’s conformity route decision Test lab (certification body responsibility) 1 st 2 nd or 3 rd party accredited lab (ISO/IEC 17025) ITU Conformity Database Test results (ITU-T X.290) 1st party Evaluation Supplier’s Conformity Declaration (ISO/IEC 17050) Test results (ITU-T X.290) Accredited (ISO/IEC Guide 65) Certification body Evaluation Conformity Certificate issued by Certification Body Conformity Assessment / Certification ITU CIP services Supplier ’ s Request to ITU Route 1 Route 2

11. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 11 Supplier’s Declaration / Certification – Risk relationship 3 rd party Certification RISK Need of 3 rd party independent testing Supplier’s Declaration Low High Moderate

12. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 12 Business Plan a first approach NEED OF TEST SUITES in ITU and / or in other SDOs Forums/Consortia EVALUATION OF RISK OF ACTING/NOT ACTING ON RES 76 RECOMMENDATIONS: PROS Ability to test for conformity assessment and interoperability in view as new tools to assist developing countries CONS To not be able to do the above and risking the leadership positioning in the ICT panorama Interoperability concerns of developing countries remain unaddressed, challenge of remaining cost neutral ROADMAP Develop definitive understanding of what exactly characterizes the “interoperability problem”: substandards products, policy vacuum in regulation, fill standards gaps, facilitate test events, criteria, confidentiality, schedule, publication of results test labs choice, legislative issues, specification, calibration, costs and revenues, others

13. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 13 Addressing interoperability is one of the very reasons for founding ITU Study Groups and Membership engaged in producing Recommendations suitable for testing “there is no point in developing test suites if ITU does not give some recognition to manufactures having their equipment tested to ITU-T Recommendations”

14. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 14 Write to: conformity@itu.int interop@itu.int conformity@itu.intinterop@itu.int

15. International Telecommunication Union Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 Committed to Connecting the World 15 Paolo ROSA Head, Strategy, Workshops and Promotion Division ITU - Telecommunication Standardization Bureau Mr. Paolo Rosa graduated in physics the 1974 in Rome, Italy worked in the R&D Inst. PT Ministry 1974 - 1996. He worked on optical communications and represented the Italian administration in national and international standards organizations becoming expert and senior advisor for the Italian Foreign Office, the UNDP and ITU He is author of several papers In 1997 he joined the ITU-T secretariat in Geneva as Counselor for Study Groups 6 and SG 15. Since 2005 he is the Head of the Workshop and Promotion Division of the ITU-T in Geneva. Thank you paolo. rosa @ itu. int T.: +41 22 730 5235 F.: +41 22 730 5853 ITU/ Place des Nations CH - 1211 – Geneva 20 Switzerland