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Excerpts from Presentation at ICSCA
VIII-2 Berlin, Germany, 27 February
2002 by Houlin ZHAO Director Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau (TSB) International
Telecommunication Union, Geneva Place des Nations
- CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Tel 41 22
730 5851 Fax [phone] E-mail
tsbdir_at_itu.int ITU Home page address
http//www.itu.int
Present situation and future vision of ITU-T
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• ITU mainly financed by Governments
• work dominated by industry
• procedures very efficient, no longer slow
• seek effective cooperation with SDOs to share
  the work
• should be open to emerging technologies
• should be open to researchers / students
• try to keep its pre-eminent status

Situation of ITU Standardization
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• Questions (projects)
• Contributions driven (normal contributions,
  delayed contributions, temporary documents)
• face-to-face meeting
• - debate, determination, approval of reports,
  approval of Questions - SG/WP meetings
  decision making Rapporteur meetings develop
  texts
• Decision consensus, unanimous agreements
• Recommendations (Amendments, Corrigenda,
  supplements)
• draft Recommendations, determined draft
  Recommendations
• approved Recommendations, pre-published
  Recommendations, published Recommendations
• Implementors Guides
• Meeting reports
• Electronic submissions, web consultations,
  email, ftp
• Paperless meeting LAN/Wireless LAN
  connections in meeting rooms

Working methods
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(Others such as ISO, IEC, ISOC/IETF, INTELSAT,
INMARSAT, EUTELSAT,ETSI, CEPT)
ITU-T Members
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(Note Cisco 13)
Top Members participation (07/98-08/00)
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(Some SDOs receive secretariat support from their
members such expenditures are not counted in the
budget.)
Companys dues to SDOs(ITU-T Associates US
6,000)
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Intergovernment ITU (ITU-T and ITU-R)
NGOsISO, IEC..

Forums / Consortia / SDOs
1394TA 3G.IP 3GPP 3GPP2 AIM AMF AMI-C AOEMA AOW AR
IB ATM Forum BINTERMS Bluetooth Cable
Modems CBOP CDG CIF CII CommerceNet CommerceNet J
Committee T1 COS CPR CTFJ DHF DISA DOPG DSL
Forum ECE ECHONET ECMA ECOM ECTF EDIFICE EDS EEMA
EIDX EMA EMF ERTICO ETSI EWOS FCIA FCIA-J FIPA FRF
FS-VDSL FSAN GSM Assoc. HNF Home
API HomePNA HRFWG IDB Forum IEEE IETF IFIP IFSA IM
TC IMWA IPv6 IrDA ITS America ITS
UK JAVA JCTEA JECALS JEDIC JEMA JICSAP JIMM JMF LO
NMARK MCPC MDG.org MITF MMCF Mobile Web MOPA MPLS
Forum MSF MWIF OASIS ODVA OIF OMG OSGi PCCA PCISIG
PCMCIA PHS MoU PICMG PKI POF Salutation SCF SCTE
SDL Forum SDR SSIPG STA TIA TINA-C TM
Forum TOG TSC TTA TTC UMTS USBIF UWCC W3C WAP WDF
Web 3D WfMC WIN Forum WLIF XTP Forum

ITU positioning
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• ISO, IEC, ISO/IEC JTC 1 cooperation since the
  1970s common texts since 1992
• WTSA-2000 Resolution 7, Recommendation
  A.23 Joint President Cooperation Group (JPCG) ?
  World Standards Cooperation (WSC)
• IETF ITU-T Member since 1995
• MoU PSO, July 1999 provide secretarial support
  to PSO, since 08/01
• Joint management team meetings in 11/99 and
  08/01
• ETSI ITU-T Member since early 1990s MoU
  cooperation in June 2000
• ISO, IEC, UN/ECE MoU on e-business in March
  2000
• GSC (Global Standards Collaboration) Since
  March 1994
• TTA, TTC, ARIB, ETSI, T1, TIA, TSACC, ACIF, ITU

ITU-T coordination with SDOs
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Members for Rec. A.4, A.5and A.6 relationship
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• Cooperation on common subjects (liaisons,
  communications, mutual participation)
• Cooperation on workshops
• ITU-T provide draft texts and other documents
  to SDOs to post for public consultation
• ITUs permission for SDOs to reproduce ITU-T
  texts
• More to be done for mutual benefit market
  study, joint promotion, mutual reference, joint
  conferences, efficient coordination, common IPR
  policy, etc.

Cooperation activities with SDOs(General)
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In the past - control by governments with
participation of industry - international
coordination by a few recognized
SDOs Today - market-oriented - shared by
government / regulator / service providers
/ vendors - consultant / researcher / student
participation - many SDOs (national, regional,
multinational, international)
Working forces for internationaltelecommunication
standardization
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• rapid development of technologies
• liberalization of markets
• globalization of economy
• convergence of services
• conflicts of markets interest vs global
  availability
• many SDOs
• limited resources
• experts prejudices based on the past
• IPR issues

Challenges to standardization
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• nobody can do everything, but everybody wants
  more
• out-of-control creation of forums / consortia /
  SDOs
• no effective cooperation among forums /
  consortia / SDOs, but competition
• industry suffers from heavy involvement with
  too many SDOs they created / sponsored (hundreds
  in the market)
• established international SDOs not used
  efficiently (exploring use of existing SDOs vs
  proliferation of SDOs)

Challenges to SDOs