Priority Standards Issues in Canada

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Priority Standards Issues in Canada

• Bill McCrum
• Executive Secretary
• TSACC (Canada)

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Telecommunications Standards Advisory Council of
Canada (TSACC)

• Government-Industry partnership
• Sixty members from all levels of government and
  private sector
• Sponsored by Industry Canada, Standards Council
  of Canada and Information Technology Association
  of Canada
• TSACC is Host of GSC 8 in Ottawa in April 2003
• GSC GTSC GRSC

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Partners in Global Standards Collaboration

• GSC Members
• ETSI, ITU-T, ITU-R
• US Committee T1, TIA
• TSACC Canada
• TTC Japan, ARIB, TTA Korea
• ACIF Australia

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Priority Topics at GSC

• Next Generation Networks
• Broadband Access
• Security and network vulnerability
• Third Generation Mobile 3G
• Intelligent Transport Systems ITS
• Wireline and wireless Internet

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Hot Topics in Canada

• Broadband Access Standards and deployment
• IP Telecommunications and architectures
• Network security and Vulnerability
• Emergency Telecommunications Systems
• Test suites, test cases and attack test cases
• Organization of Security work in ITU

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Key Forums for Collaboration

• ITU Plenipotentiary
• WRC 2003
• GSC 8 - GTSC and GRSC
• WTSA
• 3GPP
• Workshops, Conferences and Seminars

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Thank You