The world’s leading telecommunications and radio standards organizations, including TIA, met July 14-17 in Boston to promote innovation and collaboration on a broad spectrum of standards topics, ranging from the environment and public safety, to the evolution of networks for the support of new capabilities like IPTV and mobile broadband.
The 13th Global Standards Collaboration meeting (GSC-13) was hosted by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). One hundred participants from eight participating standards organizations (PSOs) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) attended along with observers from additional groups.
Ed Mikoski, Vice President, Standards and Business Development, for TIA and the head of the TIA delegation at the meeting, said: “I am pleased to have attended my first GSC meeting and applaud the significant progress achieved this week at GSC-13. Not only are we addressing important technologies such as intelligent transportation systems (ITS), Mobile TV, and advanced wireless capabilities, but also ICT standards to help handle challenges such as climate change, emergency communications, health care, and accessibility for persons with disabilities.”
Key collaboration topics discussed at the meeting included:
- ICTs and their use in environmental monitoring and energy saving across all industries and society in general
- Global cybersecurity strategies and solutions to reduce vulnerabilities and mitigate risks
- Interconnection of home networking devices (e.g., personal computers, mobile devices) and their interworking with external networks
- Next-generation networks and the convergence of fixed and mobile networks and services, including IPTV
- Evolution of future wireless platforms such as IMT-Advanced
- Expansion of support for regional and global standards on emergency communications, early warning systems and disaster relief
- Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
- Intellectual property rights (IPR) issues affecting the development of communications standards
- Key radio issues in preparation for the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-11)
In addition to TIA, other participants at GSC-13 included the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) of Japan, the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) of China, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) from the U.S., the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of Korea and the Telecommunications Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan.
Guests and observers included representatives from 3G Americas, American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Broadband Forum, CDMA Development Group (CDG), Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), GSM Association (GSMA), Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL), European Patent Office (EPO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Sector Boards 4 (SB4), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) TC204, Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and WiMAX Forum.
The 13th Global Standards Collaboration is the latest in a series of such events that commenced in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1990. TIA last hosted the GSC in June 2006 in Chicago. These events provide a strategic opportunity for dialogue among senior officials from national, regional and international standards bodies in support of the work of the International Telecommunication Union. The next GSC meeting will be hosted by the ITU, July 13-16, 2009, in Geneva.
The GSC-13 meeting provided a framework for exchanging information, establishing shared objectives to accelerate the process of global telecommunication and radio standards development, and promoting interconnectivity and interoperability.
More information including the official Communiqué from GSC-13 is available at: www.gsc.etsi.org. Information on the GSC meetings is available at the ITU repository www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc.
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