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World Conference on International
Telecommunications (WCIT-12)
Revision of the
International
Telecommunication
Regulations
(ITR)
Anders Jönsson
Swedish Post and Telecom Authority
Purpose and Scope of the ITR
“… [ ITR] establish general principles which relate to
the provision and operation of international
telecommunication services offered to the public as
well as to the underlying international telecommunication transport means used to provide such
services. They also set rules applicable to
administrations. …”
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Cooperation
ITU
Member states
European Union
Member states
/ Commission
CEPT
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Preparatory work
20-22 June
10-14 Sep
CWG WCIT-12
Com-ITU
Adoption
of
ECP and
Draft Brief
Final draft
of the
future
ITR:s
Report to
WCIT-12
EU
ITU info
meeting
Information
about
proposals
from
regions
ECP to be
sent to
ITU mid
October
2012
and
8-9 Oct
EU
EU
15-18 Oct
3-13 Dec
Com-ITU
WCIT-12
Adoption
of
Second
set ECP
and Final
Brief
ECP to ITU
before 16
Nov 2012
Revised
ITR:s
Enter into
force ?
Council
decision
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Guiding criteria for the revision of the ITRs
CEPT has agreed on a set of guiding criteria for the
revision of the International Telecommunication
Regulations (ITRs).
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Criterion 1: As an International Treaty, the ITRs should
address high level strategic and policy issues
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Criterion 2: Consistency with ITU Constitution, in particular
the Preamble and Article 1
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Status of ITU Recommendations and enforcement of ITU provisions.
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Criterion 3: Consistency with International agreements /
legislation adopted by CEPT members
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Criterion 4: Exclusion of Areas related to Member States'
application of legal or policy principles which are within their
sovereign rights
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Example: the WTO Agreement and the European Union
National defence, national security, content, cybercrime in the context of
Resolution 130 (Rev. Guadalajara, 2010)
Criterion 5: Exclusion of areas not related to the Purpose
and Scope of the ITRs
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National telecommunication services or national transport means should not
be included in the ITRs.
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European proposals
• Changing historical references
• Deletion of
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obsolete definitions
provisions regarding routing
reference to collection charges
reference to accounting rates and settlement of accounts
provisions on dissemination of information
• Addition
• Tariff transparency (pending ROA/OA)
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• Unresolved issue:
• Recognised Operating Agencies or Operating Agencies
• Robustness and security
• No European proposal to add text to the ITR on:
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Fraud
Dispute resolution
Internet connectivity
Quality of service
Spam
Routing of traffic
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Regional groups
ITU
CEPT
APT
ATU
RCC
CITEL
Arab
group
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Regional meetings
• APT
• first set of proposals published
• last meeting 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2012
• ATU
• last meeting 25-26 Sep 2012
• Arab group
• last meeting 8-13 Sep 2012
• CITEL
• first set of proposals published
• last meeting 11-14 Sep 2012
• RCC
• last meeting 17-18 Sep 2012
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Thank you for your attention.
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Abbreviations
• CEPT
European Conference of Postal and
Telecommunications Administrations
• Com-ITU [CEPT] Committee for ITU Policy
• ECC
[CEPT] Electronic Communications
Committee
• ECP
European Common Proposal
• ITR
International Telecommunication
Regulations
• ITU
International Telecommunication Union
• PP
Plenipotentiary Conference
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Abbreviations
• WATTC
• WCIT
• WRC
• WTSA
• WTDC
World Administrative Telegraph and
Telephone Conference (Melbourne,
1988)
World Conference on International
Telecommunications (Dubai, 2012)
World Radiocommunication Conference
World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
World Telecommunication Development
Conference
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