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WTSA-08 Resolution 76: A snap view on Conformance and Interoperability

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Converged new services: desire for Interoperability

• Always on • Anytime, anywhere and in any form • Voice and multimedia • Self service, intuitive • Simple

for the end user

• Secure

, trusted and reliable

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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

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Committed to Connecting the World Anything Anywhere Anybody Any equipment 8-any and more… Anybusiness Any Data, voice, video Any technology Anytime

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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.

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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 Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 International Telecommunication Union 6

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Contents Consultation meetings

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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

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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 Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 International Telecommunication Union 8

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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 Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 International Telecommunication Union 9

1 st 2 nd or 3 rd party accredited lab (ISO/IEC 17025) Test results (ITU-T X.290) 1st party Evaluation

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Test lab (certification body responsibility)

Supplier’s conformity route decision

Test results (ITU-T X.290) Accredited (ISO/IEC Guide 65) Certification body Evaluation Supplier’s Conformity Declaration (ISO/IEC 17050) Conformity Certificate issued by Certification Body

Supplier ’ s Request to ITU

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Supplier’s Declaration / Certification – Risk relationship

RISK High 3 rd party Certification Low Supplier’s Declaration Need of 3 rd party independent testing

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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 Visit Univ. 16 April 2010 International Telecommunication Union 12

Committed to Connecting the World 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”

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Thank you

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.

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