Transcript TC-20020905-017r1_TIA BOD August 6 2002 TechComm FinalV2.ppt

TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
REPORT
Anil Kripalani, Chair
August 2002 Board Meeting
Overview
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Technical Committee Activities
International Standards
ANSI-related activities
Cost controls
ATIS/T1 Update
Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
and Homeland Security
WLAN activities
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 Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) brief
Technical Committee Activities
 TC has not met since last Board meeting
– Next TC meeting on September 5, 2002
 IPR Working Group has met and other work
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being done electronically
Planning Legal Seminar for legal reps from
participants in standards program
– SDO Liability, Antitrust, IPR related to standards
 Engineering Manual in place, accepted by ANSI
– Elections conducted, training underway
– Engineering Manual Ad Hoc reactivated for further
enhancements in process; Chair: Steve Swanson
International Standards
 Presented briefings on Project MESA --Mobility for
Emergency and Safety Applications
– Next MESA meeting in September in Copenhagen
 Continue to cover ITU activities but at reduced level
due to reduction in force and travel constraints
 TIA added to Steering Committee for Trans-Atlantic
Business Dialogue (TABD) preparations
 Preparations underway for next ICSCA meeting in
Austin, TX in November and Global Standards
Collaboration (GSC) meeting in Ottawa in April 2003
ANSI - related Activities
 ANSI’s 5-year audit for TIA scheduled for April
2003, preparing now
– 1998 Audit: 216 ANStds, 22 audited, cost to TIA $24,487
– 2003 Audit est: 550 ANS, 40 expected audits, cost $54,300
 Reviewing ANSI National Standards Strategy (NSS)
– To be discussed with Technical Committee membership for
possible TIA endorsement
 Restructuring of ANSI approved for
implementation in 2003
– speed up ANSI decision making and allow greater
participation
– TIA staff (D. Bart) on ANSI Board & Exec Comm; also Chair of
Organizational Member Council
Standards Cost controls
 Staff in Standards and Technology Dept reduced by 3.5 HC
 Cost reductions for Meeting expenses
– centralize locations for Formulating Group meetings
– planning to outsource meeting planner function
– preferred hotel chains
 Cost reductions for 2002 Standards and Technology Annual
Report (STAR)
– electronic only, no printing or mailing costs
– will be on web site and standards catalog CD.
 Use of in-house list servers for e-mail distribution is in
implementation
– terminating contract with Lyris
 Expense budget, particularly head count, travel and
training,
down $444K for 2002
Additional Cost / Revenue Items
 Examining Engineering Committee structure
– potential reduction in number of Engineering Committees
– begun discussions with Chairs on “future directions” for TIA
standards program
 TIA co-hosting international IEC Sector Board 4 mtg
– meeting in Atlanta, planned for November
– domestic co-hosting cost and domestic travel much less
expensive than attending an international meeting abroad
Potential Revenues
 Non-TIA member Engineering Committee Participation
revenues expected to be better than forecast
– helping to offset reduced standards royalty revenues
 Seeking federal funding for portion of MESA support
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Standards Education opportunities?
ATIS / T1 Update
 Committee T1 reported reduced membership
– Down to 68 voting T1 members and 45 are manufacturers
 ATIS/T1 under financial pressure
– reversed decision to give away free standards
– made other expense cuts
 TIA staff continues to cooperate and attends T1
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and T1AG meetings
Reducing our portion of joint T1P1 / TR-46
meeting expenses, after audit of participation
levels
CIP and Homeland Security
Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
 TIA is one of 4 Coordinators for Information and
Communications Sector (I&C) for CIP
 TIA has provided input to the “National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace”, (Clarke Plan)
– to be released by White House in September 2002
 TIA is on the Board for the Partnership for Critical
Infrastructure Security (PCIS)
– TIA provided sector input for cross -sector/interdependencies issues
 Gave briefings for CIP International Outreach in Rome, Italy,
and hosted Japanese delegation at TIA DC
Homeland Security (HS)
 Review of “National Strategy for Homeland Security,”
released in
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July (Gov. Ridge Plan) (Summary in BOD
CIP and Homeland Security
CIP / HS Cont’d
 Participated in White House briefings with Information
Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs).
– Need for “trusted” information sharing between government and
industry required
– Richard Clarke, special adviser to President Bush for
cyberspace, also concerned about the security of wireless LANs.
• Chicago Sun-Times story reporters were able to get behind the
network firewalls of law firms, commodity traders, a federal district
judge, and a health care system
 TIA is now more active in National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)
activities, in particular, Wireless Task Force
WLAN / Wi-Fi Issues
 Wireless LAN Security is a hot topic in the industry
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due to growing deployment
“War driving,” “War chalking,” added to jargon and
the trade press abounds with stories
Wi-Fi cells require a fixed-line connection to the
Internet and most ISPs and telecom providers forbid
the sharing or resale of service
Pentagon is poised to introduce a policy that would
restrict how personnel use wireless devices
including BlackBerry handhelds and cell phones
Prosecutions of WLAN hackers, including
consultants, have begun
Most organizations install Wi-Fi systems without built-in
security options, and even those networks with basic
security features are vulnerable to attacks.
WLAN / Wi-Fi Issues
 TIA staff has begun researching issues / players / possible
recommendations for TIA involvement
 Discovered not just technical issues but legal, channel and
user education
 GEMD VAR group organized a WLAN security briefing May 9
by Ron Williams, Senior Enterprise Architect – Security, IBM
Corp.
– WLAN is and will be “insecure” for the foreseeable future
– The impact of WLAN security characteristics can be readily mitigated
where they are felt
• Access Points separated by Firewalls from critical resources
• VPN Access for WLAN clients access enterprise
• Authorization proxies/engines for authenticated and authorized
user access to enterprise application resources
• The risks lie not in what we know about WLAN, but in ignoring its
fundamental characteristics
Possible TIA Initiatives related to WLAN
 Technical issues will be discussed at September TC meeting
– Interoperability with other technologies not adequately
addressed
 Also propose a TIA Subject Matter Expert meeting in the Fall
among TIA members to identify areas where TIA can provide
value
– need marketing, legal, technical perspectives
– provide guidance to TIA for 2003 projects
 IEEE 802 has started standards work to “tighten up security,”
but largely not addressing the strength of the locks, but
failure to lock the doors
 Some TIA members concerned that TIA “not duplicate” work
being done in other fora
Open Mobile Alliance
 Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) www.openmobilealliance.org
formed to consolidate 6 other groups
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WAP Forum www.wapforum.org the largest
Open Mobile Architecture Initiative
Location Interoperability Forum
SyncML Initiative
MMS Interoperability Group (MMS-IOP)
Wireless Village
 200 companies representing the whole mobile services
value chain, including the world’s leading mobile operators,
device & network suppliers, information technology
companies and content providers.
Open Mobile Alliance
 A center for mobile service standardization work,
stimulating and contributing to the creation of
interoperable services across countries, operators and
mobile terminals to meet the needs of both the consumers
and business users.
– Products and services are based on open, global standards,
interfaces and APIs and are not locked to proprietary technologies
– The applications layer is bearer agnostic (GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
UMTS/WCDMA, CDMA2000, etc)
– The alliance framework and service enablers are independent of
Operating Systems (OS)
 By Combining 6 existing Fora into OMA
– Will have ~40-member Board, ~25 Sponsors ($150-200K), ~15 to be
elected
Open Mobile Alliance
 TIA staff in dialogue with OMA leadership
as they consider an RFP for
Secretariat/Admin services