Islamic Republic of Iran
Complementary views on the third draft Report
This Administration appreciate the efforts made by the ITU Membership and the
General Secretariat with respect to the preparation of the third Draft Report for
submission to the forthcoming meeting of WTPF to be held in Lisbon Portugal from 2224 April 2009 pursuant to the Decision 9 of the Plenipotentiary Conference 2006
Antalya ,Turkey.
To this effect, we wish to offer the following c complementary views stem from
the developments in the ICT domains discussed in recent ITU meetings /assemblies.
These are:
1.
WTPF 2009 Theme
It should be noted that each of the three previous WTPF s have had their own specific
dedicated theme, these themes were:
WTPF '96: Global Mobile Personal Communications by
Satellite
WTPF '98: Trade in Telecommunication Services
WTPF 2001: Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony
It should also be noted that each of the four bullets of paragraph i) of the Preamble to the
Third Draft Report makes reference to “Cconvergence, including Internet-related public
policy matters” and “Emerging telecommunications policy and regulatory issues”.
Throughout the Draft Report ,in several areas the same references are made .For these
reasons ,the theme of the Fourth World Telecommunication Policy Forum , 2009 ( WTPF
09 ) could be “ Convergence and Emerging Telecommunication Policy” .
In so doing, the past practices were properly followed.
2.
Future Generation Networks
Throughout paragraphs 14-18 and in various other paragraphs under convergence
reference is made to Next Generation Networks (NGN) which is truly a clear example
of convergence .However, since 2006, world leaders on Research and Development of
ICT ,in the United States, Europe and Japan are working on and promoting another
concept called “ New Generation Network” .
The Next Generation Networks:
Several research activities of new generation networks (NWGN) coming after Next
Generation Network (NGN) currently driven by ITU-T. The detailed research profiles
of various projects such as AKARI project, with possible future applications are
already available . Photonic technology has been applied for high speed
communications, possible high speed communication services are also being
investigated .The photonic technology is also important for energy reduction of these
services, which is one of the keenest issues in the world for the next decade. Among
other concerns to increase power consumption of communication services, network
appliances and sensors are not negligible because of their number and the penetration
rate in ubiquitous or pervasive network services.
Next Generation Network specificity:
a) Replaces legacy telephone networks with the state- of –the- art IP based
network ,
b) Integrate various services over IP networks
- Triple –play services: Voice , Data and Video;
- Quadruple –play Service :+Cellular Phone , and;
c) Solving the issues that Internet is facing
-Application -oriented QoS control
- Mobility support for FMC
-Weakness for Security
d) Maintain the safety and reliability of telephone services
- Meet the requirements for the social infrastructure
The New Generation Network:
Clean -slate designed network architectures
Main protocols different from IP-based networks
Post –Internet /NGN
Research has started in major research laboratories/institutions:
In the United States;
-FIND: Future Internet Design ;a clean slate design
-GENI: Global Environment Network Infrastructure ( large scale network test bed
In the European Commission; FP7 and Geant2
In JAPAN; AKARI, JGN2 plus
New Generation Network capability
With New Generation Networks the Switching and Transmission Capacity in 2020
would be:
Switching: T bps to P bps
Core Link: 10 G bps to 10 T bps
Access : 10 M bps to 10 G bps
New Generation Networks are in research phase and gradually being deployed and
standardized and their first services prototype have started in some countries. Their
wide usage is foreseen for 2020
The New Generation Networks and Internet will coexist giving the users their
respective merits
New Generation Network and Future Internet capabilities require full international
collaboration
3.
Climate change
The following could be added to the area in which climate change is addressed
Computer simulated Statistical information estimate that
By 2012 about 13 b kWh power consumption is expected to be used by ICT devices
worldwide. This consumption is equivalent to 20 m TN CO2 emission in total .Then
the questions to be answered are:
a) How to reduce energy consumed by ICT equipment and service?
b) How to evaluate energy saving of various social activities by ICT power ?
c) How to measure climate change?
d) How to encourage society to reduce energy by power including Clean
Development Mechanism?
e) How to promote enlightenment of ICT power
4.
Bracketed Texts in the Third Draft Report
In accordance with Decision 498 of the 2000 session of the ITU Council, discussions
at the WTPF shall be based on a report from the Secretary-General, incorporating the
contributions of ITU Member States and Sector Members which will serve as the sole
working document of the Forum.
Consequently, that areas of the Draft Report in which consensus have yet to be
emerged should indicate that in those areas there different views were expressed by
participating experts from the membership .In other words rather than showing the texts
in those areas in square brackets the status of the texts should be indicated differently
describing that in those areas consensus yet to be emerged.
5.
Sybersecurity
In the corresponding parts of the Draft Report where the issue of Cybersecurity is raised,
it is suggested that, necessary reference be made to the results of the High Level Expert
Group, in an appropriate manner. In this connection, the language used in the conclusions
of ITU Council 2008 dealing with that report may be used