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ITU, Geneva April 2010
WTSA-08 Resolution 76:
A snap view on
Conformance and Interoperability
Paolo Rosa
Head, Workshops and Promotion Division
Telecommunication
Standardization
Bureau
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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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Anywhere
Anything
Any
equipment
Anybody
8-any
and more…
Any
Data, voice,
video
Anybusiness
Anytime
Any
technology
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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
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Contents Consultation meetings
Discussions also based on contributions:
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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
International
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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
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Supplier’s
conformity
route
decision
Accredited
(ISO/IEC Guide 65)
Certification body
Evaluation
1st party
Evaluation
Conformity
Certificate issued by
Certification
Body
Supplier’s Conformity
Declaration
(ISO/IEC 17050)
ITU CIP services
Supplier’s
Request to ITU
ITU Conformity
Database
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Test results
(ITU-T X.290)
Implementation
of the ITU Conformity
Test results
(ITU-T X.290)
Test lab
(certification body
responsibility)
Programme
Conformity Assessment / Certification
1st 2nd or 3rd party
accredited lab
(ISO/IEC 17025)
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Supplier’s Declaration / Certification
– Risk relationship
RISK
3rd party
Certification
High
Low
Supplier’s
Declaration
Need of 3rd 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
International
revenues, others
Telecommunication
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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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Write to:
conformity@itu.int
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Thank you
Paolo ROSA
paolo.rosa@itu.int
T.: +41 22 730 5235
F.: +41 22 730 5853
ITU/ Place des Nations
CH-1211 – Geneva 20
Switzerland
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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