ASTAP09/FR15/PL/03
Mr. Malcolm Johnson
Director, TSB
International Telecommunication Union
Asia Pacific Telecommunity
The Fifteenth APT Standardization Program Forum (ASTAP-15)
9 – 11 March 2009, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected WTSA-08 Statistics:
 Five regional preparatory meetings (Viet Nam, Brazil,
Ghana, Uzbekistan, Syria) in association with Regional
Development Forums on Bridging the Standardization
Gap in collaboration with BR, BDT and Regional Offices
 Regional common proposals from five regions
 WTSA-08 adopted 49 Resolutions, 21 of them new
 WTSA-08 adopted 9 Recommendations, 2 of them new
 Total of 350 contributions
 Over 1000 attendees from 99 countries
 13 ministers/vice-ministers
 VIPs spanning the world and the ICT industry sector
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First Global Standards Symposium
 Held on 20 October 2008
 500 participants
 Chaired by H.E. Mr Nguyen Thanh Hung,
 Vice-Minister, MIC/Viet Nam
 High level speakers: ministers; ambassadors; heads of regulatory bodies; CTOs of multinationals; heads of major standards bodies
 Adopted nine page report which was presented next day to the first Plenary of the WTSA-08
 The conclusions addressed
 ways to bridge the standardization gap;
 challenges in the new standards landscape, including climate change and accessibility;
 ways to strengthen collaboration amongst standards bodies.
 Conclusions were acted on by WTSA-08
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 Reduced from 13 study groups to 10
 WTSA Committee 4 led by ASTAP
Chairman, Bob Horton (Australia)
 Most study group management teams also changed, due to term limits on upper management
 More details will be discussed in the
ASTAP ITU-T Working Group
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 Chairmanships: Total of 15 chairs;
6 from Asia-Pacific (40%)
 Vice Chairmanships: Total of 81
VCs; 25 from Asia-Pacific (31%)
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Chairman
Mr Ki-Shik Park
Mr Wei Feng
Mr Chae-Sub Lee
Mr Yoichi Maeda
Mr Yushi Naito
Mr Byoung Nam Lee
Member State
Republic of Korea
China
Republic of Korea
Japan
Japan
Republic of Korea
Group
SG 3
SG 11
SG 13
SG 15
SG 16
SG3RG-AO
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*
Country
Republic of Korea
Japan
China
Iran
Australia
Indonesia
* see Annex 1 for names
Number of
Chairs
3
2
1
0
0
0
Number of
VCs
6
7
8
2
1
1
Total
9
9
9
2
1
1
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 This presentation focuses on actions to implement the outcomes, as embodied in the new and revised WTSA-08 Resolutions
 Details of other major outcomes are reported in a presentation to the ASTAP WG on ITU-T
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 Total of 49 new and revised Resolutions
 37 Resolutions have action items for TSB
Director
 15 include reporting to ITU Council
 Even though Council meets in October 2009, urgency to act is already upon us
 TSB developing an Action Plan on implementation of all Resolutions which will be presented to TSAG
 Restructuring of TSB to provide resources for its implementation
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 Resolution 68 and GSS proposal:
 Meetings of high-level industry executives
 Identify & coordinate priorities and subjects to minimize number of forums/consortia
 Consult first with developing countries
 Report to next WTSA on lessons learned
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 Composition: CTOs or equivalent from a representative sample of ITU-T Sector
Members
 No substitutes would be allowed
 Each CTO may have one advisor
 Meetings held at convenient locations
 remote participation allowed
 one day meeting once a year, dinner on the evening before;
 Meeting configuration will be boardroom-style
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 TSB would provide the secretariat
 discussion documents coordinated and developed by the advisors
 Agenda items may be proposed by the
Director or by any member
 Each meeting would review actions taken on decisions of previous meetings.
 Communiqués would be made public, but not reports of meetings
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 Resolution 75 requests that Council establish a group on Internet public policy issues to be integrated within the Council WG on WSIS
 Implemented by Council-08 and first meeting held February
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 Resolution 76 Compatibility and
Interoperability
 Expert advisory group has been established to assist TSB to develop the Report to Council-09
 Consultant appointed to assist TSB
 Subject of later presentation
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 Resolution 64 on allocation and economic aspects of IP addresses
 Questionnaire will be issued soon to identify regional needs of developing countries in association with BDT
 New web page on IPv6 soon
 Organize seminars for developing countries on IPv6
 TSB conduct study on IPv6 address allocation and registration for interested countries
 Report to Council-2009
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 Director will propose to Council-09 that new members from developing countries can join
ITU-T on level of financial contribution equal to that in ITU-D and report to PP-10
(Resolution 74)
 Director will invite the ITU Council to consider the admission of academic institutions, universities and their associated research establishments in the work of ITU-T as Sector
Members or Associates, at a reduced level of financial contribution, particularly academic institutions of developing countries (Resolution
71)
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 Resolution 44 actions plan has 4 programmes:
 Programme 1: Strengthening standard-making capabilities
 Programme 2: Assisting developing countries in enhancing efforts in respect of standards application
 Programme 3: Human resource building
 Programme 4: Flagship groups for bridging the standardization gap
 Director establishing an implementation group within TSB which organizes, mobilizes resources, coordinates efforts and monitors work related to the action plan
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 Resolutions 17, 44, 56, 59, 72 and more:
 Organize workshops and seminars in the regions concerns (including related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields)
 Support regional activities and study group
VCs from developing countries
 More meetings in regions
 Regional and Flagship groups
 Remote participation
 Provide fellowships to all ITU-T Study Group and TSAG meetings
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 Resolution 58 on creation of national computer incident response teams
(CIRT), particularly for developing countries
 Developing a questionnaire on establishment of CIRTs to identify where CIRTs are needed and best practices
 TSB develop a handbook
 Possible collaboration with ICANN
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 There has been much good support from the APT region
 TSB is very pleased to have so much new work on behalf of the ITU-T membership
 TSB has limited resource
 Will seek outside assistance
 We rely on APT for continuing support for implementation of WTSA-08 outcomes
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 Invite ASTAP members to consider hosting:
 future study group meetings
 Working Party and Rapporteur meetings
 Bridging the standards gap forums
 Workshops and symposiums such as climate change
 Kaleidoscope
 WTSA-12 regional preparatory meeting
 WTSA-12
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 Looking forward to continuing close collaboration with ASTAP!
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Annex 1 – VCs from AP region (1)
Mr Haruo Okamura (Japan)
Mr In-Seop Lee (Republic of Korea)
Ms Jie Zhang (China)
Mr Seiichi Tsugawa (Japan)
Mr Philip Day (Australia)
Mr Sung-Chul Kang (Republic of Korea)
Mr Li Xiao (China)
Mr Satoshi Miyaji (Japan)
Mr Dong Wang (China)
Mr Kaoru Kenyoshi (Japan)
Mr Hyeong-Ho Lee (Republic of Korea)
Mr Hyung-Soo Kim (Republic of Korea)
Japan
ROK
China
Japan
Australia
ROK
China
Japan
China
Japan
ROK
ROK
TSAG
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2
3
5
5
5
9
9
11
11
12
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Annex 1 – VCs from AP region (2)
Mr Akira Takahashi (Japan)
Mr Feng Qi (China)
Mr Davoud D. Gordeh (Iran)
Ms Duo Liu (China)
Mr Naotaka Morita (Japan)
Mr Sadegh A. Shahkooh (Iran)
Mr Shaohua Yu (China)
Mr Seong-Ho Jeong (Republic of Korea)
Mr Z h ong Luo (China)
Mr Jianyong Chen (China)
Mr Koji Nakao (Japan)
Mr Heung-Youl Youm (Republic of Korea)
Mr Gunawan Hutagalung (Indonesia)
Japan
China
Iran
China
Japan
Iran
China
ROK
China
China
Japan
ROK
Indonesia
12
12
13
13
13
15
15
16
16
17
17
17
TAS
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Annex 2 -
Resolutions requiring TSB action (1)
Res.
Action item for Director
Report to
Council
7
17 provide information to ISO and IEC; with TSAG to propose cooperation procedures with ISO and IEC provide BDT with all necessary support; cooperate with regional offices; strengthen CoCo with regional org'ns
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44 consult with relevant SGs, administrations, applicants.
Follow up on misuse of NNAId resources
26 cooperate with BDT Director
29 cooperate with BDT Director
31 prepare logistics for participation of Associates
32 Director to maintain EWM Action Plan
38 Bring Resolution to attention of BR and BDT Directors
43 one regional prep meeting per region before next WTSA
(consult regional groups) work closely with BDT Director to implement objectives of annexed action plan and encourage formation of
Partnerships as one means of financing the plan inform Council of misuses
Establish a group report to
WTSA
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Annex 2 -
Resolutions requiring TSB action (2)
Res.
Action item for Director
47 facilitate the Resolution
48 facilitate the Resolution
49 facilitate the Resolution
50 prepare inventory of initiatives to promote worldwide harmonization of strategies an approaches; follow-up WSIS cybersecurity activities; cooperation with Sec-Gen cybersecurity initiative.
52 assist to expedite efforts; cooperate with Sec-Gen cybersecurity initiative and BDT (Resolution 45, Doha, 2006)
53
54
55
56 annual reporting annual reporting annual reporting annual reporting report to support and advise to workshop and seminar coordination group; work closely with other Directors.
support creating and functioning of regional groups in collaboration with BDT Director encourage mainstreaming gender perspective in TSB, encourage MSs and SMs and participation of women; annual review of progress and share findings with TSAG and WTSA work with BDT Director on support for regional mobilization for standardization; include funds identified for implementation of this resolution in the TSB budget proposal to Council; ensure
ToR are known by aspiring VCs report to Council
TSAG to implement
WSG yes
WTSA
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Annex 2 -
Resolutions requiring TSB action (3) report to WTSA Res.
Action item for Director
57 collaborate with other Directors and report to AGs
58 support creation of national CIRTs; collaborate with BDT
Director
59 encourage SMs from DCs to promote participation in ITU-T
60 facilitate work on evolution of numbering system
62 support SG3 for its further work on this (dispute settlement) annual reporting
64 collaborate with BDT Director; initiate project to assist developing countries, jointly with BDT; establish website withinformation on IPv6 deployment; promote awareness; study IPv6 address allocation and registration
65 report on progress by SGs report to
Council-09 possible
66 formalize Technology Watch function in TSB; publish results.
67 facilitate work of SCV; provide support and editor; collaborate with GS
68 organize meetings of high-level executives; include needs of developing countries
69 integrate and analyse information reported from MSs
70 review accessibility of ITU-T services and facilities; ensure accessibility is taken into account in work of ITU-T; collaborate with other Directors on awareness and mainstreaming accessibility standards; collaborate on this with ITU-D for programmes for developing countries report to Council as appropriate yes yes
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Annex 2 -
Resolutions requiring TSB action (4)
Res.
Action item for Director
Establish a group report to
WTSA
71 with advice from TSAG, explore and recommend ways to encourage cooperation with academia,etc.
Report to Council invite Council to consider reduced level of contribution
72
73
74
75 in collaboration with other Directors, assist developing countries in implementing this Resolution establish calendar of events relevant to ICT and climate change based on proposals by TSAG, in collaboration with other Sectors; organize workshops and seminars in collaboration with other
Directors for developing countries; report to TSAG on progress regarding "invites the Sec-Gen" propose to Council it consider admission of SMs from developing countries at reduced level, as in ITU-D appoint focal points in TSB for relevant WSIS action lines; facilitate work of ITU WSIS Task Force annual reporting report to Council for PP-10 preparations annual report on
WSIS implementation and follow-up activities yes
76 conduct exploratory activities, in cooperation with BR and BDT, in each region to identify and prioritize problems related to achieving interoperability; study effect on ITU and manufacturers; carry out studies with view to introduce a possible future ITU Mark programme; study financial and legal implications and all other concerns raised; involve experts and external entities as appropriate report to Council
2009
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