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Regional ITU Consultation on
Conformance Assessment and
Interoperability
(Quito, Ecuador, 6 July 2010)
Summary of contributions
submitted and available in the
web site of the ITU consultation
meeting
As elaborated by Paolo Rosa
Head, Workshops and Promotion Division
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
ITU
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Italy
“Reply to concerns from some members about
the ITU-T Conformity and Interoperability
program as agreed by the Council-09”
 Why to implement the ITU Conformity Procedure and
its Database
 Benefits coming from the ITU Conformity Database for
manufacturers, operating companies, services
providers, end-users
 Why the conformance assessment is the first step in
achieving interoperability
 Real costs and time to market for the manufacturers
 ITU Conformity and Interoperability programme as the
best solution for the needs of developing counbtries.
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IEEE Conformity Assessment Program
(ICAP): The Mission statement
The IEEE Conformity Assessment
Program (ICAP) will be the focal point for
industry technology professionals and
organizations involved with product
conformity to IEEE standards and related
industry specifications, advancing and
accelerating market adoption of
conforming and interoperable products
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IEEE Conformity Assessment
Program: The Website
 The ICAP website (www.ieee-isto.org/icap) is
the externally facing “storefront” for the ICAP
program
 Providing a home base for industry groups
involved with conformity programs associated
with IEEE standards
 Includes Laboratory Services Listing
 Includes Registry of Conforming Products
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Germany – Federal Ministry of
economics and technology
Project: Measuring interoperability – from
theory to practice
“successful interaction of various data- and
document-formats, processes and services as
well as software (-versions) and applications
often fails due to a lack of interoperability,
which is a prerequisite condition as soon as
two or more systems need to interact. “
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Germany: The Project
 Seeking to develop measures to enhance interoperability
in ICT stating that Conformity is not Interoperability
 Addressed to
 public procurers have no acknowledged criteria to describe
requirements concerning interoperability
 suppliers – especially SMEs – do not have an acknowledged
possibility to proof if their product meets infrastructures
requirements
 To develop typical scenarios aiming at analyzing,
testing, verifying and demonstrating interoperability
of selected systems in specific areas of application in a
lab testing-environment
 To produce scenario-specific profiles to be channelled to
the relevant standards bodies as appropriate
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