[Chapter-delegates] Moving towards open standards at ITU-T

[Houle Louis]

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Very interesting!

Louis Houle
Président
La Société Internet du Québec (ISOC Québec)
Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org

Le 2013-06-14 16:43, Ken Krechmer a écrit :
> Dear All,
>
> I am in support of these efforts to increase the openness of 
> standards.  I also do not wish to make the best, the enemy of the 
> good.  So please take the following in that light.
>
> In full consideration open standards are a legal, political, 
> operational (of the Standards Development Organization, SDO) and 
> technical issue.  ISOC is addressing the legal and political issues, 
> some of the operational issues and few of the technical issues.  
> Consider: "Interoperability" is often technically difficult to achieve 
> and must be balanced with increased costs (development or per unit) by 
> the SDO.  Guidelines would be of considerable help as implementers 
> prefer to obsolete earlier versions and users (often not well 
> represented in technical SDOs) usually do not want their earlier 
> investments negated.  Backward compatibility, a part of 
> interoperability, is often only partial.   Interoperability becomes 
> more difficult to achieve as systems become more complex and the need 
> for testing (beyond conformance testing ) to verify interoperability 
> may become a necessary part of standardization.  Backward 
> compatibility testing may be very complex (bordering on impossible) if 
> the standard is not technically designed to support this concept.
>
> For those interested in a broader view of what an open standard could 
> be, please see: "Open Standards a Call for Action" 
> http://www.csrstds.com/OpnStdsCallforAction.pdf which was presented to 
> a conference at the ITU in 2008.
>
> Ken Krechmer
> Treasurer SFBayISOC
>
>
>
> Dave Burstein wrote:
>> Folks
>>
>> There's a good opportunity to quietly press for Open Standards at the 
>> ITU starting with the coming July meetings. ISOC has a strong 
>> statement (below) along with IETF and W3C. Hamadoun Touré has in 
>> principle agreed. So I'm bringing the idea to the U.S. State 
>> Department International Telecommunications Advisory Council meeting. 
>> I hope ISOC will see what's possible and find ways to move this 
>> forward. I sent the below note to Danny Sepulveda at State, who has 
>> taken over for Ambassador Phil Verveer.
>>
>>     ISOC can be very effective here.
>>    The State Department ITAC is an open group that you can join and 
>> is surprisingly influential. It gets you all the "confidential" ITU 
>> documents. Do ask me for the details on how you can join. It has 
>> influence.
>>
>>
>> Danny
>>
>>    Several things are coming together to make a natural opportunity 
>> to support open standards at the ITU in the spirit of the Open 
>> Standards proclamation below. Hamadoun at WCIT and previously made 
>> clear he was in favor of "multi-stakeholder" and openness at ITU and 
>> I believe he was sincere. I'm going to approach him next week at 
>> Columbia and I'm optimistic he'll be supportive; he's taken a clear 
>> position on the general subject.
>>
>>    For several reasons, I think the coming ITU-T standards meeting in 
>> Geneva next month is a great opportunity to make quiet but important 
>> progress. I'm writing to urge you to make sure the appropriate people 
>> at State watch and support as appropriate.
>>
>>    At Friday afternoon's meeting, I'm going to propose moving forward 
>> to work with ITU-T in the spirit of the IETF-ISOC-IEEE-W3C 
>> Open Standards principles as well as Doctor Touré's concluding 
>> statements at WTPF. Specifically, I'm going to recommend that ITU 
>> affirm that members, including the U.S. government, ISOC and IETF, 
>> freely share all documents with their interested 
>> committee members. Touré made that clear in several statements 
>> around WCIT and Ambassador Kramer made it so via ITAC. In addition, 
>> to promote access by civil society to the standards process, ITU-T 
>> should make clear that those wanting to participate may do so through 
>> civil society groups like ISOC that are members of ITU or through the 
>> liaison status of IETF. I'll urge the two groups to make this 
>> practical and affordable for all members.
>>
>>    One reason this is a good opportunity is that a long term leader 
>> of SG-15, Tom Starr of ITAC, ATIS & AT&T, effectively chaired the 
>> ATIS DSL Standards Group T1E1.4 which defined the DSL that 300 
>> million people use today. At the time, its work was completely open, 
>> proving effective standards work can be done without secrecy. I 
>> remember he was very proud at the time the group was open, although 
>> he hasn't opposed the current system.
>>
>>    I hope you'll personally follow this up and take concrete steps to 
>> promote open standards as opportunities become apparent.
>>
>> Dave Burstein
>>
>> Leading Global Standards Organizations Endorse 'OpenStand'
>> Principles that Drive Innovation and Borderless Commerce
>>
>> IEEE, IAB, IETF, Internet Society and W3C Invite Other Standards
>> Organizations, Governments and Companies to Support Modern Paradigm
>> for Global, Open Standards
>>
>> PISCATAWAY, N.J., and WASHINGTON, D.C., United States; GENEVA,
>> Switzerland, and http://www.w3.org/ -- 29 August 2012 -- Five leading
>> global organizations -- IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB),
>> Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society and
>> World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- today announced that they have
>> signed a statement affirming the importance of a jointly developed set
>> of principles establishing a modern paradigm for global, open standards.
>> The shared "OpenStand" principles -- based on the effective and
>> efficient standardization processes that have made the Internet and
>> Web the premiere platforms for innovation and borderless commerce -- are
>> proven in their ability to foster competition and cooperation, support
>> innovation and interoperability and drive market success.
>>
>> IEEE, IAB, IETF, Internet Society and W3C invite other standards
>> organizations, governments, corporations and technology innovators
>> globally to endorse the principles, which are available at
>> open-stand.org <http://open-stand.org>.
>>
>> The OpenStand principles strive to encapsulate that successful
>> standardization model and make it extendable across the contemporary,
>> global economy's gamut of technology spaces and markets. The principles
>> comprise a modern paradigm in which the economics of global
>> markets -- fueled by technological innovation -- drive global
>> deployment of standards, regardless of their formal status within
>> traditional bodies of national representation. The OpenStand principles
>> demand:
>>
>> * cooperation among standards organizations;
>>
>> * adherence to due process, broad consensus, transparency, balance
>> and openness in standards development;
>>
>> * commitment to technical merit, interoperability, competition,
>> innovation and benefit to humanity;
>>
>> * availability of standards to all; and
>>
>> * voluntary adoption.
>>
>> "New dynamics and pressures on global industry have driven changes in
>> the ways that standards are developed and adopted around the world,"
>> said Steve Mills, president of the IEEE Standards Association.
>> "Increasing globalization of markets, the rapid advancement of
>> technology and intensifying time-to-market demands have forced
>> industry to seek more efficient ways to define the global standards
>> that help expand global markets. The OpenStand principles foster the
>> more efficient international standardization paradigm that the world
>> needs."
>>
>> Added Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technology officer with the Internet
>> Society: "International standards development for borderless economics
>> is not ad hoc; rather, it has a paradigm--one that has demonstrated
>> agility and is driven by technical merit. The OpenStand principles
>> convey the power of bottom-up collaboration in harnessing global
>> creativity and expertise to the standards of any technology space that
>> will underpin the modern economy moving forward."
>>
>> Standards developed and adopted via the OpenStand principles include
>> IEEE standards for the Internet's physical connectivity, IETF standards
>> for end-to-end global Internet interoperability and the W3C standards
>> for the World Wide Web.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Editor, DSL Prime, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and A Wireless Cloud
>> Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley, 2002) and Web Video: Making It 
>> Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit, 2008)
>>
>>
>>
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