[Chapter-delegates] Major opportunity to influence New IP/Determiniistic Networking/ETSI Non-IP

[Dave Burstein]

Folks

Robert Pepper, Richard Hill, Sally Wentworth - you know ITU. Please speak
up, especially if I have this wrong.

I'm writing to urge you to join the ITU SG-13 committee and specifically
the mailing list F-G described below and the online meeting October 22.
(below) You can make a difference on one of the most important issues in
Internet architecture and standards.

It's basically an attempt by the world's giant carriers to impose telco
based quality of service requirements across most of the major networks in
the world. De facto, it's an attempt by the telcos to take back most
connections from the Internet we know.

Judging from the near universal support of carriers and their vendors,
25%-75% of connections will be actively controlled by the giant companies.
The momentum is *almost* unstoppable, although the actual new software is
3-6 years away.

Logic and rational argument has about as much chance of making a difference
as it does in the Trump administration. It has to be fought at the loci of
power: ITU, 3GPP, ETSI, China, and IETF. (Which has an active group
supporting deterministic networking, although avoiding the almost
irrelevant question of the IP protocol.)

Contrary to rumor, almost all ITU processes are open discussions. If you
can support an important point of view, you can make a difference. If the
Study Group does not have a consensus, the current Verizon-led New IP plan
will probably not move forward.

Countries have ultimate authority, but it almost never comes to a vote of
countries.

I was on the ITU Focus Group 2030, essentially defining 6G. If a dozen of
you were there to join my dissent, New-IP probably would not have reached
consensus.

It's now at Study Group 13. SG 13 was expected to rubberstamp FG 2030's
report. The controversy over New IP is holding things up and a special
meeting is set for 22 October (below).

ISOC is a full sector member. ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure publicly
urged our CEO, Kathy Brown, to send as many members of civil society as we
could, pointing out that corporations who were sector members like us often
sent dozens.

They (DT, Telefonica, China Mobile & Telecom, and their suppliers including
Ericsson and Huawei) maintain deterministic low latency networks are
necessary for future advanced services such as telepresence and holograms.
(They are probably wrong, as Olaf has written. We aren't being heard.)

Most commentators and governments have been convinced central control is
necessary to deliver decent video. That's pure nonsense - your Netflix
would have major problems if that were true. (Most Netflix problems are
local, especially Wi-Fi.)

5G networks already have a deterministic model, the 3GPP SA core, now
deploying. The telcos want to extend their controls across networks. That
would guarantee latency to multi-player Pokemon Go as well as between
different NATO organizations.

Marcus Kummar explained ISOC couldn't send members to ITU meetings such as
this because "we might not follow ISOC policy." There's a simple way to
deal with that: any ISOC rep uncertain about ISOC policy should preface her
comments with "Speaking for myself, not the Internet Society. (Of course,
it was really about power. Marcus also said "ISOC is not a
multi-stakeholder organization."

The Internet Society could do so much. Time to stop preaching quietly to
the converted.


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Dear colleagues,



At its virtual July 2020 meeting SG13 agreed to set up a drafting group on
[Questions F&G]
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in
order to bridge the gap between July and December 2020 SG13 activities on
Questions F and G texts, if needed. First of all I would like to express my
sincere thanks to all of you who have shown their interest in this topic by
subscribing to the corresponding mailing list (t17sg13q-f-g at lists.itu.int).
Secondly I would like to invite you for a virtual kick-off meeting, which I
plan to hold on 22 October 2020, 1pm-2:30pm (Geneva time). Any contribution
should be sent via the drafting group mailing and CC to
Leo.Lehmann at bakom.admin.ch on 16 October 2020 latest, in order to give
everybody sufficient time for reading.



Details on remote access will be communicated later.



Best regards

Dr Leo Lehmann

Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13

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