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ITU-T’s role in facilitating e-services

ITU-T’s role in facilitating e-services. reinhard.scholl@itu.int Deputy to the Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau International Telecommunication Union www.itu.int/ITU-T. Outline. Staying competitive: ITU-T’s dramatic changes to respond to market needs

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ITU-T’s role in facilitating e-services

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  1. ITU-T’s role in facilitating e-services reinhard.scholl@itu.int Deputy to the Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau International Telecommunication Union www.itu.int/ITU-T

  2. Outline • Staying competitive: ITU-T’s dramatic changes to respond to market needs • ITU-T’s contribution to e-services • ITU-T’s future activities on e-services UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  3. 1. Staying competitive: ITU-T’s dramatic changes to respond to market needs UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  4. Structure of ITU = Int’l Telecommunication Union • UN Organization • 3 Sectors: • ITU-D: aid to developing countries • ITU-R: radio spectrum & satellite slot allocations • ITU-T: standardization • Product: Recommendations (= Standards) UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  5. How does ITU-T Develop Recommendations? • Consensus of • Sector Members (= private industry) & • Member States (= Governments) • Work typically driven by private industry • Open (for members), transparent, bottoms-up process • Sensitive to national sovereignty: will only cover matters not considered to be national UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  6. Competition in ICT $tandardization • Standardization has become a MARKET because of • Liberalization of telecom industry • Internet • Market laws rule: demand and supply • About 500 fora and standards organizations … • … compete & cooperate • A shakeout will reduce their number, but … • … new technologies will bring new fora • Market pressure forced, and continues to force, ITU-T to adapt in order to stay competitive UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  7. ITU-T’s “Speedy Gonzales”Approval Procedure • Old days: • Before 1988 4 years • 1997-2000 9 months • Today: • NEW: Alternative Approval Process via email (except regulatory Recommendations) • 95% of all Recommendations use AAP • Average approval time: 9 weeks (arguably one of the fastest approval procedures in the market) UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  8. ITU-T’s Speedy Publication Procedure • Old days: • 2-4 years • Today: • Recommendations available on web a couple of days after approval! (so-called pre-published version) • Published Recs: 3-9 months UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  9. ITU-T’s Easy Online Accessfor Recommendations • Old days: • Paper • Today: • Website, CD-ROM, Paper • Free online access since Jan. 2001 • one free access/member; • 3 free downloads for public UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  10. ITU-T Fosters Cooperation • MoUs, e.g. • IEC, ISO, ITU and UN/ECE on e-business, March 2000 • See: www.itu.int/ITU-T/e-business/mou/index.html • 2nd Informal Forum Summit, 24&25 July 03, San Francisco • “IETF & ITU-T Collaboration Guidelines”: updated Aug 2002 UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  11. Strengths of ITU-T • Unique partnership of industry & government • Truly global • Consensus decisions guarantee wide acceptance • Fast procedures • Brand name • IPR Policy • World-class meeting facilities • Excellent Secretariat staff UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  12. 2. ITU-T’s contribution to e-services: • Security: X.509 certificates • Transfer Syntax: ASN.1 • Exploration of “e-services” through workshops UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  13. Security - A Fundamental Shift is Happening • Computers & networks are becoming a utility (like water, electricity, gas, telephone) • Business and personal life are more and more dependent on computers • Prerequisite: adequate security. • [9/11 terrorist attack confirmed the already existing trend of emphasizing security] UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  14. Secret Key Encryption Plain text Plain text  encrypt message with decrypt message with secret key same secret key  cipher text • Both parties share a single, secret key • Problem: exchanging keys in complete secrecy is difficult • Best-known example: DES (Data Encryption Standard) UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  15. Public Key Encryption Plain text Plain text  encrypt message with decrypt message with public (!) key of receiver (!) private key of receiver  cipher text • Each participant has • A private key that is shared with no one else, plus • A public key known to everyone • Problem: slower than Secret Key Encryption • Best-known example: RSA UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  16. Public Key Infrastructure • How do we know that Alice’s public key really belongs to Alice? • Answer: PKI • Through PKI, we know that a public key belongs to a given user • Public key is given to the world encapsulated in an X.509 certificate • Trusted “Certificate Authorities (= CA)” sign certificates. • Main task of PKI is to issue and manage public key certificates UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  17. Transfer Syntax (ASN.1) • How could e-commerce messages be encoded at the physical (bit) level? • ASN.1: • provides very efficient encoding methods • attracts increasing interest UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  18. ITU-T Workshops • Telecommunications for Disaster Relief (Feb 03) • Standardization in E-health (May 03) • Challenges, Perspectives & Standardization Issues in E-Government (June 03) • Next Generation Networks: What, When and How? (July 03) • End-to-end Quality of Service (Oct 03) • Telecommunications and the Automotive Industry, 24-25 Nov 03 • All-Star Network Access Workshop, March 04 (date to be confirmed) UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  19. 3. ITU-T’s future activities on e-services UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  20. ITU-T on e-services • Currently ITU-T Study Group restructuring ongoing: • Standardization work in applications and e-services will be among top priorities • Likewise, security • Continue work in IEC/ISO/UN-ECE/ITU MoU • Increase cooperation with UN-ECE UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  21. Backup Slides on ITU-T (not to be shown in talk) UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  22. ITU-T Structure Workshops Focus Group Joint Group Project Team UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  23. ITU-T Study Groups • SG 2 Operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance • SG 3 Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunications economic and policy issues • SG 4 Telecommunication management, including TMN • SG 5 Protection against electromagnetic environment effects • SG 6 Outside plant • SG 9 Integrated broadband cable networks and television and sound transmission   • SG 11 Signalling requirements and protocols • SG 12 End-to-end transmission performance of networks and terminals • SG 13 Multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their internetworking • SG 15 Optical and other transport networks • SG 16 Multimedia services, systems and terminals • SG 17 Data networks and telecommunication software • SSG Special Study Group "IMT-2000 and beyond" • TSAG Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  24. Lead Study Groups • SG 2 service definition, numbering and routing • SG 4 TMN • SG 9 integrated broadband cable and television networks • SG 11 intelligent networks • SG 12 Quality of Service and performance • SG 13 IP related matters, B-ISDN, Global Information Infrastructure and satellite matters • SG 15 access network transport and optical technology • SG 16 multimedia services, systems and terminals and on e-business and e-commerce • SG17 frame relay, communication system security, languages and description techniques • SSG IMT 2000 and beyond and for mobility UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  25. IP project study areas • Integrated architecture • Impact to telecommunications access infrastructures of access to IP applications • Interworking between IP based network and switched-circuit networks, including wireless based networks • Multimedia applications over IP • Numbering and addressing • Transport for IP-structured signals • Signalling support, IN and routing for services on IP-based networks • Performance • Integrated management of telecom and IP-based networks • Security aspects UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  26. Other areas to consider • IP-based networks and their interconnection with telecommunication networks; • IP cablecom project; • establishment of GII; • IMT-2000 and mobility; • e-business and e-commerce; • reform of accounting rates and tariff studies; • MEDIACOM-2004 project and related multimedia activities; • security aspects of networks and services; • optical transport network; • access networks enhancements with xDSL techniques; • numbering and routing; • network performances and quality of services; • protocols for new services and intelligent networks. UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  27. ITU-T Series (A-L) • Organization of the work of ITU-T • Means of expression: definitions, symbols, classification • General telecommunication statistics • General tariff principles • Overall network operation, telephone service, service operation and human factors • Non-telephone telecommunication services • Transmission systems and media, digital systems and networks • Audiovisual and multimedia systems • Integrated services digital network • Transmission of television, sound programme and other multimedia signals • Protection against interference • Construction, installation and protection of cables and other elements of outside plant UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

  28. ITU-T Series (M-Z) • TMN and network maintenance: international transmission systems, telephone circuits, telegraphy, facsimile and leased circuits • Maintenance: international sound programme and television transmission circuits • Specifications of measuring equipment • Telephone transmission quality, telephone installations, local line networks • Switching and signalling • Telegraph transmission • Telegraph services terminal equipment • Terminals for telematic services • Telegraph switching • Data communication over the telephone network • Data networks and open system communications • Global information infrastructure and Internet protocol aspects • Languages and general software aspects for telecommunication systems UNCTAD-UNECE: ICT & E-Commerce Strategies for Development, 20-21 Oct 03

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