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Status Report on PSO Protocol Council Activities

Actions and Decisionsfor the November 2001 – June 2002 period

Azucena HernándezETSI Board member

ICANN PSO Council member

Telefónica de España

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Agenda

The PSO Mission and Structure

The PSO Activities

The PSO’s Signatories Role in ICANN

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Protocol Supporting Organization Mission and Structure

The PSO is a consensus

based advisory body

within ICANN framework

Day-to-day activities of the

PSO conducted through

the Protocol Council

Principles for forming and

operating the PSO defined

in the MoU (signed on

14 July 1999)

ETSIAzucena HernándezTapio Kaijanen

IETFGeoff HustonMike St. Johns

W3CMartin DürstDaniel Weitzner

ITU-TBrian MooreRichard Hill

Members of the PSO PC

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Duties of PSO PC

Advise the ICANN Board on referred matters relating to assignment

of parameters for Internet Protocols

Development of policies & procedures for conflict resolution as

requested by the signatory SDOs

Development of substantive policies in the area of protocol

parameter assignment

Appointment of Directors of the ICANN Board in accordance with

the By-laws of ICANN

Provision of open information on official communications between

ICANN and the PSO, Protocol Council proceedings and meeting

announcements

Holding of an open General Assembly

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PSO Activities (Nov 2001-June 2002)

8 Teleconferences hold by the PSO Protocol Council

PSO published Common Positions At ICANN’s request, PSO Position on the Alternative Roots

elaborated (http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_Statements/PSO-Statements-28September2001.txt)

At ALSC’s request, comments to the Draft Report on the At-Large Membership elaborated: (http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_Statements/PSO-Statements-26October2001.txt)

PSO nominations to ICANN ad hoc groups:

Mr. R. Laorden to the ICANN Internationalized Domain Names Committee

ISO application to be a member of the PSO (still under consideration by the PSO PC) http://www.pso.icann.org/PSO_Statements/PSO.pdf

PSO General Assembly hold the 19th June 2002 in Geneva (Switzerland) kindly hosted by the ITU-T

PSO-PC Secretariat provided by the ITU-T

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PSO and the ICANN Reform

PSO PC is highly interested on the ICANN Reform discussions

The views of the 4 organizations are not identical but some common grounds are emerging

Each organization has submitted to ICANN its own position: ETSI position to be found in (http://www.etsi.org/icann) IETF position to be found in http://www.iab.org/DOCUMENTS/icann-

response.html ITU-T position to be found in http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-

icann/index.html W3C position is pending

PSO PC will continue discussing and reacting to the new proposals elaborated by the ICANN E&R Committee.

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Selection of a PSO Nominee to the ICANN Board

Key Dates:

June 1st 2002 Opening the Call for Nominations

July 15th 2002 Closing Date for Nominations

Sept 15th 2002 PSO-PC to notify the ICANN Board

of its selection

Oct 1st 2002 Beginning of the Term

of the new ICANN Director

The current two Directors on the ICANN Board selected by PSO are: Mr Vinton G. Cerf (Chairman) Mr Helmut Schink

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Knowing the PSO organizations

ETSI (www.etsi.org)

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

IETF (www.ietf.org)

Internet Engineering Task Force

ITU-T (www.itu.int)

International Telecommunications Union-

- Telecom Standardization

W3C (www.w3.org)

World Wide Web Consortium

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ETSI in numbers

672 Full Members from 35 European Countries 191 Associate Members from 19 other Countries 49 Observers from 18 Countries

Membership by Status

Full Members74%

Associate Members

21%

Observers5%

TOTAL MEMBERSHIP:

912 members from 54 countries

Working liaisons with 70 Organizations (SDOs and Fora)

Manufacturers53%

Administrations7%

NetworkOperators

14%

Service Providers & Others

23% Users

3%

Membership by category

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ETSI’s engagement on IP Convergence IP/Telecommunications, ENUM

IP based Next Generation Networks

IP Multimedia System (IMS) on 3G (3rd generation mobile)

IP over Cable access & protocols, IP over satellite

Electronic Signatures, Lawful Interception over IP

Radio interface to IP networks, DECT access to IP networks

Metaprotocols and e2e interactive services over mixed scenarios IP-non IP

all IP Core Network and IP Core in the future Public Safety Network

ETSI STRATEGYETSI STRATEGY

Shaping the future of MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

Remaining a driver in FIXED NETWORKS

Targeting its INTERNET involvement

Bridging the FIXED/ MOBILE/ INTERNET/ BROADCASTINGCONVERGENCE

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NGN and 3G Major Standardization Projects in ETSI

NGN Project:

The following technical areas are specifically addressed by ETSI:Architecture and protocolsEnd to end QoSService platformsNetwork management for NGNLawful interceptionSecurityN&A (Naming & Addressing)

ProtocolsRequirementsInter-op +Profiles

Marketing

Architecture

Application to specific systems

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3G Project The Roadmap from GSM to 3G

GSM 3G

All-IP Network

IP-based Multimedia Services (IMS)

Use of SIP (IPv6)

2nd 3G Release1st 3G Release

Creation of UTRA (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access)

Extension of GSM + GPRS with limited IP integration

Circuit switched voice+data. Packet switched by GPRS

1992 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20021995

Rel 99 Rel 4 Phase 1 Rel 96 Rel 97 Rel 98 Rel 5Phase 2 Rel 6

GPRS UTRA IMS

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ETSI in ICANN ETSI offers its international leadership on mobile aspects, essential in the short term evolution of

Internet. ETSI offers technical and policy making expertise on Interoperability between Internet and existing

telecommunication networks. ETSI offers technical and policy competence on ENUM, Next Generation Networks as a convergence

of IP and non-IP technologies, service and content provision, security..... ETSI offers capability to co-operate and collaborate with other parts of the ICANN structure in order to

get the best synergies for the benefit of the whole community. ETSI offers experience on linking industry requirements and strategy with the one of governments

and regulators. ETSI offers experience on taking policy decisions in a timely manner by means of using well defined

democratic mayority based procedures and appeal methods to protect the rights of minorities.

In TAC &

in the NomCom

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ITU-T in numbers

189 Member States (governments) 671 Sector Members (industry) Working liaisons (A.4/A.5) with most SDOs and fora,

including ETSI, IETF and W3C. Member of WSC together with ISO and IEC Observer in the GSC (collaboration of regional SDOs) New Alternative Approval Process - 2 months. Nearly

200 Recommendations approved by this method in 2001.

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ITU-T activities on IP

ENUM Multiprotocol and IP based networks and their

interworking IP Cablecom Mediacom e-commerce and e-business

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ITU-T in ICANN

Supports the PSO

Offers expertise on policy making by governments

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W3C in numbers

500 members Centers in USA, France and Japan + other offices in

Europe, Asia & Africa Director: Mr Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the WEB) 5 domains: Architecture, Document Formats,

Interaction, Technology & Society, Accesibility

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W3C activities on IP

Extensible Markup Language (XML) Web Services (SOAP, WSDL..) Hypertext (XHTML,...) Metadata/Content Selection (RDF, Semantic Web) Digital Signature (XSIG) etc....

Semantic Web and Web Services are major projects to make the Web more

intelligent

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W3C in ICANN

Major Areas of concern:

DNS at root of URIs: URI stability fundamental for stable Web

Insure decentralised evolution of technical protocols

for the Web Use of URI for protocol identifiers Integration of Internationalised Domain Names and

URIs/IRIs

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IP standards development requires global collaboration

GSM Europe

EICTA

IPv6 Forum

ICANN

IETF

ETNO

W3C

ITU

WAP ForumRIPE

ETSI

EURO ISP Association

INRIAIP

UMTS Forum

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Thank you!

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