TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORTREPORT

Anil Kripalani, ChairAnil Kripalani, Chair

March 2003 Board MeetingMarch 2003 Board Meeting

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OverviewOverview

Retrospective– Technical Committee Activities– Cost controls/right sizing,

Standards load

Prospective– Emerging issues needing

guidance or input

Technical Committee ActivitiesTechnical Committee Activities TIA endorsed ANSI National Standards Strategy

ANSI Audit scheduled for April 2003– lower cost due to ANSI change in number of standards to be

audited

IPR in standards area is becoming hot topic, again

TIA now Vice Chair of 3GPP2 Steering Committee – Chair passes to Japan

– Managed budget to surplus

WLAN issues well underway– WLAN/cdma2000® interworking and coexistence with cordless.

– Security issues worked by IEEE

Homeland Security taking more and more staff time

Cost Controls/Right SizingCost Controls/Right Sizing TIA Standards program “right sized” from 11

Engineering Committees down to 8 2002 Budget performance

– S/T $544K under budget due to cost controls and reduced staff and travel

– standards meeting hotel expenses $156K under budget– revenue for Non-Member fees $43K better than budget– standards revenue short $133K– dropped $610K to bottom line

Standards Statistics– Load more than doubled from 2001 (i.e., 280 vs 130 docs)– average development interval cut from 300 days to 190 days– accomplished with 3.5 less S/T personnel due to retirements and

RIF

Emerging IssuesEmerging Issues ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel

(HSSP) CALEA UWC-136 Concerns IPR in Standards Development SDO litigation Industry Priorities Duplication of work Priority of standards program if further TIA

cuts necessary

ANSI Homeland Security Standards ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel (HSSP)Panel (HSSP)

– Response to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs• Original 8 Sectors (Presidential Decision Directive 63) now increased

to 13 Sectors or Key Asset Areas– Cross-sector focus on needs and mapping to SDOs both within

and outside of ANSI– Database of needs and existing/new standards– International outreach– State and Locals not standards-focused yet, HSSP a portal to

standards information– HSSP Steering Committee: 8 Gov’t, 8 Companies, 8 ANSI SDOs, 8

non-ANSI SDOs, 4 at-large seats; ANSI Co-chair, Gov’t Co-chair, who also chair Panel itself = 38 total

– TIA very involved in establishing HSSP, hosting 1st Steering Committee meeting March 18, & TIA part of planning team

CALEACALEA J-STD-025B in work in TR-45 for packet technology

inclusion FBI/Telecordia Surveillance/VoIP meeting in

January, to address new “son of punch list” SCD/TR-34 Satellite CALEA review Patriot Act II, increased surveillance? ITU involvement in surveillance? Need for CALEA Legal Summit?

– In the past, TIA/USTA/CTIA have hosted – ATIS now considering (Ed Hall, ex-CTIA)

Related to Homeland Security Can be expensive to resource; in the past,

litigation

UWC-136 Standard ConcernsUWC-136 Standard Concerns Concern : Attempt to use TIA Engineering Committee to bypass

ITU IMT-2000 process – TIA’s reputation on the line at ITU

TIA history on IMT-2000 :– ITU invited technology proposals for IMT-2000 to meet performance criteria for 3G

(144 kbps vehicular, 384 kbps pedestrian, 2Mbps fixed)– RTT proponent provided self-evaluation and RTTs were evaluated by 10

worldwide 3rd party teams– TIA submitted 3 Radio Transmission Technologies (RTTs)

• cdma2000® actively supported in TR-45 and 3GPP2

• UWC-136 supported in TR-45.3, • WIMS, combined with UMTS and gone now

– UWC-136 operators migrating to GSM and cdma2000®

– GSM/GPRS standards not in TIA (3GPP, T1) Contribution in TR-45.3 to make GSM/GPRS part of UWC-136 but

with specs/standards from 3GPP/T1 • Concern: GSM/GPRS do not meet IMT-2000 criteria

IPR in Standards DevelopmentIPR in Standards Development Continuing discussions in ITU-T over copyrighted

software used in standards

Copyright erosion in Veeck case, consideration pending before Supreme Court

Copyright protection by licensing and doc-lock technology is hot area, DRM for standards

Trademarks in Standards is hot topic, commercial Trademarks vs. Trademarks of SDOs

Patented technology in standards; “related” patents vs “essential” patents; Rambus cases; FTC/DOJ hearings; TIA IPR WG is active. TIA to chair GSC IPR WG at GSC in Ottawa, end of April

SDO Litigation IssueSDO Litigation Issue SDOs continue to be concerned about

litigation ANSI Task Force recommended some

specific steps including legislative relief There are specific “best practices” Associations and SDOs are suing

insurance companies to force indemnification or defense costs

Insurance exemptions or lack of coverage are also a problem

Standards Disclaimers being used more

TIA PrioritiesTIA Priorities

GSC/RAST and other groups have had Priority GSC/RAST and other groups have had Priority Issues Lists for yearsIssues Lists for years

Technical Committee authorized a Survey to each Technical Committee authorized a Survey to each Engineering Committee Chair to rank TIA Engineering Committee Chair to rank TIA priorities, which has been sent out, answers due priorities, which has been sent out, answers due March 17March 17

Support for an “Industry’s Priorities” session at Support for an “Industry’s Priorities” session at SUPERCOMM, with ATIS and other Trade SUPERCOMM, with ATIS and other Trade Associations and Technical Groups, both domestic Associations and Technical Groups, both domestic and internationaland international

Duplication of WorkDuplication of Work TIA groups have been seeing an overt effort at ATIS TIA groups have been seeing an overt effort at ATIS

to duplicate work already on-going at TIA while at to duplicate work already on-going at TIA while at same time, having ATIS Chair claim “too many same time, having ATIS Chair claim “too many groups are doing the same thing!”groups are doing the same thing!”

More than 2/3 of Committee T1 members are TIA More than 2/3 of Committee T1 members are TIA members (T1 now down to about 65 members)members (T1 now down to about 65 members)

More than 50% of ATIS Board seats are held by TIA More than 50% of ATIS Board seats are held by TIA membersmembers

Senior management should direct non-duplication of Senior management should direct non-duplication of workwork

COVEREDCOVERED

Priority of Standards Work at TIAPriority of Standards Work at TIA

In the past, TIA standards program was ranked In the past, TIA standards program was ranked #1 priority at TIA #1 priority at TIA (Board and Membership Surveys)(Board and Membership Surveys)

S/T SDO staff now down to 9.5 FTE, (down S/T SDO staff now down to 9.5 FTE, (down 30%) last year, while load increased, intervals 30%) last year, while load increased, intervals became shorterbecame shorter

Need guidance on priority of standards if TIA Need guidance on priority of standards if TIA fiscal goals are not met, what committees, fiscal goals are not met, what committees, projects, etc., should get resources or should projects, etc., should get resources or should cuts be taken in other areas of TIA?cuts be taken in other areas of TIA?

Questions?

Industry PrioritiesIndustry Priorities

In November BOD we discussed ATIS’s stated top 18 priorities from new ATIS Technical Operations Council (TOPS Council) with first 5 deemed “critical”:– 1. VoIP – 2. Wide Area Ethernet– 3. Mobile Wireless Services– 4. Security Issues (network security, 802.11 security,

IP network security) – 5. Data Interchange (billing)

ATIS/T1 PrioritiesATIS/T1 Priorities

Other ATIS priority Other ATIS priority issues:issues:

– Optical NetworksOptical Networks

– DSL EvolutionDSL Evolution

– Wireless EvolutionWireless Evolution

– IP Telecom Network IP Telecom Network ManagementManagement

– Reliability MeasurementsReliability Measurements

– Wide Area StorageWide Area Storage

– NumberingNumbering

– Emergency Emergency Telecommunications Telecommunications Services for IPServices for IP

– CALEACALEA

– E911 EvolutionE911 Evolution

– Priority AccessPriority Access

• (NOTE list only totals 16)(NOTE list only totals 16)