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Telecommunications Industry heavyweights demand fewer standards bodies
Telecommunications Industry heavyweights demand fewer standards bodies | Industry heavyweights demand fewer standards bodies |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 12 October 2009 | |
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They say it is becoming "increasingly more challenging for the ICT industry to identify and prioritise the places to concentrate their standardisation resources" and have called for a review of the standardisation scenario in order to identify priorities for the industry. They propose that the review include: principles on why and what types of standards are needed; identification of the different SDOs, their roles and capabilities; and implementation of improvements to the present standards scenario so that SDOs complement rather than compete with one another. "The intent is to focus standards efforts on key standardisation organisations and foster faster and more efficient production of standards, so as to avoid duplication across organisations and improve speed of development and time to market...In a fragile economic environment and an ICT ecosystem characterised by increased convergence between the worlds of legacy telecoms and IT sectors, it is imperative to develop standards that reduce complexity and maintain consistency, foster innovation and enable industry to deliver cost-effective and interoperable products, services and applications." The meeting had its origins in a Global Standards Symposium in October 2008, at the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly (WTSA-08, Johannesburg). The symposium passed a resolution requiring ITU-T "to strengthen its efforts to respond to the needs of high-level industry executives in terms of their identified requirements and priorities for standardisation, in order to strengthen the role of ITU-T, taking account of the needs of developing countries." The Geneva meeting was convened by Malcolm Johnson, director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau, who invited the CTOs and equivalents of "19 leading companies of the ICT industry, representing major telecom operators and manufacturers, and software vendors." CONTINUED
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