TECHNICAL ORGANIZATIONOrganizing the work

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Technical Organization, Technical Bodies

The ETSI Technical Organization comprises three types of Technical Body (TB): Technical Committee (TC)

ETSI Project (EP) • Market sector and timeframe oriented

ETSI Partnership Project (EPP)• Market sector and timeframe oriented

• In co-operation with external bodies

A Technical Body may establish Working Groups (WG), if required

ETSI’s Technical Committees

Access, Terminals, Transmission & Multiplexing (ATTM)Aeronautical (AERO)Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN)Broadcast

• Joint committee with European Broadcasting Union and CENELECCloud Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT)ETSI Project eHealthElectromagnetic Compatibility & Radio Spectrum (ERM)Electronic Signatures & Infrastructures (ESI)Environmental Engineering (EE)Human Factors (HF)IMS Network Testing (INT)Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)Lawful Interception (LI) Continued…

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ETSI’s Technical Committees

Continued…

• Machine to Machine (M2M)• Methods for Testing & Specification (MTS)• Mobile Standards Group (MSG)• Multimedia Content Distribution (MCD)• Powerline Telecommunications (PLT)• Railway Telecommunications (RT)• Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS)• Safety• Satellite Earth Stations & Systems (SES)• Smart Card Platform (SCP)• Speech Processing, Transmission & Quality (STQ)• Telecoms & Internet converged Services

& Protocols for Advanced Networks (TISPAN)• Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA)

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Industry Specification Group (ISG)

A special type of ETSI committee, focused activity, designed for quick establishmentDecides its own work programme, approves its own deliverables• ISGs produce ETSI Group Specifications (GS) only

All ISGs use ETSI IPR policy• Well-established IPR policy, save time and legal fees compared with setting up a

forum.Each ISG has its own membership• Non-Members of ETSI can participate, under conditions

Each ISG can have its own budget• Decided and paid for by its members, invoiced to them by ETSI• Usually not required

Each ISG can set its own working procedures • Based on ETSI Technical Working Procedures

Each ISG can have its own voting system• Recommended to use ETSI weighted voting, or 1 member 1 vote

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ISG: other characteristics

Fast and easy to set up• Minimum 4 ETSI members necessary, approved by Director General • ETSI Secretariat will provide basic support free of charge

Participation is governed by a Industry Specification Group Agreement• Sets out the operation rules, budget mechanism, voting rules etc.

All ETSI members can access all ISG documentsAll ETSI members can participate, if they sign the ISG agreement• Also applicant members• Includes agreeing to contribute to the budget according to this agreement• Access to mailing lists, etc.

Non-members of ETSI can participate• Must sign a Participation agreement including adherence to IPR policy, pay a fee (per

meeting)• Non-members of ETSI have no voting rights• Access to mailing lists, meeting documents, contribution rights

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Limitations on an ISG

ISGs only produce ETSI Group Specifications (GS)• Specifically identified as coming from an ISG

ISGs cannot handle activities Mandated by EC/EFTA

ISGs should not handle the following:• health, safety, environment, public interest and the basic

legal/economic interests of consumer related issues

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ETSI’s Industry Specification Groups

Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet (AFI)Identity and access management for Networks and Services (INS)Information Security Indicators (ISI) Localisation Industry Standards (LIS)Measurement Ontology for IP traffic (MOI)Operational energy Efficiency for Users(OEU) Open Radio equipment Interface (ORI)Open Smart Grid (OSG)Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)Surface Mount Technique (SMT)

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ETSI definitions

ETSI work item

A description of a standardization task approved by a Technical Body according to the procedures […] and adopted by the ETSI members

ETSI deliverable

A document […] produced as the result of an ETSI work item

- TWP Annex A

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Consensus

"General agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments.

Note : Consensus need not imply unanimity."

Definitions

ISO Guide 2 definition

The ETSI standards process

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Work Item

introduced

Approval of draft by technical

committee

PublicationIMMEDIATE

If Technical Specification or Technical

Report

Drafting Approval

6 – 12 MONTHS

If European Standard

NSO Enquiry

and Vote

90 DAYS

If ETSI Standard or ETSI Guide

ETSI Member

vote

Drafting in technical committee, working

group

or Specialist Task Force

Choice of deliverable type (1)

Specifications and standards (normative)

• TS - ETSI Technical Specification• Short time to market• May be converted later to ES or EN

• ES - ETSI Standard• Preferable/necessary that whole ETSI membership approves

• EN - European Standard (telecommunications series)• Formal output for standardization at European level• Specific to Europe & needs transposition into national standards• or subject of an EC/EFTA mandate

Reference: ETSI Technical Working Procedures, Annexes A & E

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Choice of deliverable type (2)

Guides and reports (Informative)

• TR - ETSI Technical Report• Default deliverable

• EG - ETSI Guide• Guidance on handling technical standardization activity in whole or major parts of the

Technical Organization

• ETSI Special Report• General ETSI member or public interest• Also, deliverable with dynamic content generated by software application on ETSI web

site

Reference: ETSI Technical Working Procedures, Annexes A & E

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ETSI Deliverables

ETSI Technical Specifications (TSs)ETSI Technical Reports (TRs)ETSI Group Specifications (GSs) • Approved by the TC, Project or Group concerned

ETSI Standards (ESs)ETSI Guides (EGs) • Approved by the full ETSI Membership• Web-based voting tool

European Standards (ENs, telecommunications series)Harmonized Standards (HS) • Approved by National Delegations, through the

National Standards Organizations (NSOs)• Web-based voting tool

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Fast to

publish

Fast +

approved by

all members

Wide, formal

acceptance

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Standstill, national transposition and withdrawal

ETSI starts work on an EN… National Standards Organisations (NSOs) and ETSI Members are required

to stop any national standards work that could prejudice that EN and not to publish a new or revised standard which is not completely in line with an existing EN ("Standstill")

ETSI publishes the EN… NSOs are required to adopt the EN at national level… ("Transposition")

…and to withdraw any conflicting national standards ("Withdrawal")

Some definitions

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Prefix

Deliverable type

(TS, TR, ES, EG, EN, SR)

0 for Special Reports1 for TS and TR2 for ES and EG3 for EN

Editorial version

Technical version

Major version

(1,2, …)

Sub-part(if any)

Part(if any)

(1,2, …)

Serial number(00 001 – 99 999)

For example: ETSI ES 201 873-1 Version 1.0.10

Numbering of deliverables

Numbering of deliverables

Technical Body approval• TR: ETSI TR 1XX XXX Vm.a.b• TS: ETSI TS 1XX XXX Vm.a.b

Member approval• EG: ETSI EG 2XX XXX Vm.a.b• ES: ETSI ES 2XX XXX Vm.a.b

NSO approval• EN: ETSI EN 3XX XXX Vm.a.b

Other• SR: ETSI SR 0XX XXX Vm.a.b• GS: ETSI GS LXX XXX Vm.a.b

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