[kictanet] WTSA - final outcomes

Thu Nov 29 17:17:47 EAT 2012

  Final outcomes on the just concluded WTSA from ISOC.

Best

Alice

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Hi everyone,

WTSA concluded this afternoon with the following outcomes.    Onward to WCIT!

Report: WTSA Closing Plenary and Final Agreements

-- References to ITRs – There were no new references that were added to the WTSA Resolutions, however there are a few existing Resolutions that do refer to the ITR text.  As the ITR language is modified these references will need to be reviewed to determine if the language changes create impacts or scope creep for the ITU.

-- IPv6:  Resolution 64 on IP Address Allocation was the most contentious issue of this WTSA.  At the Tuesday session additional text was proposed by the Arab States for a provision instructing that the ITU complete an application to become an RIR.  In the ensuing debate, developing countries lined up in favor.  After much give and take the closing Plenary today took up the discussion once again to determine if a compromise could be reached. The US stated that according to the World Summit on the Information Society, the United Nations should not be engaged in the day‑to‑day technical operations of the Internet.  The Assembly took note of that statement and a new compromise was reached that removed the ITU RIR requirement from the resolution.

-- Cybersecurity:  Resolution 50 on Cybersecurity was adopted and the security work will continue at the ITU-T under SG17.  The resolution contains text regarding working collaboratively with other relevant SDOs and forums.  One item of note SG 13’s new mandate is cloud computing and that group will take the lead on security work related to cloud computing and has been asked to collaborate with SG17 as needed.

-- MPLS: SG15s New Recommendation “ITU-T G.8113.2/Y.1372.2 Operations, administration and maintenance mechanisms for MPLS-TP networks using the tools defined for MPLS” was approved without any debate.  The Plenary session on 26 November noted the IETF liaison assigning the point code.

-- New Resolution from Japan proposing the creation of a Strategic and Structural Review Committee for the ITU‑T was adopted with some modifications during plenary discussion as the proposed text focused on the ITU taking the lead role in making sure that no other SDO and forum developed standards that were in conflict with the ones that they produced.  This text in the instructs the ITU was modified to restore the original intent of mutual cooperation and joint coordination to avoid undue conflicts in standards development.

-- Numbering Misuse, Calling Party ID / Inappropriate Hubbing:  The various proposals to modify the numbering resolutions were tough to resolve.  In the end the term fraud was removed from the Misuse Resolution 61 and replaced with misappropriation of resources, still a contentious issue but not as troublesome as originally proposed as it is qualified as only applying to E.164 telephone numbers. Resolution 29 on Alternative Calling Procedures has included references to "inappropriate hubbing" recognizing that forms of hubbing may be misuse and cause loss of revenue.  Resolution 65 on Calling Party/Calling Line Identification (CLI) modifications caused significant tension between countries who want the identification delivered with every international call vs. countries and operators who do not have a mandate or are technical incapable of sending the calling party or line information.  The compromise is to add where technically feasible as a qualifier. However SG2 has been tasked with significant work from these resolutions, such as defining hubbing, with CLI on mechanisms to overcome issues and to work with SG17 on related security issues, and with misuse on economic impacts and continued means to resolve international settlement losses.

-- WSIS:  Resolution 75 on the ITU-Ts contribution to the outcomes of WSIS was significantly expanded to include the implementation of various WSIS Action Lines.  “Relevant” SGs have been instructed to consider the output of the CWG-Internet Policy in their work and the TSB is instructed to provide a comprehensive summary of the T Sector work to WG-WSIS, and TSAG.

-- Spam:  Resolution 52 on spam was adopted with some modifications, including a requirement for SG17 to continue to study spam and for the TSB to initiate a study of spam, including sending a questionnaire to obtain technical and economic impact details on spam.

-- Resolution 178 on ITU role in organizing the work on technical aspects of telecommunication networks to support the Internet:  The recommendation of TSAG to create a Joint Coordination Activity (JCA) was met with some resistance, however the compromise reached modified the JCAs terms of reference to include a requirement that it report to Council in 2013 on a proposal to change itself into a working party or a SG (this has more status and outputs).  This is has the potential to become the Internet SG so the work of this JCA needs to be monitored closely.

--New Resolution on Strengthening Collaboration: This a new proposal to create a group to work on ITU-T collaboration with other bodies and to report to TSAG on its findings.  This new group will work closely with the Strategic Review Committee to develop synergies for collaboration as new work areas are identified.

-- Number of Study Groups is maintained at 10, with the addition of several new groups (JCA-178, Strategic Review, Strengthening Collaboration) that will report to TSAG.  There were also a new Focus Group created to study QoS, which could be problematic should the study also include capabilities of IP networks or extend PSTN requirements onto IP.

-- A Series Recommendation modification on IPR: A.5 on procedures for referencing the documents of other organizations. There was one very troubling proposal regarding the treatment of other organizations who would not allow there text to be restated within an ITU-T Recommendation, however the final compromise resulted in an alternative where if an organization that meets the qualifications in either A.4, A.5 or A.6 will not give permission for its work to be copies into a Recommendation the SG can by consensus agree to add a normative reference to the text.\

- Deep packet inspection implementation requirements - a chapeau to this recommendation was inserted prior to approval along these lines: Implementers and users of all ITU-T Recommendations, including Rec. ITU-T G.9980 and the underlying techniques, shall comply with all applicable national and regional laws, regulations and policies.”

-- New Study items were assigned to the remit of various SGs:
-       machine-to-machine
-       cloud / cloud security
-       ubiquitous and Internet of Things applications
-       smart grid
-       e-health / e-waste
-       intelligent transport systems
-       Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Sally Wentworth
Internet Society
+1 703 439 2146
wentworth at isoc.org
www.isoc.org

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