Global Standards Collaboration
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The "Global Standards Collaboration" (GSC) started life as The "Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards conference (ITSC) in 1990. This was an initiative of the T1 Committee of the United States who invited the other founding partner organizations ITU-T, ETSI and the Japanese TTC to the first ISC Meeting in Fredericksburg, VA. The goal was set by the “spirit of Melbourne”, stemming from a CCITT Plenary Assembly, to find a way of co-operation between Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs) from different regions of the world in order to facilitate global standardization within the ITU. The ITSC focussed its work on fixed telecommunications networks.
After a few years, the ITSC, as a conference, became too big and was therefore reduced to GSC, the Global Standards Collaboration, with delegations limited to a reasonable size (10 maximum). The first GSC meeting was held in 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. Around the same time, it was decided to expand the scope to cover Radio Communications with the addition of a parallel set of Global Radio Standardization (RAST) meeting, the first one being hosted by ETSI in Nice in October 1994.
In the course of the time, the Australian, Canadian, Korean and Chinese national standards organizations joined bringing the number of Participating Standards Organizations to ten. Observers from other standards-related organizations and Fora are also invited to participate.
In November 2001, it was decided to rename GSC as GTSC (where T = Telecoms) and RAST as GRSC (where R = Radio) and to use the term GSC an overall "umbrella" for the combined plenary sessions.
GSC meets approximately once every year. GSC-14 was held in Geneva on 13–16 July 2009, hosted by ITU-T, with the theme “GSC: Fostering worldwide interoperability”. GSC-15 was scheduled for 30 August–2 September 2010 in Beijing, hosted by China Communications Standards Association (CCSA).
fulfills the following conditions:
After a few years, the ITSC, as a conference, became too big and was therefore reduced to GSC, the Global Standards Collaboration, with delegations limited to a reasonable size (10 maximum). The first GSC meeting was held in 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. Around the same time, it was decided to expand the scope to cover Radio Communications with the addition of a parallel set of Global Radio Standardization (RAST) meeting, the first one being hosted by ETSI in Nice in October 1994.
In the course of the time, the Australian, Canadian, Korean and Chinese national standards organizations joined bringing the number of Participating Standards Organizations to ten. Observers from other standards-related organizations and Fora are also invited to participate.
In November 2001, it was decided to rename GSC as GTSC (where T = Telecoms) and RAST as GRSC (where R = Radio) and to use the term GSC an overall "umbrella" for the combined plenary sessions.
GSC meets approximately once every year. GSC-14 was held in Geneva on 13–16 July 2009, hosted by ITU-T, with the theme “GSC: Fostering worldwide interoperability”. GSC-15 was scheduled for 30 August–2 September 2010 in Beijing, hosted by China Communications Standards Association (CCSA).
Participating standards organizations
- TIA – Telecommunications Industry AssociationTelecommunications Industry AssociationThe Telecommunications Industry Association is accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop voluntary, consensus-based industry standards for a wide variety of ICT products, and currently represents nearly 400 companies...
(USA) - ARIB – Association of Radio Industries and BusinessesAssociation of Radio Industries and BusinessesThe Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, commonly known as ARIB , is a standardization organization in Japan. ARIB is designated as the center of promotion of the efficient use of the radio spectrum and designated frequency change support agency...
(Japan) - ATIS – Alliance for Telecommunications Industry SolutionsAlliance for Telecommunications Industry SolutionsThe Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions is a standards organization that develops technical and operational standards for the telecommunication industry. ATIS is headquartered in Washington, D.C....
(USA) - Communications Alliance Ltd (Australia)
- CCSA – China Communications Standards Association (China)
- ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards InstituteEuropean Telecommunications Standards InstituteThe European Telecommunications Standards Institute is an independent, non-profit, standardization organization in the telecommunications industry in Europe, with worldwide projection...
(Europe) - ISACC – ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (Canada)
- ITU-RITU-RThe ITU Radiocommunication Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union and is responsible for radio communication....
/ ITU-TITU-TThe ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union ; it coordinates standards for telecommunications....
– International Telecommunication Union (International) - TTA – Telecommunications Technology Association (Korea)
- TTC – Telecommunication Technology CommitteeTelecommunication Technology CommitteeThe Telecommunication Technology Committee was established in 1985. This standardization organization is authorized by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to conduct research and to develop and promote standards for telecommunications in Japan.The TTC is a founding partner...
(Japan)
GSC10 Open Standards Definition
According to the participating standards organizations, an open standardOpen standard
An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed . There is no single definition and interpretations vary with usage....
fulfills the following conditions:
- Collaborative/consensus based development and/or approval
- Transparent process
- Inclusive
- RANDReasonable and Non Discriminatory LicensingReasonable and non-discriminatory licensing is a type of licensing typically used during standardization processes. When joining a standardization body, companies normally agree that if they receive any patents on technologies which become essential to the standard they agree to allow other...
/FRANDFair, Reasonable and Non Discriminatory termsFair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms are a licensing obligation that is often required by standard-setting organizations for members that participate in the standard-setting process...
Intellectual Property RightIntellectual propertyIntellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
(IPR) policies - Standard is published and made available to the general public under reasonable terms (including for reasonable fee or for free)
External links
- www.gsc.etsi.org – Global Standards Collaboration Home
- www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/index.html – Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
- www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/gsc10/index.html – GSC10
- www.etsi.org/WebSite/AboutETSI/GlobalRole/GSC.aspx – Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
- www.atis.org/gsc/index.asp – Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
- www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=96760
- Telecom, Radio Standards Organizations Identify Areas of Focus