ITU Fora Summit 2003 IMTC Sebestyen

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At the ITU-Forum Summit 2003

IMTC StatusJuly 2003: 

IMTC Status July 2003 Presented by Dr. Istvan Sebestyen IMTC President

Mission and Goals: 

Mission and Goals

2003 – IMTC Mission: 

2003 – IMTC Mission “Promote and facilitate the development and use of interoperable, real-time, Multimedia Telecommunication products and services, based on open international standards.”

IMTC’s goals are:: 

IMTC’s goals are: 1. Identify obstacles to growth and success of the industry, implement or recommend solutions. 2. Promote and facilitate interoperability testing of real-time, Multimedia Telecommunication products and services. 3. Develop and advocate requirements to standards-making organizations.

Goals – Cont’d: 

Goals – Cont’d 4. Advocate common industry interests through education and promotion 5. Unbiased source of information to end users, press, industry analysts, legislators, and regulators. 6. Provide opportunities for industry to meet and exchange ideas providing a guide for future direction of the organization.

What is not our goal?: 

What is not our goal? IMTC is primarily not a standard / specification creating organization (IETF, ITU, ISO/IEC, W3C etc... can do better) So we do not want to compete with them IMTC specifies only as „last resort“ (e.g. Standard Profiles – Voip IA V.1...) We prefer formulate Standards requirements (incl. of IPR stategy), or to feed-back implementation experiences gained through interoperability testing. IMTC wants to push the multimedia communication technology in a „protocol-neutral“ way

Membership and Management: 

Membership and Management

IMTC Members: 

65 Members Worldwide Today IMTC Members

IMTC Members by Region: 

IMTC Members by Region

Board of Directors  2001-2003 2002-2004 : 

Board of Directors 2001-2003 2002-2004 Raj Bansal, Nokia Robert Berntsen, Tandberg Matt Collier,Telverse Steve Welch, Ridgeway Walter Sebastian, Sony Marwan Jabri, Dilithium Networks Anne Cerboni, France Telecom Keith Lantz, Cisco Mark Ludwig, Polycom Yoni Malachi, RADVISION Istvan Sebestyen, Siemens AG

IMTC Officers 2002 – 2003: 

President Istvan Sebestyen, Siemens Treasurer Mark Ludwig, Polycom Vice President H.323 Forum Larry Schessel, Cisco Vice President Marketing Anne Cerboni, Fr. Telecom Secretary Jim Polizotto, Inventures IMTC Officers 2002 – 2003

IMTC 2003 strategic goals: 

IMTC 2003 strategic goals Continue to Stabilize IMTC during the slow economy period Widen scope of new projects e.g. H.323 Forum implements certification, next rounds of PSS, H.324M testing, Significant built up of “Historic Archive” for solving standards related IPR issues Continue successful Interops/SuperOP! Continue successful WG/AGs Termination of finished/inactive AGs Continued strong liaison with other bodies (SDOs / Fora) Continued marketing / promotion / education of MM communication technologies Allow room for any new initiative…

IMTC 2003: 

IMTC 2003 Some recent Key Activities/Events: Second Joint IMTC/Wainhouse Research Forum - Geneva Successful promotional conferences of the H.323 Forum Successful interop testing in 3G area (PSS, H.324M) Successful interop H.3xx testing in January, June 2003 Launching of H.323 Certification Program by the H.323 Forum Set up “Historical Archive” for Standards based technologies to support members having standards related IPR issues Setting up with ISMA/M4IF ITU-T H.264 Licensing Meeting to facilitate the start of the ITU-T H.264 licensing

Working Structure: 

Working Structure

Work Group Structure: 

Work Group Structure Requirements WG Protocols & Systems WG Application & Service Profiles Profiles & Test Plans Interoperability Events Liaisons to Standards Education & Promotion WG White papers/News Items/Web Pages Network Infrastructure WG Work Group Output from WG IMTC Test Event Flow Legend

IMTC’s Current WG and AG Structure: 

IMTC’s Current WG and AG Structure Requirements WG IPR AG Protocols & Systems WG H.323 SIP Media Codec H.320 Data Collab. H.324 M 3GPP-PSS Education & Promotion WG Marketing AG Network Infrastructue WG QoS & Performance IP Security Mobility Directory Services IPv6

IMTC and H.323 Forum Promote „Usability“: 

IMTC and H.323 Forum Promote „Usability“ Connectivity Interoperability ITU-T ISO/IEC IETF 3GPP Standards { IMTC e.g. Audio and video compression Minimum and optional support Vendor, hardware independence Network independence Call reliability and consistency More at http://www.IMTC.org and www.h323forum.org Certification H.323 Forum Promotion / Education

Why the „separation“?: 

Why the „separation“? IMTC is „protocol-neutral“ H.323 Forum must be „protocol-biased“ There are other „protocol-biased“ fora elsewhere... H.323 Forum must be a focused program, complementary and crosscutting to IMTC WG/Ags Different classes of memberships

About the ITU-T/IMTC relations : 

About the ITU-T/IMTC relations

ITU-T/IMTC Relation: 

ITU-T/IMTC Relation Good Official Relation – long, since 1995 IMTC is an „ITU-T recognized“ Forum according to ITU-T Rec. A.4 Personally: Neil Starkey (CTO IBM/Lotus) – first President of IMTC – long-time ITU-T SG8 Rapporteur on T.120 Istvan Sebestyen (Siemens) – 3rd President of IMTC – very long-time ITU-T SG8/16 Rapporteur on T.8x and MM Coordination

What IMTC did for the ITU-T?: 

What IMTC did for the ITU-T? Promotion, Education of ITU-T Standards: ITU-T T.120 (Data Conferencing) ITU-T H.3xx (Multimedia Platforms) (e.g. in IMTC Fora, IMTC University, H.323 Forum, etc..) Interoperability Testing / H.323 certification ITU-T T.120 ITU-T H.320/324/323 ITU-T H.450; ITU-T H.235 etc....

Conclusion: 

Conclusion ITMC is complementing ITU-T Standardization Activities, rather than competing with it. IMTC sees itself as a „protocol- and standards body neutral“ organization; IMTC wants to be the umbrella organization for all multimedia real-time communication standard interoperability / promotion / requirements formulation IMTC is not an „ITU-T-only pusher organization“ This includes also other standard bodies, such as IETF, ETSI, 3GPP....

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