Global Standards Collaboration

The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) is an initiative of the ITU, ETSI, the United States' Committee T1 and the Japanese TTC. GSC has attracted a growing number of participants from around the world to promote global standards in various areas of common interest. GSC meets once a year. [ [http://www.gsc.etsi.org/Presentation.htm#presentation Presentation ] ]

Background

GSC was founded in 1990 as "Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards conference (ITSC)" an initiative of the United States T1 Committee who invited the other founding partner organizations ITU-T, ETSI and TTC to the first meeting in Fredericksburg, Virginia. When the ITSC as a conference became too big, it was reduced to the Global Standards Collaboration, with delegations of reasonable size (10 maximum). The first GSC meeting was held in 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. [ [http://www.atis.org/gsc/index.asp Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) ] ] The goal of the collaboration is to enhance co-operation between Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs) from different regions of the world in order to facilitate global standardization within the ITU. [ [http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/AboutETSI/GlobalRole/GSC.aspx Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) ] ]

Participating Standards Organizations

*ARIB – Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Japan)
*ATIS – Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (USA)
*CA – Communications Alliance Ltd (Australia)
*CCSA – The China Communications Standards Association (China)
*ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute (Europe)
*ISACC – ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (Canada)
*ITU-R / ITU-T – International Telecommunication Union (International)
*TIA – Telecommunications Industry Association (USA)
*TTA – Telecommunication Technology Association (Korea)
*TTC – The Telecommunication Technology Committee (Japan)

GSC10 Open Standards Definition

According to the participating standards organizations, an open standard fulfills the following conditions: [ [http://www.rosettanet.org.my/GPCMaterial/Day2/Empowering%20SMI-SME%20in%20RosettaNet%20Enabled%20Cross%20Border%20Logistics%20-Dr%20Dzahruddin%20Mansor.pdf Empowering SMI-SME in RosettaNet Enabled Cross Border Logistics] ]
*Collaborative/consensus based development and/or approval
*Transparent process
*Inclusive
*RAND/FRAND Intellectual Property Right (IPR) policies
*Standard is published and made available to the general public under reasonable terms (including for reasonable fee or for free)

ee also

*Open standard
*Open specifications
*Standardization

References

External links

* [http://www.gsc.etsi.org/ www.gsc.etsi.org] – Global Standards Collaboration Home
* [http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/index.html www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/index.html] – Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
* [http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/gsc10/index.html www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/gsc10/index.html] – GSC10
* [http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/AboutETSI/GlobalRole/GSC.aspx www.etsi.org/WebSite/AboutETSI/GlobalRole/GSC.aspx] – Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
* [http://www.atis.org/gsc/index.asp www.atis.org/gsc/index.asp] – Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
* [http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=96760 www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=96760]
* [http://electronics.ihs.com/news/2006/tia-nextgen-standards.htm Telecom, Radio Standards Organizations Identify Areas of Focus]