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Setting the
Standard
A Snapsh t
Rep rt of the World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
(Message from the Director)
WTSA‑16: Setting
the standard
Chaesub Lee
Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
T
he years approaching 2020 will be pivotal in the
development of the global information and communication
technology (ICT) ecosystem. 5G systems are beginning to
take shape. The Internet of Things (IoT) era is gathering pace. And
new investment in ICTs will power smarter cities and communities.
International standards bring cohesion to this unceasing innova-
tion — and ITU’s standardization sector (ITU–T) supports key efforts
to create a post-2020 environment where smart, trusted ICTs will
be core to innovation in all industry sectors.
WTSA‑16 This is what has made the work of this year’s quadrennial World
has refined Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2016 (WTSA‑16)
— held in Hammamet, Tunisia from 25 October to 3 November
ITU–T’s strategic — so important.
direction and
structure to WTSA‑16 has refined ITU–T’s strategic direction and structure to
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support the next phase of innovation. It has also consolidated the
support the progress we have achieved over the past four years.
next phase of
innovation. Building on our success
WTSA‑16 builds off the momentum of the 2013–2016
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study period.
G.fast is a new broadband standard capable of achieving up to
2 Gbit/s access speeds over traditional telephone wires, and ITU
standards for 40-Gigabit-capable Fibre to the Home are the first to
provide fibre-optic access speeds beyond 10 Gbit/s.
(Message from the Director)
2020
vision and The revision of a key ITU standard underlying the ultra-high-
beyond speed Optical Transport Network has enabled optical transport at
rates higher than 100 Gbit/s.
WTSA-16 has provided members ITU has provided the platform for the next phase of innovation
with a standardization toolkit in video with the delivery of ITU H.265 ‘High Efficiency Video
optimized to assist government
Coding’, the successor to the Primetime Emmy award-win-
and industry in achieving their
ambitions for the year 2020 and ning ITU H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’. A new standard for
beyond. The future of high-quality 4G mobile voice communications helps operators to
standardization will be driven by capitalize on new business opportunities such as VoLTE.
5G, IoT and Trust as enablers
supporting the UN Sustainable ITU members are engaged in a new standardization effort to real-
Development Goals.
ize smart, trusted IMT-2020 (5G) systems, and ITU is building on
over 10 years of experience in IoT standardization to contribute
5G
to the development of smart cities.
BIG We also have achieved considerable progress in our efforts to
DATA support the convergence of technologies and industry sectors,
including new ITU standards in areas such as softwarization/virtu-
IoT Trust
alization of network functions, e-health, smart grid and intelligent
2020 Vision transport systems.
ITU standardization work will also make an essential contribution
to ensuring that technical developments are supported by pol-
icy frameworks.
Real-time An inclusive platform
standardization
WTSA‑16 has provided ITU members with a standardization
Over 300 new ITU standards
released each year
toolkit optimized to assist government and industry in achieving
their ambitions for year 2020 and beyond. The principles under-
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lying the ITU standardization process ensure that all voices are
heard, that our standards efforts do not favour particular commer-
cial interests, and that resulting standards have the support of the
diverse set of stakeholders that comprise the ITU membership.
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ITU–T has emerged from WTSA‑16 in a stronger position to
Market-driven
standards provide common platforms for ICT growth and innovation. I look
forward to our continued collaboration to build a trusted ICT
Over 4000 active standards environment, one that will drive social and economic develop-
in use
ment in all regions of the world.
(Contents)
Setting the Standard
A ‘Snapshot Report’* of the
World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
(Message from the Director)
1 WTSA‑16: Setting the standard
Chaesub Lee,
Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
4 Tunisia welcomes world ICT leaders to WTSA‑16
5 Setting the agenda
6 WTSA‑16 by the numbers
7 Standards to power the 5G era itunews.itu.int
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11 New Resolutions
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* This ‘Snapshot Report’ is intended only to recap some of the highlights
of WTSA‑16. It is not the official WTSA‑16 report. For more information,
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ICT leaders to WTSA‑16
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(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
Setting the agenda …
At WTSA-16, ITU members met to refine the strategic direction,
leadership and structure of ITU’s standardization arm.
Setting the agenda WTSA-16 fortified the inclusivity of ITU’s standardization
platform, helping to bridge the digital divide.
193 700+ 130+
Member industry academic
States players and research
institutes
100+ 1000+ 20+
meetings virtual WTSA-16
worldwide meetings regional
+5000 +5000 virtual preparatory
participants participants meetings
… to build the digital economy
The future shape of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities,
cybersecurity and 5G are all underpinned by the work done
at WTSA-16.
$6 1.7Mb 237 80%
trillion per second million video
The value Amount of data Number of IoT By 2020, the
generated by IoT created by each wearables shipped majority of Internet
technology by 2025 person by 2020 by 2020 traffic will be video,
enabled by ITU
standards
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95x 250x 64x
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Amount of Broadband access Broadband access
international traffic speed over copper speed over fibre
carried over fibre increased by 250x increased by 64x in
networks built using in past 17 years with past 15 years with
ITU standards ITU standards ITU standards
(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
WTSA‑16 by the numbers
700+ 12 chairs
representatives
92 countries 113
vice-chairs
16 new
The
assembly
resolutions considered
31 revised 427
resolutions official meeting
6 suppressed resolutions documents,
including 211 6
5 new standards individual input
proposals.
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(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
Standards to power
the 5G era
D
uring the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2016 (WTSA‑16), more than
700 delegates from 92 countries gathered for nearly two weeks in Hammamet, Tunisia
to take key decisions regarding the structure, working methods, and leadership of ITU’s
standardization sector (ITU–T).
“As we approach 2020, one of the most important areas
of ITU work will be the international standardization of
5G systems,” said ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao
in the opening ceremony, presaging the discussions to
come. “ITU is supporting industry in their work to build
a 5G environment where all of us will have affordable, CxO Meeting
reliable access to ICTs (information and communica-
tion technologies).” Several informative events were held on the
sidelines of WTSA‑16, including the first ITU
Indeed, ITU membership called during WTSA‑16 for CxO Meeting in the Arab and Africa Regions,
ITU–T to expand its study of the wireline networking which brought together more than two dozen
innovations required to achieve the ambitious perfor- high-level executives (‘CxOs’) from companies
mance targets of smart 5G systems. The call came in such as Tunisie Telecom, Alibaba, KT, Huawei,
parallel with ITU members’ reaffirmation of the impor- Sofetel, Ericsson, Orange, and Deutsche
tance of ITU’s standardization work to drive the coordi- Telekom. Participants at the invitation-only
nated development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and event discussed new dynamics ushered in by
smart cities and communities. the rise of over-the-top (OTT) business models,
as well how best to accelerate the deployment
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of innovative broadband access solutions such
as giga-band through a combination of LTE,
WiFi and ITU G.fast technology.
WTSA‑16 has
achieved a range of The conclusions of the CxO meeting will
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feed into ongoing discussions in ITU on
victories for international the promotion of OTT innovation, possible
collaboration. regulatory approaches to OTT, and incentives
for infrastructure investment and the
Moktar Mnakri,
protection of privacy and personal data.
Chairman of WTSA‑16
(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
Global Standards Symposium
ITU’s third Global Standards Symposium (GSS) brought together a diverse range of
industry players such as Deutsche Telekom, Google, Huawei, Alibaba, and Symantec
as well as representatives from government, civil society and standards development Cyber
organizations.
security is
The sessions of this event focused on the following topics: a shared
Regulatory principles for security, privacy and trust
problem and
How industry meets end-users’ expectations of security, privacy and trust
Standards bodies’ approach to security, privacy and trust
requires a
collaborative
Panelists and participants discussed the challenges and opportunities of aligning on approach.
international standards. “You can all go back to your home countries and provide David Francis
leadership,” said David Francis, the European Cyber Security Officer for Huawei Huawei
Technologies, expressing the spirit of GSS. “That’s important.”
Read our blog post for more insight and thought leadership shared by experts
during GSS.
ITU members also encouraged ITU–T to increase The Assembly also elected the teams that will
digital financial inclusion; promote afforda- lead ITU–T’s expert groups. Another key focus of
ble mobile roaming tariffs; and strengthen WTSA is to review ITU–T’s mechanisms for col-
consumer protection and ICT service quality. laboration with other standards bodies and the
Members have in addition called for ITU stand- many vertical sectors applying ICTs as enabling
ardization to support the use of cloud comput-
ing to record event data from aircraft, vehicles
technologies.
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and other connected machinery. “WTSA‑16 has achieved a range of victories
for international collaboration,” said Moktar
These directives have given further impetus to Mnakri, Chairman of WTSA‑16. “The diverse
ITU standardization work aimed at supporting membership of ITU–T has reached a series of
government, industry and academia in achiev- agreements to assist all regions of the world
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ing their priorities for year 2020 and beyond. in their efforts to share in the social and eco-
The conference, which takes place every four nomic benefits that will be accelerated by ICTs
years, saw lively deliberation on a wide range of in coming years.”
standardization topics critical to the next phase
of innovation for ICTs.
(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
“I would like to commend Tunisia for the vision- “Our members have worked tirelessly to reach
ary role that it continues to play in promoting agreement on the future shape of ITU–T, ensur-
the use of ICTs to drive sustainable develop- ing that it is fit for purpose to deliver standards
ment,” said ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. capable of providing an equitable basis for
“The country’s hosting of WTSA‑16 has made ICT innovation worldwide. ITU–T has emerged
valuable contributions to ITU’s work to broker from WTSA‑16 in a strong position to support
consensus on policy and technical questions the development of the trusted ICT infrastruc-
crucial to the development of the global ICT ture essential to the success of 5G systems, the
ecosystem. The discussions of WTSA have pro- Internet of Things and Smart Sustainable Cities.”
vided ample evidence of the importance of ITU
standardization work in driving global connec- Alongside adopting 16 new WTSA Resolutions
tivity and innovation.” and revising 31, the Assembly also revised two
of the A series ITU–T Recommendations that
“The deliberations of WTSA‑16 have demon- guide ITU–T’s work, and in addition approved
strated the great spirit of collaboration for five ITU standards on subjects including inter-
which ITU membership is well known,” said national mobile roaming and Internet Exchange
Chaesub Lee, Director of ITU–T. Points.
60th anniversary talks
ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU–T) celebrated its 60th
anniversary during the first week of WTSA‑16 by looking forward, not back.
ITU–T seized the opportunity to hold talks on two key fast-moving trends
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that are having a massive impact on the world of information and
communication technology:
Learn digital financial services (DFS) and
more artificial intelligence (AI).
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The talks — moderated by reknowned AI and Fintech
Read some of the expert Stephen Ibaraki — offered a platform to discuss
insights from top leaders the opportunities and challenges involved in both fast-
from companies such as tracking the adoption of digital financial services and how to
IBM Watson, Safaricom standardize cutting-edge AI technologies in order to boost
and Tunisia Post. innovation.(WTSA‑16 Highlights)
A series of informative side events was also held
in conjunction with WTSA‑16, including:
The first CxO Meeting in the Arab and
Africa Regions, which assembled high-level
executives from companies such as Tunisie
Télécom, Alibaba, KT, Huawei, Sofetel,
Ericsson, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom.
ITU’s third Global Standards Symposium
(GSS), which gathered ICT thought leaders to
discuss industry and regulatory approaches WISE
to issues surrounding security, privacy
and trust. ITU’s first-ever Women in Standardization Expert
Group (WISE) event brought together delegates and
The CCITT/ITU–T 60th Anniversary Talks, ITU staff attending the WTSA‑16 to learn, connect
which hosted high-profile speakers to and celebrate the continued efforts towards gender
explore the role of standards in supporting equality in leadership positions.
innovation in Artificial Intelligence and
Digital Financial Services. The event consisted of a workshop on practical skills
to overcome gender differences in negotiations,
The first meeting of the ITU Women in followed by a lively panel discussion highlighting
Standardization Expert Group (WISE), which the experiences of leading women from the
brought together leading women in the ICT information and communication technology (ICT) and
field to discuss ways to close the ICT gender standardization fields.
gap.
The women panelists from all regions of the world
A special event focused on the accessibility told the audience how they achieved success in a
of ICTs to persons with disabilities, male-dominated ICT field — and how girls and young
highlighting ITU’s latest initiatives to
mainstream ICT accessibility in the
women could do the same. 10
development of technical standards. WISE is part of the EQUALS movement, a joint
ITU and UN Women campaign to achieve digital
The decisions of WTSA‑16 have shaped ITU–T gender equality by 2030. Follow the conversation at
into a form optimized to provide government, #beEQUALS.
industry and academia with common technical
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platforms to assist their pursuit of the United
Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.(Outcomes)
New Resolutions
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TU members approved 16 new Resolutions Overviews of some of the directives found in the
at WTSA‑16 on topics ranging from 5G new Resolutions are provided below. (For more
systems to mobile roaming, IoT and smart detailed information, please visit the WTSA‑16
cities, open source, and cloud-based event data webpage to view the draft proceedings in each
technology. of the six official UN languages.)
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Interconnection of 4G, IMT-2020 Enhancing the standardization of
networks and beyond Internet of Things and Smart Cities and
Communities for global development
broker the international agreement of a
framework for the interconnection of LTE- ensure IoT technologies and applications
based networks to enable VoLTE/ViLTE assist the achievement of the UN
‘roaming’ Sustainable Development Goals
support interoperable, high-quality voice develop standards to drive the coordinated
and video communications through 4G, 5G development of IoT technologies and
and beyond applications
provide a reliable foundation for smarter
cities and communities
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Enhancing ITU–T standardization
run pilot projects and peer-learning
activities related to non-radio initiatives to establish best practices in
aspects of international mobile smart urban development
telecommunications
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4
ITU–T studies for combating counterfeit
match innovations in radio transmission
with innovations in underlying backbone telecommunication/ICT devices
networks
explore means to combat counterfeiting
study the wireline networking innovation
necessary to achieve performance targets protect government, industry and
of 5G systems consumers from harm caused by the
practice
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align this work with related studies in
ITU–R, ensuring that the fixed and wireless develop the necessary standards and
elements of 5G systems work in harmony support ICT stakeholders to increase their
capabilities(Outcomes)
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Combating mobile telecommunication International mobile roaming
device theft
ensure operators see fair return from
explore all applicable solutions to the investments that enable their customers to
challenge of mobile device theft roam
develop technical solutions to assist in ensure end users pay a fair price for
counteracting the duplication of device roaming services
identifiers promote international cooperation for
prevent lost or stolen devices from affordable mobile roaming rates
accessing the network encourage competition in roaming markets
provide a platform for associated
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international collaboration Enhancing access to electronic
repository of information on numbering
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Open source in ITU–T plans published by ITU–T
study the merits of enabling open-source enhance the electronic repository of
projects in relation to ITU standardization numbering plans, recognizing that this
work function of ITU–T is essential to the
expert groups to continue collaborating reliability of ICT networks and services
with open-source communities
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collaborate with open-source communities Studies concerning the protection of
to provide training in relation to open- users of telecommunication/ICT services
source work
develop standards and guidelines to
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protect users of ICT services
Promoting the use of ICTs to bridge the
financial-inclusion gap ensure services are of appropriate quality –
and are affordable
bring life-changing basic financial services ensure levels of security necessary to instill
to the over 2 billion adults worldwide confidence in users
without access to a bank account
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develop standards and guidelines Standardization work in ITU–T for cloud-
targeting interoperability, digitization of
based event data technology
payments, consumer protection, quality
of service, big data and security of digital develop standards on the use of cloud
financial transactions computing to record event data from
provide platform for peer-learning among aircraft, cars and other connected
the diverse set of interests leveraging ICTs machinery
to increase financial inclusion
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organize events to collect associated
requirements and technical input from as
many stakeholders as possible(Outcomes)
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Facilitating the implementation of the Participation of ITU–T in the periodic
Smart Africa Manifesto review and revision of the International
Telecommunication Regulations
contribute technical expertise in support of
the Smart Africa Manifesto – the foundation contribute expertise to the periodic review
of the Smart Africa Initiative – which aims to of the International Telecommunication
place ICT at the centre of African countries’ Regulations, an international treaty
social and economic development intended to “facilitate global
agendas; improve access to ICTs; improve interconnection and interoperability”
accountability, efficiency and openness
using ICT; put the private sector first;
and leverage ICT to promote sustainable
development
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ITU–T initiatives to raise awareness on
Revised and Suppressed Resolutions
best practices and policies related to
service quality
In addition to the 16 new Resolutions passed
match ITU–T standardization work on the at WTSA‑16, ITU members also revised
assessment of ICT performance, quality of 31 Resolutions on topics ranging from cyber-
service (QoS) and quality of experience security, spam and e-health to the responsible
(QoE) with the development of more management of electromagnetic fields and
comprehensive guidelines to regulators,
the need to bridge the standardization gap
assisting them in their efforts to define
strategies and testing methodologies to between developed and developing countries.
monitor and measure QoS and QoE Two of the A series ITU–T Recommendations
that guide ITU standardization work were also
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Evaluation of the implementation of revised. In addition, members suppressed six
resolutions of the WTSA Resolutions deemed to have achieved their
objectives. (For more detailed information,
strengthen the assessment and reporting of please visit the WTSA‑16 webpage to view the
the response to WTSA Resolutions draft proceedings in each of the six official UN
reporting essential to strategic reviews of languages.)
ITU–T activities
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Strengthening and diversifying ITU–T
resources
investigating possible measures to
generate additional revenue for ITU–T
explore revenue generation from
international numbering resources and
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conformance and interoperability testing(Outcomes)
Standards approved
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TU members also approved five standards at WTSA‑16 on subjects including
international mobile roaming and Internet Exchange Points.
“Establishing and connecting “Methodological principles for
ITU–T D.52 regional Internet Exchange determining international ITU–T D.97
Points (IXPs) to reduce costs of mobile roaming rates” proposes
international Internet a possible approach to the
connectivity” will guide regional collaboration reduction of excessive roaming rates, highlight-
to establish central hubs (IXPs) that enable local ing the need to encourage competition in the
Internet traffic to be routed locally, saving roaming market, educate consumers and
international bandwidth and reducing the costs consider appropriate regulatory actions such as
of international Internet connectivity. the introduction of caps on roaming rates.
“International aspects of “Principles for market definition
ITU–T D.53 Universal Service” offers guide- and identification of operators ITU–T D.261
lines to increase compliance with with significant market power”
Universal Service policies as well proposes principles and guide-
as the extent to which they achieve their goal of lines to assist countries in defining and identify-
delivering a minimum level of ICT services to ing significant market power and assess whether
every inhabitant of a country. or not, and the degree to which, this power has
“Charging and accounting
been abused by international telecommunica-
tions companies. 14
ITU–T D.271 principles for Next-Generation
Network (NGN)” (revised) sets
out the general principles and
conditions applicable to the use of packet-
based networks to transport packets between
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Several ICT thought leaders from the private and public sectors shared
insights on the sidelines of WTSA‑16. Below is a small sample:
In terms of a regulatory perspective,
we must act now if we want to examine
how to get a more secure IoT future. Everyone’s going to be impacted by
Things like quantum computing and the proliferation of [artificial intelligence].
quantum cryptogrophy … are going to The impact is going to be faster than what
require standardization. people had originally anticipated.
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Jaya Baloo Stephen Ibaraki
CIS Officer, KPN, Social entrepre‑
speaking at the neur, futurist, and
Global Standards moderator of
Symposium the ITU–T’s 60th
at WTSA‑16 anniversary talks
at WTSA‑16
In Kenya, we had an understanding
regulator who basically said to us:
‘We think [the M-Pesa mobile money
product] has some huge potential,
so we are going to have a light-touch It is critical that the ITU remains
regulation.’ technology neutral. 15
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Ronald Webb Kwame Baah-
Director of Acheamfuor
Financial Services, Chairman of
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Safaricom ITU–T Study
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