Final Report of
The Third Meeting of
The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC - 3)
Kyongju, Korea
3 - 5 September 1996
Opening
of the Meeting
On behalf of the Telecommunications Technology
Association of Korea (TTA), the Chairman,
Dr. Min-Ho Kang warmly welcomed all participants,
observers, especially JTC1, Internet Society,
and ARIB to the third Global Standards Collaboration
meeting. He introduced the heads of delegations
- Mr. Young-Hwan Moon from the host committee
TTA, Mr. Irmer from ITU, Mr. Peterson from
Committee T1, Mr. Ishikawa from TTC, and Mr.
Israel from Canada. His introduction has been
extended to the Vice Chairman, Dr. Young-Hee
Lee, and to Dr. Horton, who would be helping
the chairman during the meeting.
Followed by the chairman's introduction, Dr.
Horton mentioned that the preparation of the
meeting has been very good and therefore the
PSOs can look forward to a very successful
outcome of the meeting. He drew attention
to the fact that there is a whole range of
information which is growing each time of
the GSC meeting and there are a lot of ground
to be covered in this meeting. He mentioned
that the meeting will heavily depend on rapporteurs
and the assistance of everybody participating
in order to get through a speedy and successful
conclusion.
Next, the chairman of the GSC-2 meeting, Mr.
Israel summarized the GSC-2 meeting in order
to invoke the results of the past meeting
to the participants, and to connect them to
this meeting. He then noted that the PSOs
are indeed witnessing the reinforcement of
what had been agreed in Ottawa last year of
GSC-2 and indicated that the interests in
the GSC has not diminished very much since
then. He mentioned that a number of action
items and resolutions developed and identified
in the GSC-2, were very helpful in carrying
the decisions and actions of GSC-2 onto GSC-3
and proved to be a practical way of conveying
them to those interested.
He also invoked the participants' attention
to a number of things happened since last
year:
(1) Internet has been rapidly developing since
the last GSC meeting, raising a number of
issues that should be dealt among the standardization
organizations.
(2) The convergence of Telecommunications,
Information Technology and Radio is no longer
a matter of speculation; some services are
being developed, to prove that the convergence
is already happening.
Next, he mentioned that the PSOs had been
placing big emphasis on GII last year, and
it would be emphasized and will also continue
to be a pertinent subject this year. He also
indicated that there were some reflection
last year on whether the GSC group should
remain as it is or re-define its composition
orientation, which he hoped to be continued
at the GSC-3.
He concluded by making a remark on ITU itself.
He brought up the purpose of this GSC group-collaborating
in order to ensure the pre-eminence of the
ITU as a global standards setting organization
and emphasized that the PSOs should pay attention
to the evolution of the ITU and reflect on
the future of the ITU in terms of the standards.