UK ETSI
MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE
Collective Letter CL12_2930 -
Invitation to the 59th ETSI General Assembly (GA#59) to be held on 20-21 March
2012 in the Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France, (http://docbox.etsi.org/C_Letter/CL2012/CL12_2930.pdf) has now been issued. The 59th ETSI General Assembly, which will
include a Specially Convened Meeting (SCM), is due to start at 09h00 on Tuesday 20 March 2012 and continue until 16h00 on Wednesday 21 March 2012.
On-line Member registration can be found at: http://webapp.etsi.org/MeetingCalendar/MeetingDetails.asp?mid=30022
Alternatively documents for the General Assembly meeting and
those for the SCM can be found at http://docbox.etsi.org/GA/ga59/
and http://docbox.etsi.org/GA/ga59-scm/
respectively.
The UK
ETSI Members’ Conference provides a forum for the UK members to prepare for
their participation in ETSI General Assembly (GA) meetings where representation
is by National delegation, the objective of the UK meeting is to review all
available ETSI GA documents to enable the head of the UK delegation to the ETSI
GA – currently Olly Wheaton – to prepare a UK Members’ brief for use at the General
Assembly.
The next UK
ETSI Members’ conference, that is preparation for GA#59, is due Wednesday 14
March 2012 to commence at 1300 and finish hopefully by 1700 - the meeting location
will be in central London, hosted by Wragge & Co. Ltd.
UK Members
will receive an individual invitation via the UK ETSI Members’ e-mail list which
will include the necessary registration information.
NOTE:
Security restrictions will require that all members’ notify their participation
in advance.
If you are
a UK ETSI Member and wish to participate but do not receive an invitation via
the UK ETSI Members’ e-mail list, then please advise at: mail@uketsi.org.uk
ETSI
GA#58 appointed a new ETSI Board and Board chairman for the mandate period November
2011 to November 2014, this will be the first General Assembly meeting for this
Board.
A first draft
UK Members’ brief will be distributed prior to the preparatory meeting and the
final version of the UK Members’ brief for GA#59 will be distributed by e-mail
following the preparatory meeting.
BACKGROUND
ETSI – the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute is based in Sophia Antipolis,
France and is responsible for preparing voluntary and harmonised standards for
the complete range of telecommunications, including radio and broadcast,
products. Day to day management is the responsibility of the Director General,
who is appointed by the General Assembly.
The ETSI
General Assembly normally meets twice per year with recent meetings having been
held at the Hotel
Martinez in Cannes, the Acropolis Centre in Nice has also been used as a meeting
location. The General Assembly is the membership body that is responsible for determining
overall ETSI policy; it appoints the ETSI Director General (DG), the ETSI Board
members and the Board chairman via individual Member vote(s). The Assembly is also
supported by a Finance Committee and ad hoc groups as required.
The
current ETSI Director General is – Mr
Luis Jorge Romero Saro – he was appointed by ETSI GA#57 at its meeting held
in April 2011 – he took office from 01 July 2011
GENERAL INFORMATION
ETSI produces globally
applicable standards for Information & Communications Technologies
including fixed, mobile, radio, broadcast, internet, aeronautical and other
areas, and is recognised by the European Union as an official European
Standards Organisation, together with CEN and CENELEC, enabling access to
European markets.
ETSI’s
best known product is probably still GSM, the ‘Global System for Mobile’
communication, though originally the term GSM was the abbreviation for ‘Groupe
Spéciale Mobile’, from the standardisation activity’s origins within CEPT,
ETSI’s predecessor.
ETSI is an independent,
not-for-profit organization based in the technical park of Sophia
Antipolis in the south of France; it brings together more than 700 member
organisations drawn from 61 countries worldwide, and unites: Manufacturers, Network
operators, National Administrations, Service providers, Research bodies, User
groups and Consultancies.
ETSI strives to provide high
quality and low time-to-market standardisation products and actively
collaborates with relevant research bodies. Standards making in ETSI is built
on direct input from ETSI members in open discussion groups seeking consensus, and
is also active in complementary areas such as interoperability via event services
related to standardisation including forum hosting.
ETSI’s portfolio of standards and related
publications includes: Security, Satellite, Broadcast, Human Factors, Testing
& Protocols, Intelligent transport, Power-line telecoms, eHealth, Smart
Cards, Emergency communications, GRID & Clouds, Aeronautical, and many
more.
The
original scope of 3GPP was to produce Technical Specifications and Technical
Reports for a 3G Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio
access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
(UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD)
modes). The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and
development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical
Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access
technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates
for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).
ETSI
Standards can be downloaded free of charge via the Publications
Download Area, but note that only publicly available drafts and publications can
be downloaded via this application
General
Contact for UK ETSI members – mail@uketsi.org.uk