| TSB Director’s consultation meeting on IPTV standardization |
| Geneva, 4-5 April 2006 |
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Contact: tsbiptv@itu.int
Webcast: http://www.itu.int/ibs/ITU-T/iptv06/index.html (audio
archive)
Meeting outcome
Summary report: Please see Document 46 below.
Mission statement of IPTV FG
The meeting agreed on the following mission statement:
“The mission of IPTV FG is to coordinate and promote the development of global IPTV standards taking into account the existing work of the ITU study groups as well as Standards Developing Organizations, Fora and Consortia.”
Goals of IPTV FG
The meeting consented on the following goals of IPTV FG as a starting point:
- Definition of IPTV
- Identification of scenarios, drivers and relationships with other services and networks
- Identify requirements and define framework architecture
- Review and gap analysis of existing standards and ongoing works
- Identification of opportunities for ITU-T
- Identification of activities that ITU-T would encourage other organizations to pursue
- Coordination of existing standardization activities
- Harmonization of the development of new standards
- Encourage interoperability with existing systems where possible
Topics for first meeting
For the first meeting (to be scheduled and announced shortly), inputs on the following topics are sought:
- Architecture and Requirements
- Scenarios and drivers
- Requirements
- Service definitions
- Architecture
- Relationships with other services and networks
- QoS and Performance Aspects
- QoS
- QoE
- Performance
- Traffic management
- Service Security and Contents Protection Aspects
- Digital Rights management
- Content protection
- Security (e.g. conditional access)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Network and Control Aspects
- Control protocol & Signalling
- Naming, addressing, and identification aspects
- Routing and multicast session control
- Content distribution
- End Systems and Interoperability aspects
- Implementation scenarios and applications
- Terminals
- Consumer domain (home & extensions)
- Remote management
- Middleware and Application Platforms
- Enhanced EPG, Channel and Menu Processing
- DBM (Digital Broadcasting Middleware)
- Audio and Video coding
- Metadata
- Content Discovery
Introduction
Given that IPTV is becoming an increasingly important service in the market,
and that more and more ITU-T Members are facing challenges from technical
as well as regulatory issues, ITU-T has received proposals to strengthen its
work on IPTV standardization. As a matter of fact, some ITU-T study groups have
received input contributions on IPTV. Since late 2005, ITU-T Study Group Chairmen
have studied possible measures to take care of the IPTV study within ITU-T,
including coordination with other SDOs (Standardization Developing Organizations).
The Director of TSB decided to organize this meeting to consult with ITU-T Members and other SDOs
on IPTV service and its standardization. This meeting will take place in the ITU
Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, from 4 to 5 April 2006 inclusive.
The main purposes of this meeting are to exchange views regarding:
- the situation and challenges of IPTV service at the national level;
- the situation and challenges of IPTV service at the regional/global levels;
- the actions and development of IPTV-related service by SDOs, e.g. ATIS
(the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions has launched the
"IPTV Interoperability Forum-IIF"), TIA (the Telecommunications Industry Association
TR-47 focus is on radio interfaces, testing methodologies, performance and reliability,
and equipment design guides relating to terrestrial mobile multimedia multicast), etc.,
that are actively developing and coordinating standards on IPTV and related services;
- the technical and regulatory-related challenges;
- the ITU's role and expected actions in IPTV standardization.
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