The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) started life as The "Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards conference (ITSC) in 1990. This was an initiative of the T1 Committee of the United States who invited the other founding partner organizations ITU-T, ETSI and the Japanese TTC to the first ISC Meeting in Fredericksburg, VA. The goal was set by the “spirit of Melbourne”, stemming from a CCITT Plenary Assembly, to find a way of co-operation between Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs) from different regions of the world in order to facilitate global standardization within the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). The ITSC focussed its work on fixed telecommunications networks. After a few years, the ITSC, as a conference, became too big and was therefore reduced to GSC, the Global Standards Collaboration, with delegations limited to a reasonable size (10 maximum). The first GSC meeting was held in 1994 in

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, Australia. Around the same time, it was decided to expand the scope to cover Radio Communications with the addition of a parallel set of Global Radio Standardization (RAST) meeting, the first one being hosted by ETSI in Nice in October 1994. In the course of the time, the Australian, Canadian, Korean and Chinese national standards organizations joined bringing the number of Participating Standards Organizations to ten. Observers from other standards-related organizations and Fora are also invited to participate. In November 2001, it was decided to rename GSC as GTSC (where T = Telecoms) and RAST as GRSC (where R = Radio) and to use the term GSC an overall "umbrella" for the combined plenary sessions. GSC meets approximately once every year. GSC-16 was held in Halifax,

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, from October 31 to November 3, 2011 hosted by the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC).

Participating standards organizations

*ARIB –

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses The , commonly known as , is a standardization organization in Japan. ARIB is designated as the center of promotion of the efficient use of the radio spectrum and designated frequency change support agency. Its activities include those previously ...

(Japan) *ATIS – Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (USA) *CA – Communications Alliance Ltd (Australia) (withdrawn in 2010) *CCSA –

China Communications Standards Association The China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) is a Chinese professional standards organization with the responsibility for developing communications technology standards. The organization was founded on 18 December 2002, by the Chinese Min ...

(China) *ETSI –

European Telecommunications Standards Institute The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization in the field of information and communications. ETSI supports the development and testing of global technical standard ...

(Belgium) *IEC – International Electrotechnical Commission (Switzerland) *IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) *ISO –

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...

(Switzerland) *ISACC – ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (Canada) (Withdrawn) *

ITU-R The ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is responsible for radio communications. Its role is to manage the international radio-frequency sp ...

ITU-T The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating standards for telecommunications and Information Comm ...

– International Telecommunication Union (Switzerland) *TIA –

Telecommunications Industry Association The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop voluntary, consensus-based industry standards for a wide variety of Information and Communication Technologies ( ICT) ...

(USA) *TSDSI – Telecommunications Standards Development Society of India (India) *TTA – Telecommunications Technology Association (Korea) *TTC –

Telecommunication Technology Committee The Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC; ja, 情報通信技術委員会) is a standardization organization established in 1985 and authorized by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to conduct research and to develop an ...

(Japan)

GSC10 Open Standards Definition

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FRAND Reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms, also known as fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, denote a voluntary licensing commitment that standards organizations often request from the owner of an intellectual property r ...

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(IPR) policies *Standard is published and made available to the general public under reasonable terms (including for reasonable fee or for free)

References

External links

– ETSI Global Standards Collaboration
Global Standards Collaboration - Machine-to-Machine Standardization Task Force
– Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)

– GSC10
www.etsi.org/WebSite/AboutETSI/GlobalRole/GSC.aspx
– Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
www.atis.org/gsc/index.asp
– Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
www.tsdsi.org
TSDSI Home - Global Standards Collaboration
www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=96760
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Participating standards organizations

GSC10 Open Standards Definition

See also

References

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