Document FP6 IST Call 1 & 2 Reverse mapping report Milestone M3.9 Deliverable D18 Source WP3, WP4 lead partners Distribution European Commission Document history Version Remarks Date 0.2 First draft 25/08/2005 0.4 Final draft 02/09/2005 1.0 Final version 07/09/2005 1.1 Executive summary added 31/01/2006 Contents 1. Executive summary 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.1 Organization of this report 3 3. Standards bodies topics 4 3.1 Standards Developing Organizations 4 3.1.1 CEN/ISSS 4 3.1.2 CENELEC 9 3.1.3 ETSI 12 3.2 Forums and consortia 24 3.2.1 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project 24 3.2.2 European Broadcasting Union 28 3.2.3 European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) 29 3.2.4 Ecma International 29 3.2.5 EICTA 32 3.2.6 ERTICO (Intelligent Transport Systems and Services – Europe) 34 3.2.7 Internet Society European Chapters Coordinating Council 34 3.2.8 Liberty Alliance Project 34 3.2.9 Radicchio 35 3.2.10 TM Forum 35 3.2.11 OMG 37 3.2.12 OASIS 38 3.2.13 RosettaNet standard topics 39 3.2.14 W3C standard topics 40 3.2.15 Open Group standards topics 47 3.3 Observers 49 3.3.1 ANEC 49 3.3.2 NORMAPME 49 4 IST project reviews 50 D18 – COPRAS reverse mapping report 4.1 Projects relevant to CEN/ISSS topics 52 4.2 Projects relevant to CENELEC topics 53 4.3 Projects relevant to ETSI (and/or 3GPP) topics 54 4.4 Projects relevant to DVB topics 55 4.5 Projects relevant to Ecma International topics 56 4.6 Projects relevant to ERTICO topics 56 4.7 Projects relevant to OASIS topics 57 4.8 Projects relevant to OMG topics 58 4.9 Projects relevant to RosettaNet topics 60 4.10 Projects relevant to W3C topics 60 4.11 Projects relevant to The Open Group topics 65 5 Conclusions 72 2 D18 – COPRAS reverse mapping report 1. Executive summary This deliverable reflects one of the two recommendations received from the project reviewers dur- ing the first project review held 17 March 2005 and provides a ‘reverse mapping‘ analysis in order to determine the extent to which the IST programme is funding research areas where standards bodies and industry consortia are active. The analysis is based on reviewing publicly available pro- ject information, particularly related to the stated objectives of each project. For the standards bod- ies a similar analysis of public information was performed. Therefore the results indicate common- ality when there is a significant correlation between general issues addressed by standards bodies and projects, rather than when topics on the periphery are concerned. As the approach of identifying topics specifically addressed at this first stage of (available) project information, identified synergies between projects and standards bodies, do not necessarily guaran- tee a project will also be seeking such synergies in future work. Where this was not clear from the summaries and objectives, but potential synergy was suspected, some further project investigations were performed. The analysis is confined to Call 1 and 2 projects within the IST FP6 programme. The first section of this report contains a short overview of relevant topics addressed by standards organisations against which the research was conducted. It should be noted that this report focuses on the ICTSB member organisations and is structured based on the organisation’s status (formal SDOs, Fora and consortia and observers). The second section lists all projects, together with a link to their home page (where available), identifying where work is under way that is addressing the areas where the standards organisations are active. The deliverable also provides conclusions from this analysis, both from a quantitative as well as a qualitative perspective. From a quantitative perspective, the results demonstrated in this deliverable indicate commonality when there is a significant correlation between general issues addressed by standards bodies and projects, and does not so much concern topics on the periphery. The analysis provided in this deliverable focuses on the ICTSB members, meaning it covers the European standardization organizations and their areas of interest. As a general conclusion, it can be stated that the areas of interest of the ICTBS members are quite considerably covered by the research projects. It should also be stated that industry consortia, contrary to the traditional SDOs, are generally more focused on specific topics, which naturally corresponds to the distribution of the issues addressed by the projects, among these consortia. It should however be mentioned that many of the projects in Calls 1 and 2 interface directly with organizations operating on a worldwide level, such as ITU, IETF, IEEE, ISO_IEC, and OSGi. 2. Introduction The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which the IST programme is funding re- search areas where standards bodies and industry consortia are active. The analysis is based on re- viewing publicly available project information, particularly related to the stated objectives of each project. For the standards bodies a similar analysis of public information was performed. Therefore the re- sults will indicate commonality when there is a significant correlation between general issues ad- dressed by standards bodies and projects, rather than when topics on the periphery are concerned. As the approach of identifying topics specifically addressed at this first stage of (available) project information, identified synergies between projects and standards bodies, do not necessarily guaran- tee a project will also be seeking such synergies in future work. Where this was not clear from the summaries and objectives, but potential synergy was suspected, some further project investigations were performed. The analysis is confined to projects within the IST FP6 programme. 2.1 Organisation of this report The first section of this report contains a short overview of relevant topics addressed by standards organisations against which the research was conducted. It should be noted that this report focuses 3 D18 – COPRAS reverse mapping report on the ICTSB member organisations and is structured based on the organisation’s status (formal Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), industry fora and consortia, and observers). The second section lists all projects, together with a link to their home page (where available), identified where work is under way that is addressing the areas where the standards organisations are active. The standards organisations are: 1) SDOs: i) European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) ii) European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) iii) European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). 2) Fora and consortia: i) Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project ii) European Broadcasting Union (EBU) iii) European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) iv) Standardizing Information and Communication Systems (Ecma International) v) European Industry Association (EICTA) vi) Intelligent Transport Systems – Europe (ERTICO) vii) Internet Society (ISOC-ECC) viii) Liberty Alliance ix) Global Initiative for Wireless E-Commerce (Radicchio) x) TeleManagement Forum (formely the NMF) xi) The Object Management Group (OMG) xii) Organization For The Advancement Of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) xiii) RosettaNet xiv) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) xv) The Open Group 3) Observers: i) European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Stan- dardization (ANEC) ii) The European Office of Crafts, Trades and SMEs for Standardisation (Normapme). 3. Standards bodies topics 3.1 Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) 3.1.1 CEN / ISSS CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, as a member of the ICTSB, has established CEN/ISSS (Information Society Standardization System) to provide market players with a compre- hensive and integrated range of standardization-oriented services and products, in order to contrib- ute to the success of the Information Society in Europe. Created by CEN to meet market demand in Europe for a middle way between formal and informal standardization, CEN/ISSS offers an alter- native that is closer to the workings of the commercial environment. It draws on the best of both worlds, bridging the gap between the rapid process of informal specification and the security of- fered by the formal open consensus of traditional standardization. ISSS is a system - it contains all the elements required to facilitate industry requirements for ad- vancement of effective standardization-oriented solutions in the ICT sector, from traditional stan- dardization tasks through to rapid preparation of specifications and other technical work, develop- ment of informative material, public presentation of work and market testing of alternative solu- tions. Activities take place in several different forums including workshops, focus groups and tradi- tional technical committees; principal topics include: CEN/ISSS Workshops: • Applying Technologies: 4 D18 – COPRAS reverse mapping report • J-XFS Workshop: The specifications produced by the J/XFS Workshop provide an API for Java applications which need to access financial devices, which is hardware independent and, by using 100% pure Java, also operating system independent. The J/XFS Workshop gathers suppliers (among others the J/XFS Forum members), service providers as well as banks and other financial service companies. • XFS Workshop: The XFS Workshop is a continuation of the Banking Solution Ven- dors Council (BSVC) workshop and maintains a technical commitment to the Win 32 API. However, the XFS Workshop has extended the franchise of multi vendor software by encouraging the participation of both banks and vendors to take part in the delibera- tions of the creation of an industry standard. This move towards opening the participa- tion beyond the BSVC's original membership has been very successful with a current membership level of more than 20 companies. The fundamental aims of the XFS Workshop are to promote a clear and unambiguous specification for both service pro- viders and application developers. This has been achieved to date by sub groups work- ing electronically and quarterly meetings • Meta-Data (Dublin Core) Workshop: Information discovery is what Dublin Core metadata "data about data" are all about.