Report of ETSI NGN Activities

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Report of ETSI NGN Activities

• Rainer Münch
• ETSI TISPAN Chairman
• Presenter Ian Spiers

Submission DateJune 27, 2008
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NGN in ETSI

• Technical Body TISPAN
• Common IMS in 3GPP

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TISPAN is the home of NGN standards

• TISPAN is the ETSI body that
• specifies standards for Fixed networks and
  internet convergence
• developed the Convergence work Item (FMC)
• specifies the Next Generation of Networks
• Many of the participating organisations have
  their HQs from outside of Europe
• TISPAN NGN specifications are referenced by the
  ITU-T
• Common IMS parts of the TISPAN work are
  considered in 3GPP specifications as published by
  ETSI or other OPs
• Open area http//portal.etsi.org/docbox/TISPAN/Op
  en 
• TISPAN NGN specifications can be considered as
  THE global NGN solution

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TISPAN is today

• An important standards group (and a great one)
• Typically up to 160 participants per meeting
• International participation (Europe, Asia,
  Americas)
• Up to 800 documents to treat in 7 WGs during one
  week
• 4 plenaries, 4-6 WG meetings, 4-8 ad hocs per year

TISPAN IS GOOD
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TISPAN Organisation

• 7 Working Groups
• Requirements and Architecture
• Protocols
• Numbering, Naming, Addressing, Routeing
• Home Networks
• Testing and Validation
• Security
• Network Management
• Hierarchical system for organising and managing
  the work
• Oversee activity per topic
• Collocated Technical Committee Plenaries and full
  WG meetings (4 times a year)
• Interim meetings as required and agreed
  (face-to-face or virtual)
• Close co-operation with other SDOs, ITU-T, 3GPP,
  corporate networks (e.g. Ecma), many fora and
  groups

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ETSI NGN Status

• Release 1 .. Status Complete
• Release 2 .. Nearing completion
• Release 3 Requirement capture and early work
  progressing
• Transfer of Work Items for Common IMS
• All Common IMS related WIs have been transferred
  to 3GPP, TISPAN monitor progress carefully and
  take appropriate action if specific problems are
  identified.

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Some key work areas in NGN R2

• Resource control (RACS)
• Network attachment subsystem (NASS)
• Supplementary services
• PSTN/ISDN Emulation (PES)
• IPTV
• TS 183 063 on IMS IPTV Stage 3 Core network
  aspects has been published.
• TS 183 064 on IPTV dedicated system Stage 3 has
  been approved at TISPAN18 Plenary (03 04 July
  2008).
• Numbering, naming, addressing, routeing
• Home networks and devices
• Corporate networks and business communication

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ETSI TISPAN NGN Release 3

• Early requirements for the next TISPAN Release
  include
• VoIP Consolidation (including QoS, security,
  interworking)
• IPTV Service evolution (blended services and
  beyond)
• Consolidation of the work on business
  communication
• Ultra Broadband (fixed and wireless) access to
  the NGN
• Work progressing on Non-3GPP access systems
• Improvements to Release 2, e.g. resource control
• Interconnection (NGN, NGCN)
• Network Harmonisation - increase interoperability
  with other NGNs and other networks (non IMS).

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Home Networks

• Analyse the impacts on the customer environment
  derived from the high level system requirements
  for the support of the TISPAN defined services
  and capabilities.
• Define requirements and specifications to be
  applied to the customer environment elements
  (home gateways and customer devices).
• Definition of detailed architecture and reference
  points (within the home network) for the customer
  network gateway (CNG) and the customer network
  devices (CNDs) for conversational services.
• Definition of detailed architecture and reference
  points for the customer network devices (CNDs)
  enabling the IPTV IMS based service usage.
• Definition of guidelines for the implementation
  of security mechanisms in the customer networks

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Home Networks Next Steps

• Completion of activities detailing the protocols
  used by the Customer Gateway and the Customer
  Network Devices (conversational services) on the
  basis of the published deliverables on which the
  reference architectures are defined.
• Completion of activities detailing the functions
  of the customer gateway.
• Definition of protocols handled by the Customer
  device enabling the IPTV IMS based service usage.
• Update of the guidelines on security mechanisms
  for customer networks.
• Launch of activities for defining new use cases
  and requirements for customer networks for TISPAN
  NGN R3.
• Definition of possible new documents detailing
  specific technical aspects typical for customers
  networks (e.g. Quality of Service in-home
  mechanisms, Remote Management issues etc.)

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European Home Networking Platform

• Efficient broadband deployment multi-service
  implementation
• Home networking platform is included within ETSI
  TC ATTM (Access Terminals Transmission
  Multiplexing)
• Home networking platform covers
• Telecommunications Access and Home Networks
  including Terminal Equipment and Network
  Terminating Equipment.
• Copper, fibre and wireless transmission support.
• Lower layers of home networks (in collaboration
  with TISPAN for service implementation).
• Collaboration with other relevant bodies within
  and outside of ETSI (e.g. ITU-T, CENELEC)
• Strong telecom position to champion used
  transmission protocols, e.g. DSL systems in home
  networking.
• Increasing load in customer premises will more
  than balance any saving actions into the network
• PSOs are invited to champion energy efficiency in
  developed specifications on ICT products, systems
  and installed ones in order to implement
  multi-service
• PSOs are invited to support usable residential
  networking guidance towards users (customers)
  including a greener approach

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Numbering, Naming and Addressing

• TISPAN WG4 have investigated the need to
  introduce a Naming Address Resolution (NAR)
  framework into TISPAN NGN conformant
  communication networks
• The following approach was adopted
• Investigation of use cases in the NGN
  environment to determine required NAR functions
• Gap Analysis of current TISPAN NGNs
  specifications - comparing them to
  existing/emerging solutions of NAR methods.
• Identification of items requiring further
  standardization based on the above analysis
• Analysis of the consequences of creating a Naming
  Address Resolution framework.

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NGN Interconnection

• TISPAN is currently working on ENUM DNS
  Guidelines that will enable TISPAN to evaluate
  their requirements against what is set out within
  the GSMA documents IR34 and IR37.
• That exercise will provide a firm basis for
  TISPAN examine their requirements for an
  Inter-operator IP backbone network and discuss
  the possibility of a common approach with the
  GSMA, or alternatively conclude why this isn't
  the case.
• ETSI to
• Complete work on ENUM DNS Guidelines, NGN
  evolution for interconnection, inter-domain and
  access reference points, numbering, naming,
  addressing, routeing and Naming Address
  Resolution functionality
• Identify any critical outstanding issues and
  propose a way forward, e.g. the need to develop
  further commercial and administrative
  arrangements required to facilitate the
  realisation of an IPX responding to TISPAN
  requirements
• Compare detailed requirements and guidelines
  against other planned approaches e.g. GSMA
• Consider the likelihood of achieving a viable
  large scale global approach for common IMS
  providers
• ETSI is supporting the view that all required
  parties need to move forward in a coordinated
  manner.
• ETSI is supporting collaboration with 3GPP, GSMA,
  SDOs, ITU-T.

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TISPAN NGN R2 security

• NGN Security requirements (TS 187 001)
• Defines also security requirements for IPTV,
  Business Communication, Media Security, Home
  Networking, and for countering UC
• NGN eTVRA (TR 187 002)
• Threat and risk analyses for specific NGN use
  cases such as NAT traversal, RACS, Media
  Security, and Unsolicited Communication
• NGN Security architecture (TS 187 003)
• Defining the security architecture for IPTV, Home
  Networking, FMC, Media Security, H.248, Corporate
  Networks
• Generalised NAT traversal feasibility study (TR
  187 008)
• Media security (TR 187 007)
• Impact of unsolicited communication in the NGN
  (TR 187 009)
• NGN Lawful Interception functional entities,
  information flow and reference points (TS 187
  005)
• Data retention and its impact on the NGN (TR 187
  012)

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Early TISPAN NGN R3 security

• Feasibility study on IPTV security architecture
• Study models and key management systems for
  service protection
• aim to develop the model for the NGN.
• Study of functional entities and mechanisms for
  service protection with the
• aim to define these for the NGN.
• Study of a framework open to the integration of
  content protection solutions.
• Feasibility study of security mechanisms for
  customer premises networks connected to TISPAN
  NGN.

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Topics for future security work

• IPTV security (enhancement of stage 2, definition
  of stage 3)
• Adding Prevention of Unsolicited Communication as
  a feature (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3)
• Identity protection, authentication and integrity
  countermeasures and to define credential
  management
• Media security provisioning (stage 1, stage2)
• Additional work on NAT-T (e.g. interaction with
  RACS, interaction with IPTV, security analysis of
  use of STUN)
• Enhanced security for NASS, RACS
• Security for CNG/CND (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3)
• Implications for AGCF security
• Security for NGCN
• FMC (taking into account requirements of the
  FMCA)
• Diameter and Radius AVP profiling
• Application layer security on the NGN (e.g. TELCO
  2.0)
• Analyse the inter-relation between security
  features and architecture of the NGN (IPTV,
  NAT-T, NASS, RACS etc.) in terms of how to employ
  consistent security architecture and mechanisms
• Develop general rules, patterns, and templates to
  ease the employment of the NGN in practice and to
  facilitate risk control

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Network Management

• NGN Management
• Resource Management (IMS Management imported from
  3GPP)
• Subscription Management (SuM)
• IPTV Management
• JointSuM
• collaboration between ETSI TISPAN WG8, 3GPP SA5,
  and TM Forum TIP, working on alignment of the
  Subscription Management and Service Activation
  specifications in these bodies. Recently, also
  ITU-T SG 4 has indicated their interest in this
  work.
• Collaboration
• TM Forum and other de facto bodies are important
  players in the global telecom management
  standards arena. Their work is being taken into
  account in TISPAN WG8.

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Testing Activities

• Production of manual and automatic test suites to
  ensure the conformance to TISPAN, 3GPP and ITU
  standardised protocols.
• These tests ensure
• the global interoperability for and between ISDN
  and TISPAN NGN Releases incl. PSTN/ISDN Emulation
  Subsystem,
• QoS between networks,
• performance benchmarking for NGN
• Co-operation with
• 3GPP
• ITU (SG 11, SG 12)

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ETSI NGN STF activities

• Still an important part of ETSI working Methods
• User STF work
• EC Emergency and location work
• Security
• NGN UCI

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Next Steps (in Standards)

• As NGN networks are being rolled out and tested,
  TISPAN is seeing a large increase in the number
  of corrections (CRs) to NGN-R1 and R2. This is a
  good sign.
• TISPAN (and ETSI) recognises the importance of
  cooperation agreements and is identifying key
  bodies and works together to avoid duplication of
  effort.
• TISPANs members are now focused on Rel-2
  completion and progressing new work areas for
  Rel-3.
• Push ahead with e.g. the Interconnection work,
  IPTV, home networks, next generation corporate
  networks, next generation access technologies.

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Other PSOs

• Noted that the work on NGN protocols in ITU-T SG
  11 is progressing well.
• Cooperation between PSOs is continuing.
• To be completed during this GSC meeting when
  information is available.

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Challenges

• It is noted that caution should be taken to
  ensure that work is not duplicated in PSOs. In
  general, cooperation is working well.
• As new features and services are introduced using
  NGNs, more and more divers players are active on
  the playing field (e.g. NGN IPTV-Content
  suppliers-broadcaster etc). This has to be
  coordinated!

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ETSI Please visit http//www.ETSI.org or contact
helpdesk_at_etsi.org
TISPAN Please visit http//www.TISPAN.org or
contact TISPANsupport_at_etsi.org Open area
http//portal.etsi.org/docbox/TISPAN/Open  
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Supplementary Slides
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An Example of the Hierarchical System for
Organising and Managing the Work
IPv6 Testing Level 1
IPv6 Core WI Level 2
IPv6 Mobility WI Level 2
IPv6 to IPv4 WI Level 2
IPv6 Security WI Level 2
RequirementsCatalogueWI Level 3
Interoperability WI Level 3
Conformance WI Level 3
TSS TP WI Level 4
Test Suite WI Level 4
Core Catalogue Deliverable
Core TSS TP Deliverable
Core TTCN-3 ATS Deliverable
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NGN Feasibility Studies Feed into TISPAN Core
Security Documents
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (1/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (2/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (3/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (4/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (5/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (6/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (7/8)
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List of TISPAN Rel-2 deliverables (8/8)