User Identification Solutions in Converging Networks

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User Identification Solutions in Converging
Networks

• Mike Pluke
• ETSI STF 157 - User Identification in Converging
  Networks

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Todays Complexities
Which of these is Mike Miles?
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Communicating Today
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Communicating Today
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Communicating Today
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Communicating Today
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Whats Wrong?

• The caller has to guess the most successful way
  to communicate
• Most callers dont know all the user identifiers
• Terminals linked to communication type
• User identifier schemes linked to communication
  type
• Some user identifiers linked to terminals
• Some user identifiers portable telephony
• Some user identifiers linked to provider email
• Terminals/user identifiers linked to users roles

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Current Partial Solutions

• UPT
• Personal Numbering schemes
• Fax via email
• Email via phone
• Etc.

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Problems with Current Solutions

• Many solutions lock users to 1 provider
• Proprietary solutions are incompatible
• Most solutions rely on fixes applied to legacy
  systems
• Most solutions are unfriendly to the caller
  and/or called party
• There is probably no fully comprehensive global
  solution

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High-level User Requirements

• A unified way of setting up a communication
• Reduce the complexity for the calling party
• Make it easy for the called party to manage their
  communications
• Give more options to the called and calling
  parties

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Human Communication Needs
Modern communications systems can create new
communication needs
BUT
Basic communication needs have changed very
little since the dawn of man
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Historic Communications Needs
People have always needed to contact
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Tomorrow
People will still need to contact
Individuals, roles, groups and places
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People Not Terminals
People are outsiders in the current
communications revolution. Computer hosts, pager
terminals and telephones are addressable entities
throughout the Internet and telephony
systems. Extract from The Mobile People
Architecture from Stanford University
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Whats Needed?

• One user identifier per individual or role
• An integrated user identifier search mechanism
• Automatic capture of user identifiers
• Intelligent agents to manage complexity for the
  calling and called parties

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The User Identifier In Use

• This format is not a proposal
• The format should be user friendly
• The User Identifier must be unique

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How It Might Be?
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How It Might Be?
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How It Might Be?
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How It Might Be?
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How It Might Be?
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How It Might Be?
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How It Might Be?
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Why IP could help?

• Integrated search mechanisms will not work
  effectively if a connection must be established
  to do each search
• Search results will define the destination uri
• Communication can start immediately the search
  results/uri is returned

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What next?

• ETSI STF 157 will continue to work on refining
  the user requirements for User Identification
  solutions
• At the same time potential solutions will be
  investigated to validate the practicability of
  the requirements

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What next?

• ETSI STF 157 is very keen to liaise with all
  groups with an interest in this area
• We are also very happy to receive ideas from
  individuals within these groups
• My email is
• Mike.Pluke_at_castle-consult.com