GSC
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What is GSC ? |
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The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) is an initiative of the ITU, ETSI, the United States' Committee T1 and the Japanese TTC to promote efficiency in international standardization activities. The GSC does not have a permanent secretariat.Each GSC meeting is hosted by one or more of the Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs).The host is rotated so all PSOs and the ITU have an equal opportunity to host the event. The host provides a secretariat to manage the particular event.GSC has evolved over the years to incorporate new PSOs and Observers. |
2. Scope and mandate of GSC
The mandate of GSC is to provide a venue for the leaders of the PSOs and the ITU to:
- Freely exchange information on the progress of global standards development and the state of the global standards development environment;
- Collaborate in planningfuture standards development to reduce duplication;
Further, the mandate of GSC is to provide a venue for the leaders of the PSOs to:
- Support the ITU as the preeminent global telecommunication and radio- communication standards development organization.
GSC is not a standards development organization.
3. Members of GSC
The Members of GSC are the PSOs and the ITU.
The PSOs are recognized or accredited to write (tele)communications and /or radio-communications standards in their area of practice, and/or are national or regional consensus development organizations that input to the ITU or use ITU outputs, and are working on similar areas of standardization. That is, the PSOs are by definition standards organizations that potentially exhibit a high degree of overlap in their work programs.
New PSOs may be added by a consensus decision of the existing GSC Members.
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Table - List of GSC members |
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(Note : Communications Alliance Ltd. withdrew from GSC in March 2010.)
4. Meetings
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Date
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Venue
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Hosting PSO
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1994 | Melborne (Australia) | Austel |
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2
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June 1995 | Ottawa (Canada) | TSACC |
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3
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Sept. 1996 | Kyongju (Korea) | TTA |
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4
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March-April 1998 | Sophia Antipolis (France) | ETSI |
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5
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Aug. 1999 | Williamsburg (USA) | ATIS |
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6
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Aug. 2000 | Sapporo (Japan) | ARIB & TTC |
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7
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Nov. 2001 | Sydney (Australia) | ACIF |
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8
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April-May 2003 | Ottawa (Canada) | TSACC |
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9
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May 2004 | Soul (Korea) | TTA |
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10
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Aug.-Sept. 2005 | Sophia Antipolis (France) | ETSI |
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11
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June-July 2006 | Chicago (USA) | TIA |
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12
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July 2007 | Kobe (Japan) | ARIB & TTC |
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13
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July 2008 | Boston (USA) | ATIS |
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14
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July 2009 | Geneva (Switzerland) | ITU |
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15
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Aug.-Sept. 2010 | Beijing (China) | CCSA |
5. Meeting documents
All the meeting documents in GSC are found in the following ETSI website:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/gsc/index.html
6. Next meeting