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GSC-3/96-01

Final Report of
The Third Meeting of
The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC - 3)
Kyongju, Korea
3 - 5 September 1996

Opening of the Meeting

On behalf of the Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea (TTA), the Chairman, Dr. Min-Ho Kang warmly welcomed all participants, observers, especially JTC1, Internet Society, and ARIB to the third Global Standards Collaboration meeting. He introduced the heads of delegations - Mr. Young-Hwan Moon from the host committee TTA, Mr. Irmer from ITU, Mr. Peterson from Committee T1, Mr. Ishikawa from TTC, and Mr. Israel from Canada. His introduction has been extended to the Vice Chairman, Dr. Young-Hee Lee, and to Dr. Horton, who would be helping the chairman during the meeting.

Followed by the chairman's introduction, Dr. Horton mentioned that the preparation of the meeting has been very good and therefore the PSOs can look forward to a very successful outcome of the meeting. He drew attention to the fact that there is a whole range of information which is growing each time of the GSC meeting and there are a lot of ground to be covered in this meeting. He mentioned that the meeting will heavily depend on rapporteurs and the assistance of everybody participating in order to get through a speedy and successful conclusion.

Next, the chairman of the GSC-2 meeting, Mr. Israel summarized the GSC-2 meeting in order to invoke the results of the past meeting to the participants, and to connect them to this meeting. He then noted that the PSOs are indeed witnessing the reinforcement of what had been agreed in Ottawa last year of GSC-2 and indicated that the interests in the GSC has not diminished very much since then. He mentioned that a number of action items and resolutions developed and identified in the GSC-2, were very helpful in carrying the decisions and actions of GSC-2 onto GSC-3 and proved to be a practical way of conveying them to those interested.

He also invoked the participants' attention to a number of things happened since last year:

(1) Internet has been rapidly developing since the last GSC meeting, raising a number of issues that should be dealt among the standardization organizations.

(2) The convergence of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Radio is no longer a matter of speculation; some services are being developed, to prove that the convergence is already happening.

Next, he mentioned that the PSOs had been placing big emphasis on GII last year, and it would be emphasized and will also continue to be a pertinent subject this year. He also indicated that there were some reflection last year on whether the GSC group should remain as it is or re-define its composition orientation, which he hoped to be continued at the GSC-3.

He concluded by making a remark on ITU itself. He brought up the purpose of this GSC group-collaborating in order to ensure the pre-eminence of the ITU as a global standards setting organization and emphasized that the PSOs should pay attention to the evolution of the ITU and reflect on the future of the ITU in terms of the standards.