The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) started life as The Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards conference (ITSC) in 1990. This was an initiative of the T1 Committee of the United States who invited the other founding partner organizations ITU-T, ETSI and the Japanese TTC to the first ISC Meeting in Fredericksburg, VA. The goal was set by the “spirit of Melbourne”, stemming from a CCITT Plenary Assembly, to find a way of co-operation between Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs) from different regions of the world in order to facilitate global standardization within the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). The ITSC focussed its work on fixed telecommunications networks. After a few years, the ITSC, as a conference, became too big and was therefore reduced to GSC, the Global Standards Collaboration, with delegations limited to a reasonable size (10 maximum). The first GSC meeting was held in 1994 in

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. Around the same time, it was decided to expand the scope to cover Radio Communications with the addition of a parallel set of Global Radio Standardization (RAST) meeting, the first one being hosted by ETSI in Nice in October 1994. In the course of the time, the Australian, Canadian, Korean and Chinese national standards organizations joined bringing the number of Participating Standards Organizations to ten. Observers from other standards-related organizations and fora are also invited to participate. In November 2001, it was decided to rename GSC as GTSC (where T = Telecoms) and RAST as GRSC (where R = Radio) and to use the term GSC an overall "umbrella" for the combined plenary sessions. GSC meets approximately once every year. GSC-16 was held in Halifax,

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, from October 31 to November 3, 2011 hosted by the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC).

Participating standards organizations

*ARIB – Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Japan) *ATIS – Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (USA) *CA – Communications Alliance Ltd (Australia) (withdrawn in 2010) *CCSA – China Communications Standards Association (China) *ETSI –

European Telecommunications Standards Institute The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization operating in the field of information and communications. ETSI supports the development and testing of global technical ...

(France) *IEC –

International Electrotechnical Commission The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; ) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronics, electronic and related technologies. IEC standards cover a va ...

(Switzerland) *IEEE –

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

(USA) *ISO –

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. M ...

(Switzerland) *ISACC – ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (Canada) (Withdrawn) * ITU-R /

ITU-T The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating Standardization, standards fo ...

– International Telecommunication Union (Switzerland) *TIA – Telecommunications Industry Association (USA) *TSDSI – Telecommunications Standards Development Society of India (India) *TTA – Telecommunications Technology Association (Korea) *TTC – Telecommunication Technology Committee (Japan)

GSC10 Open Standards Definition

According to the participating standards organizations, an

open standard An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a common prerequisite that open standards use an open license that provides for extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in their development due to ...

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References

External links

– ETSI Global Standards Collaboration
Global Standards Collaboration - Machine-to-Machine Standardization Task Force
– Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)

– GSC10
www.etsi.org/WebSite/AboutETSI/GlobalRole/GSC.aspx
– Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
www.atis.org/gsc/index.asp
– Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
www.tsdsi.org
TSDSI Home - Global Standards Collaboration
www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=96760
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Participating standards organizations

GSC10 Open Standards Definition

See also

References

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