From July 13 to 16, the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA, president Kim Won-shik) participated in the 14th Global Standards Collaboration (GSC-14) held with the goal "Fostering Worldwide Interoperability" in Geneva, Switzerland. It decided to fortify its collaboration with foreign standardization institutions in the fields of information communication technology, climate change, communications networks, cyber security, and IMT-Advanced standardization.
TTA received a favorable response from the participating standardization institutions for its ICT-based climate change solutions. Its ITC-based countermeasures to deal with climate change included green-based technology, green IT utilization technology, and green IT instrument technology. It also pointed out the International climate-change symposium, which will be held on September 23, 2009, as the exemplary case of an environmentally-friendly conference that will incorporate virtual meetings.
Moreover, in the field of fourth generation mobile communication standardization, President Kim Won-shik announced that TTA plans to present LTE-Advanced and Mobile WiMAX Evolution as the substitute technology for the standardization of IMT-Advanced. President Kim also met with Dr. Adams, the president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Standards Association (IEEE SA), and agreed to fortify their collaboration on overall mobile technology, including signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
TTA also addressed cyber terrorism such as the recent DDoS attacks. It stressed the necessity of developing standards in dealing with these web-based attacks and proposed a modified resolution that urges international collaboration among standards organizations all over the world in developing cyber-security related standards, a measure adopted at the GSC.
Meanwhile, a cooperation contract was signed between the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), and TTA to eliminate the standards disparity between developing and advanced countries while the conference was in session. Korea, as a country with advanced standards, plans to collaborate with ITU in order to close the gap with the developing countries.
At this year's GSC-14 meeting, a total of 110 standards experts from standards organizations of many different countries were present, such as TTA from Korea, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) from Europe, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) from the United States, Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) and Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) from Japan, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) from China and Information Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC) from Canada. The major international standards organizations such as IEEE, IETF, WiMAX Forum, ANSI, IEC, and JTC1 were also in attendance, confirming the conference as the real hub of global IT standards cooperation.
According to the meeting conclusions, the related standards will be distributed to the public at a suitable time, which will then make possible effective protection against IT Cyber attacks and countering climate changes using the Green IT technology.
Korea held the third GSC meeting in 1996 and the ninth GSC meeting in 2004, and the next meeting, the fifteenth GSC meeting, was invited by China's CCSA to be held in September, 2010, in Beijing, China.
