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Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS) Standards Initiatives

Hal FoltsSenior Systems Engineer

Priority Services Team - Internet703 607-6186

foltsh@ncs.gov

Presentation forEMTEL WorkshopETSI HeadquartersSofia Antipolis, France26-27 February 2002

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Agenda• Background• Issues Under Consideration • Objectives and Focus of work• Project TIPHON Work Items• Progress and Accomplishments• Time Line• Following the Action• Abbreviations

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Emergency CommunicationsTelecommunication services to

support recovery operationsEnsure effective communications to support recovery operations through severely congested and impaired resources during times of disaster – e.g. earth quakes, hurricanes, floods, volcano eruptions, terrorist attacks

Authorized users – e.g. medical services, fire brigades, police, government and industry recovery teams

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Why ETSSerious

Disasters happen any place, any time,

unexpectedly

Telecommunications resources often experience

severe stress with damaged infrastructure

and very high traffic loads

Initial recovery response teams need

telecom support to enable organization and

coordination of recovery resources

immediately

Response teams must depend on readily

available public telecommunications resources – Internet,

Cellular, POTS

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GETSThe Government Emergency Telecommunications Service

(GETS) GETS established to provide emergency access and specialized processing in local and long-distance telephone networks for authorized users

GETS access is through a simple dialing plan and personal identification number (PIN)

Diplomatic Telecommunications

Service (DTS)FAX

Cellular/PCS

PBX

International

DISNFTS2001

PSN WITH:PSN WITH:

ACCESS AUTHORIZATIONACCESS AUTHORIZATION ENHANCED ROUTINGENHANCED ROUTING PRIORITY TREATMENTPRIORITY TREATMENT

INMARSAT

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Telecom EvolutionFUTURE OF NS/EP COMMUNICATIONS

TomorrowFully integrated global services

for NS/EP operations

TodayEvolving NetsTransition with circuit/packet interworking

YesterdayPSTN/

ISDN/PLMN

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Goal

Fully integrated NS/EP services Fully integrated NS/EP services received through execution of received through execution of

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with service providers using with service providers using

standard capabilities inherent in standard capabilities inherent in infrastructure infrastructure

i.e. avoid retrofits

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ETS

IEPS – International Emergency Preference Scheme – ITU-T Recommendation E.106

IEMS – International Emergency Multimedia Service – ITU-T Draft Recommendation F.706

ETS can then be used in either an international or national context

are collectively being referred to as

Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS)

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Objectives of ETS Selection of multimedia & telephony services Rapid authentication of authorized ETS users Security protection of ETS traffic Preferential access to telecom facilities Preferential establishment of ETS communications Preferential routing of emergency ETS traffic Preferential use of operational resources for ETS Preferential completion of ETS traffic Optional pre-emption of non-emergency traffic Allowable degradation of QoS for ETS traffic Interchange of critical service management info

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Fulfillment

Draw upon existing standards with minimal changes or additions, if

necessary to meet objectives.

Do not impede or interfere with natural

functions and operations of basic

Internet infrastructure.

Support preferential treatment of emergency

calls in IP-telephony service.

new applications– instant messaging &

presence, registration of missing/survivors

(IAA), broadcast video.

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Issues Being PursuedITU-T

SG-2SG-4SG-9

SG-11SG-12SG-13SG-16SSG

Functional RequirementsTelephony Call ControlBackbone SignallingQuality of ServiceArchitecture/frameworkCustomer Service ManagementMultimedia ServicesSecurity

IETF

Protocol FrameworkTelephony Call ControlBackbone SignallingQuality of ServiceMultimedia ServicesSecurity

ETSITIPHON3GPP

Functional RequirementsProtocol Profiles/templatesQuality of ServiceArchitecture/frameworkSystem DescriptionSecurity

USAT1A1T1M1T1P1T1S1TR-41TR-453GPP2

Nationally agreed upon input into international bodies and specific issues relating to USA marketplace

TMForum Service Level Agreements

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TIPHON InitiativeNew ETS Work

Itemsfor Releases 4

& 5WI 00004-1 Requirement

Definition Study

Technical ETS features and

objective to be fulfilled

WI 00004-2 System

Description

How standards fulfill the ETS requirements

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Many Considerations

• Operational• Policy• Legal• Regulatory

• Technical — solutions being sought:» Industry networking standards that

fulfill ETS requirements» Enhance ETS operations with value-

added capabilities

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First drafts of ETS technical specification

s

Enthusiastic industry support

Approved and advanced

drafts of ETS framework

Established ETS

Requirements in all major industry standards bodies

Progress

Standards development is a process of consistency,

persistence, patience

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Time Line

December 2001 — ETS requirements adopted in work programs of ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, ANSI T1, and TIA

January 2001 — Identified initial work areas for technical focus and initial technical area for enhanced features

March 2001 –December 2003 — Proactively provide technical contributions

and participate in work of specific technical areas of industry standards activities

Autumn 2002 First meaningful standards to be established and adopted by industry

FY 2002 – 2004 Prototyping work to validate applications of newly agreed upon industry standards

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Following the ActionMonitor progress

www.iepscheme.net

Interact on the issues

Status: ieps@listserv.gsfc.nasa.govSend Email to:Majordomo@listserv.gsfc.nasa.govin body of Email enter: subscribe ieps(no other text should appear)

Technical discussions: ieprep@ietf.org

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Hal Folts

Please visit www.iepscheme.net for more information.

Let’s All Work Together

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Accomplishments - 1• ITU approval of E.106, IEPS

• ITU Pending approval of F.706, IEMS

• ETS Rqmts in ITU-T SG-4, 11, 13, 16, SSG

• Draft M.ieps, critical mgt data interchange, SG-4

• SG 13 Draft Y.roec recommendation for emergency communications

• T1A1 Draft TR on ETS in Emerging Networks

• Draft H.priority under development, SG-16

• Revisions to H.246 & new H.gef.4 for call control (H.323)

• Draft H.ets-security under development in SG16

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Accomplishments - 2• ETS Rqmts in ETSI TIPHON Release 3 Documents 1008, 1009, 3016

• ETS Major work items in ETSI TIPHON Release 4 & 5 programs

• Four RFCs in progress in IETF – ETS Framework, ETS Security, RTP addition, ETS White Paper

• BOF session on ETS at IETF 52, December 2001

• Project established in T1M1 for ETS service/network mgt aspects

• Work underway in T1S1 on revisions to T1.631 HPC standard

• Several work actions in 3d generation wireless activities

Standards development is a process of consistency, persistence, patience

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Abbreviations

ANSI = American National Standards InstituteETS = Emergency Telecommunications ServiceETSI = European Telecommunications Standards InstituteIAA = I Am AliveIEMS = International Emergency Multimedia SchemeIEPS = International Emergency Preference SchemeIETF = Internet Engineering Task ForceISAC = Information Sharing and Analysis CenterISDN = Integrated Services Digital NetworkITU-T = International Telecommunication Union, Telecommunication Standardization SectorNGN = Next Generation NetworkNS/EP = National Security and Emergency PreparednessNSTAC = National Security Telecommunications Advisory CommitteePLMN = Public Land Mobile NetworkPSTN = Public Switched Telephone NetworkSC = Telecommunications Service CustomerSP = Telecommunications Service ProviderTIPHON = Telecommunication and Internet Protocol Harmonization over NetworksTIA = Telecommunications Industry Association (N. America)