TRIS - Madrid

The group ECC/PT2-TRIS (Technical Regulation and Interconnection Standards) met on 7-8 June in Madrid, with the following points standing out:
 
The questionnaire proposed by ANACOM on E112 service was debated, with agreement that a response would be formulated by the end of this July, and that it would be supplemented by the replies received in the European Commission questionnaire in areas not covered by the ANACOM questionnaire. A report on the results obtained will be produced at a later date;
 
A presentation was given on the different operator´s evolution towards next generation networks (NGN). The existing information is not enough from the technical standpoint, with two solutions currently under way:
 
- Gradual switchover of the whole network (as in the United Kingdom);
 
- Construction of an overlay network for new services or for areas not covered by the traditional network;
 
Given that there is no clear knowledge about implementation of the existing ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standards (Telecoms and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networks - TISPAN), and in order to assure more market openness, it was deemed useful to produce a document indicating which interfaces, now described by the ETSI standards, should be opened for independent service providers to offer services, also allowing the construction of a multi-vendor NGN network;
 
Regarding emergency service and specifically user localisation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) of the USA gave a presentation about its work and the different phases envisaged to enable localisation in the current services that use emergency services. In its third phase (2007/2008), and by working with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), it will be possible to send (geodesic or/and civil) localisation when a call is made, using the protocols now being finalised;
 
Also presented was the new Directive on data retention (2006/24/EC), which will have to be transposed into the national legal orders by 15 September 2007. The Directive imposes the provision of different data on electronic communications, such as day, time, duration, origin and destination addresses and gateways used, among other aspects. It also requires that information be retained for a minimum period of six months and a maximum of two years. Various statistics concerning the use of this data by the respective authorities must also be provided.
 
This working group?s next meeting will be held in September 2006.