TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT

1. TIA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT Anil Kripalani, Chair August 2002 Board Meeting

2. Overview • Technical Committee Activities • International Standards • ANSI-related activities • Cost controls • ATIS/T1 Update • Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Homeland Security • WLAN activities • Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) brief

3. Technical Committee Activities • TC has not met since last Board meeting • Next TC meeting on September 5, 2002 • IPR Working Group has met and other work being done electronically • Planning Legal Seminar for legal reps from participants in standards program • SDO Liability, Antitrust, IPR related to standards • Engineering Manual in place, accepted by ANSI • Elections conducted, training underway • Engineering Manual Ad Hoc reactivated for further enhancements in process; Chair: Steve Swanson

4. International Standards • Presented briefings on Project MESA --Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications • Next MESA meeting in September in Copenhagen • Continue to cover ITU activities but at reduced level due to reduction in force and travel constraints • TIA added to Steering Committee for Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) preparations • Preparations underway for next ICSCA meeting in Austin, TX in November and Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) meeting in Ottawa in April 2003

5. ANSI - related Activities • ANSI’s 5-year audit for TIA scheduled for April 2003, preparing now • 1998 Audit: 216 ANStds, 22 audited, cost to TIA $24,487 • 2003 Audit est: 550 ANS, 40 expected audits, cost $54,300 • Reviewing ANSI National Standards Strategy (NSS) • To be discussed with Technical Committee membership for possible TIA endorsement • Restructuring of ANSI approved for implementation in 2003 • speed up ANSI decision making and allow greater participation • TIA staff (D. Bart) on ANSI Board & Exec Comm; also Chair of Organizational Member Council

6. Standards Cost controls • Staff in Standards and Technology Dept reduced by 3.5 HC • Cost reductions for Meeting expenses • centralize locations for Formulating Group meetings • planning to outsource meeting planner function • preferred hotel chains • Cost reductions for 2002 Standards and Technology Annual Report (STAR) • electronic only, no printing or mailing costs • will be on web site and standards catalog CD. • Use of in-house list servers for e-mail distribution is in implementation • terminating contract with Lyris • Expense budget, particularly head count, travel and training, down $444K for 2002

7. Additional Cost / Revenue Items • Examining Engineering Committee structure • potential reduction in number of Engineering Committees • begun discussions with Chairs on “future directions” for TIA standards program • TIA co-hosting international IEC Sector Board 4 mtg • meeting in Atlanta, planned for November • domestic co-hosting cost and domestic travel much less expensive than attending an international meeting abroad Potential Revenues • Non-TIA member Engineering Committee Participation revenues expected to be better than forecast • helping to offset reduced standards royalty revenues • Seeking federal funding for portion of MESA support costs • Standards Education opportunities?

8. ATIS / T1 Update • Committee T1 reported reduced membership • Down to 68 voting T1 members and 45 are manufacturers • ATIS/T1 under financial pressure • reversed decision to give away free standards • made other expense cuts • TIA staff continues to cooperate and attends T1 and T1AG meetings • Reducing our portion of joint T1P1 / TR-46 meeting expenses, after audit of participation levels

9. CIP and Homeland Security Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) • TIA is one of 4 Coordinators for Information and Communications Sector (I&C) for CIP • TIA has provided input to the “National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace”, (Clarke Plan) • to be released by White House in September 2002 • TIA is on the Board for the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS) • TIA provided sector input for cross -sector/interdependencies issues • Gave briefings for CIP International Outreach in Rome, Italy, and hosted Japanese delegation at TIA DC Homeland Security (HS) • Review of “National Strategy for Homeland Security,” released in July (Gov. Ridge Plan) (Summary in BOD Book)

10. CIP and Homeland Security CIP / HSCont’d • Participated in White House briefings with Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs). • Need for “trusted” information sharing between government and industry required • Richard Clarke, special adviser to President Bush for cyberspace, also concerned about the security of wireless LANs. • Chicago Sun-Times story reporters were able to get behind the network firewalls of law firms, commodity traders, a federal district judge, and a health care system • TIA is now more active in National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) activities, in particular, Wireless Task Force

11. WLAN / Wi-Fi Issues • Wireless LAN Security is a hot topic in the industry due to growing deployment • “War driving,” “War chalking,” added to jargon and the trade press abounds with stories • Wi-Fi cells require a fixed-line connection to the Internet and most ISPs and telecom providers forbid the sharing or resale of service • Pentagon is poised to introduce a policy that would restrict how personnel use wireless devices including BlackBerry handhelds and cell phones • Prosecutions of WLAN hackers, including consultants, have begun Most organizations install Wi-Fi systems without built-in security options, and even those networks with basic security features are vulnerable to attacks.

12. WLAN / Wi-Fi Issues • TIA staff has begun researching issues / players / possible recommendations for TIA involvement • Discovered not just technical issues but legal, channel and user education • GEMD VAR group organized a WLAN security briefing May 9 by Ron Williams, Senior Enterprise Architect – Security, IBM Corp. • WLAN is and will be “insecure” for the foreseeable future • The impact of WLAN security characteristics can be readily mitigated where they are felt • Access Points separated by Firewalls from critical resources • VPN Access for WLAN clients access enterprise • Authorization proxies/engines for authenticated and authorized user access to enterprise application resources • The risks lie not in what we know about WLAN, but in ignoring its fundamental characteristics

13. Possible TIA Initiatives related to WLAN • Technical issues will be discussed at September TC meeting • Interoperability with other technologies not adequately addressed • Also propose a TIA Subject Matter Expert meeting in the Fall among TIA members to identify areas where TIA can provide value • need marketing, legal, technical perspectives • provide guidance to TIA for 2003 projects • IEEE 802 has started standards work to “tighten up security,” but largely not addressing the strength of the locks, but failure to lock the doors • Some TIA members concerned that TIA “not duplicate” work being done in other fora

14. Open Mobile Alliance • Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) www.openmobilealliance.org formed to consolidate 6 other groups • WAP Forum www.wapforum.org the largest • Open Mobile Architecture Initiative • Location Interoperability Forum • SyncML Initiative • MMS Interoperability Group (MMS-IOP) • Wireless Village • 200 companies representing the whole mobile services value chain, including the world’s leading mobile operators, device & network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers.

15. Open Mobile Alliance • A center for mobile service standardization work, stimulating and contributing to the creation of interoperable services across countries, operators and mobile terminals to meet the needs of both the consumers and business users. • Products and services are based on open, global standards, interfaces and APIs and are not locked to proprietary technologies • The applications layer is bearer agnostic (GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS/WCDMA, CDMA2000, etc) • The alliance framework and service enablers are independent of Operating Systems (OS) • By Combining 6 existing Fora into OMA • Will have ~40-member Board, ~25 Sponsors ($150-200K), ~15 to be elected

16. Open Mobile Alliance • TIA staff in dialogue with OMA leadership as they consider an RFP for Secretariat/Admin services