JTC 1 N 5162 Excerpts

Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com
Wed Jan 28 08:10:05 PST 1998


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"1.1 Purpose
This document provides an overview of the Global Information Infrastructure
 standards developments.
It is intended to be a practical, educational and insightful reference for
leaders and participants in GII
related standardization. It supplements the existing more general Guide for
 ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC 1
Cooperation Collaboration by providing a single integrated reference point
for GII specific standards
work.

The document is intended to be used as a planning tool by all considering
the development or adoption
of standards for use in the GII. Its use is not restricted solely to the
IEC/ISO/ITU organizations."

"1.5 The Goals of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII)
The ITU-T and ISO/IEC are seeking to ensure that the GII will be an
infrastructure which facilitates the
development, implementation and interoperability of existing and future
information services and
applications within and across the telecommunications, information
technology, consumer electronics
and content provision industries. This infrastructure will consist of
interactive, broadcast and other
multimedia delivery mechanisms coupled with capabilities for individuals to
 securely share, use and
manage information, anytime and anywhere, at acceptable cost, quality,
levels of security and privacy
protection.
The GII will provide for interoperability between a multiplicity of
applications and different platforms
through a seamless federation of interconnected computer and communications
 capabilities
incorporating line-fed (e.g. copper pair, fiber, coax) and wireless (e.g.
satellite and fixed/mobile
terrestrial radio) connectionless or connection oriented technologies. The
areas of application are
practically unlimited. Current areas of application and investigation
include electronic commerce,
telemedicine, city information services, intelligent transportation
systems, distance learning, electronic
libraries and museums, nomadacity (continuity of access in space and time)
etc.

The GII must be designed to:
? enable information providers and consumers (e.g. individuals,
(information consumers,
information providers, and information service providers) to communicate
securely
with each other any time and anywhere at acceptable cost and with
acceptable quality;
? provide a set of communication services;

? support a multitude of open applications;
? embrace all forms of information (audio, text, data, image, video...),
and of information
generation, use and transportation;
? operate in a transparent, user-friendly and straightforward way;
? provide seamless, interconnected and interoperable communication
networks,
information processing equipment, data-bases and terminals (including
TV-sets);
? enable competition between the players in the information and
telecommunications
(including broadcasting) sectors."

"7.2 The ISO/IEC JTC 1 Role in GII Standards Role
The ultimate GII goal and role for JTC 1 is to ensure that the business
user and user needs for global
information infrastructure standards within JTC 1's scope are being met in
a timely and efficient
manner.
ISO/IEC JTC 1 has considerable experience and has produced many key
standards already widely
implemented or adopted to the management of information in the existing
Global Information
infrastructure. For example, HTML the 'mark-up' coding for World Wide Web
is an application of ISO
8879:1986 SGML produced by JTC 1/SC18; the growing global exchange of
multimedia and
audio/video information is possible only through the application of the
JPEG and MPEG standards
produced by JTC 1/SC29 in joint cooperation with ITU-T; database access is
frequently achieved using
ISO 9075 SQL, which has been standardized by JTC 1/SC21; and, many
applications are coded using
one of the many programming languages standardized by JTC 1/SC22. JTC 1
also builds upon its
experience and expertise by seeking out new and innovative approaches to
collaborative efforts for ICT
standardization, as shown for example by the VRML project being worked on
by SC24 and the VRML
Architectural Group (VAG).
In addition to JTC 1 developing key GII standards, JTC 1 can fulfill an
important role as facilitator and
broker in bringing standards developers together and achieving agreement on
 work flow between the
different groups.
A major element which will be key to succeeding in this role is JTC 1's
success in cooperation,
collaboration and team building with all relevant bodies and
organizations."

Gene


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