The GSC (Global Standards Collaboration)The GSC is a regular meeting of communications standards development organisations. It does not develop standards, but rather exchanges information about standards under development ant the priorities seen by each body. The GSC has grown from an "Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards Conference" (ITSC) first held in February 1990 as an initiative of Committee T1, one of the telecommunications standards committees from the United States. The meeting was called to support the “spirit of Melbourne", stemming from the 1988 CCITT (now ITU-T) Plenary Assembly, to find a way to co-operate between Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs) from different regions of the world in order to support global standardization within the ITU. The ITSC focused on fixed telecommunications networks. The founding partner organizations were Committee T1 (USA), ETSI(Europe) and TTC (Japan). By the time of the second ITSC meeting in Nice, France on September 1991 partner organisations from Australia (ATSC, a predecessor of ACIF) and Canada (TSACC) were included. A third ITSC (ITSC 3) was held in Tokyo, Japan in November 1992. After ITSC 3, the organisation was reformed as the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) with participating standards organisations from the ITSC founding partners and Australia, Canada and the Republic of Korea. The first GSC meeting was held in Melbourne from 1-3 March 1994. In the same time scale, the Chairman of the ETSI Technical Assembly proposed to create an activity similar to ITSC/GSC for Radio Communications. ETSI hosted the first RAST meeting (from global RAdio STandardization) in conjunction with an ETSI Technical Assembly in October 1994, to provide an informal multi-national information exchange focused on radio standardization trends and developments, to facilitate assessing the potential for harmonization, and to complement the more formal processes of other bodies, particularly the ITU, in the work of developing international standards recommendations. Other standards organizations joined the dialogue including ARIB from Japan and TIA from the USA. Initially RAST was meeting more frequently than the GSC, with every second RAST meeting held with a GSC, when matters of common interest were discussed at joint meetings. Over time, there was a need for more frequent GSC meetings and the two moved closer to alignment. At the Sydney meetings of GSC 7 and RAST10, it was decide to better align the two meetings. It was agreed to rename the previous GSC as the Global Telecommunication Standardization Collaboration (GTSC) with a focus on telecommunications, and RAST became the Global Radio Standardization Collaboration (GRSC) with a focus on radio, with the term “GSC” kept as the name for the overall "umbrella" organization. The current organisations involved with GSC are (with links to their home pages)
The table below outlines the past meetings of GSC and RAST. The next meeting, GSC 10, will be hosted by ETSI in September 2005. The links at the right give access to the papers from GSC 7 and RAST 10, hosted by ACIF in November 2001. | GSC 7 Download: List of Documents (592KB) GSC7/RAST10 Resolutions (304KB) Go to:
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The following meetings have been held
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