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Standardization knowledge, especially in the field of Internet and Telecommunications, is crucial to businesses, such as operators, service providers, and equipment manufacturers. This knowledge is required at various levels. A strategist or an executive may simply need, at a first stage, to assess the global organization of a given standards development organization (SDO), the main topics, and the volume of the publication. In contrast, a designer or developer will look for the consolidatation of information split over numerous standards.
Major businesses actively contribute to the standardization work, in order to boost, influence and keep some level of control on the technical solutions that will eventually be adopted, and protect the associated investments they must anticipate.
Standardization is a continuous process and standards are permanently released, in various domains, by several SDOs. As a result, there is a huge set of published documents, which knowledge (ranging from simple existence to in-depth analysis) is required by many businesses and various units within businesses.
For accessing to standardization knowledge, a marketing strategist will rely on the information delivered by the R&D or some other technical staff, and an application developer will read specialized books. However, most of the times, to have a clue by themselves, they will try to access the original information source available on the SDO's web site.
Tech-invite aims at easing the access to the standardization work, publicly available, split over several SDOs.
Tech-invite is a multi-SDO site, primarily based on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) which is the cornerstone in terms of IP-based standards. Actually, many other SDOs rely on large parts of the standardization work carried out at the IETF, while the IETF itself is fairly independent. Moreover, the IETF is "open" and fully transparent, and the standardization work can be followed from the earliest stages.
The two other SDOs "tracked" so far by Tech-invite are the 3GPP and ETSI, in order essentially to address the Internet, fixed and mobile convergence.
Fundamentally, to ease the access to standardization knowledge, Tech-invite is structured in two main parts for bringing added-value to what is available on SDO sites:
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Organization of the references:
A view of standards organizations, and a homogeneous structuration of the available standard data with synthetic lists, per-document descriptors, as well as cross-links and data consolidation such as ABNF grammars.
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Technical synthesis:
Many illustrated examples, architectural views, and any other forms of contents that ease the knowledge of these standards. This latter part should be extensively developed during the upcoming years, thanks to a Partnership program.
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As highlighted at IETF Organization, ALL the active IETF working groups are covered in terms of RFCs and Drafts, as well as many concluded working groups, in terms of RFCs, and drafts if any.
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As highlighted at 3GPP Specifications, ALL the technical specifications (including GSM-only) are tracked, as well as many technical reports.
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As highlighted at ETSI Organization, a subset only of the technical committees are covered, notably TISPAN and SCP.
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Other standards (e.g. NFC Forum standards) will be gradually added, as necessary.
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