Global Standards Collaboration

The Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) started life as The "Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards conference (ITSC) in 1990. This was an initiative of the T1 Committee of the United States who invited the other founding partner organizations ITU-T, ETSI and the Japanese TTC to the first ISC Meeting in Fredericksburg, VA. The goal was set by the “spirit of Melbourne”, stemming from a CCITT Plenary Assembly, to find a way of co-operation between Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs) from different regions of the world in order to facilitate global standardization within the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). The ITSC focussed its work on fixed telecommunications networks.

Global Standards Collaboration
Formerly
Electronic Components Industry Association (2010-2013)
Incentive
IndustryCollaboration
PredecessorNational Electronic Distributors Association
Electronic Industries Alliance
Founded1990 (1990)
United States
HeadquartersUnited States
Number of locations
United States
Area served
United States
Websitewww.trustedparts.com/en 

After a few years, the ITSC, as a conference, became too big and was therefore reduced to GSC, the Global Standards Collaboration, with delegations limited to a reasonable size (10 maximum). The first GSC meeting was held in 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. Around the same time, it was decided to expand the scope to cover Radio Communications with the addition of a parallel set of Global Radio Standardization (RAST) meeting, the first one being hosted by ETSI in Nice in October 1994.

In the course of the time, the Australian, Canadian, Korean and Chinese national standards organizations joined bringing the number of Participating Standards Organizations to ten. Observers from other standards-related organizations and Fora are also invited to participate.

In November 2001, it was decided to rename GSC as GTSC (where T = Telecoms) and RAST as GRSC (where R = Radio) and to use the term GSC an overall "umbrella" for the combined plenary sessions.

GSC meets approximately once every year. GSC-16 was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from October 31 to November 3, 2011 hosted by the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC).

Participating standards organizations

GSC10 Open Standards Definition

According to the participating standards organizations, an open standard fulfills the following conditions:[1]

  • Collaborative/consensus based development and/or approval
  • Transparent process
  • Inclusive
  • RAND/FRAND Intellectual Property Right (IPR) policies
  • Standard is published and made available to the general public under reasonable terms (including for reasonable fee or for free)
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See also

References
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