On 21 June 2021, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) held their executive meeting, which was co-hosted by ETSI Director General Mr. Luis J. Romero and CCSA Secretary General Mr. WEN Ku. During the meeting, the two sides signed a new Cooperation Agreement to extend their long-lasting partnership in the two global standardization projects 3GPP and OneM2M.
Together with standards development organizations from Japan, South Korea, India and the USA, CCSA and ETSI are partners in both 3GPP – which produces the standards for mobile communications such as 5G – and OneM2M – which develops common standards for an open service layer for the development of IoT applications, independent of the underlying connectivity standards and protocols.
ETSI Director General Mr. Luis J. Romero and CCSA Secretary General Mr. WEN Ku met for the first time and addressed the meeting. Mr. WEN Ku stressed that “CCSA attaches great importance to the long-term partnership with ETSI. After more than 20 years of fruitful cooperation, both sides and the international ICT industry have benefited from it. With this upgrade of the MoU to a cooperation agreement, I am confident that the cooperation between the two sides will reach a new level. I look forward to the cooperation to give new impetus to the standardization work of both sides and bring more value to the world ICT industry”.
In his address, Luis Jorge Romero recognised that “ETSI and CCSA have worked together very successfully from the beginning, exchanging information and collaborating to build the world as we know it. This is the result of a very friendly and solid cooperation. Over the years, our cooperation has proven its value. I am confident that upgrading MoU to a Cooperation Agreement will help further expand the opportunities for cooperation”.
Fourteen experts attended the meeting, including Dr. Betty XU, the Director of SESEC Project; Adrian SCRASE, ETSI CTO; Margot DOR, ETSI Director of Public Affairs; YANG Zemin, former Secretary General of CCSA; WANG Zhiqin, Chairman of TC5; and HE Guili, Chairman of TC11.
Other participants from the European side are:
- Luis Jorge ROMERO, Director General of ETSI
- Adrian SCRASE, Chief Technology Officer ETSI
- Roland HECHWARTNER, Chair of oneM2M Technical Plenary
- Magnus MADFORS, Board Member ETSI
- Margot DOR, Director of Public Affairs of ETSI
- Laurent VELEZ, Technical Officer at ETSI (supporting oneM2M)
- Xavier PIEDNOIR, Head of External Relations at ETSI
- Laure POURCIN, InDiCo Project
Under their new Cooperation Agreement, ETSI and CCSA will extend the long-lasting partnership, facilitating further exchanges as well as enabling ways to improve cooperation in the ground-breaking and promising field of pervasive digital connectivity and IoT technologies.
