1. OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
Open Source
and
Standardization
Jamil Chawki, France Telecom Orange/RD

2. 1. Standard
• Definition
• Official bodies
• Landscape
2. Open Source
• Definition
• Landscape
3. Open Source & Standard
4. Conclusion & Recommendation
Outline
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
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3. Standard
● It’s Like a Blueprint: a set of rules to be used consistently as
good principles, practices or guidelines to develop a products,
services, technologies, processes and systems.
● Standards are an important part for telecommunication system,
software, format, hardware, food, health and other
manufacturing area.
● Standards ensure interchangeability, interoperability across
multiple vendors and economies of scale.
● Some important Telecom & IT standards: ISDN, IN, Ethernet,
ISO model, IP protocols, HTML, GSM, SMS, MPEG, WS….
● IPR: 2 main Licenses (Fair) Reasonable And Non-
Discriminatory RAND ‘with Patent Policy’ and Royalty-free
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
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4. Official ‘de jure ’ Standards bodies
Organised at International, Regional and National levels
3 officially recognized by World Trade Organization : ISO, IEC, ITU
International
Regional
(European)
National
(France) Agence Française
de Normalisation
Union Technique
de l'Electricité
International
Standardization
Organization
International
Electrotechnical
Commission
International
Telecommunication Union
Comité Européen
de Normalisation
Comité Européen
de Normalisation
Electrotechnique
European
Telecommunication
Standards Institute
3GPP
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…and Regional Cooperation 3GPP

5. Standards & Consortia Landscape
Task Force, Forum, Initiative, Alliance…
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6. Open Source
● It’s kind of implementation: Open source is considered as
particular way of software development & distributing based on
 …the access to software source code….
 …and Copyleft & Right to redistribute, to modify, to re-use…
● Open Source IPR rule: a Software Copyrights Policy…
● Many licenses GPL, LGPL, BSD, Appache, SUN, IBM, Mozilla
● And different Business Models:
● Free
● Paid License
● Integration service fee
● Support service fee
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7. Open Source Landscape: Crowdsourcing !
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8. Open Source & Standard (1)
Some common objectives:
● Avoid vendor lock and improve Economies of scale
● Facilitate the establishment of ecosystem and cooperation
between different industry players
● Ensure interoperability and efficient development Model
● An implementation & testing way to accelerate the adoption of
standard
● Open Source can contribute to new Standards emergence (APIs for
Linux, plugins for Eclipse or Firefox….)
Some conflicts
● Open Source License model can be in conflict with standard
patent policy
● Maturity and software distribution can not be in phase with
Standard evolution and releases
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
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9. & Cooperation: some Open Source implementations for Standard
1. IETF IP: TCP/ IP, in 1989 AT&T agreed to open the TCP/IP code
developed for UNIX system at University of Berkeley
2. IETF DNS, DHCP, SSL/TLS, : BIND-DHCP/ISC & Open SSL
3. JCP/JEE As: OW2/JOnAs first J2EE Open Source As
4. IMS 3GPP/ETSI: Core IMS developed by Fokus Institute
community and Android IMS
5. Broadband Forum TR069 CPE Management Client: Modus work
on Java/OSGi & published by France Telecom
6. UPnP : 10 implementations for SDK, Internet GW, Device
Management & AV
7. OASIS & ISO Open Document Format ODF: 20 Open Source
implementations OpenOffice, NeoOffice, Zoho…
8. W3C HTML-5: Webkit DVB/ETSI: DVB-H Client …..
Open Source & Standard (2)
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10. JOnAS is the first Open Source Java EE Application Server developed
by OW2 community: Bull, France Telecom, INRIA, Beijing University..
● JOnAS 4 in 2004 : first Open Source JCP/J2EE 1.4 certified
● JOnAS 5 in 2009 : first OpenSource Java EE 5 OSGi based
certified (JOnAs 6 under JavaEE6 certification)
● License and support: LGPL license and supported by Bull (~1 million)
● Telecom integration: Convergence with vendors SIP layers
● Implementations: JOnAS is integrated in Ubuntu 11.04 and Microsoft
Azure Cloud Platform and implemented by France Telecom Orange,
D&C, French Administration (Ministère de l'intérieur, MEEDDAT..)
● Link with other OW2 project: JASMINe tool for deploying and
monitoring Java EE, MOM and SOA applications
● Other JCP Open Sources : RedHat Jboss, SUN/Oracle Glassfish…
JCP: OW2 JOnAs success story
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
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11. Conclusion & Recommendation..
● Standard is a blueprint developed in a ‘de jure’ organizations &
Consortia with IPR including patent policy
● Open Source is a way of software development & distribution in
collaborative community: a major driver for software innovation
 Implementing Open Source can accelerate standard adoption &
the emergence of new standard
● Increasing cooperation and coordination between Standard
Organizations and Open Source Communities is required :
 To push Open Source implementation and testing in different
standardization organizations
 To promote Open Source International Organization recognized by
International and Regional institutions
 To improve licenses model for better IPR infringement
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.