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ETSI’s General Assembly Chairman Reappointed,

New Vice Chair Representing SMEs

At their 68th General Assembly held on as vice-chairman of the ETSI Board R&D and educational projects such as
29-30 November 2016, ETSI members and has been a member of the Board the “Electromagnetic Compatibility
have re-appointed Mr. Simon Hicks of of ETSI from 2002 to 2014. He has just of Communications Systems” R&D
the UK government’s Digital Economy completed his first term of office as laboratories at the Technical University
Unit as Chairman of the ETSI General ETSI General Assembly Chairman from of Sofia. He is leading courses in the
Assembly, for a two-year term of office. 2014 to 2016. field of Information Transmission
Theory, Broadband Transmission and
At the same time, ETSI members have Mrs. Valet-Harper is Senior Standards Access Networks. He has also founded
re-appointed Mrs. Isabelle Valet- and Interoperability Strategist at and chairs the Bulgarian Cluster of
Harper of Microsoft, and appointed Mr. Microsoft. She has been a member Telecommunications, a cluster whose
Vladimir Poulkov as vice-chairs of the of the ETSI Board since 2011, and members are leading telecom SMEs
General Assembly. has participated in a number of in Bulgaria, with portfolio covering
French, European and international almost the entire product range of
Mr. Hicks is Principal Technologist standards bodies including AFNOR, telecommunication services.
in the joint departmental Digital ETSI, ISO/IEC JTC1, IETF, W3C, 3GPP,
Economy Unit, responsible for Ecma International, OMA, the Multi ETSI’s Director General, Mr. Luis
the development of UK policy for Stakeholders Platform, etc. over the past Jorge Romero, works closely with the
standards and technology activity in ICT, 25 years. She held numerous official leaders of the General Assembly and
electronic communications and cyber positions including Delegate, Editor, the Board in the management of the
security. A Chartered Engineer and Chairman, President, Board Member institute. The General Assembly is the
corporate member of the Institution and Liaison Officer. She has just highest authority of the Institute, it
of Engineering and Technology, Mr. completed her first term as ETSI General meets twice yearly and is made up of
Hicks is also the UK’s representative Assembly vice-chair, from 2014 to 2016. the entire ETSI membership. Its chair
on the European Commission’s and two vice chairs are elected for a
Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Mr. Vladimir Poulkov has led many two-year term of office and can serve a
Standardization. Mr. Hicks has served national and international industrial, maximum of two consecutive terms.

Home Gateway Initiative Smart Home Specifications

Published by ETSI

In November 2016, three Home recognition as a European Standards Enrico Scarrone, chairman of ETSI
Gateway Initiative specifications Organization and reputation as a SmartM2M Technical Committee,
have been published as Technical provider of standards for global use. said: “HGI consulted closely with ETSI
Specifications by ETSI. Following Submitting a PAS to be published by SmartM2M during the development
the closure of the Home Gateway ETSI can also be a first step towards it of these key documents. This work
Initiative in June 2016, work on the becoming a European Standard. These complements our own work on smart
three specifications was transferred to three specifications from the HGI are appliances very well, and we’re happy
ETSI. They have now been published the first to be published by ETSI under to integrate these HGI requirements
using the ETSI Publicly Available its recently revised PAS process. into our family of specifications.”
Specification process.

The three specifications are ETSI TS
103 424, which deals with smart home
architecture and system requirements,
ETSI TS 103 425 which describes
requirements for Wireless Home Area
Networks (WHANs) supporting smart
home services and ETSI TS 103 426
which contains requirements for HGI
Open Platform 2.1 regarding modular
software deployments on the home
gateway. They are also available at
https://goo.gl/jsP0fg.
The ETSI Publicly Available Specification
(PAS) process enables an organization
which has signed an agreement with
ETSI to submit one or more of its
Publicly Available Specifications for
adoption by ETSI as an ETSI Technical
Specification or ETSI Technical Report.
A Publicly Available Specification
published as an ETSI Technical
Specification benefits from ETSI's

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