scope:

The regulatory requirements defined in the existing NGN documents cover only a part of the overall regulatory aspects which should be taken into account. For instance in document TS 181 005 [i.8] (Service and Capability Requirements) requirements are limited to the following issues: Lawful Intercept, Emergency, Malicious Communication Identify, Anonymous Communications Rejection.

The NGN related regulation was studied by ETSI project STF 311. The results were published in SR 002 586 [i.98] (Consequence on the NGN standardization activity from the EU ECN&S regulatory view point).

The findings of STF 311 project are used as a basis of the present document. The present document goes through the whole area of the regulation and provides a high level description of the NGN standardisation. The contents of the EU regulation and TISPAN documents are reviewed to ensure that the regulatory requirements have been properly incorporated into the NGN specifications. In order to keep the volume of the document reasonable only a brief reference is made to the relevant documents.

It should be noted that general regulatory issues (e.g. interoperability and numbering as such) and radio regulated issues (e.g. EMC) are outside the scope of the present document.