Terms of Reference (ToR) for
 ETSI TC M2M Management Working Group (WG5)

Text under discussion – to be approved at M2M#15bis

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Responsibility

The Management WG of ETSI TC M2M is responsible for:

• Defining and specifying a generic management model for ETSI M2M Devices, Gateway and Core (D/G/C) that allows relevant management authorities to perform management tasks.

• Contributing to ETSI TC M2M Technical Specifications and Reports on architecture and data/information modeling related to M2M management.

• Collaboration with  external SDOs and fora on M2M management issues (e.g. to enable re-use of existing management capabilities).

Tasks

The main tasks of M2M Management WG are:

• Specify an Information Model within the common ETSI M2M data / functional framework for management functions of D/G/C. The Information Model for M2M Management needs to:
• support simple management functions for D/G/C that are common to many of these entities (e.g. firmware update)
• be extensible to support more specialized management functions (e.g. in order to re-use existing management systems within ETSI M2M)
• allow for higher, aggregated or more complex management functions
• enable management of data of the ETSI M2M framework (e.g. SCL related data)
• Specify functional requirements on entities in the ETSI M2M architecture to carry out M2M management functions. This may include:
• Mapping onto functional entities of other existing management systems if these are re-used within ETSI M2M (e.g. OMA DM, BBF TR-069)
• Keep a close contact and collaborate with external SDOs and fora who specify management systems that have been agreed to be re-used in ETSI M2M (e.g. those that are commonly used in the industry)
• Create, structure and maintain specifications on M2M management in a way that enables consistency with - yet to a high extent independence from - specification work in related external SDOs and fora.

Organization and working methods

The Management WG of ETSI TC M2M meets at TC M2M Plenary meetings.

If needed additional physical or virtual (e.g. conference calls) ad-hoc meetings may be organized. Such additional meetings need to be agreed by TC M2M Plenary.

Electronic work to advance topics and documents for the discussion in a WG meeting is encouraged.