Specialist Task Force 342:
Personalization and User Profile Management Standardization

Who we are:

Why we do it:

Personalization and effective user profile management will be critical to achieve eInclusion and eAccessibility. The objective of this work is to provide means to achieve the goal of the new ICT era where services and devices can be personalized by the users in order to meet the individual users’ requirements and needs, in various situations.

What we do:

The ETSI STF 265 on "User Profile Management" produced an ETSI Guide, EG 202 325, that described the concept and established a set of guidelines relevant to users and their need for managing their user profiles to personalize their services and terminals. It is necessary that different services and terminals understand users’ preferences and offer an expected user experience. This STF will therefore build on the results from STF 265 and perform further standardization work. This STF is co-funded by EC/EFTA.

 The following two ETSI deliverables will be produced:

• Deliverable on standardized objects
  The deliverable will be an ETSI Standard (ES) on standardized objects (including settings, values and operations) related to personalization and user profile management, a rule definition language for defining automatic activation of profiles and a common terminology. This deliverable will describe objects related to a range of services and devices with the goal to suit all users’ needs including disabled, young and elderly people. The intended readers of this deliverable are service developers and device manufacturers who wish to develop services and devices that can be personalized by their customers, as defined by the user profile management concept described in EG 202 325 ”Human Factors (HF); User Profile Management”.
   
• Deliverable on network and terminal
  The deliverable will be a Technical Specification (TS) on issues related to networks, terminals and SmartCards. The intended readers of this deliverable are profile providers, telecom companies and device manufacturers who will implement and provide the underlying infrastructure and architecture of network and devices necessary to achieve the user profile management concept described in EG 202 325 ”Human Factors (HF); User Profile Management”.

Read our Terms of Reference
Read our detailed documentation.

Time plan for the work:

Exact dates will be decided according the HF meeting shedule. The following is planned:

• Table of contents and scope, approval at HF#46 16-20 June 2008
• Initial drafts,  approval at HF#47, 6-10 October 2008
• Interim Report to EC/EFTA, March 2008
• Stable draft (15 months after start)
• Final drafts to be submitted to TC HF (22 months after start of the work).
• Publication of ETSI TS, Membership Vote for ETSI ES (30 months after start)
• Conclusions and Final Report to EC/EFTA  (30 months after start)

Do you want to:

1. receive the newsletter from our STF (about once a month, or when relevant)?

2. discuss personalization and user profiles with a wider group?

You are welcome to subscribe to our list : HF_User_Profile_Management@list.etsi.org

Subscription at: http://list.etsi.org/HF_USER_PROFILE_MANAGEMENT.html

How to contact us:

You are welcome to send an email to: francoise.petersenATetsi.org