Three Home Gateway Initiative specifications were published as Technical Specifications by ETSI. Following the closure of the Home Gateway Initiative in June, work on the three specifications was transferred to ETSI. They have now been published using the ETSI Publicly Available 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 http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/links.
The ETSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) process enables an organisation which 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 recognition as an European Standards Organisation and reputation as a provider of standards for global use. Submitting a PAS to be published by ETSI can also be a first step towards it becoming a European Standard. These three specifications from the HGI are the first to be published by ETSI under its recently revised PAS process.