Jan & Piet, As it was explained by Commission Staff last week in Washington, the Directive refers to the LVD and EMCD for those requirements. ETSI apparently will be, or has already been instructed to replace the current CTRs with true interface specs. The old CTRs still will be of much value if you want to build something that works. However, whether it works or not and how well it works, like in North America, is no longer the subject of regulation, but an issue for the market place to settle.
As new services come on the market, the providers of these new services will be obliged to divulge the interfaces between the network and new terminal equipment that can provide those services. Exactly how that will work is the subject of discussion at the moment. Probably there will be some peeing contests over that issue. Ciao, Vic Boersma
