A European forum for standardization with participation of major players in the telecommunications industry. ETSI replaced the CEPT in 1988 with the objective of making the telecommunications standards needed for the implementation of the common market in Europe. ETSI has now become a leading body on all telecommunications standards, however, and provides a strong input to international bodies. This being so, the ETSI focuses on standards that involve interactions between public and private networks, and specifies the framework of activities that form the telecommunications infrastructure. ETSI produces standards through a number of technical committees, and uses project teams composed of paid experts to produce drafts of standards. The standards produced are called European Telecommunications Standards (ETS) or Interim European Telecommunications Standards (I-ETS).