​Future Networks: Trustworthy and Quantum Enhanced Networking and Services

Considering future ICT infrastructures and services, trust is becoming important and essential. For supporting the necessary network intelligence for handling complexity and uncertainty/risks in future ICT infrastructures and services, it's necessary to make better use of knowledge about the status of environments and trust for creation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge in an open and collaborative manner as well as for taking into account trustworthy autonomous networking and services.

This question will investigate such importance of trustworthy networking and services, and identify requirements and functions to support building of trusted ICT infrastructures in a decentralized manner with various enabling technical solutions like blockchain for enhanced security challenges covering privacy, safety, resilience and reliability.

Furthermore, this question will continue to develop key solutions for quantum key distribution (QKD) networks and consider quantum enhanced networks covering a broad range of quantum information technology (QIT) while supporting user networks for cryptographic applications.

In addition, interworking aspects between different networks and services should be studied, and this study should be focused on the interworking between other networks whenever necessity of interworking is identified.

Thus, the focus of this Question will include activities related to trustworthy networking and services including interworking. The work to specify the procedure, requirements, properties, and mechanisms for supporting trusted ICT infrastructures is the responsibility of this question. In addition, this Question will include activities related to quantum enhanced networks with QIT (e.g., QKD, quantum internet, etc.), and their services and applications as one of challenging items on trust.

Recommendations under responsibility of this Question include:
      –           Y.2070, Y.2072, Y.2281, Y.2291, Y.3043, Y.3041, Y.3044, Y.3045, Y.3051, Y.3052, Y.3053, Y.3054, Y.3800​

Study items
Study items to be considered include, but are not limited to:​

• What new Recommendations should be developed for trustworthy networks, including their ability to support specific applications/services?
• What new Recommendations should be developed to support trustworthy services with enabling technologies like blockchain?
• What enhancements to the existing Recommendations should be made to enable interworking between other networks including end user networks (e.g., customer premises networks)?
• What new Recommendations should be developed for quantum enhanced networks with QIT and their services and applications while supporting user networks based on core Recommendations on QKD networks?​

• Development of new Recommendations related to trustworthy networking and services;
• Development of new Recommendations related to enabling technical solutions for trusted ICT infrastructures;
• Development of new Recommendations related to interworking between other networks (including specific networks, e.g., networks for vehicular, smart grid and healthcare, etc.) and services considering heterogeneous and constraint networking environments in end user side;
• Development of new Recommendations related to end user networks and their specific applications/services in end users' perspective (e.g., enhancement of home networks, personal area networks, etc.);
• Development of new Recommendations related to quantum enhanced networks with QIT (e.g., QKD, quantum internet, etc.);
• Development of new Recommendations related to user networks interacting with quantum enhanced networks;
• Development of new Recommendations related to deployment, scenarios and business models of the above networks and services​

Relationships

• I-, Q-, X- and Y-series

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• All future networks, trusted network infrastructures, home network and quantum enhanced networks related study groups

• FG-QIT4N
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6, SC 27, SC 39 and AG4
• IETF/IRTF
• ETSI
• ETSI ISG-QKD
• ETSI TC Cyber
• IEEE-SA
• Online Trust Alliance (OTA)
• Trusted Computing Group (TCG)
• ONF
• 3GPP
• Broadband Forum
  
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)