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Executive Summary

Meeting of ITU-T SG17 'Security', virtual, 10-20 May 2022

Hot topics 

• 5G security
• Countering spam
• QKDN
• Intelligent transport system security
• DLT based security services
• IoT security
  
• Security multi-party computation

1        Meeting Output (meeting statistics see Annex E below)​

• SG17 Working Party structure: no change from last Study Period.
• Default approval procedure for SG17 Questions: no change from last Study Period.
• SG17 Rapporteurship: same as last Study Period, adding one new Q13/17 associate Rapporteur
• Output standards (12, see Annex A): 
• TAP approval (3): Details are in Annex A a).
  
• TAP determined (3): 3 new Recommendations. Details are in An​​nex A b).
• AAP consented (3): 3 new Recommendations for AAP Last Call. Details are in Annex A c).
• Agreed (3): 3 new Technical Reports. Details are in Annex A d).
• New work item established (1517, see Annex C).
• Work items discontinued (1): Detail is in Annex D.
  
• New Registry authority for Republic of Korea: {joint-iso-itu-t(2) country(16) kr(410)}
• Workshop: 1^st ITU-T X.509 Day Event​ was held successfully on 9 May 2022.
  
• SG17 JCAs, Correspondence Group/task force
  
• JCA-IdM: continued
• 3 Correspondence Groups
• CG-secapa (Correspondence Group on Security Capability and Architecture): new
• CG-SG17-meeting (Correspondence Group on effective SG17 meeting): continued
• CG-FIDO (of Q10/17): new
  

2        Next SG17 meetings

2.1       2^nd SG17 meeting: Geneva, Tuesday 23 August – Friday 2 September 2022 (9 working days, physical meeting with remote participation (as WTSA-20))

• ITU workshop on security for 5G and beyond, Monday 22 August 2022, 09:30-17:30
• Open and extended management team meeting on Monday 22 August 2022, 19:00-21:00.
• 30^th JCA-IdM meeting on Friday 26 August 2022, 14:30-16:00
• 20 Candidate texts planned for action, details see Annex B.
  

2.2       3^rd SG17 meeting: Geneva, Tuesday 21 February - Friday 3 March 2023 (9 working days)

• Open and extended management team meeting on Monday 20 February 2023, 19:00-21:00.

2.3       Interim RGMs

6 Questions plan to hold 6 RGMs before next ​SG17 meeting

Annex A
Actions taken on Recommendations, and other texts at SG17 closing plenary on 20 May 2022

a)    TAP Recommendations approved (WTSA-20 Resolution 1)

Note: * TAP approval postponed from last SG17 meeting (Jan 2022).​​

b)   TAP Recommendations determined (WTSA-20 Resolution 1)

c)    AAP Recommendations consented (Recommendation ITU-T A.8)

d)   Non-normative texts (Technical Report, Supplement, Implementers' Guide, etc) agreed

Annex B
Recommendations planned for action in SG17 Aug/Sep 2022 meeting

a)       TAP Recommendations planned for TAP approval (WTSA-20 Resolution 1)

b)       TAP Recommendations planned for TAP determination (WTSA-20 Resolution 1)

Notes:

(1)     In case of joint Question activity, the lead Question is given without parentheses and other Questions are shown in parentheses; such entries are only shown in the table against the lead Question.

c)       AAP Recommendations planned for AAP consent (Recommendation ITU-T A.8)

d)       Non-normative texts (Technical Report, Supplement, Implementers' Guide, etc) planned for agreement

Annex C
New work items

The following new work items were agreed to be added to the SG17 Work Programme:

Annex D
Work items discontinued

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Annex E
SG17 meeting Statistics

• Participants (TD2R1)

• Meeting input and organization
  

Table of SG17 statistics of this and some past meetings

Note * - fully virtual meeting

• Contribution: 101 – stable, DDP: 97%.
  
• APT 93 (93%) [China 44 + Korea 39 + Japan 9 + Singapore 1]
• Americas 4 (4%) [US 4]
• RCC 2 (2%) [Russia 2]
• EUR 1 (1%) [UK 1]
• AFR (0), ARAB (0), LAM (0)      
• Liaison Statement: matrix in TD23
  
• ​incoming 72 - increased due to longer interval since last SG17 meeting
• Outgoing 20 - stable
  
• TDs: 331 - stable