SG13: Future networks and emerging
network technologies
Executive summary of
the SG13 meeting
3-14 March 2025,
Geneva, Switzerland
Called
up by the Collective-letter 1/13 (of 18 November 2024),
this SG13 meeting was the first in the 2025 – 2028 Study Period. The mandate
and the list of Questions under study as approved by the WTSA-24 are found in SG13-C1. The meeting agreed on the SG structure to organize the work
and on appointment of SG13 Working Parties chairs,
vice-chairs,
Rapporteurs, Associate
Rapporteurs and Liaison Rapporteurs.
This
SG13 meeting attracted 366 delegates (238 remote only and
128 present in person) and considered 825 documents split as 276
contributions and 549 TDs. List of contributions may be found in TD8/PLEN.
The
opening remarks were delivered by the TSB Director, Mr Seizo Onoe, at the opening
SG13 plenary, who, in particular, welcomed the ten new SG13 vice-chairs,
furthermore he said that he was delighted to see an increase in active
participation with 276 contributions (compared to an average of 236 over the
last 6 meetings). The closing remarks were given at the closing SG13 plenary by
the deputy to the TSB Director, Mr Bilel Jamoussi. He mentioned that the 2025
is an international Year of Quantum and that there has been a 5 years
anniversary of SG13 work with the remote participation support which is
nowadays considered as a new normal and appreciated very much by the delegates.
TSB MyMeetings
platform
for remote participation was used to support each session at this Study Group
meeting resulting in 260 sessions in total.
Main
meeting results
22 outputs were
approved/determined/consented/agreed: a total of 15 new Recommendations
and one revised Recommendation were consented, two new Recommendations were
approved, one new Recommendation was determined. In addition, one Supplement and
two technical reports were agreed.
Study Group structure and Working Parties leadership
WP | Title | Questions | WP
chair |
WP
vice-chairs |
1/13 | IMT
systems | 20,
21, 23 | Mohannad
El-Megharbel (National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA), Egypt) - chair |
Lu
Lu, (China Mobile, China) - vice-chair |
2/13 | Cloud
computing and data handling | 17,
18, 19 | Kangchan
Lee (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Republic
of Korea) - chair |
Obid
Asadov (Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and
Communications, Uzbekistan) - vice-chair
|
3/13 | Future
networks | 2,
7, 22 | Yuan
Zhang (China Telecom, China) – chair Soumaya
Benbartaoui (Algeria Telecom/Group Telecom Algeria, Algeria) – vice-chair |
4/13 | Scenarios,
deployment and technologies | 1,
5, 6, 16 | João Alexandre Moncaio
Zanon (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (ANATEL), Brazil) - chair |
Elliot
Kabalo (Zambia Information & Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA),
Zambia) and
Jiguang
Cao (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China) –
vice-chairs |
Study
Group 13 stays with the same numbering of Questions as in the previous
study period.
Recommendations approved (Resolution 1 - TAP)
ITU-T Rec. No. | Q | Base text | Status | Title |
Y.2348
(Y.NRS-DLT-arch) | 2/13 | SG13-R31 | New | Functional
architecture of network resource sharing based on distributed ledger
technology |
Y.3211
(Y.FMSC-ABC-req) | 23/13 | TD29/PLEN | New | Fixed, mobile
and satellite convergence - Requirements of supporting airborne broadband
communication for IMT-2020 networks and beyond |
Result of the Member State consultation on
approving draft new Recommendation Y.2348 "Functional architecture of
network resource sharing based on distributed ledger technology" is
given in TD6/PLEN.
TD25/PLEN provides the results
of the Member State consultation on approving draft new Recommendation Y.3211 "Fixed,
mobile and satellite convergence - Requirements of supporting airborne
broadband communication for IMT-2020 networks and beyond”.
SG13 approved the new Recommendation
ITU-T Y.2348 at the opening plenary on 3 March 2025 and the new Recommendation
ITU-T Y.3211 at the interim plenary on 10 March 2025.
TSB
circular 38 (dated 27 March 2025)
announces the approval of both Recommendations.
Recommendation determined (Resolution 1 - TAP)
ITU-T Rec. No. | Q | Base
text | Status | Title |
Y.3261
(Y.trust-TLA) | 16/13 | TD63/PLEN | New | Framework of trust level assessment for trustworthy
networking |
Recommendations consented for Last Call (Recommendation A.8 -
AAP)
ITU-T Rec. No. | Q | Base text | Status | Title |
Y.2361 (Y.Dev.Uni.Open.AI)
| 5/13 | TD47-R1/PLEN | New | Requirements
for fostering telecommunication/ICT services universalization in developing
countries using open networks and AI models |
Y.3827
(Y.QKDN-mmq) | 6/13 | TD56/PLEN | New | Quantum key distribution networks - Measurement
methodology for QoS parameters |
Y.3828
(Y.QKDN-nq-qos-rf) | 6/13 | TD57/PLEN | New | Integration of
quantum key distribution network and user network supporting end-to-end
modern cryptography services – requirements for quality of service assurance |
Y.3146
(Y.det-qos-arch-lan) | 6/13 | TD58/PLEN | New | Functional
architecture for QoS assurance of deterministic communication services in
local area network for IMT-2020 and beyond |
Y.3147
(Y.det-rdcs-rf) | 6/13 | TD59/PLEN | New | QoS
requirements and framework of deterministic communication for remote device
control services over IMT-2020 and beyond |
Y.3660
(Y.bDDN-RA-NPN) | 7/13 | TD53/PLEN | New | Big data driven networking - Functional requirements and functional architecture of
operation aspect for public network integrated non-public network service |
Y.3659 (Y.bDDN-AA-RAM)
| 7/13 | TD54/PLEN | New | Big data
driven networking - requirements, architecture and mechanism of application
awareness |
Y.3681
(Y.HLN-Req) | 7/13 | TD55/PLEN | New | Requirements
of human-like networking |
Y.3804* | 16/13 | TD64/PLEN | Revised | Quantum key
distribution networks - Control and management |
Y.3087
(Y.SCid-fra) | 22/13 | TD61/PLEN | New | Self-controlled
identity based on blockchain – Functional requirements and architecture |
Y.3088
(Y.ICN-DLT) | 22/13 | TD62/PLEN | New | Information-centric
networking in networks beyond IMT-2020 - Requirements and functional
framework to support distributed ledger technology |
Y.3145
(Y.FMC-AAEC) | 23/13 | TD48/PLEN | New | Application
addressing in multi-access edge computing in IMT-2020 networks and beyond |
Y.3217
(Y.FMSC-P2P) | 23/13 | TD49/PLEN | New | Fixed, mobile
and satellite convergence – Peer-to-peer services for IMT-2020 networks and
beyond |
Y.3218
(Y.FMSC-SS) | 23/13 | TD50/PLEN | New | Fixed, mobile
and satellite convergence – Service scheduling for IMT-2020 networks and
beyond |
Y.3219
(Y.FMSC-det) | 23/13 | TD51/PLEN | New | Fixed, mobile and satellite convergence –
Deterministic networking for IMT-2020 networks and beyond |
Y.3220
(Y.FMSC-LCS) | 23/13 | TD52/PLEN | New | Fixed, mobile
and satellite convergence – Location service enhancement for IMT-2020
networks and beyond |
* On 10 March 2025 ETRI submitted the generic
patent declaration for the draft revised Recommendation ITU-T Y.3804 “Quantum
key distribution networks - Control and management”. This information was
duly registered in the ITU-T
patents declaration database.
The AAP Last Call for the abovementioned 16 draft Recommendations started
on 1 April 2025.
Supplement agreed to (Recommendation A.13)
ITU-T Supplement No. | Q | Base text | Status | Title |
Supplement 89
to Y.3800-series
(Y.supp.QKDN_sync) | 16/13 | TD65/PLEN | New | Analysis of Synchronization in Quantum Key
Distribution Networks |
Technical Reports agreed to (Recommendation A.13)
ITU-T Doc. No. | Q/group | Base text | Status | Title |
TR.SQKDN | 16/13 | TD66/PLEN | New | Standardization consideration of
Satellite-based QKDN |
TR-GenAI-Telecom Networks | 20/13 | TD67/PLEN | New | Potential requirements and methodology for
deploying and assessing Generative AI models in telecom networks |
Questionnaire agreed for dissemination
ITU-T Doc. No. | Q | Base text | Status | Title |
Questionnaire (14 March 2025) | 5/13 | TD68/PLEN | New | Use Cases of services
universalization in developing countries using open networks and AI models |
TSB
Circular 37 (dated 27 March 2025) invites representatives from the developing countries, as well as all
the Members, to participate in the survey before end of June 2025.
Important
decisions (apart of Recommendations/Deliverables)
Organization of the work
The
meeting recognized the priorities for study as IMT systems, data
handling, scenarios, deployment and technologies as well as future
networks and implemented that in the SG13 structure for this study
period.
Additional
appointments
- SG13 gave a favourable reply to the request from the SG13RG-AFR and appointed Mr Mohammed Kyari Mustafa (Nigerian Communications Commission, Nigeria) as a new SG13RG-AFR vice-chair. Mr Mustafa will replace at that post Mr Brice Murara (RURA, Rwanda), the SG13RG-AFR vice-chair, who had to leave SG13 activities.
- Ms Ying Cheng (China Unicom, China) was appointed the new JCA-IMT2020 chair to replace Mr Scott Mansfield (Ericsson, Canada), who had to leave JCA-IMT2020 chairship. All the efforts, experience and dedication Mr Mansfield demonstrated while leading JCA-IMT2020 since its establishment back in 2017, were well recognized and much appreciated.
- Mr Nanxiang Shi (China Mobile, China), a new JCA-IMT2020 vice-chair, was nominated to support Ms Cheng driving the JCA-IMT2020.
- The SG13 meeting confirmed Mr Alojz Hudobivnik (Slovenia) to be the SG13 Mentor as in the last study period.
- The meeting confirmed the Liaison Coordination functions to be performed by Mr Konstantin Trofimov (Russian Federation) as in the previous study period.
- Mr Kazunori Tanikawa (NICT Japan) stood in to perform the Acting WP3/13 chair function for WP3/13 opening plenary with authorization of the SG13 opening plenary doing so.
- Ms Xiaojia Song (China Mobile) was appointed as the CG-Trust co-convener from the SG13 side.
- Mr Kazunori TANIKAWA (NICT, Japan) and Ms Rim Belhassine-Cherif (Tunisia Telecom, Tunisia) were nominated as conveners of the CG-SG13ftr.
The
efforts of all those, who accepted the important roles in SG13, including WP leaders and Rapporteurs were recognized and
appreciated.
WTSA-24
decisions implementation and follow up
In
response to the WTSA-24 Resolution 92 (IMT) SG13 will continue annual
publication of the revised Supplement 59 “IMT-2020 and Beyond standardization
roadmap”. This is a snapshot of the online version of the IMT2020 and Beyond
roadmap,
maintained by the JCA-IMT2020. The online roadmap as well as the work of JCA
on IMT-2020 and Beyond will be also continuing and promoted as well as IMT
standardization activities in ITU-T. The standardization work, related to the
non-radio aspects of IMT systems, will continue to be shared with relevant
groups of ITU-R, ITU-D and external organizations, including through the coordination
efforts of JCA-IMT2020.
In
response to the WTSA-24 Resolution 94 the group reconfirmed the need in
contributions on the cloud-based event data technology aspects to advance the
work.
The
meeting reviewed the outcomes, decisions and statistics of the WTSA-24, TD21/PLEN.
WTSA-24
entrusted SG13 13 Questions for study (SG13-C1) that will follow the AAP path each.
Coordination
activities
Creation
of the new Correspondence Group on SG13 future direction (CG-SG13ftr)
TD23/PLEN, by the SG13 chair,
brought the proposal to start the new Correspondence Group on SG13 future
direction (CG-SG13ftr) on supporting the effective and efficient conduct of
standardization work on future networks. SG13 touched base on such group
creation at the previous, July 2024, SG13 meeting.
After
a short discussion, the meeting agreed to launch the group with the Terms of Reference
as shown in TD23-R1/PLEN
and conveners
being Mr Kazunori TANIKAWA (NICT, Japan) and Ms Rim Belhassine-Cherif (Tunisia
Telecom, Tunisia). CG is supposed to run until the end of 2026.
In
addition, participants agreed to the proposal from the floor to have a kick-off
meeting of the new CG already during the March SG13 meeting. To this end, the first
meeting of the CG-SG13ftr took place on 10 March 2025 chaired by the co-convener,
Mr Kazunori Tanikawa. The meeting had a productive brainstorming exercise that
resulted in collection of the topics for future discussions, some technical
particularities and operation of the group. Report of the CG-SG13ftr meeting
may be found in TD81/GEN.
JCA-IMT2020
The regular JCA-IMT2020 meeting took place
on 5 March 2025 alongside this SG13 meeting. It was chaired by the new JCA-IMT2020
chair, Ms Ying Cheng (China Unicom, China) with the support of the new JCA-IMT2020
vice-chair, Mr Nanxiang Shi (China Mobile, China). Appreciation and round of
applauses were extended to the former JCA-IMT2020 chair, Mr Scott Mansfield
(Ericsson, Canada), who inspired and led the group since 2017.
As custom, the meeting agreed on a big number
of new Recommendations, Supplements and technical specifications to be
included into its ongoing project IMT-2020 and beyond roadmap.
The JCA-IMT2020 touched base on how the work on
IMT-2030 will fit this group and agreed to invite to the next meeting the
inputs on IMT-2030 and revision to the JCA-IMT2020 Terms of Reference to
include IMT-2030 into the scope. In the same direction, the agreement was
reached to change the name of JCA at the next meeting.
The
next JCA-IMT2020 meeting will take place on 16 July 2025 in Geneva alongside
the SG13 co-located rapporteur group meetings.
JCA-ML
The
7th meeting of the JCA-ML took place on 7 March
2025 alongside this SG13 meeting.
It was chaired by Mr Kangchan Lee (ETRI, Republic of
Koea), the JCA-ML chair, with the support of Mr Marco Carugi (Huawei
Technologies, China), JCA-ML vice-chair. The meeting advanced the work on its
two projects, the roadmap and glossary of terms, based on the inputs received:
- Machine learning standardization roadmap (Editor: Mr Sungpil Shin, ETRI, Republic of Korea) and- Glossary of terms and definitions for machine learning (Editor: Mr Hongki Cha, ETRI Republic of Korea)
Furthermore, the meeting touched base on the next
steps for categorization of deliverables such as type of standards and industrial
domain in the roadmap.
Departing
from the discussions at the last JCA-ML meeting (November 2024) the group
assessed the proposal from the group’s management team to revise its Terms of
Reference and change the group’s name to Joint Coordination Activity on
Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning (JCA-AI/ML). Acknowledging
that this proposal is in line with the new SG13 Lead Study Group role on
artificial intelligence, including machine learning for future networks, this proposal was
supported by the meeting and agreed.
JCA-ML
informed SG13 about this decision via the regular JCA progress report, TD34/PLEN, as well as by a
stand-alone request to SG13 to approve the revised ToR and name for JCA-ML (see
TD35/PLEN).
Group
will continue to operate under the chairship of Mr Kangchan Lee (ETRI, Republic
of Korea) supported by the vice-chair, Mr Marco Carugi (Huawei, China).
The
next JCA-ML meeting will take place on 18 July 2025 during the SG13 co-located
rapporteur group meetings in Geneva.
New
work items coordination
Since
March 2023 SG13 has been convening the new work items coordination
sessions, the approach to assess the proposals for the new work in their
entirety. In March 2025 SG13 had three sessions (4, 5, 6 March 2025) for
exchanging the opinions on the new work proposed for starting at this meeting.
The agenda was crafted by the SG13 chair, Mr Kazunori Tanikawa (NICT, Japan),
who convened the meeting. The report may be found in TD78/GEN.
Disposition
of draft new Recommendation Y.2086 “Framework and Requirements of Decentralized
Trustworthy Network Infrastructure”
The
SG13 chair announced its decision that the issue with the draft new Recommendation
ITU-T Y.2086 “Framework and
Requirements of Decentralized Trustworthy Network Infrastructure” will be closed at
October meeting. Therefore, this Recommendation will be taken for decision at
one of the plenary sessions at SG13 October 2025 meeting in Geneva.
C268 from China Telecom
and Huawei Technologies proposed to start at this meeting the new work item, Technical
Report, based on the above Recommendation text. However, such proposal met
strong resistance and was not agreed for launch.
Collaboration
CQR
- Quantum resistance related studies
Proposed at the previous SG13 meeting (July
2024) the new collaboration between SG13 and SG17 on quantum
resistance-related study (CQR) among Q6/13, Q16/13 and Q15/17, similar to
former CQ activity (CQ – co-located quantum), was confirmed by the SG17. In its
reply liaison statement SG17 proposed to add Q11/17 to the basket. SG13 agreed
this extended composition of the new collaboration activity (CQR).
The
kick-off CQR meeting was convened though on 10 March 2025 among Qs 6/13, 16/13
and 11/17, 15/17. It reviewed some ongoing work in these Questions related to CQR
aspects and requested to prepare input contributions to make guidance for clear
boundaries between SGs for effective coordination and collaboration.
Concerning
the chairing the CQR meetings, the meeting agreed:
- Mr Gyu Myoung Lee (Q16/13 rapporteur) will chair CQR meetings during SG13 meetings;
- Mr Kaoru Kenyoshi (Q15/17 rapporteur) will chair CQR meetings during SG17 meeting.
Based
on progress, if necessary, the CQR meeting may invite the other groups, such as
SG11, to join in the future.
The
report of the kick-off CQR activity may be found in TD101-R1/WP4. The first meeting of
the CQR group was planned for April 2025 during SG17 meeting.Quantum INdustrial Standard Association (QuINSA)
Regarding
the relationship with the newly created Quantum INdustrial Standard Association
(QuINSA) (proposal in TD40/WP4), the Liaison
Statements exchange mode was thought a good approach at this initial stage of
interaction with this new group. To this end, SG13 developed the reply
communication to QuINSA, laid out in TD45-R1/PLEN Annex 7.
TSAG
consultation on AAP comments
In
reply to the request from TSAG “LS/i on the resolution of AAP comments” (TD11/PLEN), SG13 has asked TSAG to consider shorten the 6
weeks period for LC/AR commenter reply. Corresponding Liaison Statement back to
TSAG was agreed, TD30-R1/PLEN.
Ad-hoc
and correspondence group activities
Correspondence
Group for datasets applicable for AI/ML in networks (CG-datasets)
CG-datasets
had a meeting alongside this SG13 meeting on 6 March 2025 to pursue its
mandate.
Ad-hoc “Future ICT
Evolution for emerging Web Era” (Web3 ad-hoc)
Web3 ad-hoc met alongside this SG13 meeting on 10 March 2025. It was
the last meeting of the group. Group considered four contributions towards the
Technical Report on Trustworthy Data Infrastructure for Web 3.0, and two
contributions for the Technical Report on Network enhancement for supporting
emerging Web technologies. (Detailed discussions on both deliverables, based
on the submitted contributions, took place in the Questions 16/13 and 22/13
sessions; results may be found in TD117-R1/WP4 and TD76/WP3 respectively.) In addition, based on C119 from KAIST, the ad-hoc
meeting also briefly reviewed several new work items for trustworthy digital
asset trading to be considered for future standardization. Summary of the meeting
may be found in clause 3.6 of TD46/PLEN.
Bridging
Standardization Gap (BSG)
The
SG13 Regional Group for Africa (SG13RG-AFR) will continue its
work in this study period under the Term of Reference as approved at October-November 2023 SG13 meeting.
SG13RG-AFR convened its
regular (annual) meeting on 30 January 2025 in a virtual format. Presenting the report of that meeting at the SG13 plenary, the
SG13RG-AFR chair, Ms Rim Belhassine-Cherif (Tunisia Telecom), highlighted, in
particular, the objectives for SG13RG-AFR for the new study period, aligned
with the WTSA-24 outcomes, updates to the group’s action plan and the request
from the SG13RG-AFR to SG13 to appoint the new SG13RG-AFR vice-chair, Mr
Mohammed Kyari Mustafa (Nigerian Communications Commission, Nigeria). Mr
Mustafa replaces Mr Brice Murara (RURA, Rwanda), the SG13RG-AFR vice-chair, who
had to leave SG13 activities.
The SG13 meeting participants approved
the SG13RG-AFR meeting report in TD26/PLEN. The SG chair extended his appreciation to the group leader. Canada joined
him in this appreciation and expressed appreciation to the SG13RG-AFR in
general.
Next meeting of the SG13 Regional Group for Africa
is planned as virtual two-days activity in 4th quarter of 2025. The
meeting may be preceded by the virtual workshop. Hosts are welcome to identify themselves in order to give an opportunity
for the SG13RG-AFR to meet next time in person.
The
SG13 Regional Group for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia (SG13RG-EECAT) will continue its
work in this study period. The meeting plans for SG13RG-EECAT,
however, were not activated yet.
BSG
hands-on
training session was offered by TSB to the SG13 delegates on 6 March 2025.
Session was opened to every SG13 participant and followed by 48 delegates.
Presented material may be found in TD67/GEN. Delegates expressed
appreciation for acquired knowledge.
Progress
reports
Focus
Group on Artificial Intelligence Native for Telecommunication Networks (FG-AINN)
FG-AINN reported its activities and results of the first
meeting in TD22/PLEN. The meeting noted the FG-AINN organization of the work,
vice-chairs appointment and progress to date, reached via the weekly conference
calls. The group established the communication channel with ETSI ISG ENI group
and dispatched liaison statements to ITU-T Study Groups and some SDOs. It set
up priorities for its work and the delivery plan. Participants were invited to
join the weekly e-meetings of the FG-AINN to advance its work and to the next
physical meeting of the group in Istanbul, Türkiye, 14-15 April 2025.
Ad-hoc
“Future ICT Evolution for emerging Web Era” (Web3 ad-hoc) and conclusion of its
duties
The
ad-hoc “Future ICT Evolution for emerging Web Era” (Web3 ad-hoc) presented
its progress to date in TD46/PLEN. Mr Gyu Myoung Lee
(Republic of Korea), the ad-hoc co-convener, walked the participants through
this report that covers the activities and achievements since July 2024. Ad-hoc
met 6 times in the reported period and had a good progress on its two technical
reports (developed per group’s ToR). The SG13 meeting reviewed and noted with satisfaction the progress
achieved by the ad-hoc Web3, TD46/PLEN.
With this
the ad-hoc exhausted its mandate and concluded its activities. The two
deliverables, Technical Report on Trustworthy Data Infrastructure for Web
3.0, and Technical Report on Network enhancement for supporting emerging
Web technologies, were entrusted to the SG13 Q16/13 and Q22/13 respectively
for further work and agreement for publication. The SG13 chair, on behalf of
the SG13, expressed his deep appreciation to the co-conveners, Mr Gyu Myoung
Lee (Republic of Korea) and Ms Jingwen Li (China Telecom, China), as well as to
all the participants, who took part in deliberations of the group, for the two
technical reports delivery.
Joint
Coordination Activity on Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning (JCA-AI/ML) and
its new name and Terms of Reference
The
chair of the JCA-ML, Mr Kangchan Lee (ETRI, Republic of Korea), reported the
progress of his group by presenting TD34/PLEN. This document
captures the outcomes since the group’s first meeting in March 2023.
The
meeting reviewed the progress of the JCA-ML along with the request from the
group to change its name and ToR (in TD35/PLEN). SG13 agreed the JCA-AI/ML
operation with the revised ToR and new name as depicted in TD35/PLEN, Appendix I, and
dispatched the Liaison Statement to TSAG (for action) and ITU-SGs informing
about this decision, TD36-R1/PLEN.
The
progress report by JCA-ML (TD34/PLEN) was well received
and noted by the meeting.
Outreach
Information
session
A regular newcomer session presentation was delivered by the SG13 Mentor,
Mr Alojz Hudobivnik, on 3 March 2025. It attracted 22 live and 30 remote
participants. Presented material is available from TD66/GEN.
Questionnaire
A
new Questionnaire on Use Cases of services
universalization in developing countries using open networks and AI models (in support of the
work in Q5/13) was agreed for dissemination at this meeting, TD68/PLEN. It went live via the
TSB Circular 235, is available at the SG13 homepage, accepts replies
until 30 June 2025 and welcomes input from any ITU member.
Roadmaps
SG13 continues its work on
- Supplement Y.sup.cnc-roadmap "Roadmap of coordination of networking and computing in IMT-2020 networks and beyond", TD43/WP1, target for completion in 4Q/2026
- Supplement Y.supp.fmsc-ro map "Fixed, mobile and satellite convergence - Standardization roadmap", TD60/WP1, target for 4Q/2026
- Supplement Y.Suppl.CPN-SR to Y.2500-series with the roadmap of computing power network, TD44/WP3, target for July 2025
- and started the work on new
- Supplement Y.supp.trust-roadmap "Standardization roadmap on trustworthy networking and services for study period 2025", TD119/WP4, target for October 2028
- Supplement Y.sup.mlsr to ITU-T Y.3000-series "Machine Learning Standardization Roadmap", TD56/WP2, target for 4Q/2025
- admap "Fixed, mobile and satellite convergence - Standardization roadmap", TD60/WP1, target for 4Q/2026
- Supplement Y.Suppl.CPN-SR to Y.2500-series with the roadmap of computing power network, TD44/WP3, target for July 2025
and started the work on new
- Supplement Y.supp.trust-roadmap "Standardization roadmap on trustworthy networking and services for study period 2025", TD119/WP4, target for October 2028
- Supplement Y.sup.mlsr to ITU-T Y.3000-series "Machine Learning Standardization Roadmap", TD56/WP2, target for 4Q/2025
TerminologySG13 has ongoing project on terminology for IMT-2030:
- Technical Report ITU-T TR.IMT2030-terms "IMT-2030 networks - Considerations on terms and definitions", TD54/WP1, target for completion in 4Q/2026
and initiated the new
- Supplement Y.sup.mlglossary with Glossary of terms and definitions for machine learning, TD55/WP2, target for completion in 4Q/2025
Work
programme updates
New
Work
Contributions
brought 59 proposals to initiate the new work, out of which 33 were
drafted in the form of a new Recommendation (16), Supplement (8),
technical report (9), one was kept in the living list of Q1/13, five
were kept in the living list of Q6/13, one – in the living list of Q16/13, four
kept in the Q17/13 living list and 2 – in the Q20/13 living list.
So,
in total this meeting agreed to the initiation of 33 new work items (TD70/PLEN).
Innovation
New SG13 structure with 4 Working Parties (used
to be three in the last three study periods) was agreed for this study period.
New
Correspondence Group on SG13 future direction (CG-SG13ftr) was launched.
JCA-ML
changed its name to Joint Coordination Activity on Artificial Intelligence,
including Machine Learning (JCA-AI/ML).
Future
plans
An important number of interim
activities were agreed to (TD69/PLEN). This includes the
joint session with SG2 on relationship of Y.CNAO with AITOM[1] (Q20/13).
All SG13 Questions will meet as co-located rapporteur groups in Geneva on 14 – 25 July 2025.
13th SG13RG-AFR meeting will be held virtually in 4Q/2025.
The 8th JCA-AI/ML meeting will be convened in Geneva on 18 July 2025 during the SG13 co-located rapporteur group meetings.
The 22nd JCA-IMT2020 meeting will take place on 16 July 2025 in Geneva alongside the SG13 co-located rapporteur group meetings.
Correspondence groups will continue their activities to pursue their terms of reference.
Next
meetings
Working
Parties 1, 2, 3, 4/13 meetings will be convened on 25 July 2025 in Geneva,
Switzerland in order to determine, give consent to the following draft
Recommendations and agree on the Supplements, new work items and future plans:
WP1/13:
- Y.CNAO “Requirements and functional framework for Customer-oriented Network Quality Auto
- Optimization with Artificial Intelligence” (Q20/13),
- Y.LDT-reqs-funcs “IMT-2020 networks and beyond: Requirements and functions for applications demanding large data transmission” (Q20/13),
- Y.IMT2020-MEVE-req-frame “Future networks including IMT-2020: requirements and framework for measurement of effectiveness and value evaluation of autonomous networks” (Q20/13),
- Y.IMT2020-STI-NS “Network slicing in satellite-terrestrial integration in IMT-2020 networks and beyond (Q21/13),
- Y.FMSC-ConTrans “Fixed, mobile and satellite convergence – Functional requirements and functional architecture of the transformer model based unified control entity” (Q23/13),
- Y.FMSC-LDS “Fixed, mobile and satellite convergence – Local data switching for IMT-2020 and beyond” (Q23/13),
- Y.FMSC-MEC “Multi-access Edge Computing for fixed, mobile and satellite convergence in IMT-2020 networks and beyond” (Q23/13),
- Y.FMSC-InNetFL “ Requirements and Framework for In-Network Aggregated Federated Learning to Enable AI in Fixed, Mobile, and Satellite Convergence Networks” (Q23/13).
WP2/13
- Y.cdp-reqts “Data handling - Functional requirements of collaborative data processing in data platform” (Q17/13),
- Y.3601-rev “Big data – Framework and requirements for data exchange” (Q17/13),
- Y.3505-rev “Cloud computing – Overview and functional requirements for data storage federation” (Q17/13),
- Y.mc-arch “Cloud computing - Functional architecture for multi-cloud” (Q18/13),
- Y.ccmm-reqts “Cloud computing - Framework and functional requirements of micro-service monitoring” (Q19/13),
- Y.ccimvc “Cloud computing - Functional requirements of integrated management for virtual machine and container” (Q19/13).
WP3/13:
- Y.CPN-DF “Computing power network - Terms and definitions” (Q2/13),
- Y.NGNe-IBN-arch “Functional architecture of NGN evolution by adoption of Intent-Based Network” (Q2/13),
- Y.Suppl.CPN-SR “Roadmap to standardization on computing power network” (Q2/13),
- Y.Suppl.NGNe-UC-SCE “Use cases of service-oriented capability enhancement in NGNe” (Q2/13),
- Y.bDDN-MecArch-KC “Big data driven networking- architecture and mechanism of knowledge constructing” (Q7/13),
- Y.bDDN-AM-COINO “Big data driven networking - architecture and mechanism for customer-oriented intelligent network operation” (Q7/13),
- Y.ICN-INP “Information-centric networking in networks beyond IMT-2020: Requirements and capabilities of node to support in-network processing in networks beyond IMT-2020” (Q22/13),
- Y.DTN-DataFrame “Digital Twin Network - Framework and functional requirements of data domain in network digital twin layer” (Q22/13).
SG13 plenary on 14 March 2025 gave the authorization to the WP3/13 meeting of 25 July 2025 to agree on new Supplements Y.Suppl.CPN-SR “Roadmap to standardization on computing power network” and Y.Suppl.NGNe-UC-SCE “Use cases of service-oriented capability enhancement in NGNe”.
WP4/13:- Y.supp.mlip “Service model of risk mitigation on livestock pandemic based on networks” (Q1/13),
- Supp-Y.MBIMT2020-Gen “Guidance for migrating existing mobile network technologies to IMT 2020 and beyond” (Q5/13),
- Y.expBDtech-frame “Requirements and Framework for the exploitation of Big Data/Artificial Intelligence technologies in developing countries” (Q5/13),
- Y.det-FQ-fa “Functional architecture for stateless fair queuing in large scale networks including IMT-2020” (Q6/13),
- Y.IMT-2020-qos-lstn-req “Requirements and framework of Deterministic QoS in large-scale telecommunications networking for IMT-2020 networks and beyond” (Q6/13),
- Y.qos-req-ti “Quality of service assurance requirements for the tactile internet” (Q6/13),
- Y.IMT-2020-qos-cnc-req “QoS assurance requirements and framework for coordination of networking and computing supported by IMT-2020 and beyond” (Q6/13),
- Y.IMT2020-QoS-FMSC “QoS assurance requirements and framework for fixed, mobile and satellite convergence supported by IMT-2020 and beyond” (Q6/13),
- Y.QKDNi-qos-fa “Quantum key distribution networks interworking - Functional architecture for quality of service assurance” (Q6/13),
- Y.QKDN-qos-sdnc “QoS assurance requirements for quantum key distribution networks enabled by software defined networking control” (Q6/13),
- Y.QKDN-qos-fr-req “Requirements of QoS assurance for QKDN federation” (Q6/13),
- Y.QKD-orfr “Framework for quantum key distribution network orchestration” (Q16/13),
- Y.QKD-rsff “Quantum key distribution networks - functional framework of resilience” (Q16/13).
The authorisation to consider the Supplements Y.supp.mlip “Service model of risk mitigation on livestock pandemic based on networks” and Supp-Y.MBIMT2020-Gen “Guidance for migrating existing mobile network technologies to IMT 2020 and beyond” for agreement at the WP4/13 meeting of 25 July 2025 was granted to WP4/13 by the SG13 plenary on 14 March 2025.
Listed above tentative determination/consent/agreement plan, as planned at the March SG13 meeting, may be found in TD82/GEN.
Next
meeting of SG13
will take place in October 2025 in Geneva, if no invitation received to go
outside Geneva.
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[1] Y.CNAO “Requirements and functional framework for Customer-oriented Network Quality Auto Optimization with Artificial Intelligence"
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