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Executive Summary

Meeting of ITU-T SG17 'Security', Geneva, 1-10 June 2026

1           Hot topics of this meeting (summarizing both input & output)

• Agentic AI: security, trust framework and identity management
• Identity management and trust management framework
• Security of generative AI systems, AI applications and AI cloud
• Public key and privilege management Infrastructure as foundation for digital trust
• Digital Emblems
• Child online protection and parental/family control
• Year 2000 problem is back in 2036 and 2038
• computing power network security
• intelligent transport system and autonomous driving security
• Quantum readiness and new essential Quantum Key Distribution work
• Intelligent Transport System security

2           Meeting Output (meeting statistics see Annex E below)

–     Successful SG17 workshop on Global interoperability for trust management of digital identity for Humans and Agents (Geneva, 2 June 2026)

–     SG17 Focus Group on Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI (FG-TIDA):

o   ​​ToR in  TD295/P

o   Chair: Ms Debora Comparin (Thales, France)

o   Vice-Chair: Ms Liangliang Zhang (Huawei, China)​​

–     Output standards (56, see Annex A):

• TAP approval (10): Details are in Annex A a).
• TAP not approved (1): Details are in Annex A b).
• TAP determined (21): 20 new Recommendations and 1 Amendment. Details are in Annex A c).
• AAP consented (7): 5 new Recommendations, 1 new Corrigendum and 1 new Amendment for AAP Last Call. Details are in Annex A d).
• Agreed (19): 1 new Amendment, 13 Technical Reports and 5 SG17 documents. Details are in Annex A e).

–     New work items (71): 52 Recommendations, 15 Technical reports, 2 Technical Papers, and 2 Supplements, Details are in Annex B. Two work items were discontinued (see Annex C).

–      Two new Registration Authorities have been established:

• One for Burkina Faso under joint-iso-itu-t(2) country(16) bf(854)
• One for Cote d'Ivoire under joint-iso-itu-t(2) country(16) ci(384)
  
  –     SG17 Correspondence Groups

• CG-COP (Child online protection): continued, updated gap analysis report
• CG-RES-MODERN (Correspondence group to SG17 restructuring and modernization) became CG-NSP-MODERN (Correspondence group on SG17 preparation for next study period and modernization): ToR in TD278/P

• Progress on restructuring:
• Agreed on updated ToR for Question 8/17
• Started discussion on updating Qs 1, 7 and 15/17
• Progress on modernization
• attracted 13 new ITU-T members since WTSA-24
• Efficiency:
• 7 working days with only 8 meeting rooms (previously 12 rooms)
• 140 sessions (previously 190 sessions)
• Quality:
• 71 new work items established out of 78 proposed (91%),
• Successful 1^st SG17 Content Week:  Outcome 50% reopened, but only 10% modified.
• tooling:
• automation tool to generate SG17 Q and WP reports
• Gitlab for SG17 management
• SG17 is premier user of DDPv2 and new version of MyMeetings
  
• “Risk Register” session with the SG17 extended management team
  
• Visibility:
• SG17 introduction for newcomers on 26 May 2026 attracted 49 participants
• SG17 workshop on 2 June 2026 attended by 239 participants 

3           Future SG17 meetings

3.1         WP/SG/workshop events

3.2         Interim RGMs

All 12 Questions of SG17 plan to hold the following 19 RGMs in the interregnum period before  SG17 June 2026 meeting:

Annex A
Actions taken on Recommendations, and other texts at SG17 closing plenary on 11 December 2025

a)     TAP Recommendations approved (WTSA-24 Resolution 1) (10)

b)     TAP Recommendations not approved (WTSA-24 Resolution 1) (1)

c)      TAP Recommendations determined (WTSA-24 Resolution 1) (21)

a)     AAP Recommendations consented (Recommendation ITU-T A.8) (7)

b)     Non-normative texts (Technical Report, Supplement, Implementers' Guide, etc) agreed (19​)

Annex B
New work items (71)

The following 71 new work items were agreed to be added to the SG17 Work Programme:

Note: 
* marked items are for approval by TAP;
** marked items are for approval by agreement; Items without any mark are for approval by AAP
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Annex C
Work items discontinued

Annex D
SG17 meeting Statistics

410/54 Participants/Countries (TD205/P)

• Stay high (previous meetings: 408/54, 374/57)

126 sessions (i.e.,1.5-hour slot) in these 7-days meeting (vs 195 session in last 7-days SG17 meeting in Dec 2025, 191 sessions in last 8-days SG17 meeting in April 2025)

Meeting input and organization

Table of SG17 statistics of this meeting

Contributions

221 – stay high (past meetings: 221, 189, 187, 153, 119, 104, 101). DDP: 99%

o   APT 172.9 (83%) (= Korea 78.3 + China 72.6 + India 11 + Japan 10)

o   EUR 28.5 (13%) (= UK 18.5 + Ukraine 6 + Denmark 0.5 + Switzerland 1 + France 1.5 + Neitherlands 1)

o   Americas 9 (3%) (= Canada 6 + US 1 + Brazil 2)

o   AFR 8.3 (3%) (= Lybia 2 + Mali 0.5 + Ghana 2.5 + Nigeria 0.5 + South Africa 0.8 + Uganda 1 + Senegal 1)

o   ARAB 2.3 (= Qatar 0.8 + Kuwait 1 + Palestine 0.5)

o   RCC 0 (= Russia 0)

o   LAM (0)​