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Part 3: Security standards under development

This part of the Roadmap contains information on security standards under development (i.e. work in progress), rather than standards that have already been approved and published. To the extent possible, timetables and interdependencies are also included.

Information contained in this section covers security-related work of ITU-T SG17, SG13, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, ETSI, the 3GPP Security Group and the IETF Security Group.

ITU-T Study Group 17: Security: A summary of the SG17 security-relevant work is available through this link (see also the files regularly posted on the SG17 webpage under E- and F- series under SG17, status of X-series, status of Z-series shown in the reference information section). A listing of SG17 Questions under study, along with detailed information about each question is available here.

ITU-T Study Group 13: Future networks: A summary of the SG13 security-relevant work is available at this link.

ITU-T Study Group 20: IoT and smart cities and communities: A summary of the SG20 security-relevant work is available at this link.

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27: Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection: A complete summary of the SC27 work programme, including summaries of each standard under development and the anticipated timelines may be found here. Note that the complete list of work in progress in ISO and ISO/IEC JTC 1 can be found at: https://www.iso.org/committee/45020/x/catalogue/.

ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute

Key security related ETSI Technical Committees (TCs) / Partnership Projects (PPs) / Industry Sepcificatioin Groups (ISGs):

3GPP: Third Generation Partnership Project
ISG MEC: Industry Specification Group on Multi-access Edge Computing
ISG PDL: Industry Specification Group on Permissioned Distributed Ledger
ISG QKD: Industry Specification Group on Quantum Key Distribution
TC ATTM: Technical Committee on Access, Terminals, Transmission and Muliplexing
TC CABLE: Technical Committee on Integrated Broadband Cable Telecommunication Networks
TC CYBER: Technical Committee on Cybersecurity
TC DECT: Technical Committee on Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
TC EMTEL: Technical Committee on Emergency Telecommunications
TC ERM: Technical Committee on EMC and Radio Spectrum Matters
TC ESI: Technical Committee on Electronic Signatures and Trust Infrastructures
TC ITS: Technical Committee on Intelligent Transport Systems
TC LI: Technical Committee on Lawful Interception
TC MSG: Technical Committee on Mobile Standards Group
TC MTS: Technical Committee on Methods for Testing and Specification
TC SAI: Technical Committee on Securing Artifical Intelligence
TC SmartM2M: Technical Committee on Smart Machine-to-Machine Communications
TC TCCE: Technical Committee on Terrestrial Trunked Radio and Critical Communications Evolution
JTC BROADCAST: Joint Technical Committee of the EBU, CENELEC and ETSI on Broadcasting

Status of deliverables can be found at: https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/workprogram/SimpleSearch/QueryForm.asp. This includes the work in progress in 3GPP.

3GPP SA WG3: Security and privacy: The main objectives of this group are defining the requirements and specifying the architectures and protocols for security and privacy in 3GPP systems. More details on the scope of work and work under development can be found at: https://www.3gpp.org/3gpp-groups/service-system-aspects-sa/sa-wg3.

IETF Security Area

Active IETF drafts are identified under the respective working groups as follows:

abfab: Application bridging for federated access beyond web
emu: EAP method update
ipsecme: IP security maintenance and extensions
jose: Javascript object signing and encryption
kitten: Common authentication technology next generation
oauth: Web authorization protocol
tls: Transport layer security

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