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1 Scope
This Recommendation is devoted to the issue of creating trusted environment in ICT infrastructure providing
information and communication services. This issue becomes extremely important in modern knowledge
society with such a significant growth rate of information technology. This Recommendation contains
rationale for necessity of trusted environment in ICT infrastructure, common requirements and the basic
principles of its creation. This Recommendation is relevant for services developers as well as for network
designers and should be considered as a set of fundamental principles for creating convenient and secure
environment. While basic principles outlined in this Recommendation aim at creating trusted environment
for the provision of services using ICT, they may be applied in a broader interpretation of the concept of
trusted environment.

2 References
The following ITU-T Recommendations and other references contain provisions, which through the
references in this text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation. At the time of publication, the editions
indicated were valid. All Recommendations and other references are subject to revision; users of this
Recommendation are therefore encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition
of the Recommendations and other references listed below. A list of the currently valid ITU-T
Recommendations is regularly published. The reference to a document within this Recommendation does
not give it, as a stand-alone document, the status of a Recommendation.

[ITU-T Y.2701] Recommendation ITU-T Y.2701 (2007), Security requirements for NGN release 1.

3 Definitions

3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
This Recommendation uses the following terms defined elsewhere:

3.1.1 trust [ITU-T Y.3052]: Trust is the measureable belief and/or confidence which represents accumulated
value from history and the expecting value for future.
NOTE – Trust is quantitatively and/or qualitatively calculated and measured, which is used to evaluate values
of entities, value-chains among multiple stakeholders, and human behaviours including decision making.

3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation

This Recommendation defines the following terms:
3.2.1 trusted environment (in ICT infrastructure): ICT enabled environment providing a set of technical
and regulatory conditions sufficient for establishing trust between interacting entities.
NOTE – From a broader perspective, the trusted environment can be perceived as a multidimensional
concept with technological and societal implications.

4 Abbreviations and acronyms
This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:

ICT information and communication technologies

5 Conventions

In this Recommendation:

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