Document :

ITU-T SG05  (Study Period 2025)  Contribution  599

Title :

Input to draft Recommendation ITU-T L.ITservices_footprint "Methodology to assess the environmental footprint of data centre IT hosting services and cloud services" proposing major revisions

Date :

2026-10-05

Source :

Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH (Germany) , Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (China)

AI/Question :

Q9/5

Meeting :

2026-10-20

Observation :

To be verified by TSB

Access :

Restricted to TIES users [ITU-T]

Abstract :

This document identifies technical, normative and editorial issues in draft Recommendation ITU-T L.ITservices_footprint and proposes a coherent revision. The draft should not be approved in its present form. Benchmarking against ITU-T L.1410 shows that the draft does not retain its clear treatment of compliance, data gaps, comparison and reporting. The contribution proposes separate detailed and simplified assessment routes, integration of ITU-T L.1411, a practicable data hierarchy, explicit limits on comparability and public claims, and a complete formal review.