270 ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications It also provides a blueprint for data abstraction and the quality \"quadruple\" trust that includes protection, security, privacy, and safety. Furthermore, this standard provides a reference architecture that builds upon the reference model. The reference architecture covers the definition of basic architectural building blocks and their ability to be integrated into multi‐tiered systems. The reference architecture also addresses how to document and, if strived for, mitigate architecture divergence. This standard leverages existing applicable standards and identifies planned or ongoing projects with a similar or overlapping scope. This standard will help to reduce current fragmentation in the various IoT verticals. By addressing the need for an IoT architectural framework, IEEE will fulfill its mission to benefit humanity by increasing the interoperability and portability of IoT solutions to both the industry and the end consumer. IP for things If, in a future Internet of Things, everyday objects are to be addressed and controlled via the Internet, then one should ideally not be resorting to special communications protocols as is currently the case with RFID. Instead, things should behave just like normal Internet nodes. In other words, they should have an IP address and use the Internet Protocol (IP) for communicating with other smart objects and network nodes. The benefits of having IP‐enabled things are obvious, even if the objects in question are not going to be made globally accessible but instead used in a controlled intranet environment. This approach enables us to build directly on existing functionality such as global interoperability, network‐wide data packet delivery (forwarding and routing), data transport across different physical media, naming services (URL, DNS) and network management. The use of IP enables smart objects to use existing Internet services and applications and, conversely, these smart objects can be addressed from anywhere since they are proper Internet participants. Last but not least, it will be easy to use important application layer protocols such as HTTP. 2.4 Energy efficiency of ICT infrastructure ICT infrastructure need built considering the environmental impact of the ICT itself in a way that the environmental benefit of using ICT in other sectors will be not lower that the impact generates by the ICT infrastructure. Technological solutions like power the infrastructure equipment using sustainable sources need to be considered when possible. For example, a solution as reported in the figure can be implemented considering the impact on fossil generated energy reduction and also the impact on operation cost.