During its meeting held in Geneva in May 2024, SG11 finalized preparation for WTSA and agreed on revised Questions ToR as well SG11 title, mandate, points of guidance and lead SG roles (updates to Resolution 2 of WTSA-20) for next study period.
Q15/11 and Q17/11 were merged. With such change the number of questions is reduced to 13 Questions in total. The outcomes of the SG11 NSP-WTSA discussion are available in:
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SG11-TD821-R1/GEN : Consolidated text of ToR of SG11 Questions for next Study Period (2025-2028) (Geneva, 1-10 May 2024)
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SG11-TD822/GEN: Consolidated text of SG11 Mandate for next Study Period (2025-2028) (Geneva, 1-10 May 2024)
Also, SG11 Chair presented the observations concerning future work of ITU-T SG11 for the upcoming study period 2025-2028 which were discussed at the SG11 management team (
SG11-TD931/GEN). During NSP-WTSA sessions several modifications were made and
SG11-TD931-R3/GEN was agreed. These observations will be included in the SG11 Chair report to WTSA (Part I). SG11 informed TSAG RG-IEM about these observations (
SG11-LS207) and TSAG and all SGs on its progress on preparation for WTSA-24 (
SG11-LS163).
The detailed report of the ITU-T SG11 NSP-WTSA sessions held in May 2024 is available in
SG11-TD823-R1/GEN .
ITU-T SG11 was informed that during its last meeting held in Sophia Antipolis (France) on 10-12 April 2024, ITU-T FG-TBFxG completed and approved all its deliverables. Mr Giulio Maggiore (FG-TBFxG Chair) gave an overview of FG-TBFxG progress and achieved results (
SG11-TD977/GEN).
He highlighted that FG-TBFxG was established by ITU-T SG11 in 2021 in order to harmonize testbeds specifications across SDOs and Fora, develop the required application program interfaces (APIs) aligned with the testbeds federations reference model defined in Recommendation ITU-T Q.4068 as well as define a set of use cases for federated testbeds and associated APIs, such as "Testbed-as-a Service" (TaaS). It was noted that the Focus Group was established following the results of joint
ITU/IEEE/ETSI Workshop, which was organized in 2021.
FG-TBFxG conducted eight meetings since its first meeting in April 2022. It organized several introduction sessions as kind of webinars during FG's meetings where different stakeholders shared their insights. Also, Focus Group leadership organized a webinar
Episode #27:
Digital transformation of testing: federated testbeds as a service (virtual, 21 June 2023) which provides general overview of the FG activities and the issue of distributed remote testing (federated testbeds) in general.
Within two years term, the FG-TBFxG developed eight deliverables, which includes the set of 18 use cases for testbeds federations and associated requirements for different APIs. During its lifetime the FG-TBFxG actively collaborated with several SDOs/Fora and other stakeholders.
Based on received contributions, SG11 started eight new work items based on all FG-TBFxG deliverables. More details are available in WP3/11 report (
SG11-TD859-R2/GEN).
17 SG11 Workshops and Webinars
Since previous meeting, SG11 along with SG2 organized informal ad-hoc meeting dedicated to discussion on work item Q.TSCA (virtual, 9 January 2024). More details are available in the LS addressed by WP1/11 in February 2024 (
SG11-TD132/WP1) and report submitted to TSAG (
TSAG-TD461).
18 New Terms and Definitions
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Q
To
Title
Reference
1 1/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on consent of draft new Recommendation ITU-T Q.3064 (ex.Q.NICE-SA) "Signalling architecture of NICE (Network intelligence capability enhancement) in support of awareness capabilities"
SG11-LS165 2 1/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on consent of draft new Recommendation ITU-T Q.4142 (ex.Q.SASO) "Signalling architecture for service orchestration in computing power network"
SG11-LS166 3 1/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on the new work item on ITU-T Q.SA-CSB "Signalling architecture of cloud service brokerage"
SG11-LS167 4 1/11 ITU-T SG13 LS/r on work items related to computing power network (CPN) transaction platform in Q1/SG11 (reply SG13-LS183)
SG11-LS168 5 2/11 ITU-T SG2, SG17 LS/r on the new work item ITU-T Q.TSCA "Requirements for issuing End-Entity and Certification Authority public-key certificates for enabling trustable signaling interconnection between network entities in support of existing and emerging networks" (reply SG2-LS104 and SG17-LS130)
SG11-LS156 6 2/11 ITU-T SG17 LS/r on Coordination for Identity Management (reply SG17-LS110)
SG11-LS169 7 2/11 ITU-T SG13, SG17, ETSI ISG-QKD, ISO/IEC JTC1-SC27, ISO/IEC JTC3 LS on new work items of QKDN protocols and revision of ITU-T Q.4164
SG11-LS170 8 2/11 ITU-R SG5, IRTF NWCRG LS on the consent of draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.5032 (ex. Q.NCRP) "Network coding protocol for network repeaters"
SG11-LS171 9 2/11 TSAG, ITU-T SG2, SG3, SG5, SG9, SG12, SG13, SG15, SG16, SG17, SG20, ICAO, ITU-R WP4A, WP4C, WP5B, RAG, IETF and ISO/IEC JTC 1
LS on initiation of draft new Technical Report TR.SP-UAV "Signalling requirements and protocols between unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicle controllers using IMT-2020 networks and beyond"
SG11-LS157 10 2/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on initiation of draft new Technical Report TR-AL-PRC "Application layer protocol for robotics control"
SG11-LS172 11 3/11 ITU-T SG2, 3GPP SA1, 3GPP SA2, ETSI-EMTEL, GSMA LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.IEM_arch_req "Reference architecture and signalling requirements for interactive emergency messaging through mobile network"
SG11-LS173 12 3/11 ITU-T SG2, ITU-D SG1, ITU-R WP5A LS on draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.Req_Frame_RRDN "Requirements and framework for rapid response to sudden natural disasters in network"
SG11-LS174 13 4/11 ITU-T SG13, SG17, IETF WG OPSAWG LS on consent of draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.3742 (ex.Q.SD-DCI) "Signalling requirements and data models for SD-DCI service"
SG11-LS175 14 4/11 OIF, ITU-T SG13, SG15, SG17 LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.FGNS "Signalling requirements for fine-grained network slicing orchestration and management in bearer networks
SG11-LS176 15 4/11 ITU-T SG17 LS on promoting ongoing work item ITU-T Q.SFCO "Signalling requirements and data models for service function chaining orchestration based on SRv6"
SG11-LS177 16 4/11 ITU-T SG13 LS/r on the title and scope of Q.sup.netsoft-roadmap
(reply to SG13-LS151)
SG11-LS178 17 4/11
all ITU-T Study Groups
and TSAG
LS/r on utilisation of tools to produce Recommendations
(reply to SG17-LS108)
SG11-LS158
18 4/11, 7/11 ITU-T SG15 LS/r on the terms and definitions in ITU-T SG11 (reply SG15-LS105)
SG11-LS179 19 5/11 SCV LS/r on the terms and definitions for "Computing Power Network Gateway" and "3D ultra high density IoT" in SG11 (SCV-LS22)
SG11-LS180 20 5/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on initiation of new work items on research BNG by adoption of IBN-related technology in SG11
SG11-LS181 21 6/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on the consent of new Recommendations ITU-T Q.5031 (ex Q.PMMC), ITU-T Q.5009 (ex Q.PEC) and ITU-T Q.5013 (ex Q.SP-twqos)
SG11-LS182 22 6/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on initiation of two new work items ITU-T Q.SPLC and Q.SPACDN
SG11-LS183 23 6/11 ITU-T SG13, SG16, IETF RATS and IETF TEEP LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.CCONS: "Signalling requirements and protocol for confidential computing orchestration of network slices in IMT-2020 networks and beyond"
SG11-LS184 24 6/11 ITU-T SG13 and SG17 LS on the initiation of a new Technical Report ITU-T TR.PML-IMT-2020 "Protocol to provide Machine Learning in future networks including IMT-2020"
SG11-LS185 25 6/11 TSAG,
All ITU-T SGs
and FG-MV LS/r on consideration of a new work item ITU-T Q.PMV "Protocol map for metaverse"(reply TSAG-LS35)
SG11-LS159 26 6/11
JCA-ML
ITU-T SG13
LS/r on invitation to provide inputs to the "Machine learning standardization roadmap" and "Glossary of terms and definitions for machine learning" (reply JCA-ML-LS7)
SG11-LS186 27 6/11 JCA-ML and ITU-T SG13 LS/r on invitation to provide inputs to the "Glossary of terms and definitions for machine learning" (reply JCA-ML-LS8)
SG11-LS187 28
6/11,
7/11,
8/11
JCA-IMT2020
ITU-T SG13
LS/r on invitation to update the information in the IMT-2020 and beyond roadmap (reply JCA-IMT2020-LS15)
SG11-LS188 29
6/11
13/11
ETSI ISG ZSM and 3GPP SA5
LS/r on ongoing work on Network Digital Twin
(reply ETSI ISG ZSM-(24)000087-LS10)
SG11-LS189 30 7/11 ITU-T SG16 and SG20 LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.IEC-ERINF
SG11-LS190 31 7/11 ITU-T SG13 and SG20 LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.IEC-SPDM
SG11-LS191 32 7/11 ITU-T SG13 and SG20 LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.IEC-PDMF
SG11-LS192 33 7/11 ITU-T SG5, SG13
and JTC 1/SC 42 LS on initiation of new work item ITU-T Q.AIDCS-SRA
SG11-LS193 34 12/11 ITU-T SG 20 and SG13 LS on consent of the draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.4074 (ex. Q.TSN) "Testing of robotics based on a model network"
SG11-LS194 35 12/11 ITU-T SG 20 and SG13 LS on consent of draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.4075 (ex. Q.TSRT_IoT) "Test specifications for remote testing of Internet of Things using the probes"
SG11-LS195 36 12/11 ITU-T SG20, SG13
and IETF LS on the new work item ITU-T Q.MUD_IoT "Framework for testing and monitoring IoT devices & networks using technical Requirements from Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD)
SG11-LS196 37
12/11
14/11
SCV/CCT,
ITU-T SG9, SG20,
SG2 and SG3 LS/r on the Validation of English terms and definitions
(reply SCV-LS29)
SG11-LS160 38 13/11 ITU-T SG13 LS/r on draft new Recommendation ITU-T Q.CED "Monitoring parameters for cloud-edge-device collaboration system"
(reply SG13-LS181)
SG11-LS197 39 13/11 ITU-T SG16 LS on the consent of Recommendation ITU-T Q.4072 (ex. Q.PIS): Monitoring parameters for intelligent speech in future networks
SG11-LS198 40 13/11 SG13, SG20, ICAO LS on the creation of draft new Recommendation ITU-T Q.MPSG " Monitoring parameters for IMT-2020 networks and beyond supporting smart grid "
SG11-LS199 41 14/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on the new work item ITU-T Q.CSP-IOPT "Cloud computing infrastructure capabilities interoperability testing - part 2: Interoperability testing between the CSPs"
(Geneva, 1-10 May 2024)
SG11-LS200 42 14/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on the creation of a new work item ITU-T Q.CPN-BNG-iopt "Interoperability testing of the border network gateway in computing power network (CPN)"
SG11-LS201 43 14/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on the new work item ITU-T Q.BaaS-iopt-ts "Test suite for interoperability testing of blockchain as a service"
SG11-LS202 44 14/11 ITU-T SG13, IETF NVO3 LS on the consent of draft new Recommendation ITU-T Q.4047 (ex. Q.Scvh-iopt) "Interoperability testing between software-defined networking (SDN) and hypervisor based computing virtualization"
SG11-LS203 45
15/11
17/11
ITU-T SG2, SG5, SG9, SG13, SG17, SG20, ITU-D SG2 (Q4/2), GSMA, APT, LAS, ATU, CEPT, CITEL and RCC
LS on the progress of the work on Combating Counterfeit and Stolen Telecommunication/ICT devices/software
SG11-LS161 46 16/11, 17/11, CASC ITU-T SG9 LS/r on agreement of a draft new ITU-T J Supplement 13 (ex J.FSR-TEST) "Factual subscriber-base reporting and protected content delivery in Conditional Access System - Test Methods" (reply SG9-LS50)
SG11-LS162 47 16/11 3GPP LS on consent of the draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.4073 (Q.FW-IVV5G) "Framework for interconnection testing of Voice, Video over 5G"
SG11-LS204 48 All/11 ITU-T SG2 LS/r on using the term "In force" instead of indicating the actual date of Approval of the Recommendations in clause 2 references (reply SG2-LS103)
SG11-LS205 49 All/11 TSAG and all ITU-T SGs LS on SG11 preparation for WTSA-24
SG11-LS163 50 All/11 ITU-T SG13 LS on request for clarification on terms related to IMT-2020 and IMT-2030 for future study of ITU-T SG11 in the next study period
SG11-LS142 51 All/11 ITU-T SG9, SG13, SG16 LS on request for clarification on some terms for future study of ITU-T SG11 in the next study period
SG11-LS143 52 All/11 TSAG LS/r on latest WTSA Action Plan and draft "WTSA preparation guideline on Resolutions" (reply TSAG-LS32)
SG11-LS206 53 All/11 TSAG LS on observations concerning future work of ITU-T SG11 for the upcoming study period 2025-2028
SG11-LS207 54 All/11 TSAG RG-WM LS Review of draft new A-series Supplement "Guidelines for the development of a standards gap analysis"
SG11-LS208 55 All/11 TSAG LS/r on draft analysis of operational parts (resolves, instructs etc) of WTSA/PP/WTDC/Council/ITU-R Resolutions
(reply TSAG-LS42)
SG11-LS209 56 All/11 SCV, All ITU-T SGs LS on new ITU-T SG11 terms and definitions
(Geneva, 1-10 May 2024)
SG11-LS164