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Executive Summary of the SG13 meeting

Executive summary of the SG13 meeting
16 - 27 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland

This SG13 meeting attracted 145 delegates (140 live + 5 remote) considered 367 documents split as 152 contributions and 215 TDs. Remote participation facilities were offered upon request resulting in 10 sessions.

Main meeting results

Recommendation considered for approval (Resolution 1 - TAP)

ITU-T Rec. No.	Q	Base text	Status	Title
Y.2774 (Y.DPI-ReqFN)	7	TD124/PLEN	New	Functional requirements of deep packet inspection for future networks

Further to the announcement in TSB Circular 77 and having received the authorization to go for consideration for approval, SG13 examined the draft Recommendation Y.2774 along with comments received during the consultation process. Certain proposals for revision depart from points of principle agreed at the previous meetings for this Recommendation therefore the meeting decided to apply § 9.5.2 of Resolution 1 (Rev. Hammamet, 2016), namely, to defer consideration of this draft new Recommendation to the Study Group 13 March 2019 meeting.

Therefore the consideration for approval of draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.2774 “Functional requirements of deep packet inspection for future networks" will take place at 4 – 15 March 2019 SG13 meeting in Zimbabwe. See TSB Circular 108 (dated 3 August 2018).

Recommendations consented for Last Call (Recommendation A.8 - AAP)

ITU-T Rec. No.	Q	Base text	Status	Title
Y.3170 (Y.qos-ml)	6	TD131/PLEN	New	Requirements of machine learning based QoS assurance for IMT-2020 network
Y.3103 (Y.IMT2020-BM)	20	TD128/PLEN	New	Business Role-based Models in IMT-2020
Y.2814 (Y.MM-RN)	23	TD129/PLEN	New	Mobility Management framework over reconfigurable networks

Subsequent to the meeting ETRI submitted the patent declaration (with three pending patents) for Y.2814. The AAP Last Call period for the consented 3 Recommendations starts from the 1 September 2018 (see AAP-42).

Supplement agreed to (Recommendation A.13)

ITU-T Doc. No.	Q	Base text	Status	Title
Suppl. 48 to Y.3070-series (Y.ICN-PoC-DS)	22	TD130/PLEN	New	Proof-of-Concept for Data Service using Information Centric Networking in IMT-2020

Important decisions (apart of Recommendations)

Human assets

- Nominated Ms Rim Belhassine-Cherif (Tunisia Telecom) as a Vice-chairman of WP3/13 to replace Mr Maurice Ghazal (Lebanon)
- Nominated Mr Kazunori Tanikawa (NEC, Japan), as a co-Rapporteur for Q21/13 to replace Mr Naotaka Morita (NTT, Japan)
- Nominated Mr Mamadou Oury Sakho (Guinea) as the Associate Rapporteur of Q5/13
- Nominated as Acting Rapporteur for Q2/13 Mr Huan Deng (China Telecom) who chaired the Q2/13 meetings on 16 – 18 July 2018
- Agreed to appoint as Acting Rapporteurs for Q18/13 Mr Kangchan Lee (ETRI, Korea) and Mr Emil Kowalczyk (Orange Polska, Poland) to
run the Q18/13 meetings in July 2018
- Nominated as Acting Rapporteur for Q23/13 Mr Guo Ren (China Mobile) who chaired the Q23/13 meetings on 23 – 26 July 2018

Creation of the FG NET-2030 “Technologies for Network 2030
The idea to start looking at the networks after year 2030 and convene the studies on this topic in a form of the focus group was brought by 4 contributions from 6 entities. After addressing few minor questions for clarification, SG13 made a line by line review of the proposed Terms of Reference of the new Focus Group, found in C405-R2, and agreed to establish a new Focus Group “Technologies for Network 2030" (FG-NET-2030) with the ToR as in TD118/PLEN.

The FG NET-2030, as a platform to study and advance international networking technologies, will investigate the future network architecture, requirements, use cases, and capabilities of the networks for the year 2030 and beyond.

Parent group: SG13
Lifetime: one year from the first meeting
Tasks and Deliverables (non-exhaustive list):

- To identify the gaps and challenges which are not supported by existing and near future technologies like 5G/IMT-2020, including new
   network layer or new network architecture.
- To identify performance targets of Network 2030 that is beyond the limitation of existing and near future networks including 5G/IMT-2020.
- To make a report on the definitions, terminologies and taxonomy for Network 2030 and the relevant eco-system.
- To describe the potential architecture and framework of Network 2030.
- To analyse the backward compatibility and steps towards Network 2030, based on existing and near future networks including 5G/IMT-
2020.
- To study the future scenarios and use cases.
- To draft a report on standardization gaps for ITU-T study groups.

Supporters: China, Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, FiberHome Technologies (China), Verizon, ETRI (Republic of Korea), Tunisia Telecom, Russia, Rostelecom (Russia), Dolbi, TIM (Italy), InterDigital Communications (USA) as well as Hubei University (China), Surrey University (UK).

SG13 nominated the following leadership for this FG.
FG NET-2030 Chairman is Mr Richard Li, Huawei [interview]
Vice-chairmen of the Focus Group:
            Mr Mehmet Toy, Verizon, United States
            Mr Alexey Borodin, Rostelecom, Russian Federation
            Mr Yutaka Miyake, KDDI, Japan
            Ms Yuan Zhang, China Telecom, People's Republic of China

The first meeting of the FG NET-2030 will take place in New York, United States of America, from 3 to 4 October 2018, hosted by New York University in Brooklyn. First Workshop on Network 2030 will be held the day before the first meeting of the FG NET-2030, on 2 October 2018, at the same location.

TSAG decisions implementation

The ad-hoc groupon guidance for drafting technical Recommendations led by Mr Marco Carugi (OFCOM, Switzerland) and Mr Wu Tong (China Telecom) had two live sessions during the July SG13 meeting with report available in TD 256/GEN and the draft guidelines and methodologies for developing technical Recommendations - in TD 253-R2/GEN. In addition, the ad-hoc requested the continuation of their period of operation until the March 2019 SG13 meeting in order to get more feedback from Questions, finalize the output document and prepare it for SG13 decision. This request was satisfied. Ad-hoc will continue its work and is to bring final results to March 2019 meeting of SG13.

Coordination activities

Correspondence group with SG2 (WP2/2"Telecommunication management and network and service operations") to tackle network management issues for 5G was established by SG2 (at SG2 July 2018 meeting) and SG13 closing plenary. Grown from the successful JRG-CCM experience of the past, it introduces more freedom for coordination efforts. It anticipates applying the SG2 expertise to review SG13 network management work and vise a versa. Terms of Reference and other details are given in TD 123/PLEN. IMT-2020 SG2&SG13 network management correspondence group led by Mr Wei Chen and Mr Qian Hu will perform its duties at the mailing list imt2020nmsg2sg13[at]lists.itu.int.

The JCA-IMT2020 had its third meeting on 13 April 2018. As part of its business, it discussed and agreed to folder the SDN standards roadmap, inherited from JCA-SDN, into the IMT-2020 standardization roadmap. A number of inputs were agreed for incorporation into the IMT-2020 roadmap. Next meeting of JCA-IMT2020 will take place alongside Q4/11 interim meeting in September in Beijing, China, or during the SG15 meeting in October 2018 in Geneva (TBC). Last JCA-IMT2020 meeting report, TD 119/PLEN, was noted.

FG ML5G reported its progress to date. Report, TD 115/PLEN, was noted.

Issues for further elaboration

Consideration for approval of draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.2774 was deferred to SG13 March 2019 meeting.

Workshops/Promotion/Outreach

Past
Followed by 107 participants Third annual ITU IMT-2020/5G Workshop and Demo Day - 2018 (18 July 2018) offered a variety of presentations complemented by three demonstrations. Workshop outcomes capture the specific technical issues for SG13 potential elaboration as well as constrains on the way to 5G era.

Future
SG13 agreed to hold two workshops as follows:

- The first workshop on Network 2030 before the first meeting of the FG NET-2030, 2 October 2018, New York. Mr Richard Li (Huawei,
USA) was entrusted to lead the workshop steering committee.
- Seventh SG13 regional workshop for Africa will take place on 22 – 23 April 2019 in Abuja, Nigeria, alongside SG13RG-AFR meeting. Mr
Elliot Kabalo (ZICTA, Zambia) will lead the preparation as a head of the workshop steering committee.

In addition to the above, decision was taken to convene the next technical tutorial alongside the next co-located rapporteur group meetings (22 October – 2 November 2018, Geneva). Topic will be quantum cryptographic technologies, quantum key distribution presented by SK Telecom (Korea).

The WP1/13 management team was instructed to update the ITU-T SG13 action plan for 5G (Technical Packages) according to the results of the July 2018 SG13 meeting.

A press release and newslog story were disseminated to announce the establishment of the new ITU-T Focus Group NET-2030

Bridging Standardization Gap (BSG)
BSG topic appeared on the agenda of the SG13 meeting in association with the activities of its Regional Group for Africa. The report of the sixth meeting of the latter was approved, (TD 177/PLEN). Also, the meeting followed the brief overview of the workshop on future networks held back to back with the sixth meeting of the SG13RG-AFR in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, in March 2018 (workshop report is in TD 245/GEN). The next meeting of the SG13 Regional Group for Africa will take place in Abuja, Nigeria, 24 – 25 April 2019 hosted by Ministry of Communication Technology (Nigeria).

Two questionnaires on Big Data Adoption in Developing Countries and on Use of ITU-T Recommendations by Developing Countries were agreed for dispatching by Q5/13, TDs PLEN 137 and 140. Material collected from responses will form basis for development of the new Supplement on Big Data Adoption in Developing Countries in Q5/13. The responses to the second questionnaire (Use of ITU-T Recommendations by Developing Countries) will help to better shape promotion of ITU-T Recommendations in developing countries and contribute to the efforts of Bridging Standardization Gap.

Organization of the work
At the reported meeting SG13 tested a short interim plenary session (in the middle of the meeting) for taking decision. Trial proved to be successful.

SG13 agreed to approve and dispatch the outgoing liaison statements, elaborated at rapporteur group meetings, from the WP level if WP has a stand-alone meeting for decision making. This best practice to convene SG13 business applies from now onwards.

A SG13 award for dedication and long years of active involvement into the work of SG13 was offered to 6 SG13 members. This practice will continue at the next SG13 meetings.

Future plans
An important number of interim activities were agreed to. In particular, 12 SG13 Questions will meet as Rapporteur groups in Geneva on 22 October - 2 November 2018.

Next meetings
The Working Parties WP1/13 (IMT-2020 Networks & Systems), WP2/13 (Cloud Computing & Big Data) and WP3/13 (Network Evolution & Trust) plenary meetings will be convened on 2 November 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland in order to give consent to the following draft Recommendations and agree on the Supplements, new work items and future plans:

WP1/13:

- Y.IMT-2020.qos-mon “IMT-2020 network QoS monitoring architectural framework”, Q6/13
- Y.IMT2020-arch “Architecture of the IMT-2020 network”, Q20/13
- Y.IMT2020-CE-Req “Requirements of capability exposure in the IMT-2020 network”, Q20/13
- Revision of Y.3112 “Framework for the support of Multiple Network Slicing in the IMT-2020 network”, Q21/13
- Y.SFCM ” Service function chaining in mobile network”, Q21/13
- Y.NSOM ”Mobile network slicing orchestration and management”, Q21/13
- Y.3MO “Requirements and Architectural Framework of Multi-layer, Multi-Domain, Multi-Technology Orchestration for SDN” , Q21/13
- Y.AMC “Requirements and Architectural Framework for Autonomic Management and Control of IMT-2020 Networks”, Q21/13
- Y.ICN-ReqN “Requirements and Capabilities of ICN Name Mapping and Resolution Service in IMT-2020”, Q22/13
- Y.PTDN-T-interface “T interface in Public packet Telecommunication Data Network (PTDN)”, Q22/13
- Y.MobileP2P “Mobility supporting architecture for mobile Peer to Peer service in heterogeneous wireless networks”, Q23/13

WP2/13:

- Y.bDDN-MNTMP, “Big data driven mobile network traffic management and planning”, Q7/13
- Y.ccpm-reqts, "Cloud computing - Functional requirements of physical machine", Q17/13
- Y.bdp-reqts, " Big data – Requirements for data provenance", Q17/13
- Y.BDaaS-arch, “Cloud computing - Functional architecture of Big Data as a Service”, Q18/13
- Y.ccicdm-req, “Cloud Computing - Functional requirements of inter-cloud data management”, Q19/13
- Y.ccictm,” Cloud Computing - Overview of Inter-Cloud Trust Management” , Q19/13
- Y.3514 Corrigendum 1, “Cloud computing - Trusted inter-cloud computing framework and requirements”, Q19/13
- Supplement Y.Sup-bDDN-usecase, “Use case and application scenario of big data driven networking”, Q7/13
- Supplement Y.sup.ccsr, “Supplement on cloud computing standardization roadmap”, Q17/13

WP3/13:

- Y.NGNe-O-reqts “Requirements and capabilities of orchestration in NGNe”, Q2/13
- Y.3053 Amendment 1 "Trustworthy networking deployment architecture and procedure", Q16/13
- Supplement Y.disfs “Device Independent Screen-free service models and scenarios”, Q1/13

The WPs/13 meetings will be convened sequentially WP3, WP2, WP1.

Future meeting of Study Group 13 will take place from 4 to 15 March 2019 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe hosted by Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ).

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Executive Summary of the SG13 meeting

​Executive summary of the SG13 meeting16 - 27 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland

Executive summary of the SG13 meeting
16 - 27 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland