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Executive Summary of the SG11 meeting (virtual, 17-26 March 2021)

ITU-T Study Group 11 “Signalling requirements, protocols, test specifications and combating counterfeit products” meeting was held fully virtual from 17 to 26 March 2021 and was attended by 128 delegates from 30 countries.

All the sessions were supported by ITU MyMeetings remote participation tool. Interpretation was available in English and Russian on the opening and closing plenaries. Remote participation guideline was available on the SG11 webpage for Delegates and Moderators. Additional remote participation guidance is contained in SG11-TD1528/GEN.

Parallel events:

ITU-ETSI-IEEE Joint SDOs Brainstorming Workshop on Testbeds Federations for 5G and Beyond: Interoperability, Standardization, Reference Model and APIs, virtual, 15-16 March 2021;
ITU-T Conformity Assessment Steering Committee (ITU-T CASC) virtual meeting, 19 March 2021.

1 Draft Recommendations for (TAP) Determination (Resolution 1)
None at this meeting.

2 Consented Recommendations (ITU-T A.8)
The following table shows the 'Consented' draft Recommendations.

#	Q	WP	Draft new/revised Rec. No.	Title	Final TD	A.5 justification
1.	4/11	1	ITU-T Q.4067 (ex Q.VNFT-req)	Signalling requirements for VNF lifecycle management under the testing environment	SG11-TD1631/GEN	-
2.	16/11	3	ITU-T Q.4065 (ex Q.TI-TEST)	Framework of model network for Tactile Internet testing	SG11-TD1629/GEN	-

3 Supplements, Handbooks, Technical Papers, Guidelines and Corrigenda

3.1 Supplements
ITU-T SG11 agreed the Supplements below:

#	Q	Title	Final TD
1	15/11	ITU-T Q Suppl.73 (ex. Q.Sup.BLvsWL) “Guidelines for Permissive versus Restrictive System Implementations to address counterfeit, stolen and illegal mobile devices”	SG11-TD1590-R2/GEN
2	15/11	ITU-T Q Suppl.74 (ex. Q.Sup.CFS-Rdm) “Roadmap for the Q.5050-series - Combat of Counterfeit ICT and Stolen Mobile Devices”	SG11-TD1593/GEN

3.2 Guidelines
No Guidelines were agreed at this meeting.

3.3 Handbooks

No Handbooks were approved at this meeting.

3.4 Technical Papers / Technical Reports
No Technical Papers/Technical Reports were approved at this meeting.

3.5 Corrigenda
The following Corrigendum was consented at this meeting:

#	Q	WP	Draft new/revised Rec. No.	Title	Final TD	A.5 justification
1	13/11	3	ITU-T Q.3961 Cor. 1	Parameters for bottleneck evaluation of the web-browsing service	SG11-TD1608/GEN	-

4 Recommendations/Technical reports/Supplements deleted

ITU-T Non-normative document	Title
TP-TEST-UE-MS	Guideline for general test procedure and specification for measurements of the LTE, 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations (UE/MS) for over-the-air performance testing

5 SG11 Structure and Management

At its opening plenary, ITU-T Study Group 11:

created new Working Party 4/11 “Combating counterfeit telecommunication/ICT devices/software and mobile device theft”;

Mr João Alexandre Moncaio ZANON (Brazil) was appointed as WP4/11 Chairman, and Mr Isaac BOATENG (Ghana) was appointed as WP4/11 Vice-chairman.

changed the title of the Working Party 3/11 as follows: “Conformance and interoperability testing”;

Mr Khoa NGUYEN VAN (Vietnam) has been appointed as WP3/11 Vice-chairman, replacing Mr João Alexandre Moncaio ZANON (Brazil).

allocated Questions, as follows:

WP1/11: Q1/11, Q2/11, Q3/11, Q4/11, Q5/11;
WP2/11: Q6/11, Q7/11, Q8/11;
WP3/11: Q12/11, Q13/11, Q14/11, Q16/11;
WP4/11: Q15/11, Q17/11.

Details are available in SG11-TD1521-R1/GEN.

6 Questions
The new set of Questions of SG11 were endorsed by TSAG as indicated in TSAG-R16, TSB Circular 295. This set of Questions became effective on 18 January 2021, for the remainder of the study period; there were no changes to the texts of the Questions during this SG11 meeting.

Table 1 – Map of in-force SG11 Questions (endorsed, left) to the previous ones (right)

(TSAG-R16)

New number	Current Question title	Status	Previous number	Previous Question title
1/11	Signalling and protocol architectures for telecommunication networks and guidelines for implementations	Continued	1/11	Signalling and protocol architectures in emerging telecommunication environments and guidelines for implementations
2/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for services and applications in telecommunication environments	Continued	2/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for services and applications in emerging telecommunication environments
3/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for emergency telecommunications	Continued	3/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for emergency telecommunications
4/11	Protocols for control, management and orchestration of network resources	Continued	4/11	Protocols for control, management and orchestration of network resources
5/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for border network gateway in the context of network virtualization and intelligentization	Continued	5/11	Protocols and procedures supporting services provided by broadband network gateways
6/11	Protocols supporting control and management technologies for IMT-2020 network and beyond	Continued	6/11	Protocols supporting control and management technologies for IMT-2020
7/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for network attachment and edge computing for future networks, IMT-2020 network and beyond	Continued	7/11	Signalling requirements and protocols for network attachment including mobility and resource management for future networks and IMT-2020
8/11	Protocols supporting distributed content networking, information centric network (ICN) technologies for future networks, IMT-2020 network and beyond	Continued	8/11	Protocols supporting distributed content networking and information centric network (ICN) for future networks and IMT-2020, including end-to-end multi-party communications
12/11	Testing of internet of things, its applications and identification systems	Continued	12/11	Testing of internet of things, its applications and identification systems
13/11	Monitoring parameters for protocols used in emerging networks, including cloud/edge computing and software-defined networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV)	Continued	13/11	Monitoring parameters for protocols used in emerging networks, including cloud computing and software-defined networking/network function virtualization (SDN/NFV)
14/11	Testing of cloud, SDN and NFV	Continued	14/11	Cloud interoperability testing
15/11	Combating counterfeit and stolen telecommunication/ICT devices	Continued	15/11	Combating counterfeit and stolen ICT equipment
16/11	Test specifications for protocols, networks and services for emerging technologies, including benchmark testing	Continuation of Q9/11, Q10/11 and Q11/11	9/11	Service and networks benchmark testing, remote testing including Internet related performance measurements
			10/11	Testing of emerging IMT-2020 technologies
			11/11	Protocols and networks test specifications; frameworks and methodologies
17/11	Combating counterfeit or tampered telecommunication/ICT software	New	-	-

7 Liaison officers and Rapporteurs

Following the Questions endorsement by TSAG in January 2021, the following appointments were agreed at the SG11 opening plenary: Mr Martin Brand (A1 Telecom Austria, Austria) has been appointed as Rapporteur Q16/11 and Mr Kaoru KENYOSHI (NIST, Japan) has been appointed as Associate rapporteur Q16/11. Mr João Alexandre Moncaio ZANON (Brazil) was appointed as Rapporteur Q17/11.

Also, at the opening plenary, Ms Wu Linze (China Telecom) was nominated Acting rapporteur Q14/11 for the duration of the meeting.

Ms Ying Cheng (China Unicom) was nominated Acting WP1/11 Chairman and Mr Jongmin Lee (SK Telecom, Korea (Rep. of)) was nominated Acting WP2/11 Chairman, both in case of connectivity issues at this meeting.

Ms Haining Wang has stepped down as liaison officer for JCA-IMT2020.

The final list of Rapporteurs, Associate Rapporteurs and Acting Rapporteurs can be found in SG11-TD1521-R1/GEN.

The final list of Liaison Officers and representatives can be found in SG11-TD1529-R1/GEN.

8 Conformity Assessment Steering Committee

The twelfth meeting of the ITU-T Conformity Assessment Steering Committee (CASC) was held virtually during ITU-T SG11 virtual meeting on 19 March 2021.

The CASC focused on the iLS received from ILAC (SG11-TD1583/GEN), which highlights potential approach on collaboration regarding ITU Testing Laboratories recognition procedure. The detailed presentation was given by ILAC representative (SG11-TD1625/GEN).

ILAC will develop a procedure for TLs seeking accreditation for ITU Recommendations. According to this procedure, a test laboratory that wishes to become an ITU recognized test laboratory, and which is already accredited for ITU Recommendations may apply to ITU for recognition by supplying, amongst other things, the identity of the AB (ILAC MRA signatory) performing the accreditation as well as the relevant part of the scope of accreditation. ITU can confirm validity by communicating directly with the relevant AB, which is a normal procedure if a risk to validity is considered. The procedure will be finalized and made available by the end of 2021. CASC encouraged ILAC to liaise on further progress of this procedure.

CASC decided that ITU may recognize TLs that have been accredited by ILAC MRA signatories AB which have ITU Recommendations in its scope of accreditation. ITU may approach those TLs. A test laboratory accredited for ITU Recommendations may apply to ITU for recognition by supplying, amongst other things: the identity of the AB (ILAC MRA signatory) performing the accreditation and relevant part of the scope of accreditation. TSB was requested to create relevant application form to be made available on the C&I Portal.

There are no financial implications for ITU for implementing such procedures. Financial implications for TLs are to be covered by the cost structures of the ABs.

More details are available in the ITU-T CASC report, as contained in SG11-TD1575/GEN.

9 IMT-2020 and P2P communications related issues

ITU-T SG11 has made progress on the following draft Recommendations:

ITU-T Q.INS-PM: Protocol for managing intelligent network slicing with AI-assisted analysis in IMT-2020 network;
ITU-T Q.IMT2020-PIAS: Protocol for providing intelligent analysis services in IMT-2020 network;
ITU-T Q.IMT2020-PFW: Protocol Framework for IMT-2020;
ITU-T Q.PMUPF: Protocol for managing User Plane function in IMT-2020 network;
ITU-T Q.IITSN: Protocol for IMT-2020 network Integration with Time Sensitive Network;
ITU-T Q.IEC-PRO: Protocols for microservices based intelligent edge computing;
ITU-T Q.FMEC-SRA: Signalling requirement and architecture for federated MEC;
ITU-T Q.HP2P-recov: Hybrid P2P communications: Tree and data recovery procedures;
ITU-T Q.HP2P-omp: Hybrid P2P communications: overlay management protocol;
ITU-T Q.HP2P-pp: Hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) communications: Peer protocol;
ITU-T Q.HP2P-dss: Hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) communications: Data streaming service;
ITU-T Q.IMT2020-SAO: Requirement, framework and protocols for signalling network analyses and optimization in IMT-2020.

More information about these results is available in the WP2/11 and WP1/11 reports (SG11-TD1572-R1/GEN, SG11-TD1571-R1/GEN).

10 Signalling of Computing Power Networks (CPN)

SG11 has made progress on draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.CPN “Signalling requirements for Computing Power Network” and started new work item Q.CPN-TP-SA “Signalling Architecture of transaction platform in CPN”.

More information about these results is available in the WP1/11 report (SG11-TD1571-R1/GEN).

11 Signalling of Service Function Chaining (SFC)
SG11 started two new work items:

Supplement Q.Suppl.pSFC: Signaling requirements for parallel SFC packet processing;
Supplement Q.Suppl.heter_SI: Signalling Requirements of SFC based on heterogeneous service index in mobile scenarios.

More information about these results is available in the WP1/11 report (SG11-TD1571-R1/GEN).

12 Security issues of SS7 and other protocols
SG11 has made progress on the following draft Recommendations:

ITU-T Q.CIDA: Signalling procedures of calling line identification authentication;
ITU-T Q.Pro-Trust: Signalling procedures and protocols for enabling interconnection between trustable network entities in support of existing and emerging networks;
ITU-T TR-USSD: Low resource requirement, quantum resistant, encryption of USSD messages for use in Financial services.

In order to follow the demarcation lines established between two Study Groups (TSAG-TD934), SG11 kept SG17, particularly Q11/17, informed on the progress of ITU-T Q.Pro-Trust and ITU-T TR-USSD. With regard to Q.Pro-Trust, SG11 seeks SG17’s view regarding the techniques and information elements required for a secure authentication of ownership of the security domain that the operator wishes to receive an End Entity Certificate (EEC) for. The relevant LS was agreed at the meeting (SG11-TD1602/GEN).

SG11 continues collaborating with ITU-T Study Groups SG13, SG17, SG20; ITU-T FG-QIT4N; ITU-T FIGI-SIT; 3GPP TSG SA3; ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 WG2 on this subject matter.

More information about these results is available in the WP1/11 report (SG11-TD1571-R1/GEN).

13 VoLTE/ViLTE and IMS-related signalling issues

SG11 has made progress on the following draft Recommendations:

ITU-T Q.LiteIMS-SA: Signalling architecture of Lite IMS for IMT-2020 advanced network;
ITU-T Q.VoLTE-SAO-FP: Framework and protocols for signalling network analyses and optimization in VoLTE;
ITU-T Q.Sig_Req_ETS_IMS_roaming: Signalling requirements for emergency telecommunication service in IMS roaming environment.

SG11 started new work Q.ISDN-SIP: Interworking between ISDN and the IP Multimedia (IM) Core Network (CN) subsystem.

In order to provide overview of SG11 achievements and to identify the future standardization activities on IMS/VoLET/ViLTE-related signalling issues, SG11 is going to organize a virtual Workshop on protocol enhancements of roaming and interworking for IMS in LTE/IMT-2020 environment, planned to take place fully virtual on 5 July 2021 (TBC).

More information about these results is available in the WP1/11 report (SG11-TD1571-R1/GEN).

14 Testing specifications, monitoring and implementation of ITU C&I Programme

SG11 consented two draft new Recommendations, as follows:

ITU-T Q.4065 (ex. Q.TI-TEST): Framework of model network for Tactile Internet testing, which describes an architecture, scenarios, and key network metrics for establishing a model network for testing Tactile Internet services;
ITU-T Q.4067 (ex. Q.VNFT-req): Signaling requirements for VNF lifecycle management under the testing environment, which specifies the process and signalling requirements for virtualized network function (VNF) lifecycle management under testing environment by architecturally adding the testing platform in the NFV framework. The signaling focuses on the interface between the VNF instantiation functional component in testing platform and NFVO functional component in MANO.

Following the request received from SCV regarding term “HTML object” defined in Recommendation ITU-T Q.3961, SG11 consented Corrigendum to Q.3961 “Parameters for bottleneck evaluation of the web-browsing service” and sent reply to SCV (SG11-TD1607/GEN).

In addition, SG11 has made progress on the following draft Recommendations:

ITU-T Q.GDC-IoT-test: Testing requirements and procedures for Internet of Things based green data centres;
ITU-T Q.vs-iop-ts: Test suite for interoperability testing of virtual switch;
ITU-T Q.BaaS-iop-reqts: Interoperability testing requirements of blockchain as a service.

SG11 agreed to start new work item Q.joint_tr “Requirements and Reference Model for optimized traceroute of joint IP/MPLS”.

Following oLS that SG11 sent to ITU-R WP5D in December 2020, SG11 was kept informed that the Technical Paper TP-TEST-UE-MS “Guideline for general test procedure and specification for measurements of the LTE, 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations (UE/MS) for over-the-air performance testing” falls within the R-sector.

ITU-T SG11 understood that the matter that is addressed is under responsibility of the ITU-R and has decided to withdraw this report. However, from SG11 perspective the topic has gained interest in the ITU membership and therefore, ITU-T SG11 decided to transfer the document for ITU-R consideration.

The relevant note will be added on the Technical Report’s web page as follows: “Withdrawn and transferred to ITU-R for further enhancement”. The report will remain available from the webpage, as all deleted/withdrawn ITU-T documents should stay available for historical purposes due to possible cross referencing from external publications.

In addition, SG11 replied to IEEE 802.1 regarding their plans to withdraw IEEE Std 802.1D-2004. SG11 requested IEEE 802.1 to clarify whether the standard remain available. SG11 will decide regarding updates needed for ITU-T Q.4043, based on the feedback received prior to the next SG11 meeting (December 2021). The oLS is available in SG11-TD1588/GEN.

Finally, ITU-T SG11 updated the reference table of ITU-T Recommendations suitable for conformity/interoperability assessment (SG11-TD1627/GEN). All ITU-T SGs are encouraged to provide their updates to the next SG11 meeting (SG11-TD1628/GEN).

More information about these results is available in the WP3/11 report (SG11-TD1573-R2/GEN).

15 Joint SDOs Brainstorming Workshop on Testbeds Federations for 5G and Beyond: Interoperability, Standardization, Reference Model and APIs

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), ETSI, and IEEE organised a Joint SDOs Brainstorming Workshop on Testbeds Federations for 5G and Beyond: Interoperability, Standardization, Reference Model and APIs. This workshop took place virtually from 15 to 16 March 2021. The summary and the key takeaways are contained in SG11-TD1581/GEN.

According to the key takeaways of the Workshop, the creation of the ITU-T Focus Group on Testbed Federations might be a good way forward in order to engage various stakeholders to contribute. The non-technical aspects might also become a subject to be included to the ToR of such Focus Group. The official proposals on the creation of such group are highly encouraged.

During panel discussion, it was noted that the security of the testbed federations might be one of the subjects which require further study and building the joint forces with other SDOs such IEEE will be a good way forward.

One of the objectives of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative (FNI) Testbeds WG is to collaborate with the vendor community and research community and thus expand upon the existing testbeds towards federated development of testbeds for next generation networks.

In this regard, ITU-T SG17 was invited to collaborate with IEEE INGR Security Group on the possibility to join forces in working on the Required Security Framework (as a standard) associated with the Testbeds Federations Reference Model and its APIs. The relevant LS was sent to SG17 (SG11-TD1636-R1/GEN).

In addition, during panel discussion, it was noted that the APIs of TMForum pertaining to Products/Services Selling and Uptake that capture generic aspects of relevance to the new idea of “Testbed as Service” might be adopted by ITU SG11 and ETSI TC INT in elaborating APIs for the Testbeds Federations Reference Model. The relevant LS was sent to TMForum (SG11-TD1635-R1/GEN).

Following the outcomes of the Workshop and received contribution, SG11 has made progress on draft ITU-T Q.API4TB “Open API for interoperable testbed federations”, which defines reference model and APIs of Testbed Federations. This work goes in close collaboration with ETSI TC INT and SG11 is going to finalize and consent document during WP3/11 meeting in July 2021.

SG11 appreciated the achieved outcomes of the join event and welcomed all three SDOs to organize next joint events in the near future.

16 Combating counterfeit telecommunication/ICT devices/software and mobile device theft

SG11 created a new Working Party 4/11 “Combating counterfeit telecommunication/ICT devices/software and mobile device theft”.

SG11 agreed two new Supplements:

ITU-T Q Suppl.73 (ex. Q.Sup.BLvsWL): Guidelines for Permissive versus Restrictive System Implementations to address counterfeit, stolen and illegal mobile devices. This Supplement provides guidelines for Permissive versus Restrictive system deployments that should be considered when deciding what approach to employ in order to address the issues of counterfeit, illegal and stolen mobile devices;
ITU-T Q Suppl.74 (ex. Q.Sup.CFS-Rdm): Roadmap for the Q.5050-series - Combat of Counterfeit ICT and Stolen Mobile Devices. It specifies the index and relation for the Q.5050-series Recommendation, Technical Reports and Supplements on the Combat of Counterfeit ICT and Stolen Mobile Devices.

Following received contributions, SG11 has made progress on ITU-T TR-CF-QoS: Impact of Counterfeit Mobile devices on Quality of Service. Following iLS received from SG12 (SG12-LS103), SG11 informed SG12 about the progress on the TR-CF-QoS (SG11-TD1643/GEN).

Also, following outcomes of the first Q17/11 meeting, SG11 agreed to start a new Technical Report TR-MCM-Use-Cases “Use Cases on the combat of Multimedia Content Misappropriation”, which aim is to collect use cases from ITU Members that reflects challenges, opportunities and results on the combat of multimedia content misappropriation and, with this information compendium, assist ITU members in engaging this problem.

SG11 sent LS to ITU-T Study Groups SG5, SG16, SG17; ITU-D SG2 (Q4/2); APT; ATU; CEPT; CITEL; LAS; RCC in order to provide updates on the Progress on the combat of counterfeit and stolen ICT and requests the status of ongoing related work items and studies.

SG11 will promote achievements on combating counterfeit and stolen ICT devices via several Workshops, as follows:

Virtual session during WSIS Forum “Combating counterfeit telecommunication/ICT devices and software”; organized by ITU-T SG11 (7 May 2021, TBC);
Webinar on combating counterfeiting (June 2021, TBC).

More information about these results is available in the WP4/11 report (SG11-TD1574-R2/GEN).

17 Outgoing Liaison Statements

The following table shows the list of the 27 agreed outgoing liaison statements, including one outgoing LS (SG11-LS172 | SG11-TD1504/GEN) agreed by the Management Team by correspondence in December 2020, which was noted at the SG11 opening plenary.

The full list of oLSs is available in SG11-TD1510/GEN.

#	Q	For:	To:	Title	Reference
1	1/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 13	LS on initiation of new work item Q.CPN-TP-SA “Signalling Architecture of transaction platform in CPN”	SG11-LS173
2	1/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 13, FG-QIT4N	LS on collaboration on signalling and protocol aspects of Quantum related technologies	SG11-LS174
3	2/11	I	ETSI TC Cyber WG QSC	LS/r on draft Technical Report ITU-T TR-USSD (ETSI TC Cyber WG QSC-CYBERQSC(20)019002r1)	SG11-LS175
4	2/11	A	ITU-T Study Group 17	LS on draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.Pro-Trust “Signalling procedures and protocols for enabling interconnection between trustable network entities in support of existing and emerging networks”	SG11-LS176
5	2/11	A	ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 WG2	LS on progress of ongoing work item ITU-T TR-USSD	SG11-LS177
5	2/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 13, ITU-T Study Group 17, ITU-T Study Group 20, ITU-T FG-QIT4N, ITU-T FIGI-SIT, 3GPP TSG SA3	LS on progress of ongoing work item ITU-T TR-USSD	SG11-LS177
6	3/11	A	ITU-T Study Group 2, 3GPP TSG SA WG2	LS/r on draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.Sig_Req_ETS_IMS_roaming “Signalling requirements for emergency telecommunication service in IMS roaming environment” (3GPP TSG SA2-S2-210310)	SG11-LS178
6	3/11	I	3GPP TSG SA, 3GPP TSG SA WG6, 3GPP TSG CT		SG11-LS178
7	4/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 13, IETF SFC WG, JCA-IMT2020	LS on recent service function chaining related developments in Q4/SG11: two new draft Supplements	SG11-LS179
8	4/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 13, JCA-IMT2020, ETSI ISG NFV	LS on the consent of draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.4067 (ex. Q.VNFT-req)	SG11-LS180
9	7/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 13	LS/r on initiation of new work on Edge computing - Overview and requirements (SG13-LS175)	SG11-LS181
10	12/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 5, ITU-T Study Group 20	LS/r on draft new Recommendation ITU-T Q.GDC-IoT-test “Testing requirements and procedures for Internet of Things based green data centres” (SG5-LS166)	SG11-LS182
11	13/11	A	ITU-T Study Group 13, IETF opsawg WG	LS on recent network OAM related developments in Q13/SG11: one new draft Recommendation Q.joint_tr “Requirements and Reference Model for optimized traceroute of joint IP/MPLS”	SG11-LS183
12	13/11	A	IETF spring WG	LS on recent network OAM related developments in Q13/11 of SG11: one non-consensus contribution	SG11-LS184
13	13/11	I	SCV	LS/r on revision of definition in TU-T Q.3961 (SCV-LS35)	SG11-LS185
14	14/11	A	IEEE 802.1	LS/r on the withdrawal of IEEE Std 802.1D-2004 (IEEE802.1-20201222)	SG11-LS186
15	14/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 12, ITU-T Study Group 17	LS on progress of virtual switch interoperability testing suite of draft Recommendation ITU-T Q.vs-iop-ts “Test suite for interoperability testing of virtual switch”	SG11-LS187
16	15/11	I	ITU-T Study Group 12	LS/r on coordination and collaboration on the impact of counterfeit mobile devices on quality of service (TR-CF-QoS) (SG12-LS103)	SG11-LS188
17	15/11, 17/11	A	ITU-T Study Group 5	LS on updates on the Progress on the combat of counterfeit and stolen ICT	SG11-LS189
17	15/11, 17/11	I	ITU-T Study Group16, ITU-T Study Group 17, ITU-D SG2 (Q4/2), APT, ATU, CEPT, CITEL, LAS, RCC		SG11-LS189
18	16/11	I	All ITU-T Study Groups	LS on reference table to be used for Conformance and Interoperability testing	SG11-LS190
19	16/11	A	TMForum	LS on APIs for Testbed Federations developed by TMForum	SG11-LS191
20	16/11	A	ITU-T Study Group 17, IEEE INGR Security Group	LS on Outcomes of ITU-ETSI-IEEE Brainstorming Workshop on Testbeds Federations for 5G and Beyond	SG11-LS192
21	16/11	A	ITU-R WP 5D	LS/r on Guideline for general test procedure and specification for measurements of the LTE, 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations (UE/MS) for over the-air performance testing (ITU-R WP 5D-5D/TEMP/329-R1)	SG11-LS193
22	All/11	A	FG-AN	LS/r on Call for use cases for autonomous networks (FGAN-LS2)	SG11-LS194
23	All/11	A	SCV	LS on new ITU-T SG11 terms and definitions	SG11-LS195
24	All/11	A	JCA-IMT2020	LS/r on Invitation to update the information in the IMT2020 roadmap (JCA-IMT2020-LS9)	SG11-LS196
25	All/11	A	ITU-T Study Group 13	LS/r on invitation to review Artificial Intelligence Standardization Roadmap and provide missing or updated information (SG13-LS196)	SG11-LS197
26	All/11	I	TSAG	LS on status of ITU-T SG11 discussion on new Questions O/11 and P/11	SG11-LS172
27	CASC	A	ILAC	LS/r on ILAC-ITU collaboration on recognition of TLs (ILAC-20200312)	SG11-LS198

18 Approved new work items
18.1 New work items initiated during ITU-T SG11 meeting (virtual, 17-26 March 2021)
The following table shows the list of the seven new work items. See SG11-TD1536/GEN.

#	Q	Work item (Draft Recs)	Title	Editors	Timing	Reference
1	1/11	Q.CPN-TP-SA	Signalling Architecture of transaction platform in CPN	Qianying Zhao China Telecom, China zhaoqy50@chinatelecom.cn Bo Lei China Telecom, China leibo@chinatelecom.cn Chang Cao China Unicom, China caoc15@chinaunicom.cn Xu Zhou CNIC, China zhouxu@cnic.cn Taixin Li CNIC, China	2023-03	SG11-TD1610/GEN
2	2/11	Q.ISDN-SIP	Interworking between ISDN and the IP Multimedia (IM) Core Network (CN) subsystem	Christos Diamantis A1 Telekom Austria, Austria Christos.Diamantis@extern.a1.at Martin Brand A1 Telekom Austria, Austria martin.brand@A1.at	2021-12	SG11-TD1600/GEN
3	4/11	Supplement Q.Suppl.pSFC	Signaling requirements for parallel SFC packet processing	Cancan Huang Ying Cheng Zhiruo Liu Yongqing Zhu	2023-Q1	SG11-TD1632/GEN
4	4/11	Supplement Q.Suppl.heter_SI	Signalling Requirements of SFC based on heterogeneous service index in mobile scenarios	Cancan Huang Ying Cheng Zhiruo Liu Hong Tang	2023-Q1	SG11-TD1633/GEN
5	13/11	Q.joint_tr	Requirements and Reference Model for optimized traceroute of joint IP/MPLS	Cancan Huang huangcanc@chinatelecom.cn Minrui Shi shimr@chinatelecom.cn Xu Lu luxu@caict.ac.cn Yongsheng Liu liuys170@chinaunicom.cn	2023-02	SG11-TD1604/GEN
6	13/11	Q.3961 Cor.1	Corrigendum to the Recommendation ITU-T Q.3961 “Parameters for bottleneck evaluation of the web-browsing service”	Yongsheng Liu China Unicom, China liuys170@chinaunicom.cn	2021-03	SG11-TD1608/GEN
7	17/11	TR-MCM-Use-Cases	Use Cases on the combat of Multimedia Content Misappropriation	Marcus Arrais João Zanon	2023-Q1	SG11-TD1570-R1/GEN (A.13)

18.2 Work items initiated during the interim Rapporteur groups meeting
The following new work item was agreed at the Q3/11 interim Rapporteur Group meeting (virtual, 4-5 November 2020). It was further approved by WP1/11 (virtual, 19 November 2020). The details are available in SG11-TD1534/GEN.

Work Item	Title	Editors	Timing	Base text	Question
Q.Sig_Req_ETS_IMS_roaming	Signalling requirements for emergency telecommunication service in IMS roaming environment	Xiaojie Zhu, China Telecom zhuxiaojie@chinatelecom.cn Jianyin Zhang, ChinaMobile zhangjianyin@chinamobile.com Zhan Liu, China Telecom liuzhan22@chinatelecom.cn	2022-12	SG11-TD58/WP1	3/11

19 Work plan for interim Working Party and Rapporteur meetings
The following table represents the interim Working Party and Rapporteur meetings plan as agreed at the ITU-T SG11 closing plenary (virtual, 26 March 2021). Also available in SG11-TD1537-R1/GEN.

Question / WP	Dates	Place / Host	Terms of reference	Contact	Email reflector
WP1/11	16 July 2021	Virtual	- Finalize and consent ITU-T new Recommendations Q.SFPtr and Q.BNG-P4switch; - Approval of outgoing liaison statements; - Approval of new work items; - Approval meeting reports of Questions under WP1/11; - Review the work programme; - But not limited to.	Xiaojie Zhu zhuxiaojie@chinatelecom.cn	t17sg11all@lists.itu.int
WP2/11	15 July 2021	Virtual	- Approve all outcomes of Q6/11, Q7/11, Q8/11 RGM meetings; - Consent Q.INS-PM, Q.HP2P-pp and Q.HP2P-recov.	Shin-Gak Kang sgkang@etri.re.kr	t17sg11all@lists.itu.int
WP3/11	16 July 2021	Virtual	- Consent Q.API4TB and Q.vs-iop-ts; - Approve meeting report of Qs; - Approve Out-going liaisons; - Approve new WIs.	Kaoru Kenyoshi kaoru.kenyoshi@nict.go.jp	t17sg11all@lists.itu.int
1/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- To progress ongoing signalling architecture work items such as Q.LiteIMS-SA and Q.CPN-TP-SA; - To consider any new work item related to signalling architecture aspects; - But not limited to.	Huan Deng denghuan@chinatelecom.cn	t17sg11q1@lists.itu.int
2/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- To progress ongoing work items Q.VoLTE-SAO-FP, Q.CIDA, Q.ISDN-SIP; - To consider any possible new work item; - Review the incoming liaison statements and prepare oLS as needed; - But not limited to.	Cheng Li licheng@caict.ac.cn	t17sg11q2@lists.itu.int
3/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Progress the ongoing work item Q.Sig_Req_ETS_IMS_roaming; - Consider any other new work items; - Review the incoming liaison statements and prepare oLS as needed; - But not limited to.	Xiaojie Zhu zhuxiaojie@chinatelecom.cn	t17sg11q3@lists.itu.int
4/11	18-20 May 2021	E-meeting	- Progress Q.SFPtr to be ready for consent in July meeting; - But not limited to.	Ying Cheng chengying10@chinaunicom.cn	t17sg11q4@lists.itu.int
4/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Consent Q.SFPtr; - Progress other on-going work items; - Discuss new work items introduced by contributions; - But not limited to.	Ying Cheng chengying10@chinaunicom.cn	t17sg11q4@lists.itu.int
5/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- To finalize and consent Q.BNG-P4switch; - To progress ongoing work items; - To consider any new work item; - But not limited to.	Junfeng Ma majunfeng@caict.ac.cn	t17sg11q5@lists.itu.int
6/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Ongoing works; - New work items, if any but not limited to; - Propose Consent of Q.INS-PM.	Dan Xu xudan6@chinatelecom.cn	t17sg11q6@lists.itu.int
7/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Ongoing works; - New work items, if any but not limited to.	Jongmin Lee jminlee@sk.com	t17sg11q7@lists.itu.int
8/11	10-14 May 2021	10-13 May 2021: discussion of received input documents and outputs over Q8/11 mailing list 14 May 2021: E-meeting	- Ongoing works.	Changkyu Lee changkyu.lee@etri.re.kr	t17sg11q8@lists.itu.int
8/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Ongoing works; - New work items, if any but not limited to; - Propose Consent of Q.HP2P-pp and Q.HP2P-recov.	Changkyu Lee changkyu.lee@etri.re.kr	t17sg11q8@lists.itu.int
12/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Progress the ongoing work item Q.GDC-IoT-test; - Consider any other new work items; - Review the incoming liaison statements and prepare oLS as needed; - But not limited to.	Ruslan Kirichek kirichek@sut.ru	t17sg11q12@lists.itu.int
13/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Progress ongoing work items; - Consider other new work items; - Consider iLS.	Minrui Shi shimr@chinatelecom.cn	t17sg11q13@lists.itu.int
14/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Finalize for consent draft Q.vs-iop-ts; - Progress draft Q.vbng-iop-ts; - Progress draft Q.BaaS-iop-reqts; - Progress other on-going work item; - Discuss new work item introduced by contributions if any; - But not limited to.	Linze Wu wulinz@chinatelecom.cn	t17sg11q14@lists.itu.int
15/11	11-12 May 2021	E-meeting	- Progress TR-CF-QoS; - Review the incoming liaisons and other relevant document (if any).	Isaac Boateng isaac.boateng@nca.org.gh	t17sg11q15@lists.itu.int
15/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Progress Q.Sup.CFS-Use-Cases bases on contributions; - Progress TR-CF-QoS bases on contributions; - Discuss other input contributions and new work items; - Review the incoming liaisons and other relevant document (if any).	Isaac Boateng isaac.boateng@nca.org.gh	t17sg11q15@lists.itu.int
16/11 joint with ETSI TC INT	22 April 2021	E-meeting	- Advance ITU-T Q.API4TB; - Create new work items; - Discuss any other issues related to scope of Q16/11.	Martin Brand martin.brand@a1.at	t17sg11q16@lists.itu.int
16/11 joint with ETSI TC INT	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Finalize ITU-T Q.API4TB and propose it for consent; - Create new work items; - Discuss any other issues related to scope of Q16/11.	Martin Brand martin.brand@a1.at	t17sg11q16@lists.itu.int
17/11	7-16 July 2021	E-meeting	- Discuss input contributions; - Review the incoming liaisons and other relevant document (if any).	Joao Zanon zanon@anatel.gov.br	t17sg11q17@lists.itu.int

20 Regional Groups meetings

SG11RG-AFR
End of September 2021 (TBC)
Note: collocated with one-day Workshop
SG11RG-EECAT
3-4 June 2021, hybrid, TBC
Note: collocated with one-day Workshop

21 Promotion of ITU-T SG11 work

Virtual session during WSIS Forum “Combating counterfeit telecommunication/ICT devices and software”; organized by ITU-T SG11 (7 May 2021, TBC)
Webinar on combating counterfeiting (June 2021, TBC)
Workshop on protocol enhancements of roaming and interworking for IMS in LTE/IMT-2020 environment (virtual, 5 July 2021, TBC)
Workshop on improving security of signalling protocols used for DFS services (December 2021, b2b with SG11 meeting, TBC)

22 Next Study Group 11 meeting
It was noted that the following SG11 meetings are planned for 2021:

RGM meetings and WPs, virtual, 7-16 July 2021, TBC
SG11 meeting, 1-10 December 2021, TBC

The dates and venue will be confirmed at a later stage.

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