ITU-T Study Group 17

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ITU-T Study Group 17
AbbreviationSG17
Formation1984
Type Standards organization
Purpose Security
Location
Region served
Worldwide
Chairman
Heung Youl Youm
Secretary
Xiaoya Yang
Key people
 Seizo Onoe
Parent organization
 World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (ITU-T)
Affiliations ITU-T Study Group 16, ISO/IEC JTC 1
Website www.itu.int/go/tsg17

The ITU-T Study Group 17 (SG17) is a statutory group of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) concerned with security. [1] [2] The group is concerned with a broad range of security-related standardization issues such as cybersecurity, security management, security architectures and frameworks, countering spam, identity management, biometrics, protection of personally identifiable information, and the security of applications and services for the Internet of Things (IoT). [3] [4] It is responsible for standardization of i.a. ASN.1 and X.509, it is also the parent body of the Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology (FG-QIT). The group is currently chaired by Heung Youl Youm of South Korea. [5] [6] [7]

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Administratively, SG17 is a statutory meeting of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), [8] which creates the ITU-T Study Groups and appoints their management teams. The secretariat is provided by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (under Director Chaesub Lee).

Standards

Trustworthy AI

Together with ITU-T Study Group 16 and AI for Good, the study group has been developing technology specifications under Trustworthy AI. Including items on homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, and federated learning.

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References

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  2. ↑ Kelly, Tim; Adolph, Martin (October 2008). "ITU-T initiatives on climate change". IEEE Communications Magazine. 46 (10): 108–114. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2008.4644127. ISSN   1558-1896. S2CID   19994389.
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  4. ↑ "Why Broadcom Software is Optimistic About Global Standards in Cyber Security". CIO. Archived from the original on 2022-09-03. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
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