Blockchain

At the 46th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 meeting in Geneva (CH), 25-26 Jan. 2025 it has been revealed that the white paper on MPEG Smart Contracts for Media (ISO/IEC 21000-23) ranked 2nd most downloaded paper among MPEG white papers.

Considerations for new and emerging DLT and Blockchain Use Cases for ISO

For stakeholders involved in DLT and blockchain applications,  Use Cases provide a useful methodology to inform decision-makers of the new business opportunities, technical capabilities and insights into these new and emerging technologies.

Operation and management of telecommunication networks are increasingly difficult with the demands and behaviours of users exceeding the capacity of network engineers to keep pace. This has led to increased automation of the network, enabled by various forms of intelligent software. One such proposal from the ITU-T Focus Group on Autonomous Networks (standardization group) is an architecture (Y.AN-ARCH-FW) to achieve self-driven automation (i.e.

Towards enabling a fairer marketplace for rights holders and remuneration of authors and performers work has commenced on ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralized Media Rights Application Format standard with the aim to provide the means (e.g., APIs) based on widely deployed MPEG technologies (e.g., audio-visual codecs, file formats, streaming protocols, and smart contracts) and non-MPEG technologies (e.g., DLTs, content and creator IDs). This standard will greatly assist in achieving effective interoperability for decentralised music and media apps developed in the ecosystem.

1) Standard Specification: https://www.iso.org/standard/82527.html

2) Reference Software: https://tinyurl.com/mrdfzs9t

As this is my first post on this forum, it is at the same time a quick update and a short Introduction on our work on ISC/CD 24138 on the International Standard Content Code at ISO/TC 46/SC 9 (Identification and description). Over the last months, working group 18 (WG 18), has been busy to match the scheduled timeline. Last week, the committee draft study/ballot was initiated successfully and in time. This means that after WG internal WD study, the working draft is now entering the stages to receive feedback and comments outside of our working group.

Webinar series on a Decentralised Media Rights Ecosystem

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References

1)     Decentralised Media Rights Ecosystem (Exploration)

Despite the fact that cryptocurrency remains one of the most well-known use cases for distributed ledger technology, ISO/TC 307 has so far not initiated any projects on decentralised finance or digital currencies.  Meanwhile, stablecoins have proliferated among new and existing providers of financial services, and central banks around the world have begun taking earnest steps toward deploying central bank digital currency (CBDC).

ISO/TC 307 is currently undertaking a revision on ISO 22739 Blockchain and distributed ledger technology - Vocabulary.  Proposed additions of new terms as well as proposed revisions and deletions of existing terms are under consideration.  ISO/TC 307 anticipates registering this revision as a Draft International Standard before the end of the autumn.

In the last few years, Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has developed a set of standardized RDF ontologies and XML schemas for the codification of intellectual property (IP) rights information related to music and media. The emerging ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media standard specifies the means (e.g., application programming interfaces) for converting these RDF ontologies and XML schemas to smart contracts that can be executed

During the past 6 months there have been developments in selected ongoing projects in ISO/TC 307 - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 JWG4:

ISO/PRF TR 23249 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies – Overview of existing DLT systems for identity management – Stage 50.20 Proof sent to Secretariat or FDIS ballot initiated: 2 months

ISO/DTR 23644 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies - Overview of trust anchors for DLT-based identity management (TADIM) – Stage 30.60 Close of voting/comment period

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The ITU has largely contributed to the field of Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain, ranging financial inclusion to data management. Several working groups have already provided prominent contributions to DLT standards.

ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media standard provides the means (e.g., application programming interfaces) for converting MPEG-21 XML and RDF media contracts (ISO/IEC 21000-19 Media Value Chain Ontology, ISO/IEC 21000-19/AMD1 Audio Value Chain Ontology, ISO/IEC 21000-20 (2nd Ed) Contract Expression Language and ISO/IEC 21000-21 (2nd Ed) Media Contract Ontology) to smart contracts that can be executed on existing DLT environments.