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The FG DFS is an open platform for digital financial services stakeholders – such as telecom regulators; financial services regulators; digital financial services providers, payment platform providers; mobile network operators; international organizations and industry forums and consortia – to share knowledge and lessons learned in the field with the objective of identifying the standardized frameworks needed to support the scaling up of digital financial services usage globally.

ITU-T SG3 is responsible, inter alia, for studying international telecommunication/ICT policy and economic issues and tariff and accounting matters (including costing principles and methodologies), with a view to informing the development of enabling regulatory models and frameworks.

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3011 describes the framework of network virtualization for future networks (FNs). It presents its motivation and definition, and describes the concept of logically isolated network partition (LINP) that is provisioned by network virtualization.
This Recommendation also discusses the problem spaces of network virtualization and investigates its design goals. Finally, this Recommendation discusses the applicability of network virtualization by summarizing its advantages and disadvantages. An appendix provides detailed use cases on various aspects of network virtualization, such as experimental network and mobility.

Recommendation ITU-T M.3070/Y.3521 presents the conceptual view and the common model of end-to-end (E2E) cloud computing management based on the service management interface (SMI) and cloud computing reference architecture, from the perspective of the telecommunications industry.

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3520 presents general concepts of end to end resource management in cloud computing; a vision for adoption of cloud resource management in a telecommunication-rich environment; and multi-cloud, end to end resource management for cloud services, i.e., management of any hardware and software used in support of the delivery of cloud services.

Work to build confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) continues to intensify in a bid to facilitate more secure network infrastructure, services and applications. Over 170 standards (ITU-T Recommendations and Supplements) focusing on security have been published.
 
ITU-T Study Group 17 (SG17) coordinates security-related work across all ITU-T Study Groups. Often working in cooperation with other standards development organizations (SDOs) and various ICT industry consortia, SG17 deals with a broad range of standardization issues.
 
To give a few examples, SG17 is currently working on cybersecurity; security management; security architectures and frameworks; countering spam; identity management; the protection of personally identifiable information; and the security of applications and services for the Internet of Things (IoT), smart grid, smartphones, software defined networking (SDN), web services, big data analytics, social networks, cloud computing, mobile financial systems, IPTV and telebiometrics.
 
One key reference for security standards in use today is Recommendation ITU-T X.509 for electronic authentication over public networks. ITU-T X.509, a cornerstone in designing applications relating to public key infrastructure (PKI), is used in a wide range of applications; from securing the connection between a browser and a server on the web, to providing digital signatures that enable e-commerce transactions to be conducted with the same confidence as in a traditional system. Without wide acceptance of the standard, the rise of e-business would have been impossible.
 
Cybersecurity remains high on SG17's agenda. Additionally, SG17 is coordinating security standardization work covering combating counterfeit and mobile device theft, IMT-2020, cloud based event data technology, e-health, open identity trust framework, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Child Online Protection.