Working group

This activity covers the format of digital signatures, as well as procedures and policies for creation and validation. TC ESI also covers policy, security and technical requirements for trust service providers (TSP) such as certification authorities, time-stamping authorities, TSP providing remote signature creation or validation functions, registered e-delivery providers, and long-term data preservation providers. We address Trusted Lists that enhance the confidence of parties relying on certificates or other services related to digital signatures by indicating whether a given TSP was operating under the approval of any recognized scheme.

We are responsible for standardization to support the development and implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) service provision across the network, for transport networks, vehicles and transport users, including interface aspects, multiple modes of transport and interoperability between systems.

We are helping to accelerate the introduction of ITS services and applications and to maximize their benefits by developing common European standards and technical specifications to enable interoperability. TC ITS is leading the drive to achieve international standards.

We are responsible for the identification of European regulatory requirements for cellular systems developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP™), and for developing Harmonised Standards and related ETSI standards for GSM™, International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) systems for cellular and technologies evolving from them (including IMT Advanced but excluding Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT^TM)).

We provide the regulatory standards needed to support the deployment of GSM, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS™) and LTE™ networks in Europe

The ITU-T Focus Group on Machine Learning for Future Networks including 5G was established by ITU-T Study Group 13 at its meeting in Geneva, 6-17 November 2017. The Focus Group will draft technical reports and specifications for machine learning (ML) for future networks, including interfaces, network architectures, protocols, algorithms and data formats.

The main objectives of the Focus Group are:

• Study the economic benefit and impact of introducing DFC over mobile money;
• Investigate the ecosystem of digital fiat currency implementation for financial inclusion;
• Map the functional network reference architecture and process components required to implement digital fiat currency and integration with existing payment systems for interoperability;
• Identify use cases, requirements and applications of digital fiat currency;
• Develop better understanding of the security, regulatory implications, consumer protection, fraud prevention and counterfeiting issues of DFS and how can digital fiat currency can address these concerns;
• Identify critical sovereign security, transparency and verifiability of DFC technology and provide guidelines towards the escrow of critical software and hardware components to ensure trust and verifiability; and
• Identify new areas for standardization in ITU-T study groups.

We create standards related to testing and specification languages and provide frameworks and methodologies to enable the other ETSI committees to achieve this goal. Work is performed very closely with ETSI’s Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI) to develop the background material which they then use in their support of other ETSI committees as well as other relevant standardization bodies such as ITU Study Group 17. Much of work done by TC MTS has also been adapted and used beyond ETSI by other organizations, fora, and industry globally.

We are the ETSI competence centre on network technologies in current and future networks, with special focus on network interconnection. This includes maintaining and evolving the specifications of the architectures and protocols deployed in fixed networks or used in support of network interconnection, as well as monitoring relevant work on future networks technologies performed outside ETSI and provide guidelines on their applicability to ETSI compliant networks. The committee is also the ETSI’s technical contact point for CEPT/ECC WG NaN (Numbering and Networks).

We develop standards that support the technical requirements of national and international obligations for law enforcement, including the lawful interception and retention of the communications-related data of electronic communications. Lawful Interception (LI) and Retained Data (RD) play a crucial role in helping law enforcement agencies to investigate terrorism and serious criminal activities. We have pioneered the development and maintenance of LI and RD capabilities, and its standards are being adopted around the world due to the increased efficiency and lower cost resulting from their use. Global interest in the committee’s work continues to grow, with new organizations joining in the standardization process.

We are the ETSI competence centre on network technologies in current and future networks, with special focus on network interconnection. This includes maintaining and evolving the specifications of the architectures and protocols deployed in fixed networks or used in support of network interconnection, as well as monitoring relevant work on future networks technologies performed outside ETSI and provide guidelines on their applicability to ETSI compliant networks. The committee is also the ETSI’s technical contact point for CEPT/ECC WG NaN (Numbering and Networks).

We are responsible for the standardization of Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS), including reconfigurable equipment architecture and Cognitive Radio.

The telecommunications industry today faces a major challenge – a lack of spectrum to meet growing demand, particularly from the Internet and mobile communications. However, a significant amount of spectrum is allocated exclusively to organizations that do not take full advantage of it. For example, much is used only across certain areas or only at specific times. If this under-used spectrum could be shared, it could help free up spectrum resources to support the needs of our connected world. Sharing will also play a key role in the development of 5G.

We are responsible for the development and maintenance of standards related to GSM-R (GSM™ for railways) as well as Next Generation Radio for Rail (NG2R).

The international railway community has long used enhanced GSM™ technology to meet its operational needs. GSM-R is based on the GSM standard, with added features specific to the railway environment, including data and voice communications at commercial speeds of up to 350 km/h and beyond. GSM-R now reaches over 120 000 kilometres of railway lines in Europe and a further 120 000 kilometres throughout the rest of the world. Most Western European railways are now fully equipped with GSM-R on their high speed and conventional lines.