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The need for further standards
and technical developments
Brian Moore
ITU-T Study Group 13 Chairman
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Contents
• Overview of ITU-T work on GII and
IP networking
• Survey of ITU-T security and
encryption standards
• Pointers to new standards
requirements
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G8 Information Society Projects
• Global Inventory
• Global Interoperability of Broadband
Networks
• Trans-cultural Education and Training
• Electronic libraries
• Multimedia Access to World Cultural
Heritage
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• Environment and Natural Resources
Management
• Global Emergency Management
• Global Healthcare Applications
• Government On-Line
• Global Marketplace for SMEs
• Maritime Information Society
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GII Objectives
The GII must be designed to:
• enable information providers and users
(e.g. individuals, information users,
information providers, and information
service providers) to communicate
securely with each other any time and
anywhere at acceptable cost and with
acceptable quality
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• provide a set of communication services
• support a multitude of open applications
• embrace all forms of information and
information generation (audio, text, data,
image, video, etc.), and of its use and
transportation
• operate in a transparent, user-friendly
and straightforward way
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• provide seamless, interconnected and
interoperable communication networks,
information processing equipment, data-
bases and terminals (including TV-sets)
• enable competition between the players
in the information and
telecommunications (including
broadcasting) sectors
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GII Projects
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Frameworks
Network issues
Middleware
Applications
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IP Aspects
• Explosive growth of IP based networks
• Data traffic growing ten times faster
than voice traffic
• In near future will account for over 80%
of all traffic on telecomms networks
• Business directions are changing
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• Shorter development cycles
• Shorter life cycles for services and
products
• Standards bodies must be able to
respond
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• Interoperability of IP and telecomms
networks and of their services is of
major concern
• IP based services are required with the
speed, capacity, ease of use, reliability
and integrity that has been associated
with the world wide public telephone
network
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The ITU-T IP Project
In its capacity as ‘Lead Study Group for
IP related studies’ Study Group 13 has
developed an ‘ITU-T IP Project’ which:
– is separate from, but closely related to GII
studies
– is intended to encompass all related ITU-T
work
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Project Areas
• Area 1 - Integrated architecture
• Area 2 - Impact to telecommunications
access infrastructures of access to IP
applications
• Area 3 - Interworking between IP based
network and switched-circuit networks,
including wireless based networks
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• Area 4 - Multimedia applications over IP
signals
• Area 5 - Numbering and addressing
• Area 6 - Transport for IP-structured
signals
• Area 7 - Signalling support, IN and
routing for services on IP-based
networks
• Area 8 - Performance
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• Area 9 - Integrated management of
telecom and IP-based networks
• Area 10 - Security aspects
• Area 11 - Network capabilities including
requirements for resource management
• Area 12 - Operations and Maintenance
(OAM) for IP
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Scope of the Project
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IP Applications
Including Multi media - Q 3/13 and SG 16
Signalling Support - SG 11
Service Interworking
Qs 2/13, 8/13 and 9/13
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7
2
IP and
non-IP
Access Qs 12/13,
26/13,
SGs 15
and 16
Network Capabilities Qs 1, 2, and 3/13, SGs 8 and 9 11
Interworking - Qs 8/13, 9/13, and SG16
IP Performance - Q 13/13, SGs 2, and 12
IP and
non-IP
Access Qs 12/13,
26/13,
SGs 15
and 16
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8
2
IP Transport - Qs 19/13, 20/13 and SG 15
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Management - SG 4
9
Naming, Numbering, Addressing and Routing - SG 2
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1
Overall Network Architecture and Framework - Qs 25/13 and 29/13
Operational Issues - SGs 2, 3, and 7
= Work area
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10
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IP Project Area 10 – Security
Aspects
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Scenarios include:
A voice call from an IP terminal connected to an
IP-based network to a GSTN phone
A voice call from a GSTN phone to an IP terminal
connected to an IP-based network
A voice call from a GSTN phone to another GSTN
phone via an IP network
A voice call from an IP terminal connected to an
IP-based network to another IP terminal
connected to an IP-based network via the GSTN
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Rec X.509
Information technology – Open Systems
Interconnection – The Directory: Authentication
framework
• Issued jointly with the ISO
• Version 6 currently being worked on, target 2001
• Amendments provide extensions to the Directory
to support enhancements for public key certificate
and attribute certificate framework extensions and
certificate revocation.
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Other current work in Study
Group 7
• Rec x.sio Information Technology – Security
Techniques – Security Information Objects
• Rec x.ttp1 Information Technology – Security
Techniques – Guidelines on the use and
management of Trusted Third Party services
• Rec x.ttp2 Information Technology – Security
Techniques – Specification of TTP services to
support the application of digital signatures
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Security work in Study Group
16 related to multimedia
• Rec H.233 Confidentiality system for
audio visual services
• Rec H.234 Encryption key
management and authentication system
for audio visual services
• Rec H.235 Security and encryption for
H Series (packet based) multi media
terminals
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GII Project M3
Technical Framework for Electronic
Commerce
• the support of standardized transactions, i.e.
presentation of the offer, navigation and selection
• the exchange of commercial documents such as
orders, invoices, contracts
• the support of delivery, especially with regard to
electronic goods
• a high level of security
• means for the support of payments
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Pointers to new standards
requirements
• Much of the current debate is not about
standards but the security environment and
administrative / regulatory issues
• Many of the necessary standards are in
place or are being enhanced but further
extensions could be considered to support
and / or enable further harmonisation of
authentication technologies
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Possible areas for further
standards work
• Additional information fields in Rec
X.509?
• Addition of generic attributes plus
various extensions for different
contracts etc?
• Extensibility profiles?
• Others?