Standards bodies to coordinate contributions to quantum information and facts technological know-how
ITU
Authorities in quantum details technology and standardization are established to convene subsequent week to explore modes of cooperation capable of ensuring harmonized requirements development.
The Joint Symposium on Criteria for Quantum Systems, 23 March 2021 online, 15:00-18:00 CET, is organized by ITU collectively with IEC and IEEE’s United kingdom & Eire Photonics Chapter. Participation is free of charge of cost and open to all.
The symposium will share perception into three vital proportions of quantum technologies: quantum communication, quantum computation, and quantum measurement. Displays will be adopted by a panel dialogue among the representatives of requirements bodies together with ITU, ISO, IEC, NIST, ETSI, and CEN-CENELEC.
The dialogue aims to set up panelists’ feeling on the correct form of ‘standardization roadmap’ for quantum details systems.
A variety of benchmarks bodies are creating steering on the anticipated evolution of quantum data systems and associated terminology, screening and evaluation methodologies, interoperability necessities, and quantum-protected safety steps.
ITU standardization do the job is addressing network and protection aspects of quantum information systems with an initial concentrate on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a signifies of enabling quantum-protected encryption and authentication. This perform is led by ITU-T Study Team 13 (Upcoming networks and cloud) and ITU-T Examine Team 17 (Protection).
ETSI is doing work on quantum-safe cryptography and QKD. ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Facts technological know-how) is doing the job on QKD screening and analysis, and each ISO/IEC JTC 1 and IEEE are performing on quantum computing. The IRTF Quantum World-wide-web Investigation Team is researching the realization of quantum web, and exploratory reports on quantum systems are also underway at CEN-CENELEC.
The symposium aims to pinpoint areas most in require of specifications and go over the correct timeline for standards growth. It will examine lessons learnt from specifications enhancement in locations these as optics and photonics with a look at to adapting thriving coordination methods to quantum standardization.
ITU quantum expectations and open ITU study team
New ITU criteria for QKD networks deliver foundational ideas (ITU Y.3800) and tackle practical specifications (ITU Y.3801) and architecture (ITU Y.3802), critical management (ITU Y.3803), and handle and management (ITU Y.3804). New ITU criteria also give a stability framework for QKD networks (ITU X.1710), key mix methods (ITU X.1714), and the architecture of a quantum sounds sounds random selection generator (ITU X.1702).
These ITU specifications for QKD networks will empower the integration of QKD technology into big-scale ICT networks and supply for the protection of these QKD networks.
The future symposium on quantum standardization has been structured in guidance of an open-to-all ITU Emphasis Group on ‘Quantum Data Engineering for Networks’ finding out the evolution of quantum facts technologies in check out of their foreseen programs in ICT networks. The team is conducting exploratory ‘pre-standardization’ reports to establish emerging standardization requires and foresee needs to occur in long run.