21 December 2020, Miguel GARCIA-MENENDEZ, Vice-Chair, ETSI ISG E4P / CPO, Alastria
ETSI, which has not been oblivious to the consequences of the pandemic, has not wanted to be, either, to its mitigation. For this reason, last May it approved the constitution of an Industry Specification Group (ISG), called “Europe for Privacy-Preserving Pandemic Protection” (E4P), which was commissioned to study current digital contact tracing methods and solutions, and the analysis and standardization of its future interoperability, the latter being the greatest lack of the numerous solutions proposed up to that moment.
E4P, whose activity started on May 26, has been working on a series of parallel lines:
a) a comparison of current existing digital pandemic contact tracing methods and the applications that adopt them
b) a specification of the general requirements of this type of solutions
c) an analysis of the mechanisms, related to the devices -essentially, smart phones-, used in this type of solutions
d) a second similar analysis, but focused on the back-end systems mechanisms; and, finally
e) a reference framework for the interoperability of the different existing apps.
Stay tuned! We will keep you informed …
