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Industry Specification Group (ISG) Integrated Sensing And Communications (ISAC)

ETSI ISG ISAC will provide an opportunity for ETSI members to coordinate their pre-standards research efforts on integrated sensing and communication technology across various EU/National funded collaborative projects, extended with relevant global initiatives, towards paving the way for 6G standardization of the technology. The ISG will prepare systematic output on 6G use cases, channel models, architecture and deployment considerations, KPIs and evaluation assumptions, for subsequent evaluation by standards organizations such as 3GPP future 6G releases and ITU-R IMT-2030 deliverables (e.g. capabilities, evaluation methodology).

The scope of ETSI ISG ISAC is summarized below

Definition of a prioritized set of 6G use cases and sensing types with a roadmap for their study and evaluation. Development of advanced channel models for the target 6G ISAC use cases and sensing types, and validation through extensive measurement campaigns, that can fill the gaps of existing communicationbased channel models (e.g. 3GPP, IEEE 802, ITU-R). Specification of KPIs and evaluation methodology building upon the channel modelling and measurements, simulations/POCs, and synergies with ETSI ISG RIS and ISG THz. Study of a System and RAN architecture framework for 6G ISAC, including end-to-end deployment considerations. Study of the privacy and security aspects of sensing data in the ISAC 6G framework Study of impact of widespread deployment of ISAC on UN sustainability goals

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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (TC) Securing Artificial Intelligence (SAI)

The aim of Technical Committee Securing Artificial Intelligence (TC SAI) is to develop technical specifications that mitigate against threats arising from the deployment of AI, and threats to AI systems, from both other AIs, and from conventional sources. Whilst in the short to medium term the focus of TC SAI will be on the application of Machine Learning (ML) the group shall also give guidance and evaluation reports to ETSI and its stakeholders on the wider developments of AI.

NOTE: The term AI is used to include variants and siblings of AI including ML.

TC SAI addresses 4 main aspects of AI security standardisation:

1. Securing AI from attack e.g. where AI is a component in the system that needs defending.
2. Mitigating against AI e.g. where AI is the ‘problem’ (or used to improve and enhance other more conventional attack vectors).
3. Using AI to enhance security measures against attack from other things e.g. AI is part of the ‘solution’ (or used to improve and enhance more conventional countermeasures).
4. Societal security and safety aspects of the use and application of AI.

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT GROUP OpenCAPIF (OCF)

The ETSI Software Development Group OpenCAPIF (SDG OCF) is developing an open source Common API Frameworks, as described by 3GPP, allowing to expose and consume APIs in a secure and consistent way.

SDG OpenCAPIF will collaborate with other ETSI software and open-source projects, such as Open Source MANO, TeraFlowSDN and OpenSlice, in order to share best practices and find synergies, joint activities, and opportunities for component reuse.

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Software Development Group for OpenSlice (OSL)

The ETSI Software Development Group for OpenSlice (SDG OSL) is developing an open source service based Operations Support System (OSS) to deliver Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS).

The group liaises with relevant standards bodies and projects working on network transformation such as the TM Forum, ETSI ZSM, ETSI NFV, OpenSourceMANO and TeraFlowSDN.