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Network Technologies Workshop, April 26, 2023 (includes presentation on Quantum Standardisation by Piotr Rydlichowski)

Standardisation and certification

Quantum technology comprises many areas, platforms, systems and fields and the efforts to standardise the ongoing developments and activities is a vast undertaking. There are many standardisation bodies at this time that work in parallel on standards and certifications and it is expected that there will be some overlap in some areas, while other areas may not be addressed yet. 

This page is an effort to collect this information and facilitate access to a wide area of standardisation efforts and available documents.

Roadmap documents

CEN-CENELEC Focus Group on Quantum Technologies (FGQT), Standardization Roadmap on Quantum Technologies, Release 1, March 2023

OpenQKD, Current Standardisation Landscape and existing Gaps in the Area of Quantum Key Distribution, March 2021

OpenQKD, Current Standardisation Landscape and existing Gaps in the Area of Quantum Key Distribution, Version 1, December 2020

other openQKD publications

European Commisssion, #Standards4Quantum: Making Quantum Technology Ready for Industry, JRC Conference and Workshop Report, 2020


***** ETSI ***** IEEE ***** IETF ***** ISO/IEC ***** ITU-T *****


ETSI




ETSI GR QKD 003Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Components and Internal Interfaces

ETSI GS QKD 004 Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Application Interface

ETSI GS QKD 005
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Security Proofs Revision (stable draft)

ETSI GR QKD 007
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Vocabulary Revision (early draft)

ETSI GS QKD 010
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Implementation security: protection against Trojan horse attacks in one-way QKD systems (stable draft)

ETSI GS QKD 013
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Characterisation of Optical Output of QKD transmitter modules (stable draft)

ETSI GS QKD 014Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Protocol and data format of REST-based key delivery API

ETSI GS QKD 015Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Control Interface for Software Defined Networks

ETSI GS QKD 015 (Yang model)
YANG model for ETSI GS QKD 015, Specification of management interfaces between SDN-enabled QKD node and SDN controller

ETSI GS QKD 016Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Common Criteria Protection Profile Pair of Prepare and Measure Quantum Key Distribution Modules V1.1.1

ETSI GR QKD 017 Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Network architectures (draft)

ETSI GS QKD 018

Orchestration Interface for Software Defined Networks

ETSI GR QKD 019

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Design of QKD interfaces with Authentication (draft)

ETSI GS QKD 020

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Protocol and data format of REST-based Interoperable Key Management System API (draft)

ETSI GS QKD 021

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); Orchestration Interface of Software Defined Networks for Interoperable key management system (work programme)

IEEE




P1913YANG Model for Software-Defined Quantum Communication, IEEE, 12.12.2022

P1943

Standard for Post-Quantum Network Security


P2995

Trial-Use Standard for a Quantum Algorithm Design and Development


P3120

Standard for Quantum Computing Architecture


P3155

Standard for Programmable Quantum Simulator


P3185

Standard for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing


P3329

Standard for Quantum Computing and Simulation Energy Efficiency


P7130

Standard for Quantum Technologies Definitions


P7131

Standard for Quantum Technologies Definitions

IETF




RFC9340RFC 9340: Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet

draft-irtf-qirq-use-casesApplication Scenarios for the Quantum Internet

ISO/IEC




ISO/IEC DIS 23837-1(en)Information technology security techniques — Security requirements, test and evaluation methods for quantum key distribution — Part 1: Requirements (under development)

ISO/IEC DIS 23837-2

Information security — Security requirements, test and evaluation methods for quantum key distribution — Part 2: Evaluation and testing methods (under development)


ISO/IEC DIS 4879

Information technology — Quantum computing — Terminology and vocabulary (under development)


ISO/IEC AWI TR 18157

Information technology — Introduction to quantum computing


ISO/AWI TS 80004-12

Nanotechnologies — Vocabulary — Part 12: Quantum phenomena in nanotechnology

ITU-T




X.1702

Quantum noise random number generator architecture  


X.1710

Security framework for quantum key distribution networks  


X.1712

Security requirements and measures for quantum key distribution networks - key management  


X.1714

Key combination and confidential key supply for quantum key distribution networks  


X.1715

Security requirements and measures for integration of quantum key distribution network and secure storage network  


XSTR-SEC-QKD

Security considerations for quantum key distribution network


X.sec-QKDN-tn

Security requirements and designs for quantum key distribution networks - trusted node

Y.3800

Overview on networks supporting quantum key distribution 

Y.3801Functional requirements for quantum key distribution networks

Y.3802Quantum key distribution networks Functional architecture

Y.3803

Quantum key distribution networks - Key management  


Y.3804

Quantum key distribution networks - Control and management  


Y.3805

Quantum key distribution networks - Software-defined networking control  


Y.3806

Quantum key distribution networks - Requirements for quality of service assurance  


Y.3807

Quantum key distribution networks - Quality of service parameters


Y.3808

Framework for integration of quantum key distribution network and secure storage network  


Y.3809

A role-based model in quantum key distribution networks deployment  


Y.3810

Quantum key distribution network interworking - Framework  


Y.3811

Quantum key distribution networks - Functional architecture for quality of service assurance


Y.3812

Quantum key distribution networks - Requirements for machine learning based quality of service assurance


Y.3813

Quantum key distribution networks interworking - functional requirements


Y.3814

Quantum key distribution networks - functional requirements and architecture for machine learning enablement

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