ITU-T Study Group 13

ITU-T Study Group 13
AbbreviationSG13
Formation1997
TypeStandards organization
PurposeNetworks, Technologies and Infrastructures
Location
Region served
Worldwide
Chairman
Kazunori Tanikawa
Key people
Seizo Onoe
Parent organization
World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (ITU-T)
AffiliationsITU-T Study Group 17, ISO/IEC JTC 1
Websitewww.itu.int/go/tsg13

The ITU-T Study Group 13 (SG13) is a statutory group of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) concerned with future networks and emerging network technologies, infrastructure and cloud computing, including the networking aspects of mobile telecommunications. Examples include: Y.1564, Y.1731, etc.. Recent work includes a series of standards on using machine learning in networking, such as Y.3172, Y.3173, Y.3176, and Y.3181.

Administratively, SG13 is a statutory meeting of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which creates the ITU-T Study Groups and appoints their management teams. The secretariat is provided by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (under Director Seizo Onoe).