Recently, ZTE Corporation was granted the right to draft the new ITU-T standard, X.msec-3, in the capacity of an editor, at the fifth ITU-T SG17 plenary meeting in Geneva. It is the first time for Chinese enterprise to draft the international standards in the information security area.

As information security becomes the concern of the telecom industry, SG17, as a key working group on information security, is setting new ITU-T standards X.mec-1/2. The Japanese and Korean participants are working on those standards. At this meeting, ZTE also submitted three recommendations concerning information security, which aroused great interests and won the recognition among the delegates. Finally, a resolution was made that SG17 will set a new standard X.msec-3 based on ZTE’s recommendations, and ZTE is entitled to be the leader in the drafting. This marks that Chinese enterprises have already reached the internationally advanced levels in data network, communication software and information security technology areas.

These recommendations strictly analyzed the necessity and requirements of General Security Policy for Mobile Network, and put forward the overall framework for general security policy based on the close combination of operators and subscribers’ benefits and requirements with security technologies.

At the meeting, ZTE, together with the Telecommunications Research Institute under MII （Ministry of Information Industry of China）, submitted the proposal titled “Requirements on Architecture of Generic Frame Transport Network”. Based on existing issues in connection- and connectionless-oriented communication, the proposal provides the new network solution mechanism for L2 data services. After in-depth discussions, the participants recommended conducting further research on certain parts of this proposal.

To date, ZTE has been granted the right to draft three ITU-T standards as an editor, i.e. G.raman, Y.vpn-qos and X.msec-3.

• In October 2003, ZTE was granted the right to draft the G.raman standards at the fifth ITU-T SG/WP 15 (optical and other transport network) plenary meeting. This is the first international standard written by a Chinese enterprise in the optical communication area.
• In February 2003, ZTE was granted the right to draft the Y.vpn-qos standards as an editor at the fifth ITU-T SG 13 (Multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their internetworking) meeting.