Whitepapers
ETSI publishes a white paper introducing Permissioned Distributed Ledger (PDL)
After the release of the first specification on smart contracts on 18 January, members from the ETSI PDL group published a White Paper entitled “An Introduction of Permissioned Distributed Ledger (PDL)”. Distributed ledgers have consolidated as one of the most disruptive applications of information technology that have appeared in recent years. Their ability to store any kind of data as a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital records distributed across multiple sites, without depending on any central administrator, together with their properties regarding immutability (and therefore non-repudiation) and multi-party verifiability opens a wide range of applications. The conclusion of the White Paper outlines that smart contracts will play a critical role in PDL, and the integrity through the entire lifecycle of a smart contract needs to be guaranteed.
New Edition of CEN and CENELEC Guide 25
Guide 25 is key to further strengthening the overall participation of European stakeholders to standardization work for an inclusive European Standardization System, as highlighted in the CEN and CENELEC Strategy 2030, and specifically in its Goal 4. The Guide covers six categories of cooperation within CEN and CENELEC: Partner Organizations, Liaison Organizations, Associated Bodies, European Counsellors, European Institutional Stakeholders and Other Cooperating Organizations.
CEN CENELEC Work Programme 2022
As every year, the Work Programme 2022 gives an overview of the main standardization developments and strategic priority areas CEN-CENELEC are ready to implement in 2022 across 14 business sectors. For each sector, the reader will find a list of the technical bodies involved in carrying out the work, the number of standards published by CEN-CENELEC, a detailed overview of the topics where standardization work is expected and the standardization requests received from the European Commission and EFTA. The Work Programme also presents a focus on three horizontal business topics, which have been selected based on their relevance to meet today’s challenges: Accessibility, Sustainability and Smart Technologies.