ITU
Working Together for
DLT Interoperability
Gilbert Verdian – Convenor SG7 Interoperability – TC307
ISO TC307 Liaison for INATBA
Chair of DLT/1 – BSI Mirror Committee
History of Blockchain Standard
2009 At HM Treasury
• Introduced UK Government to Bitcoin and Blockchain
• Economic assessment and policy review
• Concluded that “this will not have any material impact to the UK’s economy”
• Kept on working in this space – after all, it is really cryptography
2014 Mainstream
• A lot of talk about what we can do with the Bitcoin underlying technology
• Ethereum concept. Ripple, Stellar, xCoins etc
• ”Blockchain” name became popular
Business Problem from Government
2015 • Wasn’t happy that blockchain was progressing in silos
• Came up with the concept and architecture of Interoperability and Governance
• Started talking about identifying use cases – NSW Health for electronic records
and data sharing
2016 ISO
• Started drafting the idea and proposal with Standards Australia
• Pushed to get people behind it. “Too early”, “Stifle innovation”, “Why??” 2
• October 2016 – ISO Approval
Why are we building closed proprietary
technology in isolation?
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We’ve been here before
1990’s: Online Service Providers - Proprietary Networks are limited
Compuserve Prodigy America Online
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2015: Need for Blockchain ISO Standards
Russian Finance Firms Form Blockchain Consortium
A group of Russian banks and financial services
companies has formed a private-sector consortium Blockchain: Standards Wanted
focused on blockchain applications. Long reliant on collaborative standard-setting, the financial industry
- Coindesk 1 July 2016 looks for more of the same to realize the operational and risk-mitigation
potential of blockchain
- GARP – Global Association of Risk Professionals 8 April
2016
China creates blockchain coalition ChinaLedger Union
The country’s blockchain industry organises distributed ledger-
based coalition in Beijing supported by Chinese National
Assembly and aiming to standardise the application of
blockchain.
- 20 April 2016 5
2015: Proposed Blockchain ISO Standard
Proposed ISO Standard
The proposed work is to:
• define this standard
• create the mechanism to be a gateway to multiple blockchains
• create the governance framework
• have interoperability and compatibility with existing financial
standards
• provide legal and regulatory compliance to each transaction
across blockchains
• work towards a regulatory framework that provides a mix of legal
and technical rules
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2015: Proposed Blockchain ISO Standard
To address key areas such as:
• Terminology – Having a common language and terminology to define the
interoperability of blockchain
• Process and Methods – the mechanism and messaging standards around
inter-blockchain communication including routing.
• Trust and Interoperability – Develop the standards that incorporate
messaging protocols and methods to route, trust and connect to different
blockchains. Establishing a standard API (Application Programming Interface)
and set of routines and tools for building blockchain software and applications
• Privacy and Security – Ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of
users and entities are maintained. Embed compliance to money laundering
and KYC (know your customer) requirements.
• Authentication – ability to map blockchain transactions to individual users and
entities in a secure manner. Store credentials on the blockchain or
align/federate to a sidechain (off blockchain)
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1st Plenary – Sydney April 2017
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National, European and international standards
BSI as NSB manages Int’l Standards
BS, EN & ISO, IEC (ISO, IEC)
standards. PAS route to
Regional Standards national and
All EN and most (EN) international
international standards
standards are National Standards, e.g.
“adopted” as British British Standards (BS)
Standards
Sponsored standards – BSI PAS
Private & Private and Consortia Standards
professional
standards, Corporate Technical Specifications
codes and
guidance Professional Codes, Guidance, Best Practice
Copyright © 2016 BSI. All rights reserved.
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National Standards Bodies do not write standards, the stakeholder committees do
Professional
Consumer bodies
institutions
Trade
associations
Standards users
Certification Standards Committee Research
bodies organisations
Government Public sector
departments
Enforcement Education
bodies bodies
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TC307 Standards under development
ISO/CD TR 3242 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies – Use cases
ISO/FDIS 22739 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Vocabulary
ISO/CD TR 23245.2 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Security risks, threats and vulnerabilities
ISO/CD 23257.3 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Reference architecture
ISO/WD TS 23258 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Taxonomy and Ontology
ISO/AWI TS 23259 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Legally binding smart contracts
ISO/CD TR 23576 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Security management of digital asset custodians
ISO/WD TS 23635 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Guidelines for governance
ISO/CD TR 3242 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies – Use cases
ISO/FDIS 22739 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — Vocabulary
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TC307 Roadmap
ISO Development TC307
Terminology Terminology WG1
Tax/Reference Arch WG1 Foundations
JWG4 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
Identity
and IT Security techniques
SG7 Interoperability
Governance SG6 Governance WG5 Governance
Security & Privacy WG2 Security, Privacy and Identity
Use Cases WG6 Use Cases
Smart Contracts WG3 Smart Contracts & their applications
Sydney Tokyo London Moscow Dublin Hyderabad
April 17 Nov 17 April 18 April 19 April 20 12
TC307 Working Groups
SO/TC 307/AG 1 SBP Review Advisory Group
ISO/TC 307/AG 2 Liaison Advisory Group
ISO/TC 307/AHG 2 Guidance for Auditing DLT Systems
ISO/TC 307/CAG 1 Convenors coordination group
ISO/TC 307/JWG 4 Joint ISO/TC 307 - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 WG: Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
and IT Security techniques
ISO/TC 307/SG 7 Interoperability of blockchain and distributed ledger technology systems
ISO/TC 307/WG 1 Foundations
ISO/TC 307/WG 2 Security, privacy and identity
ISO/TC 307/WG 3 Smart contracts and their applications
ISO/TC 307/WG 5 Governance
ISO/TC 307/WG 6 Use cases
JOINT WORKING GROUPS UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ANOTHER COMMITTEE
REFERENCE TITLE
ISO/TC 46/SC 11/JWG 1 Joint ISO/TC 46/SC 11 - ISO/TC 307 WG: Blockchain
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SG7 - Interoperability
• Defining an Interoperability Framework
• Leveraging Cloud Interoperability Standard
• ISO/IEC 19941:2017
• Providing a framework to cover
• Governance Interoperability
• Business Interoperability
• Technical Interoperability
Transport Facet
• DLT is often thought of operating in an Internet-based
environment; however, DLT can operate in other
networking environments as well. The Transport facet
deals with the communications infrastructure – how to get
bytes of data from one system to another.
Syntactic facet
• Syntactic interoperability is defined as “interoperability
such that the formats of the exchanged information can be
understood by the participating systems.”
Semantic Data facet
• Semantic data interoperability as interoperability such that
the meaning of the data model within the context of a
subject area is understood by the participating systems.
Behavioural facet
• Behavioural interoperability is defined as interoperability so
that the actual result of the exchange achieves the
expected outcome.
Policy facet
• Policy interoperability while complying with the legal,
organizational and policy frameworks applicable to the
participating systems.
Interoperability Standardisation Collaboration
Possible framework for collaboration
Interoperability “Stack”
Interoperability Type
• Governance
ISO
• Business
• Technical
Standards Bodies
ITU-T IEEE IETF IEC
IEC
Industry Standards Technical Standards
Open Source/Community
Interoperability Standardisation Collaboration
• Annual “Check-in” – INATBA
• Cross-domain experts
• Working in IEEE, ISO, ITU-T, companies, Gov, open-source etc
• Workgroup material sharing
• Liaisons between all parties
• Formal and informal
• Open to participation
• Collaboration for progression
Thank you
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