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ICT/4 - Quantum technologies

Sector: ICT & Electronics

Categories: Information technology applications. General | Information technology. | Information technology. General | Space systems and operations | Software

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, ICT/4 is the technical mirror committee to IEC/ISO JTC 3 quantum technology, IEC/SEG 14 quantum technologies and CEN/CENELEC/JTC 22 quantum technologies.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (25)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PNW TS JTC3-119 ED1: Quantum technologies – Cross-cutting and enabling devices and technologies: Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry for the characterization of photonic quantum sources

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-07-21 		Proposal
PNW JTC3-62 ED1: Quantum technologies – Terminology and quantities – General vocabulary

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-02-04 		Proposal
PNW JTC3-59 ED1: Quantum technologies – Terminology and quantities – General quantities

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-02-07 		Proposal
PNW JTC3-47 ED1: Quantum Photonics Vocabulary

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-09-24 		Proposal
PNW JTC3-122 ED1: Quantum technologies - Performance evaluation and test methods for absolute quantum gravimeters based on free-falling cold atoms

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-07-22 		Proposal
PD ISO/IEC/TR 18157 Information technology — Introduction to quantum computing

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins : 		Proposal
PD IEC/TS 63687 Ed.1.0 Quantum technologies - Cross-cutting and enabling devices and technologies: Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry for the characterization of photonic quantum sources

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-07-17 		Drafting
New Work Item Proposal - Quantum technologies – Quantum computing – Hardware benchmarking

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-09-11 		Proposal
IEC JTC3/69ea/NP N 223 Characterization and measurement of the performance of single-photon sources

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-04-09 		Proposal
IEC JTC3/68ea/NP N 224 Characterization and Measurement of the Frequencies of optical frequency standards

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-04-09 		Proposal
Published (3)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD EAS 18435-1:2026 Quantum Computing. Hardware Abstraction Layer. Descriptions and functional requirements

Categories: Software | Information technology applications. General

Published standard begins : 2026-09-29 		Published standard
PD EAS 18433:2026 Quantum Computing. High-Level Programming Language

Categories: Software | Space systems and operations

Published standard begins : 2026-09-29 		Published standard
BS ISO/IEC 4879:2024 Information technology. Quantum computing. Vocabulary

Categories: Information technology. | Information technology. General

Published standard begins : 2024-05-28 		Published standard
Withdrawn (0)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.