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Standards Progress: 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026
State of the standards: adoption, conformance, crosswalks, domain and industry profiles. This edition is in preparation: its frame is set and shared with the other five desks, and Nexus Standards writes its chapters from its own mandate. Nothing on these pages is a finding yet.
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Standards Progress
6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026
State of the standards: adoption, conformance, crosswalks, domain and industry profiles.
01 · Contents
Eight chapters in the shared frame.
The same eight-chapter frame on every desk, so a reader can move across desks and the Collection can align them chapter by chapter. Each chapter title comes from this desk’s mandate.
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Chapter 1. Where standards are needed
The places in the systems in scope where a shared standard is missing or contested.
Frame: The question · In preparation
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Which parts are adopted or applied, by whom, as the adopting bodies state it.
Frame: Findings · In preparation
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Chapter 3. Domain and industry profiles
The domain and industry profiles that read the scope against the parts.
Frame: By system and sector · In preparation.
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Chapter 4. Conformance and assurance
Conformance attested by those who apply the parts, and how each attestation can be checked.
Frame: Risk and capability · In preparation
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How the parts would need to change under stated scenarios; conditional, never predictions.
Frame: Scenario · In preparation
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Chapter 6. Readings from the other desks
Readings from the other desks: cross-references to their editions for the same scope, not copies of them.
Frame: Readings · Seeded from the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) edition.
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Chapter 7. Standards work programme
The dockets, drafts and reviews the next cycle takes up, under the open development process.
Frame: Agenda · In preparation
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Crosswalks from the parts to the external standards they adopt or align with.
Frame: In depth · In preparation
Annex A (methodology), Annex B (data), Annex C (references and record), the complete edition for print and the citation forms are added at release, in the same form as every edition.
02 · Now
What exists today.
The evidence on 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity sits today in the GCRI Systems Evidence edition, a draft in stewardship review. This edition cross-references it chapter by chapter and does not copy it.
GCRI Systems Evidence
6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026
12 findings, 42 sources; drafted, in stewardship review.
NXS reading
Standards and regulatory watch
Printed in the GCRI edition and seeded here in chapter 6, attributed to this desk.
Subject collection
6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026
Every desk edition for this subject, compiled by GCRI Canada for the Collection.
03 · This desk
What Standards Progress reports on 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity.
Nexus Standards reads an edition for standards progress: what was adopted, what conformed, what crosswalks exist and what is still a gap.
Nexus Standards deposits adoption and conformance findings, crosswalks and profiles, packaged for machines as well as readers.
If you adopted or assessed a standard, send the clause, the version and the evidence. The desk will map it to the profile it belongs in.
04 · Six desks
Every desk’s edition for 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity.
| Desk | Edition | State | Identifier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standards Progress | Standards Progress: 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026 | In preparation | NR-NXS-XT-09-2026-BASELINE (reserved) |
| GCRI Systems Evidence | Systems Evidence: 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026 | Drafted, in stewardship review | NR-XTECH-6G-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0 |
| GRF Public Deliberation | Outside this desk’s remit | Not in remit | |
| GRA Capital Readiness | Outside this desk’s remit | Not in remit | |
| Academy Capability | Capability: 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026 | In preparation | NR-RA-XT-09-2026-BASELINE (reserved) |
| Index Measurement | Outside this desk’s remit | Not in remit |
05 · Downloads
The print edition of the evidence on 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity.
This desk’s edition is in preparation and has no print of its own until release. The evidence it cross-references is in the GCRI Systems Evidence edition for 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity: its designed PDF (A4 or US Letter), its data and its citation files are here, from this site’s library.
Draft, not yet releasedThe print and files of the GCRI edition this desk’s edition cross-references. Review copies until release; the DOI is issued at deposit.
Print
PDF, A4
The GCRI Systems Evidence print edition for this subject, A4: cover, imprint, contents with page numbers, every chapter and annex.
PDF110 pages1.0 MBTagged, with bookmarks.
SHA-256
ed5e484abe9330d2efe13a909a399668bbfd1db19703d87f2a6db6ac89b61b3bPDF, US Letter
The GCRI Systems Evidence print edition for this subject, US Letter: cover, imprint, contents with page numbers, every chapter and annex.
PDF117 pages1.0 MBTagged, with bookmarks.
SHA-256
d953e7bdcd5815dab8cb3e56fb371b3acc808b97d8f7e2633bbce9426f8e8e31
Web edition
Complete edition, one page
Every chapter and annex at one address, with running heads when printed from the browser.
HTML
Edition home
Key messages, contents, citation and the readings of each desk.
HTML
Data bundle
Indicators, CSV
16 indicators with unit, year, status and source.
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SHA-256
5a559df298f1d78fa444c5c834ae054cb8e9f9b66abcd752461cff285f1f96c8Indicators, JSON
The same indicators with the edition’s identity and licence.
NR-XTECH-6G-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-indicators.json2 KB
SHA-256
64003267b97e644bfea49c1e19f069f60450615ec55cb0725fccf829bada346cFindings, CSV
12 findings with status, evidence-quality level and references.
NR-XTECH-6G-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-findings.csv3 KB
SHA-256
d842846869e5039b35c1f26e151ceaf44a5558ce48682d1937394b918bd04ecc
Citation files
Citation, BibTeX
For LaTeX and reference managers
NR-XTECH-6G-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.bib1 KB
SHA-256
d450d63dbe9e22de44e72dc6372277018143b029e077d319a78893f9e3ebf3ffCitation, RIS
For Zotero, EndNote and Mendeley
NR-XTECH-6G-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.ris1 KB
SHA-256
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Citation File Format 1.2.0, for GitHub, Zenodo and software catalogues.
NR-XTECH-6G-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.cff1 KB
SHA-256
231790504577f8faced867f027358055f4911a44eaae882a7b8b7e7bc2386b54
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06 · Cite
Cite this report.
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- DOI
- Not yet deposited
- Until release
- Cite the GCRI Systems Evidence edition, 6G, AI-RAN and Next-Generation Connectivity 2026, which prints this desk’s reading in its chapter 6. Cite the GCRI edition
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