Digital standards

2024

Rosstandart summed up the results of national standardization in the field of digital technologies

The Fund of National Standards of Russia in the field of information technology has reached 2000 documents. Among them, more than 100 standards regulate the spheres of artificial intelligence and information security. This was announced in St. Petersburg at the end of November 2024 by the head of Rosstandart Anton Shalaev. In 2024, three national standards on domestic Internet of Things transmission and data exchange protocols were approved. All documents on AI and information security are posted in the public domain.

Achieving technological leadership depends on the effectiveness of measures to create and implement innovations, scale best practices and develop end-to-end technologies, "said Anton Shalaev, head of Rosstandart.

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The agency initiated a digital transformation program for the national standardization system until 2030. Within its framework, a phased transition from paper media to machine-readable documents and the creation of a single digital platform are being implemented.

The new standards regulate the use of information technologies when placing government orders and provide uniform approaches to import substitution of software. Particular attention is paid to the development of a regulatory framework for the introduction of artificial intelligence.

The process of developing standards takes into account the practical experience of large companies and government corporations. The created regulatory framework allows you to regulate the interaction between developers and consumers of technological solutions.

The system of national standards covers a wide range of areas: from the industrial Internet of Things to information security systems. The documents contain requirements for the development, implementation and operation of digital solutions in all sectors of the economy.

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Since 2020, Rosstandart has adopted 400 GOSTs in the IT sphere. Main areas

Since 2020, the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) has adopted more than 400 new state standards (GOSTs) in the field of information technology. This was announced on October 2, 2024 by the head of the department Anton Shalaev.

According to TASS, most of the adopted standards are unique Russian developments created by experts from domestic enterprises. The new GOSTs cover a wide range of areas in the IT field, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, the industrial Internet of Things and other areas.

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The head of Rosstandart noted that the adopted standards are aimed at developing areas such as cyberphysical systems, biometrics and biomonitoring, system and software engineering, automatic identification and data collection technologies, functional security, as well as mathematical modeling.

In 2023-2024, taking into account changes in the nomenclature of the electronic component base and the introduction of new materials and technologies, more than 150 national standards were developed and approved. These GOSTs take into account new parameters and characteristics related to modern design solutions.

Anton Shalaev stressed the importance of standardization and unification to achieve the country's technological leadership. According to him, this is necessary to ensure a high degree of independence in the creation of technologies, developments and engineering solutions, as well as to master the production of critical products.

Rosstandart pays special attention to updating the fund of documents on standardization of defense products. From 2019 to October 2024, 2.5 times more state military standards were developed and updated than in the previous decade.^[2]

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The development and widespread adoption of any products and technologies is impossible without standardization. For 2020, there are many organizations in the world engaged in standardization at the national and international levels, including:

• Gosstandard of Russia (State Committee of the RSFSR for Standardization, Metrology and Certification);
• ANSI (American National Standards Institute - American National Standards Institute, ANIS, develops standards for programming languages ​ ​ and interfaces, for network protocols, data transmission and data encryption);
• ECMA (European Computer Manufacturer's Association is the European association of producers of computers, association on standardization in the field of information and computing systems);
• ISO (International Standards Organization - the International Organization for Standardization with a huge set of the created and created standards);
• IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission - the International Electrotechnical Commission, the IEC which is engaged in standards in the field of electronics and electrical equipment);
• IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) - Institute of Electrical and Radio Electronics Engineers, IIER (USA), the world's largest professional organization responsible, in particular, for network standards, standards for software and engineering systems;
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - US National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST.

Digital standards can be roughly divided into two large categories:

• standards and laws of the level and status of standards related to the digitalization of the economy, with digital transformation (for example, Federal Law (draft) No. 419059-7 "On Digital Financial Assets");
• digital-specific standards.

For the modern digital economy, the most important are standards in the field of IT and BT, programming, network technologies, data transmission, including:

• digital bus and interface standards (e.g., I2C; PCI; USB, etc.);
• standards for coding and compression methods, for formats of digital audio and video materials (for example, MPEG ISO/IEC, MP3, etc.);
• cryptographic standards, data encryption standards (e.g. AES);
• standards for programming languages ​ ​ (develops, in particular, ANSI, while the standardized version of the language receives the ANSI prefix, for example ANSI C, ANSI Fortran, ANSI SQL, ANSI Pascal, etc.);
• standards for building computer and communication networks and network protocols (for example, IEEE 802.3 standards on Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet; Internet standards FTP, HTTP, etc.);
• standards for digital mobile cellular technologies of different generations (from 0G to 5G, including NMT, AMPS, CDMA, D-AMPS, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, WCDMA, 5G NR, etc.);
• digital trunking radio standards (e.g. EDACS, TETRA, APCO 25, etc.);
• military standards for MIL STD equipment;
• standards for digital television (DTV), high definition television (HDTV), its various formats (including 720p HD, 1080i HD, 4K HDR, HDTV, etc.).

The digital economy (CE) will require a large number of new digital standards and laws, some of which are already being developed in 2020, some of which are only being discussed. These standards and laws will concern robotic systems, systems with artificial intelligence, smart homes and cities, the Internet of Things, additive production, new network technologies, standards for training in CE disciplines and many other things.

In IT, most modern standards, for 2020 more than 2.5 thousand, including digital (related to digital technologies), have not been translated into Russian (although the procedure for translating and adopting international standards in Russia has been simplified as much as possible), not to mention the fact that the IT-Business have a rather weak interest in developing new standards. CE requires not only the introduction of existing and existing international standards, but also the active participation of Russian representatives in international standardization organizations to create new standards taking into account our specifics. Development and approval of standards for CE the main tool for regulating the quality of IT services and expanding IT-Business.

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