ITU Workshop on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Scalability and Interoperability

The International Telecommunication Union is organizing the ITU Workshop on Distributed Ledger Technology Scalability and Interoperability which will take place on the 2 August 2019 at ITU Headquarters, Rue de Varembé 2, Geneva, Switzerland.

The workshop will be preceded by the final meeting of ITU-T Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology (FG DLT) from 29 July 1 August 2019 taking place at the same venue. 

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are to:

• Examine scalability requirements of DLT platforms;
• Discuss approaches to benchmark DLT platform performance;
• Identify components of DLT that would benefit from interoperability;
• Discuss approaches to minimize DLT platform differences from the user perspective;
• Review related standardization activities;
• Propose a way forward for related standardization work in ITU-T Study Groups.