Bangkok, Thailand – July 15, 2026 – At the Aisa Pacific Telecom Cybersecurity Seminar , Mr. Deng Yiu, Secretary-General of the Network Innovation and Development Alliance (NIDA), delivered a keynote speech titled “The AI Imperative: Turbocharging the Network Security Evolution”.In his presentation, he highlighted that the advent of the intelligent era drives the evolution toward next-generation network, marking a new phase where networks are increasingly AI‑driven and data‑centric. He further noted that AI is transforming our lives and reshaping the security threat landscape – threats have evolved from manual to AI, from IT to CT, from single point to pervasive threat, and from IPsec to quantum.Sharing real‑world cases under the slide “Cases: New Attack Vectors and Challenges”, he cited two operator incidents: Carrier Y faced IT‑to‑CT network attacks, and Carrier X was attacked by hackers through infrastructure devices. To counter such challenges, he introduced the principle of AI vs AI, E2E network security safeguard, emphasising key directions such as intrinsic security, quantum security, and security‑network collaborative approaches.Closing his speech, Mr. Deng reaffirmed NIDA’s mission – to drive technological innovation and the application of network innovations across industries – and called for global collaboration in building a secure, trustworthy next‑generation network infrastructure.

Dr. Ramadass Highlights Next-Gen Network Evolution as Indonesia Secures World's First AI-Net Certification BANGKOK, THAILAND, July 14, 2026. At the WBBA APAC Broadband Development Summit (BDS) held today in Bangkok, Sureswaran Ramadass, Chair of APAC IPv6 Council, Vice Chair of NIDA delivered a keynote address titled "Next Generation Network Empowers the Leap of Digital Infrastructure in the AI Era." Dr. Ramadass highlighted that as the AI era gains momentum, intelligent technologies are fueling digital economic growth and becoming core national strategies across APAC. However, the widespread industrial adoption of AI demands high-quality, high-speed, and secure network infrastructure, specifically trusted and deterministic networks. Sureswaran Ramadass, Chair of APAC IPv6 Council, Vice Chair of NIDA, delivering keynote speech Ramadass emphasized that global standards organizations are actively responding to these infrastructure shifts. Notably, ITU-T published Y.3188 (Network Requirements for AI) and launched research focusing on upcoming AI trends, 6G requirements, and the agent-centric AI era toward 2030. Concurrently, NIDA is driving network innovation and industrial applications. To accelerate standard implementation, the APAC IPv6 Council is collaborating with NIDA to steer the transition across APAC from standard IPv6 toward trusted, high-speed, and deterministic next-generation infrastructure. In a major milestone for the summit, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) officially and independently launched its "AI-Net Certification" framework. Indonesia became the first nation to be recognized with the certification due to its proactive policy promotion, while its leading carrier, XLSmart, was named an "AI-Net Champion" for its outstanding practices in advanced network deployment. Indonesia, the world’s first country to receive AI-Net Certification.The APAC IPv6 Council commended these milestones, viewing them as a clear reflection of the region's pioneering momentum in the global digital and AI race. The APAC IPv6 Council and NIDA hope to collaborate with governments and industry organizations across APAC to accelerate the regional network evolution and build a solid, quantifiable foundation for an intelligent 2030.

On July 14, 2026, at the Broadband Development Summit APAC 2026 in Bangkok, NIDA Secretary-General Deng Yiou and WBBA Secretary-General Martin Creaner, jointly announced their collaboration and officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) .The MOU signed at the BDS APAC 2026 covers areas of current cooperation and further collaboration between the two organizations, including: expanding the broadband access, joint development of industry information, broadband policy and regulatory harmonization, advocacy and awareness creation, promoting next-generation Internet based on AI-Powered WAN, and sharing experiences with AI-driven demands in vertical industries, etc.NIDA Secretary‑General Deng Yiou stated at the summit: "NIDA is committed to defining the evolution path and network construction standards for global internet infrastructure, while WBBA focuses on driving global consensus and commercial deployment of cloud‑network broadband. NIDA and WBBA are naturally highly complementary, and there is broad room for cooperation in areas such as joint development of network construction standards for vertical industries, and in creating Next-generation pioneer cities to promote and deploy benchmark models."The signing of the MOU between NIDA and WBBA marks a transition from in‑depth dialogue to comprehensive collaboration between the two international organizations. Looking ahead, both sides will fully leverage their respective strengths — NIDA's expertise in standard‑setting and technical implementation, and WBBA's experience in fostering industry consensus and advancing business value — to jointly drive the construction and innovation of next‑generation network infrastructure, injecting new momentum into the high‑quality development of the global digital economy.

This article is the first in the Insight Series on the compiled edition of the Hetao "1+6" *International Organizations Weekly*.01 The Past and Present Lives of HetaoIf one merely understands the Hetao "1+6" as "six international organizations inside a cluster area," they are underestimating its true weight; however, without first explaining what "Hetao" is, it would also be difficult to understand why this organizational ecosystem has grown here.The Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone is located at the border between Futian, Shenzhen, and Lok Ma Chau, Hong Kong, separated only by a river, serving as one of the vital cooperation platforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. Its spatial layout is frequently summarized as "One Zone, Two Parks; One River, Two Banks": the Shenzhen Park undertakes mainland innovation speed and industrial mobilization capabilities, while the Hong Kong side connects with international rules, professional services, and global networks. It is precisely because of this unique location that Hetao is not an ordinary industrial park, but a proving ground for Shenzhen-Hong Kong technological synergy, institutional alignment, and the aggregation of international innovation resources.The Hetao International Industrial and Standards Organizations Hub (HIOH) is an international cluster for industrial and standards organizations established in the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, adjacent to Hong Kong. The hub has currently gathered international organizations and their service agencies, including the World Wireless LAN Application Development Alliance (WAA), the International SparkLink Wireless Short-Range Communication Alliance (iSLA), the World Ultra HD Video Industry Alliance (UWA), the Global Computing Alliance (GCC), the Global Intelligent IoT Alliance (GIIC), the Network Innovation and Development Alliance (NIDA), and the Comentropy Industry and Standards Innovation Service Center (Comentropy).The emergence of the Hetao International Organizations Hub represents an institutional innovation formed precisely at the intersection of high-level opening-up and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. It is not a physical aggregation purely driven by policy, but an attempt to use the "small entry point" of international industrial and standards organizations to leverage the "grand landscape" of standard discourse power, industrial ecosystems, and global innovation networks amidst the reshaping of the global technology governance framework.More precisely, the Hetao "1+6" resembles a set of key technical standards organizations growing in synergy: they respectively target wireless LAN application experience, SparkLink short-range communications, ultra-high-definition video, fixed networks, computing architecture and computing power infrastructure, and the Internet of Things (IoT) alongside the HarmonyOS ecosystem. None of these directions represents a single application or a standalone technology; rather, each is a complex system co-constituted by underlying protocols, core standards, testing and certification, product adaptation, scenario verification, and industrial ecosystems. The common question running through these systems is how standards can move from paper into industry, from domestic domains onto the international stage, and from expert consensus into market order.The story of the Hetao "1+6" begins exactly here.02 Why Hetao: From "Pioneering Demonstration" to "Standard Guidance"When discussing standards in the past, many people would think of thick documents, marathon meetings, and convoluted clauses. However, in today's industrial competition, standards are no longer just about "writing rules"; they determine whether technologies can interoperate, whether products can be certified, whether scenarios can be replicated, and whether ecosystems can expand. In a sense, standards are rules, and standards are also industrial power.It is by no means accidental that Hetao has become the host ground for this innovation in standards organizations. Its direct policy origin can be traced back to the "40 Items" of the Shenzhen Comprehensive Reform Pilot in 2020. Among them, Item 15 proposed to "innovate the management system of international industrial and standards organizations," providing top-level authorization to break through traditional social organization management models and attract global innovation resources. By August 2023, the State Council issued the *Development Plan for the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone*, further positioning the Shenzhen Park as an "Experimental Zone for International Advanced Science and Technology Innovation Rules," supporting the deepening of international exchanges and cooperation, attracting top global talents, and promoting the sharing of scientific and technological resources as well as technical standards cooperation.In other words, from the very beginning, Hetao was not just about "building spaces," but was experimenting with a new set of rules: how to make international industrial and standards organizations easier to initiate, more efficient to operate, and more open to absorbing global members, while simultaneously achieving the balance of being "vibrant yet well-regulated" under a comprehensive supervision mechanism.Against this backdrop, in January 2024, the Hetao International Industrial and Standards Organizations Hub was officially unveiled, and the "1+6" ecosystem quickly took shape: one Comentropy Industry and Standards Innovation Service Center, plus six highly focused international alliances.The special feature of the Hetao Hub lies in the fact that it does not merely gather a number of trade associations or industrial alliances, but allows international organizations across different technological directions to form a mutually echoing structure within the same region:iSLA addresses short-range, highly reliable connectivity;WAA addresses the WLAN application experience;UWA addresses the ultra-high-definition audio-visual experience;NIDA addresses fixed networks and the New Quality Internet;GCC addresses computing and computing power infrastructure;GIIC addresses the Internet of Things and the HarmonyOS ecosystem;The Comentropy Service Center serves as the "service middleware," supporting registration, operations, compliance, talent, international promotion, digital collaboration, and standardization services.This is the meaning of "1+6": one standards organization service and aggregation platform supporting the joint growth of six key industrial tracks.These alliances do not exist in isolation; rather, they serve as organizational vehicles for China's transition from "following" to "running alongside, and even leading" in key frontier fields such as post-5G/6G, wireless short-range communications, ultra-high-definition video, the Internet of Things, computing architectures, and fixed networks. They are highly segmented and specialized, yet they share a batch of common requirements: registration, operations, compliance, membership management, international communication, meeting voting, testing and certification, and talent services. The value of Comentropy lies precisely in processing these common requirements centrally, allowing each alliance to focus more intensely on its own core technologies and industrial ecosystem.Therefore, the essence of the Hetao "1+6" is not "putting six organizations together," but an organizational innovation of an "alliance cluster + professional middleware." Each alliance delves deeply into a key track, while Comentropy centrally provides infrastructure-style services, ultimately forming a synergistic effect among standard formulation, product certification, membership networks, international promotion, and industrial deployment.They seemingly belong to different fields, yet they are actually answering the same proposition of the era: as the digital world grows increasingly complex, industrial synergy cannot rely solely on enterprises fighting single-handedly; there must be standards organizations to provide a common language, common interfaces, and common verification mechanisms.03 From "Six Alliances" to "One Ecosystem": The Underlying Logic of HetaoIf one looks at the six alliances together, they will find that they are not six isolated lines, but jointly constitute the foundation of the digital industry.At the connectivity level, iSLA focuses on short-range, highly reliable, and low-latency communication between devices; WAA focuses on the quality of the WLAN application experience across campuses, healthcare, small and medium enterprises, and cities; and NIDA pushes the horizon forward into Net5.5G, autonomous networks, intelligent computing center networks, and AI campus network construction.At the computing power level, GCC focuses on infrastructural issues such as BIOS, liquid cooling, AIDC, confidential computing, and Open AI Infra, answering how computing power in the AI era can be standardized, engineered, and globally collaborated upon.At the experience level, UWA ensures that HDR Vivid and Audio Vivid are no longer just technical terms, but enter terminal certification, television broadcasting, cinemas, automotive systems, live tournament broadcasting, and professional production toolchains.At the scenario level, GIIC takes "IoT + HarmonyOS" as the entry point, organizing smart homes, eSIM, pioneer cities, industry standards, and core corporate members to attempt a solution to the long-standing conundrum of interconnectivity across brands, terminals, and scenarios.Therefore, the key to the Hetao "1+6" lies not in the "quantity," but in the "structure": it places connectivity, networking, computing, content, IoT, and standards services into the same organizational ecosystem, forming a continuous chain from technical standards to industrial applications.04 The True Change: Standard Deliverables Have TransformedIn the past, the primary output of a standard was text. Today, the Hetao "1+6" is advancing standards into more executable, verifiable, and reusable industrial capabilities: some manifest as certification credentials and testing platforms, some as engineering specifications and toolchains, and others as operating system ecosystems, scenario-based solutions, and international co-construction mechanisms:iSLA pushes SparkLink standards into OpenLab, interoperability testing, certification credentials, development kits, and supply chain scenarios such as audio and automotive;WAA pushes WLAN application experience standards into performance tiering, testing platforms, scenario credentials, and network acceptance methodologies;UWA pushes HDR Vivid and Audio Vivid into terminal certification, cinema signage, channel landing, automotive adaptation, and the Pro Tools professional production toolchain;NIDA transforms fixed network innovation into requirements for intelligent computing data center network construction, methodologies for AI campus network construction, adoption of autonomous network tiering, standards led by overseas members, and a replicable network construction standard system;GCC pushes computing infrastructure standards into code repositories, demos, interface specifications, rack specifications, cost accounting models, and the Open AI Infra open community;GIIC constructs an organizational pipeline around "IoT + HarmonyOS" for cross-brand device interconnection, HarmonyOS ecosystem adaptation, eSIM IoT connectivity, smart home scenarios, pioneer city models, and industry solutions.This means that standards are no longer merely "a set of statements agreed upon by everyone," but are further translated into shared assets for product entry, engineering construction, tool calling, ecosystem adaptation, scenario deployment, and international collaboration. Only when standards can be tested, certified, deployed, procured, integrated, and reused do they truly enter the deep-water zone of the industry.05 Internationalization Is Not "Going Global," But "Joint Formulation"Another vital transformation of the Hetao "1+6" is the upgrading of its mode of internationalization.In the past, the internationalization of many standards was easily understood as "translating domestic standards into English and bringing them overseas for publication." However, truly vital internationalization is not a unidirectional export, but joint formulation, joint verification, and joint adoption.UWA's HDR Vivid has been officially adopted by the European DVB and has entered the ITU-R PDNR; Audio Vivid has entered the Pro Tools professional production toolchain. WAA has opened up an international collaboration channel for WLAN application experience standards through the BRICS new connectivity mechanism, WBA/BBF synergy, and ITU-T docking. NIDA launched its first standard led by an overseas member, meaning that international members are no longer just observers, but have begun to become standard formulators. GCC explores global collaboration for computing power infrastructure through the Malaysia Joint Hub, the AIDC International Roundtable, and the Open AI Infra community. iSLA exposes SparkLink technology to the scenario-based scrutiny of overseas industrial partners through the Tokyo Forum in Japan, the European Forum in Spain, and commercial product showcases. GIIC, through the BRICS New Connectivity Forum, pioneer cities, and international city models, places the IoT ecosystem into cross-border scenario dialogues.Behind this lies a new paradigm: not "I formulate, you accept," but "I initiate, you participate; I contribute, you verify; I form solutions, you jointly refine."06 Five Hard Metrics of the Hetao ModelEvaluating the Hetao "1+6" in the future should not merely look at "how many more meetings were held or how many more standards were released," but should look at five harder metrics:Whether standards are adopted, certified, and utilized by products;Whether standards enter international organizations, international toolchains, or the co-construction workflows of overseas members;Whether standards form reusable tests, demos, code, certificates, or experience scenarios;Whether alliances continuously absorb core members and critical industrial nodes;Whether standards expand from standalone technologies into system-level scenario solutions.These five metrics determine whether a standards organization remains on paper or enters the real operations of the industry.07 Conclusion: What Hetao Truly Produces Is "Synergistic Capability"The true variable of the Hetao "1+6" is not any single alliance, a specific technology, or a particular meeting, but a new capability to organize industrial synergy.It is proving that the internationalization of group standards does not have to rely solely on conceptual dissemination, nor does it have to rely purely on single-point technological breakthroughs; rather, it can raise questions through industrial scenarios, condense consensus through alliance mechanisms, complete deliverables through standards and certifications, expand influence through international synergy, and verify value through products and engineering.From a broader coordinate, the birth of the Hetao International Organizations Hub is a miniature of the transition from "learning rules" to "participating in rule formulation," and from "factor-driven" to "innovation-driven" development. Based upon the pioneering demonstration of Shenzhen, relying on Shenzhen-Hong Kong integration, and facing global openness, it connects technological governance, industrial standards, and innovation ecosystems using international organizations in specific domains as an entry point.Nor is it a closed, adversarial "starting anew"; rather, it is an open competition and international co-construction: leveraging China's market scale, technological accumulation, and ecological vitality to attract global participants to jointly formulate standards that are more usable, more verifiable, and more deployable. For BRICS nations and the Global South, these organizations may also provide more technological choices, cooperation mechanisms, and entry points for industrial participation.Therefore, what Hetao truly produces is not just standard texts, nor is it merely certification credentials, but the synergistic capability brought about by institutional innovation: allowing different enterprises, different countries, and different technological routes to converse, verify, iterate, and co-build within the same framework of issues.This is the significance of the Hetao "1+6": it is not a simple assembly of six organizations, but an exploration into a new, replicable paradigm of standards organizations.If technological innovation determines how fast an industry can walk, then standards organizations determine how far the industry can travel. The Hetao International Industrial and Standards Organizations Hub is precisely attempting to pave this road.

[Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 19 June 2026] The Vietnam Internet Conference 2026 was held in Ho Chi Minh City from June 16 to 19. The summit focused on how next-generation internet infrastructure supports emerging applications such as artificial intelligence (AI). Over 200 representatives attended the event, including officials from Vietnamese regulatory authorities, domestic telecom operators, universities, Southeast Asian ICT enterprises, and international standards organizations. During the main forum on June 19, Dr. LIU Shucheng, Director of the Industrial Development Department at the Global Network Innovation Development Alliance (NIDA) and Vice Chairman of the APAC IPv6 Council, delivered a keynote speech. He shared insights into the network evolution roadmap toward 2030 and proposed a new network foundation characterized by high speed, high quality, and high security, providing actionable references for digital transformation in APAC.Accelerated AI Deployment Drives Comprehensive Restructuring of Underlying Network ArchitectureAI has been elevated to a national strategic priority for major global powers. China, the United States, and multiple European countries have introduced top-level AI development plans, while emerging markets such as Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Egypt have successively released dedicated national AI strategies and ramped up investments in the digital industry. Omdia predicts that AI will drive rapid revenue growth in the ICT sector. The AI boom is generating massive volumes of data, leading to increasingly stringent data security requirements across key industries. Traditional bearer networks must not only enhance bandwidth and service quality but also strengthen security protection capabilities. Furthermore, data center networks must achieve congestion-free scheduling and proactive security isolation.According to Roland Berger, IPv6 Enhanced, leveraging four core capabilities—SRv6, network slicing, digital twin, and autonomous driving networks—can simultaneously expand network access scale, optimize service quality, and streamline operation and maintenance processes. It is projected that global technological innovations related to IPv6 Enhanced will generate $10 trillion in economic value by 2030.In the realm of standardization, the ITU-T has published the Y.3188 standard to define network requirements for AI scenarios and has initiated the drafting of a 2030 technical report targeting the 6G and Agentic AI era. The WBBA, in collaboration with over 200 industry members, has put forward an end-to-end network architecture based on IPv6 Enhanced. This architecture encompasses metro & backbone networks, data center networks and campus/enterprise networks, integrating core technologies such as SRv6, 400/800GE, and Wi-Fi 7. NIDA and APAC IPv6 Council have established five standardization working groups focusing on network evolution, autonomous networks, campus networks, data center networks, and network security. These groups are developing comprehensive network construction standards centered on high speed, high quality, and high security.Localized Solutions Tailored to Vietnam's Digital Infrastructure UpgradeBased on Vietnam's current industrial landscape, Dr. Liu proposed a series of actionable recommendations to comprehensively support local AI development. These include upgrading 400GE IPv6 Enhanced metro & backbone networks, promoting Wi-Fi 7 10Gbps campus/enterprise networks, deploying 800GE lossless computing data center networks, and scaling up direct fiber connections for FTTS base stations.Addressing network security challenges in the AI era, the layered defense system of IPv6 Enhanced integrates an AI traffic detection engine. This enables real-time monitoring at the second level and rapid disposal of non-compliant information, fully aligning with network regulatory and compliance requirements across various countries.With top-level IPv6 policy planning in China and France as representative case studies, the speech vividly demonstrated the driving value of high-speed intelligent networks for the digital economy, offering valuable insights for Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations.Deepening Regional Standardization Cooperation to Solidify the Foundation for 2030 Digital DevelopmentIn his concluding remarks, Dr. Liu emphasized that NIDA and APAC IPv6 Council are open and inclusive international standards organizations that have previously established partnerships with local standards bodies in countries such as Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Looking ahead, the Alliances are willing to deepening collaboration with local standards and industry organizations of Vietnam and other APAC countries to jointly develop localized network development guidelines, thereby helping Vietnam comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of digital infrastructure. The Alliance also welcomes more global partners to join forces in advancing the digital and intelligent transformation of society.