Standardization organizations play a major role in the telecom-munications industry to guarantee interoperability between vendors and allow for a common ground where all players can voice their opinion regarding the direction the industry should follow.

In this paper the authors review the current activities in some of the most relevant standardization bodies in the area of communication networks:3GPP, IEEE802.11, BBF, IETF, ONF, ETSI ISG NFV, oneM2M and ETSI TC ITS. Major innovations being developed in these bodies are sumarized, describing the most disruptive directions taken and expected to have a remarkable impact in future networks.

Some trends are identified:

i) core technology enhancements,
ii) inter-organization cooperation for con-vergence,
iii) consideration of raising disruptive technical concepts,and
iv) expanding into emerging use cases aiming at an increase of future market size.

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