SA plenary · TR 21.802

Study on Modernization of Specification Format and Procedures for 6G

Whether 3GPP's Word-and-Change-Request workflow survives into 6G. Reached for-information in December 2025 and has not been submitted for approval since.

Specification: TR 21.802
Work item: 6GSM
Group: CROSS SA plenary
Rapporteur: Dongwook Kim — ETSI
WID: —
Runs: 2025 → Rel-20
Latest: v1.4.0 (SA#113, for information)
Status: Underway

Where it stands

Eight format proposals

OpenDocument; AsciiDoc; Markdown; Markdown-baseline multi-format; LaTeX; restricted DOCX; Word-baseline multi-format; standalone ASN.1.

Five tooling proposals

Three Git/GitLab variants, OpenDocument tooling, and DOCX linting.

The recommendation is unpublished

Clause 8 has not been released.

Open questions

Whether it goes for approval at SA#114 Boston in December
Which format wins — Release 21 normative drafting starts after package approval in March 2027 — the practical deadline for changing anything.

Watch next

SA#114, Boston, 7–11 December 2026

Covered in

Edition 33

Sources

Primary3GPP portal — specification record

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