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SA5 · TR 32.801-01

Study on 6G Management and Orchestration

How a 6G network is operated — and the study where autonomous agents stop being a requirement and start being an operations problem.

Specification
TR 32.801-01
Work item
FS_6G_OAM
Group
SA SA5
Rapporteur
Bahar Sadeghi — AT&T
WID
SP-251653
Runs
3 Dec 2025 → 6 Jun 2027
Latest
v0.4.0
Status
Underway

Where it stands

Nine features in v0.4.0
The three largest: Autonomous Agents (14 key issues), Knowledge Management (12), Data Management Framework (11).
Agent protocols under study
A2A and MCP are both being evaluated here, independently of CT3's protocol study.

Open questions

Watch next

RAN3's data collection framework is the RAN-side half of the same problem SA5 owns from the management side.

Covered in

Edition 23

Sources

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