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Standards, specifications, committees and migration deadlines on post-quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution and quantum technologies: ETSI, CEN-CENELEC, ISO/IEC, ITU-T, IEEE, NIST and the IETF, the EU roadmap and the national agencies, each with its status and dates, its scope, what it means for organisations and its next milestone.

This page: every standard, committee and deadline with its status and next milestone. The other post-quantum pages: Guide: what post-quantum cryptography is and what to do first; Timeline by authority: the milestones of each EU and national authority, as its source states them; What is due when: everything due in the next 12 to 60 months, in date order, with a calendar feed; Compliance calendar: dated obligations and milestones beyond post-quantum.

Tracked items by body and status
BodyPublishedDraftIn developmentActiveWithdrawnTotal
ETSI ISG QKD10001011
ETSI TC CYBER400004
CEN-CENELEC5051011
ISO/IEC301105
ITU-T600006
IEEE004059
NIST512008
IETF702009
EU100102
ECCG / EUCC010203
ANSSI200103
BSI200103
Netherlands100001
NCSC-UK100001
Canada (CCCS, TBS)100102
NSA000101

Verification of the items on the date read: Verified: 57; Partly verified: 20; Not verified: 2.

1 item

NCSC guidance: PQC migration timelines: Timelines for migration to post-quantum cryptography

Body
National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)
Kind
Migration deadlines
Status
Published (2025-03-20). Published and reviewed 20 March 2025 (version 1.0); page metadata shows a modification on 2026-08-03
Scope
Post-quantum cryptography
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
What it means for organisations
Gives UK organisations three staged target years for discovery and planning, priority migration, and full PQC migration.
Next milestone
: Define migration goals, complete discovery and assessment, build initial migration plan · Target date · NCSC: Timelines for migration to post-quantum cryptography (read 2026-10-25; Page header (published/reviewed dates) and migration timeline milestones section)
Milestones, links, verification and sources
Dated milestones
  • : Define migration goals, complete discovery and assessment, build initial migration plan
  • : Complete highest-priority migration activities and refine plan
  • : Complete migration of all systems, services and products to PQC
Verification
Verified. Page read on ncsc.gov.uk; dates and milestones read in the timeline section. The nature of the 2026-08-03 modification was not visible.
Sources

Sources compiled 2026-10-27; assembled 2026-11-02. Reviewed every 90 days. Past milestones of the PQC transition are on the migration timeline.