The 5G-ENSURE deliverables: the complete H2020 document archive

5G-ENSURE was a research project in the first phase of the 5G Public-Private Partnership, funded under Horizon 2020 as grant agreement 671562, call H2020-ICT-2014-2. Its public output was a set of deliverables: the use cases and risk assessment that framed the problem, a security architecture and a trust model, specifications for the enablers built against them, a testbed and its evaluation, and the project’s own reporting.

Taken together the 5G-ENSURE deliverables are a single argument in four parts, which is why this H2020 document archive is worth reading as a set. Work package 2 establishes what a 5G network has to defend and what it should guarantee. Work package 3 turns that into components. Work package 4 tries them on a testbed and reports what happened. Work package 5 records how the results were carried into standards bodies and to the wider public.

Several documents exist in more than one edition, and both editions are here. A draft and a final are different documents with different numbers, not versions of one file, and a reference to the draft should resolve to the draft.

Every document can be downloaded directly: select the PDF link beside a title and the file is served, with no intermediate page. There is no registration and nothing to accept first, which is the behaviour a published research document should have.

The addresses look inconsistent, and that inconsistency is deliberate, not untidiness. The original site generated file paths in more than one way over its life, so the same document could be cited under two or three different addresses depending on when the citation was written. All of them are kept. A download link written into a paper in 2016 resolves to the same file as one written in 2018, because breaking either would break the citation that depends on it.

One consequence is worth stating plainly: a few of these documents are large. The full set runs to several hundred megabytes, and the biggest single deliverable is heavier than most web pages by three orders of magnitude. That is what a 200-page technical report with embedded diagrams weighs.

The list of 5G-ENSURE deliverables above is drawn from the document archive itself rather than from any index of it, which matters because the two disagree. Four deliverables (D2.2, D2.3, D4.3 and D4.4) appear in no external citation at all and would have been missed entirely by working from references alone. They are here because the files are.

One document is genuinely absent. D3.7, a software release accompanying the enabler specifications, was published and is still referenced, but no copy of it survives to be served. It is recorded here instead of quietly dropped, because a gap that is named is more useful than a list that pretends to be complete.

Three deliverables were also published through the file listing the original site generated, which gave each one a record of its own at a separate address. Both addresses were cited, so both are served, and the record page states which document it holds and how long it runs.

D4.1 is a fourth case and a different one. It was served a second time from a Deliverables/ path, and that copy is not byte-identical to the one in the index above, so the two are separate files of the same deliverable rather than one file at two addresses. Both are kept, at the addresses they were cited under.

• D4.1D4.1 again, the copy served from the Deliverables path