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Conventional verification depends on deep packet inspection, per-flow state, or vendor-internal telemetry, conflicting with GDPR and ePrivacy constraints in multi-tenant networks and with vendor opacity in multi-vendor O-RAN. The proposed architecture enables privacy-preserving fulfilment using declared intent categories and aggregate standardized PM counters at O1, and proves unlinkability and node-opaque verification via information-theoretic arguments and deployment mapping.","arXiv :2607 .08809v 1 [ cs .CR] 9 Jul 2026  \nPrivacy-Preserving Intent Fulfilment and Assurance for 6G RAN  \nJoss Armstrong  \nEricsson, Athlone, Ireland  \n[joss. armstrong@ericsson. com](joss. armstrong@ericsson. com)  \nApril 2026  \nAbstract  \nIntent-based network management is the emerging paradigm for 6G service lifecycle automation, with the 3GPP intent management framework (TS 28.312) defining creation, translation, fulfilment, and assurance stages. Existing fulfilment and assurance approaches require deep packet inspection, per-flow state tracking, or access to vendor-internal node telemetry to verify that provisioned resources satisfy expressed intents. These requirements conflict with regulatory constraints (GDPR, ePrivacy Directive) in multi-tenant networks and with vendor opacity in multi-vendor O-RAN deployments.  \nWe present an architecture for privacy-preserving intent fulfilment and assurance in which a coordinator provisions resources from declared intent categories without traffic inspection, and verifies fulfilment using only aggregate standardised PM counters at the O1 interface. A dataprocessing inequality argument shows that the resource allocation reveals at most log 2 K bits about traffic content, where K is the number of intent categories. We define two architectural privacy properties, intent-traffic unlinkability and node-opaque verification, and show that both hold by construction. Node-opacity does not sacrifice detection power: the aggregate verifier weakly dominates the per-agent verifier under a homogeneity condition.  \nWe map the architecture to the 3GPP intent lifecycle and the O-RAN Non-RT RIC, identifying the concrete interfaces, data objects, and deployment points at which the mechanism operates. On production PM counter data from four operator networks, increasing intent-category granularity sharpens provisioning but weakens assurance, consistent with the theoretical prediction that the privacy ceiling is a structural side effect of the detection constraint rather thana separate design parameter.  \nKeywords: intent-based networking, privacy, 6G, O-RAN, data processing inequality, aggregate verification, network management.  \n1 Introduction  \nIntent-based networking (IBN) replaces manual, element-level configuration with declarative service objectives. An operator expresses an intent, for example “ensure 99 .9% availability for enterprise slice X,” and the management system translates, provisions, and assures the corresponding resources autonomously. The 3GPP Service Assurance (SA5) intent management framework, specified in TS 28.312 [1], defines a four-stage lifecycle: intent creation, translation to network-level objectives, fulfilment through resource provisioning, and continuous assurance through monitoring. The ORAN Alliance has adopted a compatible model in which a Non-RT RIC orchestrates policy-driven management over the O1 and A1 interfaces [17] .  \nCurrent approaches to intent fulfilment assume full observability of the network state. The GenAI-IDN framework [14] processes per-flow and per-session telemetry through large language  \nmodels to infer whether intents are satisfied. Survey literature on IBN for 6G [24] identifies traffic classification, deep packet inspection, and per-session monitoring as standard components of the fulfilment and assurance pipeline. These assumptions create three practical conflicts in production deployment.  \nFirst, deep packet inspection and per-flow monitoring conflict with data protection regulations. The GDPR [12] requires data minimisation, and the ePrivacy Directive [11] restricts interception of electronic communications content. An intent fulfilment system that inspects traffic payloads or correlates per-user sessions operates in tension with these requirements, even when the inspection serves a legitimate network management purpose.  \nSecond, multi-vendor O-RAN deployments create vendor opacity constraints. 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