The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) joined with the World...
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) joined with the World Wide Web Consortium and IEEE to develop a Modern Global Standard Design Paradigm. In the document presented to the IETF developer community at that group’s meeting in Vancouver, the three…
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organizations explicitly commit to the basic principles for the development of open standards. The high-level principles included are due process, consensus, transparency, openness and access for everybody and also balance and appeals processes. IETF Chair Russ Housley said the document will be presented at this year’s World Telecom Standards Assembly gathered by the ITU. But the final text is still being worked on, Housley acknowledged. In the current version, the standardization bodies are to commit to a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) license model, but IETF currently has no obligation to license IETF standards under FRAND.