Protocol Standards

formal descriptions to ensure diverse systems can work together

Standards Development Process:

• Open vs Closed - who can participate?
• Availability - is it accessible to everyone?
• IP^[Intellectual Property] rules
  • disclose of IP rights
  • Use of technologies with IP restrictions
• Membership types
  • Individual, corporate or national
• Development approaches
  • Lead Technical Development
  • Describe Existing Practices
• Collaboration Styles
  • Collaborative or Combative

Key Standard Organisations: organisations that ensure and create protocol standards(IETF^[Internet Engineering Task Force])

develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, particularly the standards that comprises the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).