Title: Cooperative Agreement Between the Internet Society and the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Committee 1 / Sub Committee 6 (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6) Date: 20 January 1995 This Cooperative Agreement covers liaison between the Internet Society and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6. The term "Organization" refers either to the Internet Society or to SC6. 1. Mutual Recognition of Standards Both Organizations create standards documents for network protocols and services. They agree that: (1) it is often desirable to quote the other organisation's work, e.g., for establishing standards relating to these external specifications. (2) that the proper way to quote this work is by straight recognition of the other organization's work, so that they can be formally identified by their original references (SC6 standards may include "normative" as well as "informative" references to the other organization's work). (3) that the maintenance responsibility for respective standards should be retained by the originator. 2. Information on Work Programs Each organisation agrees to inform the other of its work program. For the Internet Society this will be done by sending, every six months, a complete list of the IETF working groups, including for each of them its name, its description, its goals and its expected achievements, as well as a list of RFCs and drafts relevant to that working group since the last reporting period and the milestones met since the last reporting period. Those designated Internet Standards will be identified together with their reference numbers. The list will be sent via the Internet to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Secretariat and be suitable for posting for Access by SC6 participants. For ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 this will be done by sending, following each SC Plenary meeting, a complete list of all SC6 working groups, together with titles, scopes and assigned officers for each. It will also include a list of approved projects with titles and current status for each. Plenary meetings are currently scheduled on a nine month cycle. The list will be sent via electronic mail to the designated IETF point of contact and be suitable for posting for access by IETF participants. 3. Information Sharing Each organization will inform the other of its publications. For the Internet Society this will be accomplished by sending every six months a set of all the recently published RFCs and Internet Standards, together with their status in the IETF standardization process. This list is regularly published in the Society's general membership publication, OntheInternet, which is the publication of record for the IETF standards work. The list will be sent via the Internet to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Secretariat and be suitable for posting for access by SC6 participants. For ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 this will be done by sending, following each SC6 Plenary meeting, a complete list of all approved resolutions, which will include, among other things, instructions concerning change of status of identified SC6 projects and reference to the serial numbers of relevant documents. Plenary meetings are scheduled on a nine month cycle. This information will be sent via electronic mail to the designated IETF point of contact and be suitable for posting for access by IETF participants. Both groups will keep as much as possible of their relevant technical material on line and freely accessible. For the Internet Society this will be accomplished by placing all Internet Drafts and Request For Comments in online document servers [file servers] that can be anonymously accessed through the Internet. For ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 this will be done by (1) determining which SC6 projects are of specific interest to the IETF and (2) providing information about those projects in a form that will be suitable for online access. To accomplish this, the IETF Chairman will maintain, by agreement, a published list of those SC6 projects, updated at least every six months. For those projects so identified, SC6 project editors will be requested to forward texts for comment or ballot in electronic form to the SC6 Secretariat for distribution to SC6 national bodies. National Bodies will be requested to submit comments also in electronic form to the SC6 Secretariat. The Chairman of SC6 will forward these texts and comments via electronic mail to the designated IETF point of contact for posting for access by IETF participants. 4. Collaborative Efforts The working groups of both organizations may in some cases hold joint meetings for the purposes of technical discussions. Outputs of such meetings should be injected back into the processes of both organizations. Some of these meetings will be held for the purpose of planning future requirements for data networking. The results should be shared with interested working parties within both organizations. The results of the working group meetings can be published by both organizations. The Internet Society, in particular, will normally publish these results through its normal communication channels, i.e. either as "Internet Drafts" or as "RFCs" or "Internet Standards". SC6 and the Internet Society may collaborate for the development of a particular standard or family of standards; the process of such collaboration will be mutually developed. The objective in developing this new process will be to create a rapid method for SC6 approval that will not cause a significant change in the Internet standards process or delay the approval of Internet Standards. Approved, Approved, for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 for the Internet Society Original signed by Original signed by John Wheeler Vinton Cerf _____________________ _______________________ John L. Wheeler Vinton G. Cerf Chairman, SC6 President, Internet Society Date: 4/10/95 Date: 3/21/95