RFC 6852

Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for Standards

📅 published January 2013, from ietf

Okay bestie, this is RFC 6852 🎀 and it's giving standards-world history 📜✨

  • Title: Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for Standards
  • Publisher: Internet Architecture Board (IAB) 🦋
  • Category: Informational
  • ISSN: 2070-1721
  • Date: January 2013 📅
  • Authors: R. Housley (IETF Chair), S. Mills (IEEE-SA President), J. Jaffe (W3C CEO), B. Aboba (IAB Chair), L. St.Amour (ISOC President and CEO) 💅
  • Obsoletes / Updates: the header doesn't have an Obsoletes or Updates line, so there isn't one listed 🙈

Abstract

okay so on 29 August 2012, the leaders of the IEEE Standards Association, the IAB, the IETF, the Internet Society, and the W3C all signed a statement 🖊️ affirming that a jointly developed set of principles is important for building a modern paradigm for global, open standards. These principles became known as the "OpenStand" principles 💜. This document has the text of the affirmation that got signed.

Status of This Memo

this one is not an Internet Standards Track specification 🙅‍♀️, it's just published for informational purposes.

It's a product of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) 🎀 and it holds info the IAB decided was valuable to keep on permanent record. It represents the consensus of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Documents the IAB approves for publication are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741 🚫.

For the current status of this document, any errata, and how to give feedback on it, check http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6852 ✨.

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1. Introduction 🌸

On 29 August 2012, the leaders of the IEEE Standards Association, the IAB, the IETF, the Internet Society, and the W3C signed a statement affirming that a jointly developed set of principles is important for a modern paradigm for global, open standards. These principles became known as the "OpenStand" principles 💖.

Section 2 of this document describes the five OpenStand principles. Section 3 of this document contains the text of the signed affirmation of the five OpenStand principles. Section 4 contains a call for others to support the five OpenStand principles 🧚.

2. Modern Paradigm for Standards 🌈

Over the past several decades, the global economy has gotten a huge bounty thanks to the Internet and the World Wide Web 🤑. None of that could have happened without the innovations and standardization of many underlying technologies. This standardization happened with great speed and effectiveness only because of key characteristics of a modern global standards paradigm 👑. The affirmation below describes the principles behind that success, as a means to make sure standards activities that stick to the principles get accepted 🔥.

We embrace a modern paradigm for standards where the economics of global markets, fueled by technological advancements, drive global deployment of standards regardless of their formal status.

In this paradigm, standards support interoperability, foster global competition, are developed through an open participatory process, and are voluntarily adopted globally. These voluntary standards serve as building blocks for products and services aimed at meeting the needs of the market and consumer, which drives innovation ⭐. Innovation in turn helps create new markets and grow existing ones.

Participation in the modern paradigm demands:

  1. Cooperation. Respectful cooperation between standards organizations, where each one respects the autonomy, integrity, processes, and intellectual property rules of the others 🫶.
  2. Adherence to principles. Adherence to the five fundamental principles of standards development:
    • Due process. Decisions are made with equity and fairness among participants. No one party dominates or guides standards development. Standards processes are transparent, and there are opportunities to appeal decisions. Processes for periodic standards review and updating are well defined 📋.
    • Broad consensus. Processes allow all views to be considered and addressed, so agreement can be found across a range of interests 🤝.
    • Transparency. Standards organizations provide advance public notice of proposed standards development activities, the scope of work to be undertaken, and conditions for participation. Easily accessible records of decisions and the materials used to reach them are provided. Public comment periods are provided before final standards approval and adoption 🔍.
    • Balance. Standards activities are not exclusively dominated by any particular person, company, or interest group ⚖️.
    • Openness. Standards processes are open to all interested and informed parties 🌷.
  3. Collective empowerment. Commitment by affirming standards organizations and their participants to collective empowerment by striving for standards that:
    • are chosen and defined based on technical merit, as judged by the contributed expertise of each participant;
    • provide global interoperability, scalability, stability, and resiliency;
    • enable global competition;
    • serve as building blocks for further innovation; and
    • contribute to the creation of global communities, benefiting humanity 🌍.
  4. Availability. Standards specifications are made accessible to all for implementation and deployment. Affirming standards organizations have defined procedures to develop specifications that can be implemented under fair terms. Given market diversity, fair terms may vary from royalty-free to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) 🎁.
  5. Voluntary adoption. Standards are voluntarily adopted, and success is determined by the market 🏆.

3. Affirmation 💅

We embrace a modern paradigm for standards where the economics of global markets, fueled by technological advancements, drive global deployment of standards regardless of their formal status.

In this paradigm, standards support interoperability, foster global competition, are developed through an open participatory process, and are voluntarily adopted globally. These voluntary standards serve as building blocks for products and services aimed at meeting the needs of the market and consumer, which drives innovation. Innovation in turn helps create new markets and grow existing ones.

By signing this statement, we affirm our support for and adherence to these principles ✍️.

   Lynn St.Amour
   President and CEO
   Internet Society

   Russ Housley
   Chair
   Internet Engineering Task Force

   Bernard Aboba
   Chair
   Internet Architecture Board

   Jeff Jaffe
   CEO
   W3C

   Steve Mills
   President
   IEEE Standards Association

4. Call for Endorsement 📣

We invite other standards organizations, governments, corporations, and technology innovators around the world to support these principles. You can publicly show your support at <http://www.open-stand.org> 🌟.

5. Security Considerations 🔐

Nothing in this document directly affects the security of the Internet. 🙂

6. IAB Members at Time of Approval 👑

These were the Internet Architecture Board Members at the time this document was approved:

  • Bernard Aboba 🦋
  • Jari Arkko 🌸
  • Marc Blanchet 🧚
  • Ross Callon 💜
  • Alissa Cooper 🍓
  • Spencer Dawkins ✨
  • Joel Halpern 🎀
  • Russ Housley 💖
  • David Kessens 🌈
  • Danny McPherson ⭐
  • Jon Peterson 🫶
  • Dave Thaler 🔥
  • Hannes Tschofenig 👑

Authors' Addresses 📬

Russ Housley
EMail: housley@vigilsec.com

Steve Mills
EMail: s.mills@ieee.org

Jeff Jaffe
EMail: jeff@w3.org

Bernard Aboba
EMail: bernard_aboba@hotmail.com

Lynn St.Amour
EMail: st.amour@isoc.org
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