BCP 103, RFC 4053 on Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF

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        BCP 103
        RFC 4053

        Title:      Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and
                    from the IETF
        Author(s):  S. Trowbridge, S. Bradner, F. Baker
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Date:       April 2005
        Mailbox:    sjtrowbridge@lucent.com, sob@harvard.edu,
                    fred@cisco.com
        Pages:      19
        Characters: 38816
        SeeAlso:    BCP 103

        I-D Tag:    draft-baker-liaison-statements-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4053.txt

This document describes the procedure for proper handling of incoming
liaison statements from other standards development organizations
(SDOs), consortia, and industry fora, and for generating liaison
statements to be transmitted from IETF to other SDOs, consortia and
industry fora.  This procedure allows IETF to effectively collaborate
with other organizations in the international standards community.

The IETF expects that liaison statements might come from a variety of
organizations, and it may choose to respond to many of those.  The
IETF is only obligated to respond if there is an agreed liaison
relationship, however.

This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board.

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