G'day,
When outside work is brought into the IETF, it is typical to make a
formal agreement. between the IETF and the originating organization.
It makes the hand-off explicit, sets any constraints on the handoff, and
sets any constraints on the efforts of the initial working group. (The
constraints can range from 'only bug fixes' to 'use the existing work
merely as conceptual input'.)
The first such IETF agreement was for the underpinnings of NFS:
An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1790.txt
Another one, 3 years later, was for NFS itself.
I cannot find the set of such agreements on the IETF web site, nor as
other RFCs.
Does anyone have a pointer to the set of these agreements?
Thanks.
d/
ps. my initial focus was to find the agreement for vcard/vcalendar, but
the search produced the larger question.
--
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net