ITU-T A.24 PDF

ITU-T maintains cooperative relationships with many other organizations. The technologies for which ITU-T and these other organizations are responsible continue to converge, which has resulted in an increase of interdependency between ITU-T's work programme and the programmes of other organizations. This Recommendation describes a process for authoritative document exchange with another organization, which is to be agreed upon with that organization. It also introduces generic procedures for developing an ITU-T document (Recommendation, Supplement, etc.) in collaboration with one or more other organization(s). Such generic procedures are to be considered as guidelines for negotiating a process or mode of collaboration with other qualified organization(s).

On a case-by-case basis, ITU-T study groups may use processes or modes of collaboration other than those described in this Recommendation. In particular, exchange of information (by way of liaison statements) can occur at any time with another organization without applying the processes described in this Recommendation.

NOTE 1 – This Recommendation does not apply to ITU-T Recommendations developed in collaboration with ISO/IEC JTC 1 because the long-standing procedures of [b-ITU-T A.23], which have proven very successful, remain unchanged.

NOTE 2 – Regarding collaboration with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), clause 2.5.3 of [b-ITU-T A-Suppl.3] states that "common or joint text is discouraged because of the current differences in procedures for document approval and revision."

The case of normatively referencing the documents of other organizations in ITU-T Recommendations is addressed in [ITU-T A.5].

The case of ITU-T incorporating texts (in part or in whole, with or without modifications) from another organization is addressed in [b-ITU-T A.25].