Liaisons and Relationships

As of June 2021

CalConnect establishes and maintains relationships with external standards organizations and other organizations as appropriate to further its purposes. Such relationships may take the form of formal liaisons, informal partnerships, or reciprocal membership agreements, at the discretion of the Board of Directors and considering suitability for the external partner.

Ronald Tse of Ribose is Director of External Relations and Vice President of CalConnect.

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IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

  • Ongoing working relationship in particular with
  • IETF CALEXT WG - Calendar Extensions Working Group
  • IETF TZDIST-bis WG - Discussions of Extensions to The Time Zone Data Distribution Service and Time Zone Information Forma Working Group

ISO - International Organization for Standardization

  • Contributory Liaisons with ISO Commmittees
  • Ongoing work towards joint publication
  • ISO/PC 317 - Consumer Privacy by Design
    • Category A Liaison
  • ISO/TC 37 - Language and Terminology
    • Category A Liaison
    • ISO/TC 37/SC 4 - Language Resource Management
      • Category A Liaison
    • ISO/TC 37/SC 5 - Translation, interpreting and related technology
      • Category A Liaison
  • ISO/TC 46 - Information and documentation
    • Category A LIaison
    • ISO/TC 46/SC 4 - Technical Interoperability
      • Category A Liaison
    • ISO/TC 46/SC 9 - Identification and description
      • Category A Liaison
      • ISO/TC 46/SC 9/WG 15 - Bibliography working group
        • Current work
  • ISO/TC 154 - Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration
    • Category A Liaison
    • ISO/TC 154/WG 4 - Electronic layout key
      • Current work
    • ISO/TC 154/WG 5 - Representation of dates and times
      • Current work
  • ISO/TC 211 - Geographic Information / Geomatics
    • Category A Liaison
    • ISO/TC 211/WG 7 - Information Communities
      • Current work
  • ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 27 - Security techniques
    • Category A Liaison

ITU - International Telecommunications Union

  • ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies
  • CalConnect has a External Cooperation Agreement with ITU-T,  the standardization arm of ITU

M3AAWG - Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group

OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems

  • Reciprocal Membership
  • Ongoing involvement with OASIS WS-CALENDAR Working Group
  • Development of OASIS WS-Calendar Specification