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RECITALS WHEREAS, FIDO is developing various specifications and other publications for simpler, stronger authentication and wishes to foster the adoption of these specifications;
WHEREAS, FIDO convenes member-only meetings wherein member-confidential materials are developed; and
WHEREAS, LIAISON is an association or other non-profit community organization who wishes to promote industry standards and best practices for simpler, stronger authentication to its members and/or constituents; and
WHEREAS, LIAISON wishes to collaborate with FIDO on certain FIDO publications while still in development and member-confidential; and
WHEREAS, LIAISON is a not a member of FIDO;
NOW THEREFORE:
1. Purpose The purpose of the agreement is to ensure the mutual awareness of work items and plans, in particular in the areas of strong authentication standards and best practices by LIAISON’s members and/or constituents. The parties should keep each other informed about new work under consideration and about early notices of major meetings.
The agreement has also the goal to make participation of staff and members in the other organization's member-confidential meetings easier. Where technologies are of interest to both organizations, there might be joint efforts towards promotion, subject to mutual agreement developed through collaboration governed by this MOU.
2. Operations Each party will nominate one person to be their “liaison officer”, serving as a point of contact to the other party. A liaison officer may be an employee of either party to this agreement, or of a member of either party. The two points of contact must not be employees of the same organization. The liaison officers are expected to have a certain expertise in the area of security and privacy. They should have sufficient access to the information in their respective organizations that is necessary to further the goals of this agreement.
The disclosure of member-confidential or sponsor-confidential information, respectively, to the other party is at the discretion of the disclosing party. In case the request from one party is declined by the other, the liaison officers will try to clear the situation within two (2) weeks. Participants of one party that participate in a meeting held by the other party do not need to sign a separate non-disclosure agreement. They will treat the confidential information received according to section 4 below.
3. Observer status in FIDO and LIAISON Working Groups In keeping with the goal of this agreement (Section 1), the following protocol is established to enable joint discussions between members of each organization, under the auspices of the appropriate working group or working groups.
a) Invitation to Observe The chair of a FIDO or LIAISON Working Group, may extend an invitation to members of the other organization to participate as an observer. These invitations will be delivered in consultation with the liaison officers established in paragraph one of this section. The goal of these invitations is to enable discussion of requirements and coordinate plans of FIDO and LIAISON Working Groups that may have dependencies on each other. Though observers are not expected to make specific technical contributions to groups in which they are visitors, observers are entitled to participate fully in discussions, subject to rules of the relevant Working Group, but will have no voting rights.
b) Patent Licensing It is understood that neither organization has the authority to provide any patent license or covenant not to assert terms to the other organization, so any materials or information contributed from one organization to the other comes without any patent license or covenant not to assert terms.
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