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The EFWG needs to establish some foundational terms for submission to the ToIP Glossary (See Concepts and Terminology WG). This section provides initial working drafts for several key terms.
V0.1 -What is
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a TOIP Ecosystem?
A community of stakeholders including suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, and government agencies involved in the delivery of specific products or services through both competition and cooperation. Each entity in the ecosystem affects and is affected by the others, creating a constantly evolving relationship that derives shared-value through trusted relationships.
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A community of stakeholders that may include any of: business entities, government agencies and individuals forged around a common purpose to deliver or consume specific products and services. Stakeholders relationships may include those of business partners, service providers, customers, consumers and competitors among others. Each entity in the ecosystem influences and is influenced by the others, creating dynamic relationships constrained by formal governance and policies with the overall goal of deriving shared-value through trusted relationships.
V0.2 What is a ToIP Ecosystem?
In the context of the ToIP stack we can have a more technically and legally precise definition of a ToIP ecosystem:
The set of all parties who have rights and responsibilities under a governance framework for applications at Layer Four of the ToIP stack. Note that a ToIP Layer Four ecosystem governance framework may span other ToIP governance frameworks operating at any layer.
V1.0 What is a ToIP Ecosystem?
A community of stakeholders that may include business entities, government agencies, and individuals forged around a common purpose to deliver, consume, or share products and services. Stakeholders relationships may include business partners, service providers, customers, consumers and competitors among others. Each entity in the ecosystem influences and is influenced by the others, creating dynamic relationships managed by formal governance framework policies with the goal of deriving shared-value through trusted relationships. An Ecosystem represents the set of all parties who have rights and responsibilities under a governance framework for applications at Layer Four of the ToIP stack. Note that a ToIP Layer Four ecosystem governance framework may span other ToIP governance frameworks operating at any layer.
What is an ToIP Ecosystem Project?
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