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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.
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********Suggestion from Drummond Reed********
While the definitions above are very good from the standpoint of an overall business definition of the term, in the context of the ToIP stack I believe we can have a more technically and legally precise definition of a ToIP ecosystem:
The set of all parties who have duties, 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.
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Ecosystem Project
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