Collaboration is teh process of using common goals and trust models to mediate access to distributed resources, including people, processes, devices, applications, services, data and content, which are implemented within secure, virtual environments.

Networking requirements

Collaboration requirements are driving the convergence of application services and networking services. Collaborative environments must integrate synchronous and asynchronous networking services across spatial, temporal, operational, organizational, channel, application and technology platform boundaries. This requires support for direct, meeting-based, blackboard-based and space-based interaction models.

Resource types

Collaboration capabilities should be available to both human and machine-centric processes.

Governance and Risk Management Implications

Collaboration is a requirement of complex governance, performance, and risk management processes that involve multiple actors, either machine and human.