FidoNet

• FidoNet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC) documents
  
  The Fidonet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC) is responsible for providing a thorough technical definition of FidoNet and its protocols sufficient to maintain it as a compatible electronic mail system, specifically by:
  
  1. Documenting current practice in technical standards.
  2. Encouraging new technologies in Fidonet software development.
  3. Reassessing and revising FTS documents regularly.
  4. Being publicly accessible to Fidonet sysops.
  5. Distributing Technical Standards and Proposals.
  6. Providing FTS document interpretations on software compatibility.
  
  The FTSC shall maintain a publication which documents only the minimum acceptable protocol for a Fidonet node to receive mail as referred to in the current FidoNet Policy Document (Policy 4.07 at this writing) The FTSC shall not take upon itself any right to increase or decrease this requirement without express direction to do so from the International Coordinator (IC).