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Guiding Principles
IABIN has adopted 11 guiding principles for interoperability formats,
standards and protocols:
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Seamless access to all types of IABIN data and information regardless of
where it resides and interoperable with both CBD-CHM and GBIF;
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Open, widely supported, non-proprietary standards;
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Compatibility with emerging standards of key regional, global and national
biological information networks;
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Minimization of technology restrictions imposed by the network
architecture;
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Phased, incremental development;
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Scalability, so that standards will be usable and applicable at different
network scales;
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Inclusion (e.g. facilitate local-language queries) in the design of
applications;
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Expertise and capabilities are shared throughout the network;
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Respect for Intellectual Property Rights and cross boundary issues;
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Future extensibility and backward compatibility;
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Minimization of cost while ensuring reliable user services
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