scope:

This Recommendation provides generic procedures for incorporating (in whole or in part, with or without modification) the documents of other organizations (including consortia, forums, and national and regional standards development organizations) in ITU-T Recommendations (or other ITU-T documents) and provides guidance for other organizations on how to incorporate ITU-T Recommendations (or other ITU-T documents), in whole or in part, in their documents. These procedures are applied each time a proposal for incorporation is made.

The case of normatively referencing the documents of other organizations in ITU-T Recommendations is addressed in [ITU-T A.5].