The inputs for the it steering committee are driven by the SOA COE, which in turn gets service version details from project teams or vertical units.

At MAAWG's previous meeting in September, the group created a botnet-mitigation subcommittee dedicated to developing a set of best practices for ISPs to combat botnets.

The SOA COE studies the changes of impact to the existing service with respect to other service consumers and, hence, puts forward the impact details to the steering committee.