Common use of Sharing of Technical Information Clause in Contracts

Sharing of Technical Information. 6.1 CIM model. Through their respective memberships in the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (“DMTF”), the parties have the opportunity to work together on existing or newly proposed DMTF standards relating to virtualization, including on the DMTF’s Common Information Model (“CIM’). To the extent consistent with the DMTF policies and subject to each party’s compliance with all applicable laws (including, without limitation, antitrust laws), the parties agree to *** The parties will engage in appropriate opportunities to promote interoperability of their respective products implementing and/or using the CIM model through external forums such as plug fests and demonstrations. Nothing in this Section 6, however, commits the other party to cast votes or otherwise exercise any decision-making authority within the DMTF in conjunction with the other party.