A protocol is a set of guidelines A guideline is any document that aims to streamline particular processes according to a set routine. By definition, following a guideline is never mandatory . Guidelines are an essential part of the larger process of governance or rules. Protocol may also refer to:
Standards in information automation
- Communications protocol In the field of telecommunications, a communications protocol is the set of standard rules for data representation, signaling, authentication and error detection required to send information over a communications channel. An example of a simple communications protocol adapted to voice communication is the case of a radio dispatcher talking to a set of instructions for transferring data
- Protocol (object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a protocol or interface is what or how unrelated objects use to communicate with each other. These are definitions of methods and values which the objects agree upon in order to cooperate
- Cryptographic protocol A security protocol is an abstract or concrete protocol that performs a security-related function and applies cryptographic methods
Procedures for human behavior
- Protocol (diplomacy) In international politics, protocol is the etiquette of diplomacy and affairs of state
- Protocol (politics) Protocol can mean any logbook or other artifact of a political meeting between persons from different nations, such as the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The most notorious example of a forged logbook is "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a formal agreement between nation states (cf: treaty A treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as: agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, exchange of letters, etc. Regardless of the terminology, all of these international agreements under international law are).
- Protocol, a.k.a. etiquette Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group. The French word étiquette, signifying ticket (of admission, etc.) first appeared in English in 1750
- Clinical protocol, a.k.a. guideline (medical) A medical guideline is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare. Such documents have been in use for thousands of years during the entire history of medicine
- Research methods:
- Protocol (natural sciences) In the natural sciences a protocol is a predefined written procedural method in the design and implementation of experiments. Protocols are written whenever it is desirable to standardize a laboratory method to ensure successful replication of results by others in the same laboratory or by other laboratories. Detailed protocols also facilitate the
- Clinical trial protocol A Clinical Trial Protocol is a document that describes the objective, design, methodology, statistical considerations, and organization of a clinical trial. The protocol usually also gives the background and reason the trial is being conducted, but these could be provided in other documents referenced in the protocol (such as an Investigator's
- Voice procedure a protocol for voice communications
Other
- Protocol (film)
- Protocol (band), British
See also
- List of network protocols This is an incomplete list of network protocols, categorized by their nearest Open Systems Interconnection model layers. Many of these protocols, however, are originally based on the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) and other models and they often do not fit neatly into OSI layers
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Russian: "Протоколы сионских мудрецов" or "Сионские протоколы") is one of many titles given to an antisemitic text purporting to describe a plan to achieve global domination by the Jewish people. Following its first public publication in 1903 in the
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