Common use of Intra-Team Protocol Clause in Contracts

Intra-Team Protocol. In a negotiation involving a negotiation team, the intra-team protocol defines how and when de- cisions are taken regarding the negotiation. In this framework, we propose an intra-team protocol that is governed by the trusted team mediator medA. Basically, the team mediator regulates the interac- tions that can be carried out among team mem- bers and, accordingly, helps team members reach- ing unanimous acceptable decisions inside the team during the negotiation. The proposed protocol is clearly differentiated into two different phases: Pre- negotiation and Negotiation. On the one hand, dur- ing the pre-negotiation, the mediator helps team members identifying potential offers that are not unanimously acceptable for every teammate. On the other hand, during the negotiation the mediator coordinates the offer proposal mechanism, which is composed of a voting process for unpredictable is- sues and an iterated building process for predictable issues, and the offer acceptance mechanism for of- fers that come from the opponent. We describe those phases in a detailed way in the following sec- tions 3.1 and 3