Protocol originally (in
Late Middle English, c. 15th century) meant the
minutes
Minutes, also known as minutes of meeting (abbreviation MoM), protocols or, informally, notes, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. They typically describe the events of the meeting and may include a list of attendees, a state ...
or logbook taken at a meeting, upon which an agreement was based. The term now commonly refers to an agreement resulting from a meeting, or more generally to any established procedure in an organisation or group, such as a
laboratory protocol in scientific research, or a
data transfer protocol in computing, or
etiquette in diplomacy.
In
international law, a
treaty that supplements or adds to a pre-existing treaty is often called a "protocol". For example, the
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part ...
was supplemental to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
Protocol I
Protocol I (sometimes referred to as Additional Protocol I or AP 1) is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the protection of victims of ''international conflicts'', extending to "armed conflicts in which peoples are ...
,
Protocol II, and
Protocol III supplement the 1949
Geneva Conventions
upright=1.15, Original document in single pages, 1864
The Geneva Conventions are four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war. The singular term ''Geneva Conv ...
; and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is supplemented by an
Optional Protocol.
The most notorious example of a forged logbook is "
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
References
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