A TIO service is said to be Open if the Service Level Agreement (SLA) contains the following:
A TIO service is said to be Free if the Service Level Agreement (SLA) contains the following dispositions.
TIO Libre garantees to clients the possibility to change TIO provider or become their own TIO provider at any time.
A TIO service is said to be Loyal if the SLA contains the following dispositions.
TIO Loyalty provides a framework to reach the same level of trade secret and operational transparency as with their own staff.
Open Knowledge Definition - http://www.opendefinition.org/
How can the definition handle interoperation of services (ie. the core service is Free but relies on Non Free services)