Ballot types and stages
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Ballot stages
Ballot types
The balloting platform is used for the following ballot types:
| Ballot type |
Description | NSB participation |
| Committee Internal Ballots (CIB) |
New Work Item Proposal (NP), Committee Draft (CD), Draft Technical Specifications (DTS), Draft Technical Report (DTR), Draft Publically available Specification (DPAS) and ad-hoc. | Vote is restricted to the member of the committee as follow: P-members must vote O-member can comment |
| Working Group Consultations | This is a ballot used by WG to gather opinion of WG members during drafting stage |
Experts of the WG can vote |
| WD Study | The ‘Working Draft (WD) study’ is already common practice during the ‘Preparatory stage’ of a project and aims to gather comments from WG members on the draft (stage 20.20 and 20.60 in the International harmonized stage codes). | Experts of the WG can vote |
| DIS, FDIS, SR and WDRL |
Draft International Standard (DIS); Final Draft International Standard (FDIS); Systematic Review (SR); Withdrawal Consultations (WDRL) |
Vote is open to all members P-member of the committee must vote All ISO Members can vote |
| TMB/NP and TMB/TSP |
Ballot used to vote to create a new committee on a new subject |
Vote open to all members |
For detailed information on project stages for standards development please refer to this page: Stages and resources for standards development
Ballot workflow
The balloting process and its follow up are characterized by the following main stages:
