Option A: National Commenting within OSD

Online Member Commenting process overview

For more information on the different options of participation to the OSD Member Commenting view the article: Member Commenting - getting started

Member commenting in the OSD can ease members' national commenting processes when it comes to International Standards:

• Improve commenting for national experts
• Facilitate consensus building with improved consolidation and management of national comments  by voters
• Simplify submission of national comments by voters
• Respecting members' processes currently in place

Below you can see the overall Online Member Commenting process. Voter must disseminate the link of the online document to NMCs Secretaries using the member usual distribution channel. Permissions to access and comment on the Online draft (CD, DIS or FDIS) are driven directly from the Global Directory. All national experts registered in the NMCs related to the ISO committee will be able to provide comments in the documents. The NMCs Secretaries will then be able to view the comments, consolidate the comments and submit all relevant national comments to ISO.

Default permissions for NMCs members

During the CD Consultation, DIS/FDIS ballot, NMC members have access to the online document to provide their national comments. The access by NMC members depends on the mapping of the national committee with the ISO Committee in the Global Directory and on the national role.

The National Committee (NMC) must map either the WG or the committee in which the project is developed.

For example, if the project is developed in ISO/TC 34/SC 8/WG 6, the NMC must map either the ISO/TC 34/SC 8 or the ISO/TC 34/SC 8/WG 6.

The below table summarizes the default permissions in OSD for the NMCs members.

Example of an ISO committee with related NMCs in the Global Directory

In the below example, the NSB has 3 NMCS related to the ISO/TC 34/SC 8 . When a CD consultation opens for ISO/TC 34/SC 8, the National Committee Members / Observers of NSB/TC 1, NSB/TC 2 and NSB/TC 3 will be able to provide comments online in the document. The National Secretaries of the 3 NMCs will then need to coordinate to consolidate the national comments and submit all relevant comments to ISO.

Online Member Commenting process step-by-step

1 Voter access the consultation/ballot to retrieve draft document (CD, DIS or FDIS)

As a voter, you are notified when a new consultation/ballot opens. From the notification message, you can access the consultation/ballot to retrieve the draft and related document in the reference documents section and disseminate the CD, DIS or FDIS document to national stakeholders for commenting. When a project is developed online, the CD, DIS or FDIS draft document is online and the document is accessible via a link called "Access online Document".

2 Voter distributes the Online Document link to national Stakeholders (NMCs)

Voter retrieves the link to the online document from the balloting application and disseminates it to national stakeholders by the usual channels.

3 National Committee Members provide comments in the Online Document

National Committee Members provides comments directly in the context of the document. 

4 Voter and/or NMCs' Secretaries consolidate and submit the comments to ISO

Once the national experts have provided their comments in the online document, they become visible to the other members of the NMCs.  The voter and/or NMCs' Secretaries can start to review the comments provided and submit relevant comments to ISO.