Option A: national commenting directly within OSD

Default permissions for Option A

During the consultations/ballots of NP, CD, DTR, DTS, DPAS, DIS and FDIS stages, members of National Mirror Committees (NMCs) can access the Online Standards Development (OSD) platform to participate in national member commenting. Access and permissions are determined by the NMC's mapping to the relevant ISO committee or working group in the Global Directory (GD), as well as the member's national role. The table below summarizes the default permissions and responsibilities available in OSD for each NMC role.

Option A: commenting process overview

For more information about the different participation options in the OSD Member Commenting process, see the article : Member Commenting - getting started

Member commenting in the OSD helps improve national commenting processes for International Standards by:

• Improving commenting by national experts
• Facilitating consensus building through better consolidation and management of national comments by voters
• Simplifying the submission of national comments by voters
• Respecting existing member processes

The overview below describes Option A of the member commenting process.

The OSD Voter is responsible for sharing the link to the online document with the relevant NMC stakeholders through the usual distribution channels.

Access and commenting permissions for online document (NP, CD, DIS, DTR, DTS, DPAS, or FDIS) are based on users’ national committee roles maintained in the Global Directory (GD).

All national experts registered in the NMCs mirroring the ISO committee or working group developing the standard can submit comments directly in the online document (OSD).

OSD Voters can:

• View comments placed by National contributors
• Consolidate the national contributors comments by accepting or rejecting them
• Submit the accepted comments to ISO as official national comments of their NSB.

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

In the example below, the NSB has three National Mirror Committees (NMCs) mapped to ISO/TC 34/SC 8. When a CD consultation opens for ISO/TC 34/SC 8, National Committee Members and National Observers from NSB/TC 1, NSB/TC 2 and NSB/TC 3 can submit comments directly in the online document. As comments are collected across multiple NMCs, the National Secretaries of the three committees must coordinate the review and consolidation of comments before submitting the accepted comments to ISO as the official national comments of their NSB.

Online Member Commenting process step-by-step

1. OSD Voter accesses the consultation/ballot to retrieve link to the online document (NP, CD, DIS, DTR, DTS, DPAS or FDIS)

   The OSD Voter is notified when a new consultation or ballot opens. From the notification, the OSD Voter can access the consultation/ballot and retrieve the link to the online document from the Reference Documents section. When a project is developed in OSD, the NP, CD, DIS, DTR, DTS, DPAS or FDIS draft is available online and can be accessed via the Access Online Document link.

   
   

2. OSD Voter distributes the online document link to national Stakeholders (NMCs)

   The OSD Voter retrieves the link to the online document from the consultation/ballot application and disseminates it to the relevant national stakeholders through the usual communication channels.

3. National committee members provide comments in the online document

National stakeholders access the online document using the shared link.  They add their comments directly in the relevant section of the draft. Note that the comments are visible to other NMC members for review and collaboration.

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

OSD Voters review the comments added by national stakeholders, and relevant comments are consolidated as national comments and submitted to ISO.

• If an NMC deadline has been established, the OSD Voter can pause national commenting to prevent additional comments from being submitted after the deadline.
• Several features are available to help OSD Voters organize, review, and finalize national comments, including the  commenting dashboard, tags and topics.
• To verify that all national comments have been successfully submitted to ISO, OSD Voters can refer to the article Verifying Submitted Comments.
• Before the ISO ballot closes, OSD Voters should export all national comments and resolutions for their records.