Issues Process

Issue Submittal

An issue, submitted via email to the Technical Committee (TC) mailing list, must contain the following details:

1. A statement at the top to discourage discussion of the issue until it is assigned a number. For example: "Please defer discussions on this issue until a time this issue is accepted and is assigned a number".
2. A link to the target documents.
3. The PDF line numbers.

The submitted issue may contain a proposed resolution.

Exactly one issue is allowed per email. The email must have a subject line "NEW Issue: xxx".

Issue Lifecycle

1. Issue is submitted.
2. Issue is assigned a sequential number, logged, and assigned a status "Review", by the issues list editors. The TC member submitting the issue is assigned as the initial owner of the issue.
3. Issue is discussed via the TC mailing list, conference calls, and face-to-face meetings, as determined by the TC chair, based on the priorities set by the TC. Ownership of the issue may be transferred to another TC member, if appropriate; however, the issue originator will be maintained in history. During its lifetime, an issue may go through different stages, as reflected by its status.

Issue status

• Review
  
  Opened, but not yet accepted by the TC. The TC chair will schedule the issue for discussion during a TC meeting, to determine whether to accept or drop the issue.
   
• Dropped
  
  The TC has dropped the issue. This may be because the issue is a duplicate, not an issue, no action is required, or the originator has withdrawn the issue. The reason why the issue was dropped is documented in issue history.
   
• Active
  
  Accepted by the TC as an issue. The issue is open for discussion.
   
• Deferred
  
  Accepted by the TC as an issue. But further discussion on the issue has been deferred. This may happen due to issue priorities, or the relationship of the issue to other related issues.
   
• Pending
  
  TC has agreed on a resolution. The resolution is in the specification editor's queue to be applied to the target documents. TC conference call or face-to-face meeting minutes must reflect the agreement and the decision.
   
• Done
  
  Specification editors have applied the resolution to the specification draft. The applied changes need to be reviewed and accepted by the TC.
   
• Resolved
  
  The specification changes have been reviewed and accepted by the TC.
   
• Closed
  
  The TC has voted to approve the change by voting to accept the specification draft to which the change was applied.