OIDF Board
Please note the thread below as a reminder and background for OIDF Board
discussions in Napa on July 8.
I propose the current agenda be modified from:
> 5. ISO Application Status
>
To the following:
5. Discuss OIDF organizational liaison relationships with ISO,
IETF and other Standard Development Organizations
Don Thibeau
The OpenID Foundation
On May 14, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
> <chair hat off>
>
> This has been in my backlog sometimes but NSTIC IDESG Standards Adoption
> Criteria distributed today reminded me of this.
>
> In WTO TBT Agreement, there is an annex describing what an standardization
> organization should do. As an individual board member (not as a chairman), I
> feel strongly that we should adopt it.
>
> The procedure is in the following steps.
>
> (1) Board approve the adoption of Annex 3 of WTO TBT Agreement
> (2) Send the required information stated in clause C to ISO/IEC Information
> Center in Geneva.
> (3) Publish programme of work in accordance to Clause J and send it to
> ISO/IEC Information Center in Geneva
> (4) Participate in international standardization body, which probably means
> ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27/WG5, i.e., sending liaison statement to them.
>
> Other requirements are fulfilled as is, as I interpret.
> So our new burden is really just a registration at ISO and sending a
> programme of work and a liaison statement (perhaps we may need to appoint a
> liaison officer as a point of contact).
>
> I believe it is a no-brainer and we do not have to wait till the next F2F,
> that we could convene a e-vote.
>
> The proposed resolution is:
> WHEREAS fostering the interoperability among the standards is a mission of
> OIDF, be it
>
> RESOLVED that OpenID Foundation Adopt Annex 3 of WTO TBT Agreement.
>
> Annex 3: Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and Application
> of Standards back to top
> General Provisions
>
> A. For the purposes of this Code the definitions in Annex 1 of this
> Agreement shall apply.
>
> B. This Code is open to acceptance by any standardizing body within
> the territory of a Member of the WTO, whether a central government body, a
> local government body, or a non-governmental body; to any governmental
> regional standardizing body one or more members of which are Members of the
> WTO; and to any non-governmental regional standardizing body one or more
> members of which are situated within the territory of a Member of the WTO
> (referred to in this Code collectively as “standardizing bodies” and
> individually as “the standardizing body”).
>
> C. Standardizing bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from this Code
> shall notify this fact to the ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva. The
> notification shall include the name and address of the body concerned and the
> scope of its current and expected standardization activities. The
> notification may be sent either directly to the ISO/IEC Information Centre,
> or through the national member body of ISO/IEC or, preferably, through the
> relevant national member or international affiliate of ISONET, as appropriate.
>
>
> Annex 3: Substantive Provisions back to top
> D. In respect of standards, the standardizing body shall accord
> treatment to products originating in the territory of any other Member of the
> WTO no less favourable than that accorded to like products of national origin
> and to like products originating in any other country.
>
> E. The standardizing body shall ensure that standards are not
> prepared, adopted or applied with a view to, or with the effect of, creating
> unnecessary obstacles to international trade.
>
> F. Where international standards exist or their completion is
> imminent, the standardizing body shall use them, or the relevant parts of
> them, as a basis for the standards it develops, except where such
> international standards or relevant parts would be ineffective or
> inappropriate, for instance, because of an insufficient level of protection
> or fundamental climatic or geographical factors or fundamental technological
> problems.
>
> G. With a view to harmonizing standards on as wide a basis as
> possible, the standardizing body shall, in an appropriate way, play a full
> part, within the limits of its resources, in the preparation by relevant
> international standardizing bodies of international standards regarding
> subject matter for which it either has adopted, or expects to adopt,
> standards. For standardizing bodies within the territory of a Member,
> participation in a particular international standardization activity shall,
> whenever possible, take place through one delegation representing all
> standardizing bodies in the territory that have adopted, or expect to adopt,
> standards for the subject matter to which the international standardization
> activity relates.
>
> H. The standardizing body within the territory of a Member shall make
> every effort to avoid duplication of, or overlap with, the work of other
> standardizing bodies in the national territory or with the work of relevant
> international or regional standardizing bodies. They shall also make every
> effort to achieve a national consensus on the standards they develop.
> Likewise the regional standardizing body shall make every effort to avoid
> duplication of, or overlap with, the work of relevant international
> standardizing bodies.
>
> I. Wherever appropriate, the standardizing body shall specify
> standards based on product requirements in terms of performance rather than
> design or descriptive characteristics.
>
> J. At least once every six months, the standardizing body shall
> publish a work programme containing its name and address, the standards it is
> currently preparing and the standards which it has adopted in the preceding
> period. A standard is under preparation from the moment a decision has been
> taken to develop a standard until that standard has been adopted. The titles
> of specific draft standards shall, upon request, be provided in English,
> French or Spanish. A notice of the existence of the work programme shall be
> published in a national or, as the case may be, regional publication of
> standardization activities.
>
> The work programme shall for each standard indicate, in accordance with any
> ISONET rules, the classification relevant to the subject matter, the stage
> attained in the standards development, and the references of any
> international standards taken as a basis. No later than at the time of
> publication of its work programme, the standardizing body shall notify the
> existence thereof to the ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva.
>
> The notification shall contain the name and address of the standardizing
> body, the name and issue of the publication in which the work programme is
> published, the period to which the work programme applies, its price (if
> any), and how and where it can be obtained. The notification may be sent
> directly to the ISO/IEC Information Centre, or, preferably, through the
> relevant national member or international affiliate of ISONET, as appropriate.
>
> K. The national member of ISO/IEC shall make every effort to become a
> member of ISONET or to appoint another body to become a member as well as to
> acquire the most advanced membership type possible for the ISONET member.
> Other standardizing bodies shall make every effort to associate themselves
> with the ISONET member.
>
> L. Before adopting a standard, the standardizing body shall allow a
> period of at least 60 days for the submission of comments on the draft
> standard by interested parties within the territory of a Member of the WTO.
> This period may, however, be shortened in cases where urgent problems of
> safety, health or environment arise or threaten to arise. No later than at
> the start of the comment period, the standardizing body shall publish a
> notice announcing the period for commenting in the publication referred to in
> paragraph J. Such notification shall include, as far as practicable, whether
> the draft standard deviates from relevant international standards.
>
> M. On the request of any interested party within the territory of a
> Member of the WTO, the standardizing body shall promptly provide, or arrange
> to provide, a copy of a draft standard which it has submitted for comments.
> Any fees charged for this service shall, apart from the real cost of
> delivery, be the same for foreign and domestic parties.
>
> N. The standardizing body shall take into account, in the further
> processing of the standard, the comments received during the period for
> commenting. Comments received through standardizing bodies that have accepted
> this Code of Good Practice shall, if so requested, be replied to as promptly
> as possible. The reply shall include an explanation why a deviation from
> relevant international standards is necessary.
>
> O. Once the standard has been adopted, it shall be promptly published.
>
> P. On the request of any interested party within the territory of a
> Member of the WTO, the standardizing body shall promptly provide, or arrange
> to provide, a copy of its most recent work programme or of a standard which
> it produced. Any fees charged for this service shall, apart from the real
> cost of delivery, be the same for foreign and domestic parties.
>
> Q. The standardizing body shall afford sympathetic consideration to,
> and adequate opportunity for, consultation regarding representations with
> respect to the operation of this Code presented by standardizing bodies that
> have accepted this Code of Good Practice. It shall make an objective effort
> to solve any complaints.
>
>
> http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/17-tbt_e.htm
> --
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> Chairman, OpenID Foundation
> http://nat.sakimura.org/
> @_nat_en
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