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Section 2 Standards Process

Before submitting a Committee Specification to OASIS members for review and approval as an OASIS Standard, the TC must conduct a pubic review of the specification. The submission to OASIS members must include a disposition of the review.
The certification of the three implementations includes complying with the OASIS IPR Policy.
The time required for the review/voting cycle has been reduced. (This will improve the quality of specifications by reducing the “cost” of withdrawing, fixing, and resubmitting a specification if problems are discovered. Specifications should be “cleaner” upon submission because of the required public review, so will require less time for review by members.)

Submissions may be made monthly rather than quarterly.
OASIS TC Administration has 15 days, rather than one month, to prepare the submission to go out to members.
Members have 15 days to familiarize themselves with the submissions and another 15 days for voting, rather than 90 days plus 30 days.

Specifications must be formatted using the OASIS-approved template.
Errata to a submission is not allowed; if changes are required the submission must be withdrawn then resubmitted.