The Standards Development Process - Addendum #1

3.2.x Pre-Review Approval Process

Documents submitted for Company Review and intended to become Open Group Standards will be reviewed and approved by the Vice President responsible for the work area, and the Director of Standards prior to entering Company Review. This process is also applied to documents to be released under the Snapshot Process. The announcement of the review will also be circulated to all Forum Directors¹.

This review will be coordinated by the Technical Editor passing the final draft of the document for review and approval prior to the announcement of a Company Review or prior to submission for internal Open Group Executive Management review and approval under the Snapshot Process.

Reasons for non-approval include:

• Lack of a neutral viewpoint (e.g., inclusion of vendor-specific material or links to marketing sites)
• Unacceptable conditions/encumbrances (restrictions on the use and reproduction of the material in the document)
• Unacceptable format - not following the standard templates or style guide
• Legally unacceptable content (potentially defamatory statements, etc.)
• Insufficient, erroneous or low quality content in required sections (e.g. failing to mention MDA or ArchiMate in a proposed standard that is described in its title as modeling, or failing to reference a relevant ISO standard).
• Where the subject matter would be better described as a White Paper

Human Actors

• The Open Group Manager
• The Open Group Director, Standards
• Technical Editor
• Open Group Vice President

Footnote 1:See the Standards Process Wiki for implementation details.

Last updated: November 2012