Public Comment Process

Public Comment is intended to allow both regular participants in QIBA Activities and also those who don't have the time to dedicate to regular participation a chance to contribute their thoughts on proposed specifications before they are formally released. Comments are accepted from all.

Public comment should be considered the prelude to publication. A committee should be largely satisfied with the contents of a document before it is sent out for Public Comment.

Period: 30 days

• Approve for public comment (modality committee)
• Post PC draft of Document on the Wiki (author/secretariat)
• Send announcement to mailing lists (secretariat)
  • detail location of document to be reviewed, deadline for comment submission, method of submission
  • provide a link to the QIBA Public Comment Template
• Email comments to secretariat (Commenters)
  • commenters include committee members, other QIBA People, external bodies
  • this is the key point for asynchronous engagement
  • please use the provided comment form, it saves the author having to transcribe your comments
• Collate all comments into a spreadsheet (secretariat/author)
  • sort by line number and priority
• Resolve comments with priority Low (author)
  • if any Low comments prove problematic, elevate to Med
• Review Med & High comments (profile writing committee)
  • walk through document
  • each comment may be:
    • accepted, proposed text accepted as is
    • rejected, committee does not agree with issue (document reason, e.g. out of scope, )
    • resolved, issue accepted but resolved differently than proposed
• Record resolution in spreadsheet (author)
• Post resolution spreadsheet and updated Document on the Wiki (author/secretariat)