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The OAGi Digital Resources Development Process (DRDP) governs the process of producing and maintaining OAGi’s Digital Resources.

This is the Sep 4, 2020 version of the OAGi Patent Policy.

This document has been approved by the OAGi Policy Board effective Sep 4, 2020 and has been endorsed by the OAGi President as the OAGi Digital Resource Development Process. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document. This policy was produced by the OAGi staff.

Please report errors in this document to Member.Services@OAGi.org. The list of known errors is public.

The English version of this policy is the only normative version.

The OAGi Digital Resources Development Process (DRDP) governs the process of producing and maintaining OAGi’s Digital Resources.

The following terms and definitions apply to this document and to the OAGi Patent Policy [PATENT].

• OAGi Member: Any individual or organization that has joined OAGi, as well as any employee or designated representative (e.g., contractor) of such organizations.

• Call for Participation: A communication to OAGi members that invites them to participate in a Working Group.

• Collaborating Digital Resources Body: A Digital Resources body with which OAGi has formal agreement. The form of the agreement could be reciprocal membership, letter-of-intent, memorandum of understanding, etc.

• Digital Resource: Refers to any digital content developed with the intent of assisting companies with implementing electronic connectivity between systems and devices within their own company, and between their company and other companies. Digital Resource includes standards, guidelines, communications tools, project-management tools, implementation tools, and requirements or proposals passed on to a Collaborating Digital Resources Body.

• Draft Revised Digital Resource: A digital resource that was initially produced by the Architecture Committee by copying a Digital Resource for the purposes of updating it.

• Member Submission: One or more documents developed outside of the OAGi Digital Resources Development Process and Information about the documents, provided by the Submitter. See section 7.

• Proposed New Digital Resource: Any digital resource produced by a Working Group that the Working Group delivers to the Architecture Committee with the intent that the Architecture Committee will approve and publish it as a Digital Resource.

• Proposers: One or more OAGi Members who develop a Working Group charter and submit it to the OAGi Architecture Committee.

• Submitter: See section 7.

• WG: Working Group

• Working Group: An OAGi organizational unit that produces Digital Resources.

By main success scenario we mean a primary and exception-free process scenario. Greater detail is provided in the process diagrams in sections 4.

1. Proposers develop a Working Group charter and submit it to the OAGi Staff.

2. The OAGi Staff recommends charter approval and submits it to the OAGi President.

3. The OAGi President approves the charter and communicates approval to the OAGi Staff.

4. The OAGi Staff communications approval to the Proposers.

5. The OAGi Staff issues a Call for Participation.

6. Interested OAGi Members respond to the Call for Participation by affirmatively joining the Working Group.

7. The OAGi Staff convenes the first meeting of the Working Group during which a Working Group Chair, Vice Chair, and other charter-specified roles are selected.

8. The Working Group conducts its work in accordance with the charter.

9. At any point the Working Group has produced a deliverable that it determines is ready to be delivered to the Architecture Committee, it does so via the Architecture Committee. At this point the Architecture Committee has a Proposed New Digital Resource.

10. The Architecture Committee reviews the Proposed New Digital Resource.

11. The Architecture Committee approves the Proposed New Digital Resource in a meeting in which the OAGi Staff participates.

12. The Architecture Committee determines whether or not a public review period is in the best interest of its membership, and if so, conducts one. The OAGi Staff may override a decision by the Architecture Committee to not conduct a public review, in which case OAGi conducts a public review. In the event that the Collaborating Digital Resources Body conducts a public review as part of its process, the OAGi Staff may adjust the process specified in section 3.1 in order to conduct a coordinated public review with the Collaborating Digital Resources Body with the objective of reducing the overall elapsed time to publication.

13. The Architecture Committee publishes the Proposed New Digital Resource as a Digital Resource.

1. One or more OAGi Members (Proposers) delivers a written proposal to change an existing Digital Resource to the Architecture Committee.

2. The Architecture Committee reviews the proposal.

3. The Architecture Committee approves the proposal in a meeting in which the OAGi Staff participates. The OAGi Staff may determine that such an update should be developed in the context of a WG, effectively following the process specified in section 3.1, obviating the remaining steps in this section.

4. The Architecture Committee updates the applicable Draft Revised Digital Resource.

5. The Architecture Committee publishes the Draft Revised Digital Resource as a Digital Resource.

See section 5.

1. OAGi follows either process 3.1 or 3.2 as appropriate.

2. OAGi Staff delivers one or more Digital Resources to a Collaborating Digital Resources Body. (The OAGi Staff may accomplish this task through a liaison to the Collaborating Digital Resources Body designated by the OAGi Staff.)

3. OAGi Staff, in consultation with the Architecture Committee, monitors the progress of the delivered Digital Resource through the collaborating Digital Resources body and updates the Digital Resource's online publication description. (For example, if the Digital Resource has been incorporated in a published content by the collaborating Digital Resources body, then that should be noted online and perhaps the Digital Resource in the context of an OAGi resource perhaps should be deprecated in favor of the published content by the collaborating Digital Resources body.