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Recently (march 2016) a liaison was agreed between ISO TC 20 Aircraft and space agencies and ISO TC 46 Information and Documentation. As we all know the OAIS standard was initiated by CCSDS and soon after publication also proposed to ISO to make it an international standard. This is why the OAIS standard is part of the ISO Technical Committee 20 Aircraft and space vehicles. The use of the OAIS standard is however not restricted to space agencies. Libraries and archives and other environments have adopted the OAIS standard. Their standards however can be found for example in the ISO Technical Committee TC 46 Information and Documentation. Recently a liaison was created between these two technical committees. In ISO terminology, this will “ include the exchange of basic documents, including new work item proposals and working drafts.” For everyone interested in the upcoming OAIS review, it will mean that representatives in TC46 will / should be updated about the events happening in TC 20 with respect to the review.

The other paragraphs in the [ISO Directives] http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/resources-for-technical-work/iso_iec_directives_and_iso_supplement.htm with respect to a liaison are :

  • 1.15.2 The maintenance of such liaison is the responsibility of the respective technical committee secretariats, which may delegate the task to the secretariats of the subcommittees.
  • 1.15.3 A technical committee or subcommittee may designate an observer, or observers, to follow the work of another technical committee with which a liaison has been established, or one or several of its subcommittees. The designation of such observers shall be notified to the secretariat of the committee concerned, which shall communicate all relevant documents to the observer or observers and to the secretariat of that technical committee or subcommittee. The appointed observer shall make progress reports to the secretariat by which s/he has been appointed.
  • 1.15.4 Such observers shall have the right to participate in the meetings of the technical committee or subcommittee whose work they have been designated to follow but shall not have the right to vote. They may contribute to the discussion in meetings, including the submission of written comments, on matters within the competence of their own technical committee. They may also attend meetings of working groups of the technical committee or subcommittee if they so request.

So everyone represented in a National Standard Body or in the ISO TC 20 or TC 46 can use this information to improve the OAIS standard.