The DMO for each OTD shall adopt, publish, and adhere to a code of ethics.
The dictionary maintenance organization (DMO) shall contain the following groups:
Secretariat;
The secretariat is the administrative group with overall responsibility for maintenance of an OTD and management of votes. The head of the secretariat is the Secretary, appointed by the organization designated as the DMO for the OTD.
The responsibilities of the secretariat include:
operating and maintaining a Web site for its OTD;
maintaining a master database for its OTD;
circulating proposed changes to the OTD and managing votes on those changes;
maintaining the list of members of the VC;
maintaining a list of consensus organizations;
NOTE 1 A consensus organizations registers with the DMO by submitting a consensus organization registration request (CORR).
maintaining a list of persons authorized by the consensus organizations to request additions or changes to the OTD;
NOTE 2 Such a person is called a representative of consensus organization (ROCO).
publicizing formal releases of the OTD;
providing support to the VC to facilitate its operation;
operating an online system for voting on concept documentation change requests (CDCRs);
maintaining a list of concept contributors for each concept;
NOTE 3 When a concept is first added to an OTD through procedure Add Concept (see 7.3), the consensus organization that submitted the new concept request (NCR) becomes the only concept contributor for that concept. When a second consensus organization submits a CDCR requesting that a term, definition or image be added to a concept, and the CDCR is approved via procedure Change Concept Documentation (see 7.4), then the second consensus organization becomes an additional concept contributors for the concept.
The validation committee is a group of domain experts with knowledge of the OTD subject matter.
The responsibilities of the VC include:
voting on CDCRs when consensus cannot be achieved among concept contributors.
Members of the VC shall be nominated by ISO TC 184/SC 4 P-member countries. There shall be at most two VC members from any given P-member country.
NOTE The VC does not play a role in procedure Add Concept (see 7.3) because any terminology submitted by a consensus organization with a properly completed NCR is assumed to be valid and is automatically added to the open technical dictionary. The VC is involved in procedure Change Concept Documentation (see 7.4) to resolve disagreements between concept contributors as to whether specific changes should be made.