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Annex C: Community Standard adoption checklist

C.1 Qualification Checklist – Community Standards

The following is a list of questions that the submission team needs to answer in the affirmative prior to submitting community specification into the OGC.

1. Can the original specification be licensed for free, public distribution per OGC policy?

2. Is there sufficient evidence of broad implementation?

3. Is the candidate Standard unencumbered by any 3^rd party intellectual property?

4. Is there method to determine compliance with the Community Standard? This could be an abstract test suite, a compliance test framework, clearly defined requirements, or other text in the document that describes compliance.

C.2 Community Standard Process Checklist

Action	Responsible Party
Contact TC Chair about intent to submit or start a Community Standard process	Submitter
Identify submission team (3 or more Members, one is TC Voting Member)	Submitter
Submission team creates work item justification	Submission Team
TC Chair reviews justification and provides comments back to the submission team	TC Chair
Submission Team reviews TC Chair comments and modifies justification as required	Submission team
Justification document posted to pending documents	Submission team
After posting, the TC Chair shall notify the membership of the draft	TC Chair
30 day public comment and review period	TC Chair
Present justification to TC	Submission Team
45 day TC recommendation vote	Members
EPC approval vote (meeting or 14 days by email)	TC Chair
Submission team edits candidate Community Standard happen based on public comment and TC/EPC votes: normative content may not change	Submission team
Notify TC Chair of intent for release for public comment	Submission team
OGC Architecture Board Review	OAB
OGC Naming Authority Review	OGC-NA
Post to Portal project as a public read access document	Submission team
30 day public comment period	Community
Submission Team reviews comments and modifies document as required	Team
Post candidate Community Standard to pending documents	Submission team
Submission team briefs TC Membership on contents of candidate Community Standard	Submission team
45 day TC recommendation vote	Voting Members
Submission team process any comments received during the adoption vote	Submission team
EPC approval vote (meeting or 14 days by email)	TC Chair
TC Chair does final review of adopted Standard	TC Chair
Standard published	OGC staff
Create Press release to announce new Standard	Team and OGC staff