GSMP
About process
Creating or enhancing a standard is similar to producing an automobile on the assembly line. Before the car ends up on the showroom floor, it goes through a number of steps that follow a thorough process.
The GSMP process consists of five key steps.
Developing new standards, extensions of a series of existing standards, or application and implementation guidelines for existing or new standards requires a methodology that guarantees a robust, stable and timely solution at the end of the "production chain".
GSMP process change notification - updated public review process
Ten calendar day public review period (Effective: 6 June 2005)
Purpose:
The process for voting as defined within paragraph 10.4.5
Voting in the GSMP Manual V3.0, and the subsequent GSMP Procedure 006: Managing Public Reviews states a fourteen calendar day public review period. The GSMP Membership has requested this period to be reduced to a ten calendar day Public Review.
Rationale:
GSMP public review periods have always been fourteen calendar days to permit users off work for one week to comment. Most GSMP Groups teleconferences are scheduled two weeks apart in the GSMP Master Teleconference Schedule. This allows no time to resolve comments between two teleconferences. A ten calendar day Public Review will make it feasible in many cases to resolve the Public Review comments between two teleconferences. This would allow those who are off work for one week an opportunity to comment.
Process:
The proposed change would affect the current public review process in the following way:
- All public reviews periods must consist of at least ten calendar days
- The period can be longer than ten calendar days, but cannot be extended once the public review is opened.
