Ron, <Fred>Extension capabilities are provided. Any project can, through the appropriate channels (contact your UN/CEFACT Head of Delegation) forward proposals for new BIE's and CC's to the non-profit UN/CEFACT working group TBG17 (harmonisation).</Fred> <Ron>How much lag time is possible between the time an extension is requested and it gets approved by TBG17? Does the TGB17 Working Group meet periodically to review proposed extensions or is it an ongoing process? If they meet periodically, what is the frequency? Are the procedures and decision criteria published somewhere? Where is the current library of CCs and BIEs published?</Ron> TBG17 now has telecons every week. As a matter of fact yesterday, during our mail-conversation we had one. The group is building up its procedures, by assessing the first (eight?) submissions from industry groups. As all this stuff is new to everybody we must find the best way by just doing it. After next week we'll have a full week F2F. We envisage it is ongoing work and we hope by finetuning the procedures and learning from people like you who have experience in ontology-engineering in the future to automize (or at least do an automatical pre-assessment of) most of the work. Both the draft procedures and the first draft list of CC's have been published in the UN/CEFACT community. Please contact Alan Stitzer (Alan.Stitzer@marsh.com) who is leading the project. Fred
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