ICTC Strategic Plan

It is hard to establish a strategic plan for the next 3 years. The following is a plan oriented towards the current projects. We are aware that these are currently stumbling due to resources. So the following is the best guess.

		2011			2012			2013			2014			2015
Project	No.	January	May	September	January	May	September	January	May	September	January	May	September	January	May	September
Vocabulary Binding Syntax (jt w/ Vocab)	[#630]	...	start	...	...	...	conformance statement syntax
v2 codesystems (jt w/ Vocab)	[#874]	...	start analysis	...	...	...	...	alignment with V3	...	ready
V2.8 Proposals - Clarify conformance concepts	[#629]	...	Membership Ballot #1	...	...	...	Membership Ballot #2	...	Publication
V3 Refinement, Constraints and Localization	PSS prepared	...	...	...	...	...	Start collection of requirements	...	...	updated conformance section	Ballot
v2.9 chp.2B	tbd	...	...	...	...	...	...	start	...	implementation guide template; handling code systems	...	...	publication?
MWB maintenance	tbd	...	...	...	...	...	...	start	...	...	...	...	...	...
MWB2	tbd
IG best practices	tbd
More Projects?

Open Issues (should become a project)

• current work items must be reviewed and formalized via PSS
  • RCnL: specific action items have been identified in the May 2012 meeting (see minutes)
  • MWB: NIST works on some funding to promote a MWB2 based on Java (see May 2012 minutes)
• implementation guide guidance/rules for v2.x
• SAIF implementation guide ([#763])
• Neutral Mapping Notation ([#680]): clarify current status

Closed Projects

• DSTU Testing toolkit/project (Guidance of what is involved in DSTU testing; #198)
• Implementation Guides Project
• v2.7.1 ([#793])
• v2.xml Encoding Release 2 ([#825]): published as standard
  • successful reconciliation during Jan 2012 WGM