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Communication Submission for consideration as reference material
Funding Research
GovernancePolitical Other TBD
The entities to be addressed are mainly the teams in charge of the target systems.
8.4.3.2 Criteria
The following criteria are envisaged to define issuesrecommendations and to identify priorities:
Cost-benefit trade-off Consider the benefits deriving from the enhanced interoperability with respect to
the effort necessary to implement the solutions in the issues removing or reducing interoperability gaps and barriers.
Governance Evaluate the possibility of influencing the systems with the proposed issues; take
into account the level of support provided by the entities governing the systems. Schedule
Evaluate if the solutions specified by the issues match with the internal schedule of the systems, i.e. if there are opportunities to frame the outputs into relevant
milestones of the systems. Consider also if the study timeframe is compatible with the time necessary to complete or at least to start-up a successful
standardisation process or a shaping activity.
Previous feedbacks from the systems Consider how the systems have taken into account e.g. immediate adoption,
rejection, discussion and next adoption with minormajor modifications etc previous inputs coming from different sources. Sort the issues giving a priority to
those which are envisaged to be accepted by the systems.
Long term perspective and global scenario Try to understand andor to guess what is happening at global level and what is
going to happen not only in the near future but also in the mid-term and in the long term. Try to prioritise issues leading to solutions with expected long term
validity. See what happens in other initiatives at worldglobal level and the general trends in standardisation bodies.
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8.4.3.3 Syntax
The issuesrecommendations shall follow specific rules for a not ambiguous identification and clear wording.
For the identification a possible schema is the following REC-[topic-acronym]-[counter] [title of the recommendation]
i.e REC-CAT-001 Harmonising catalogues In annex 4 it is presented an example of an issuerecommendation generated by the
GIGAS project in a similar context.
