New ISO stage: "Working Draft (WD) Study"

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Announced today:

At the end of November, ISO will launch a new type of WG consultation called the ‘Working Draft (WD) study’. The ‘Working Draft (WD) study’ is common practice during the ‘Preparatory stage’ of a project and aimed at gathering comments from WG members on the draft (stage 20.20 and 20.60 in the International harmonized stage codes). Typically, once the project team has collaboratively worked to establish a mature draft, the WG convenor launches the ‘Working Draft (WD) study’ to gather WG members comments. At the closure of the study, those comments are resolved, and resolutions are shared with the group for transparency.

How are you impacted?
As of December 2021, convenors will initiate all consultations for WG commenting on WD in the ISO balloting application by creating a ‘WD study’, instead of a WG consultation. Once the WD study opens, the project stage will update automatically to 20.20, and when it closes, the project will move to stage 20.60 accordingly. As usual, you can follow you project progression in ISO Projects. Commenting and comment resolution process remains unchanged.

Note: Ad-hoc WG Consultation will still be available for WG convenor and support team to gather opinion from WG members.

Not sure if we need to change anything.