Technical Committee

The technical committee oversees the development of new specifications, including maintenance. Specification development itself is managed within working groups open to all full and contributing members.

Changes to extensions of existing specifications need to be carefully designed to guarantee forward and backward compatibility. Change requests to the specifications must be filed as so-called pull requests on GitHub. The members of the technical committee review any change proposals to determine whether these meet interoperability requirements and request further work on case doubts are cast. Approved pull requests are merged into the active development branch.

Any change request that introduces new functionality has to go through IPR review to obtain members’ consent regarding mutual patient license obligations. The technical committee bundles new features twice a year for IPR review. Respective positions will only be published upon approval.

The technical committee facilitates calls once per month.

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