ISO/TC 211 Resolutions

Last updated 2008-07-24

French version of the resolutions

Resolutions taken at the 1st plenary

Oslo, 1994-11-10/11

Resolution 1 Election of chairman

ISO/TC 211 supports the secretariat's nomination of Mr. Olaf Østensen as chairman. TC 211 asks the secretariat to forward this decision to the ISO Technical Management Board for appointment.

Abstention: France

Resolution 2 Title and scope of ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the scope of ISO/TC 211 is:

Standardization in the field of digital geographic information.

This work aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth.

These standards may specify, for geographic information, methods, tools and services for data management (including definition and description), acquiring, processing, analyzing, accessing, presenting and transferring such data in digital/electronic form between different users, systems and locations.

The work shall link to appropriate standards for information technology and data where possible, and provide a framework for the development of sector-specific applications using geographic data.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to submit the scope to the ISO Technical Management Board for approval.

ISO/TC 211 asks the member bodies to prepare contributions concerning the title to be considered at the next meeting of ISO/TC 211.

Unanimous

Resolution 3 Establishment of Ad hoc groups

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish 5 ad hoc groups to progress the work of the Technical committee until the next meeting of the TC.

These groups are as follows:

Resolution 3.1 Ad hoc group 1

Title: Geographic information standards reference model

Scope: Taking into account the draft work items prepared at the first meeting of the TC along with comments from National Bodies, to draft a Reference Model. Based on a first version, finalize work item proposals for balloting and propose assignment of work items to ad hoc groups 1-4.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from the USA (Mr. Henry Tom).

Target date: 1995-03-31

Unanimous

Resolution 3.2 Ad hoc group 2

Title: Geo-spatial Data Modelling

Scope: After availability of the draft Reference Model begin preliminary work according to the draft Reference Model and work item proposals.

Abstention: France

Resolution 3.3 Ad hoc group 3

Title: Geo-spatial Data Administration

Scope: After availability of the Draft Reference model begin preliminary work according to the draft Reference Model and work item proposals.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from the UK (Mr. John R. Rowley).

Abstention: France

Resolution 3.4 Ad hoc group 4

Title: Geo-spatial Services

Scope: After availability of the Draft Reference model begin preliminary work according to the draft Reference Model and work item proposals.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from Norway (Mr. Morten Borrebæk)

Abstention: France

Resolution 3.5 Ad hoc group 5

Title: Functional standards

Scope: Establish whether or not any regional and international de facto standards or part of them may be adapted into profiles of TC 211 standards.

Tasks: Decompose and identify parts of these standards relevant to TC 211 work based on a mapping to the Reference Model and work item proposals.

Describe how harmonization with TC 211 standards work may be carried out to achieve interoperability.

Report to TC 211 including suggestion for actions.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from Canada (Mr. David McKellar).

Abstention: France

Resolution 4 Documents for comments

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to circulate the following documents to the National Bodies and Liaison organizations for comments by 1994-12-30:

• N 035 Report from the ad hoc working group 1 at the Plenary Meeting
• N 036 Report from the ad hoc working group 2 at the Plenary Meeting
• N 037 Report from the ad hoc working group 3 at the Plenary Meeting
• N 038 Report from the ad hoc working group 4 at the Plenary Meeting

The comments will be forwarded to the ad hoc group 1 for consideration in order to finalize the work item proposals before ballot.

Unanimous

Resolution 5 Balloting New Work Item Proposals

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat that immediately upon the receipt of the draft Reference Model and completed ISO form 4 for each work item, to conduct the balloting of the New Work Item Proposals.

The draft Reference Model shall be circulated at the same time in order to provide information on the proposed relationship between the work items.

The member bodies will be asked to comment on the draft Reference Model.

Unanimous

Resolution 6 Liaisons

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and establishes the liaisons listed in the secretariat report, document N 031.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
• International Cartographic Association (ICA)
• Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG)
• International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB)

• ISO/TC 204
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 3
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 30 (to be confirmed)
• ISO/TC 184/SC 4 (to be confirmed)

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to revise document N 031 to include co-operation with CEN/TC 287.

Abstention: France

Resolution 7 Next meeting

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the US National Body's offer to host the next meeting. The meeting will be in the Washington area on 28 and 29 August 1995.

Unanimous

Resolutions at the 2nd plenary

Washington, 1995-08-28/29 (location USGS, Reston, VA)

Resolution 8 - Liaisons

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the establishment of category A liaisons with the following organizations:

• International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
• European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG)
• Open GIS Consortium, Inc, (OGC)
• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

Liaisons are also established with

• ISO/TC 82 - Mining
• ISO/TC 46/WG 2 - Coding of country names and related entities

Unanimous

Resolution 9 - Dissolvement of ad hoc working groups

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation for the work done by the ad hoc working groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 10 - Structure of Working Groups

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish 5 Working Groups to progress the programme of work of the committee. These groups are:

WG 1 - Framework and reference model

Work items assigned to WG 1: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

WG 2 - Geospatial data models and operators

Work items assigned to WG 2: Parts 7, 8, 9 and 20

WG 3 - Geospatial data administration

Work items assigned to WG 3: Parts 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15

WG 3 is invited to submit a new work item proposal in the area of Specification of geographical data products.

WG 4 - Geospatial services

Work items assigned to WG 4: Parts 16, 17, 18 and 19

WG 5 - Profiles and functional standards

Work items assigned to WG 5: Part 6

WG 5 shall also develop a new work item proposal on functional standards.

Unanimous

Resolution 11 - Appointment of convenors

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 1 from the USA (Mr. Greg Smith).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 2 from Australia (Mr. Ken Bullock).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 3 from the United Kingdom (Mr. Les Rackham).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 4 from Norway (Mr. Morten Borrebæk).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 5 from Canada (Mr. David McKellar).

Unanimous

Resolution 12 - Call for experts to the working groups

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out to the P-members and liaison members, a call for experts to the working groups within the next week.

Unanimous

Resolution 13 - Call for P-members and experts to the working groups

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out an invitation to the O-members to apply for P-membership in order to participate in the committee's programme of work by appointing experts to the working groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 14 - Nomination of project leaders

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out to the P-members a call for project leaders for the approved work items within the committee's programme of work within the next week. ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to require a clarification from the ISO CS on whether a class A liaison member nomination of a project leader could be accepted by the TC.

Unanimous

Resolution 15 - Cooperation with CEN/TC 287

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the proposal from CEN/TC 287 to arrange a joint coordination meeting between the two committees. ISO/TC 211 will be represented at this meeting by its chairman, secretary and the working group convenors.

Unanimous

Resolution 16 - Resolving comments to the programme of work

ISO/TC 211 instructs the working groups to carefully study all comments made by members and liaisons concerning the work programme and to suggest actions or indicate intended actions on each comment. The recommendations of the working groups should be available by February 1, 1996, allowing individual reballots prior to the next plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 17 - Timetable of the programme of work

ISO/TC 211 resolves the following dates for working groups to submit the 1st working draft of the work items:

• Part 1 - Reference model - 96-03
• Part 2 - Overview - 96-09
• Part 3 - Conceptual schema language - 96-01
• Part 4 - Terminology - 96-09
• Part 5 - Conformance and testing - 96-09
• Part 6 - Profiles - 96-09
• Part 7 - Spatial subschema - 96-03
• Part 8 - Temporal subschema - 96-03
• Part 9 - Rules for application schema - 96-09
• Part 10 - Cataloguing - 96-09
• Part 11 - Geodetic reference systems - 96-03
• Part 12 - Indirect reference systems - 96-03
• Part 13 - Quality - 96-03
• Part 14 - Quality evaluation procedures - 96-09
• Part 15 - Metadata - 96-03
• Part 16 - Positioning services - 96-03
• Part 17 - Portrayal of geographic information - 96-09
• Part 18 - Encoding - 96-09
• Part 19 - Services - 96-09
• Part 20 - Spatial operators - 96-09

Unanimous

Resolution 18 - Title of ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the title of the committee shall remain for the time being:

Geographic information/Geomatics

ISO/TC 211 shall be presented with definitions and relationships for the terms

• geographic information
• geomatics

at the next plenary. The terminology work shall be undertaken by WG 1 within its terminology project. Further actions - if necessary - will be based upon these definitions.

Unanimous

Resolution 19 - Strategic policy statement

ISO/TC 211 instructs the chairman and the secretariat to draft a strategic policy statement, including information dissemination and publicity, and submit the document to the members before January 1996 for comments.

Unanimous

Resolution 20 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

3rd plenary - May 30-31 1996 Korea*

4th plenary - January 23-24 1997 Australia*

5th plenary - United Kingdom

6th plenary - Canada

Japan also offers to host a future meeting.

*Subject to confirmation

Concerning meeting requirements, it is referred to letter from ISO CS dated 1995-06-16 "Guidelines for the organization of ISO technical committee or subcommittee meetings".

ISO/TC 211 resolves to hold a joint WG meeting in Oslo, Norway, December 4-8 1995.

TC 211 also instructs the secretariat to organize a seminar on the Reference model on the first day of the meeting, and during the meeting to organize a workshop on candidates for a conceptual schema language.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Henry Tom to represent the committee at the IEC/ISO/ITU Seminar on the Standards aspect of Global Information Infrastructure (GII) in Geneva, January 24-26, 1996.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to ANSI, Defence Mapping Agency and the US Geological Survey for the excellent arrangements offered for hosting the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Defence Mapping Agency, UNISYS, ESRI and Intergraph for the excellent dinner on Monday evening and Navigation Technologies/SEI Technology Group for the refreshments during the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the US Geological Survey staff, Mr. Richard Hogan, Mr. Robin Fegeas , Mr. Mark DeMulder, Ms. Bridget Nevitte and Ms. Lydia Quintana for the provision of timely and high quality assistance to the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Jean Claude Thomas for his services as interpreter.

Acclamation

Resolutions at the 3rd plenary

Seoul, 1996-05-30/31 (location Seoul Palace Hotel)

Resolution 21 Title of ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the title of the committee shall be:

Geographic information/Geomatics

Abstention: France, Germany, UK

Resolution 22 Convenor of WG 1

ISO/TC 211 accepts the US nomination of Mr. Christopher Dabrowski as new convenor of WG 1.

ISO/TC 211 expresses it's appreciation to Dr. Gregory Smith for the excellent work he has done with WG 1.

Unanimous

Resolution 23 Change of time schedule for NWI 15046-7 - Geographic information - Spatial subschema

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation from WG 2 to delay the first Working Draft of NWI 15046-7 until 1996-10-30 to allow further time for harmonization with the equivalent CEN/TC 287 work item.

Unanimous

Resolution 24 Change of time schedule NWI 15046-11 - Geographic information - Geodetic reference systems

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation from WG 3 to delay the first Working Draft of NWI 15046-11 until 1996-09-30 due to delay in confirming a project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 25 Change of scope and time schedule NWI 15046-16 - Geographic information - Positioning services

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation from WG 4 in document N 186 to broaden the scope, purpose and justification of NWI 15046-16 to be:

Scope:
Definition of a standard interface protocol for positioning systems.

Purpose and justification:
A standardized interface of geographic information with position will allow the integration of position data into a variety of geographic information applications, such as surveying, navigation and fleet management. This standard will benefit geographic information system users, and will be used by geographic information systems and software developers to provide such capability within their systems.

ISO/TC 211 also accepts the recommendation from WG 4 to delay the first Working Draft of NWI 15046-16 until 1996-09-30 because of the change of the scope.

Unanimous

Resolution 26 Special Working Group on Quality Control - TC 211/SWG - QC

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish a special working group on quality control of the standards being produced; TC 211/SWG - QC, convened by the TC Chairman.

The SWG - QC shall establish guidelines for quality control, including terminology, compliance with the reference model and conformance and testing methodology. The principle of the list shown in document N 232 Rev on terminology quality control shall be included in the guidelines.

Guidelines and procedures for implementing these shall be presented at the next plenary.

ISO/TC 211 resolves that document N 232 Rev applies provisionally.

Unanimous

Resolution 27 Document handling

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to distribute a draft document on electronic document handling by 1996-08-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 28 Cooperation between ISO/TC 211 and CEN/TC 287

Considering both work programmes together with their schedules and their syncronization, ISO/TC 211 agrees with CEN/TC 287 that only levels 1 and 2 of cooperation (as defined by the Vienna agreement: exchange of information, mutual representation at meetings) are possible between the two TCs for the time being.

With the objective to achieve one harmonized and globally accepted family of standards, ISO/TC 211 will use, as far as possible, the CEN/TC 287 work as input to the ISO/TC 211 work at suitable stages (working draft, CD, DIS). ISO/TC 211 welcomes the invitation to comment upon CEN/TC 287 draft standards, and encourages its members to provide comments to the CEN/TC 287 secretariat.

Unanimous

Resolution 29 New Work Item Proposals on products/profiles

ISO/TC 211 supports the recommendation from WG 3 to withdraw the new work item proposal in N 217.

ISO/TC 211 invites WG 5 to cooperate with WG 3, and also with the other working groups, on one or more NWI proposals, taking into consideration NWI 15046-6 and -9, as well as draft proposals given in N 204, 205 and 217.

ISO/TC 211 asks WG 5 to complete the new work item proposal given in N 204 according to the ISO Directives, prior to the next plenary.

Abstention: Germany

Resolution 30 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

4th plenary		1997-01-23/24	Australia

5th plenary		1997-09/10	United Kingdom

6th plenary		1998-02/03	Canada

7th plenary		1998-09/10	China

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the Japanese offer to host a future meeting.

All WGs have decided to have meetings prior to the plenary meeting in Australia, and provisions for WG meetings will also be made in the UK, Canada and China.

Unanimous

Resolution 31 External meetings

Mr. Bernd Wenzel was appointed to represent ISO/TC 211 at the ISO/TC 184/SC 4 meeting in Kobe on 1996-06-14.

The chairman will be giving a presentation of ISO/TC 211 at Joint Workshop on Standards for the Use of Models that Define the Data and Processes of Information Systems.in Seattle on 1996-09-09/12. Mr. Arne-JDrgen Berre and Mr. Christopher Dabrowski will give expert contributions.

ISO/TC 211 expects to have reports from these events.

Unanimous

Resolution 32 Special working group on GII

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Henry Tom as the TC 211 representative to the Special working group on GII, with Mr. Arne-JDrgen Berre as alternate.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to KNITQ for the excellent arrangements offered for hosting the Working Group and plenary meetings.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor Tschangho Kim. ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Young-Goo Kwon, director at KNITQ and his staff, Mr. Kil-Young Bae, Mr. Yong-Soo Roh, Ms. Eun-Jeong Lee, Ms. Hye-Ran Cho and Mr. Sung-Gon Kim, IIS, for their assistance to the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Director General of KNITQ, Mr. Seung-Bae Lee for hosting the excellent reception on May 28. ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to the minister of trade, industry and energy, Dr. Jae Yoon Park for his interest in the work of ISO/TC 211 expressed through his welcoming address at the reception.

Acclamation

Resolutions ISO/TC 211 Plenary Meeting
in Sydney, 1997-01-23/24

Resolution 33 ISO Term database

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to ask the ISO Central Secretariat to set up and maintain a publicly available database for all terms defined in ISO standards. The secretariat will report back to TC 211 at the 5th plenary meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 34 Adoption of conceptual schema languages

For 1997 ISO/TC 211 adopts the intermediate use of the OMT Object Model as a graphical language, and EXPRESS and CORBA IDL as lexical languages. For harmonization and ease of integration these languages shall be used in the specifications within all TC 211 work items where specifications are necessary. For data models, EXPRESS will be used. If operations associated with entities are needed, EXPRESS-C will be used. For services, CORBA IDL will be used.

ISO/TC 211 instructs WG 1 to monitor progress on the development of relevant conceptual schema languages and advise the TC when the provisional selection should be reviewed no later than February 1998.

Unanimous

Resolution 35 Convenor WG 5

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the Netherlands of Mr. Kees Wevers as new convenor of WG 5.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. David McKellar for the excellent work he has done with WG 5.

Unanimous

Resolution 36 Project leader of work item 15046-11, Geodetic reference systems

ISO/TC 211 resolves to terminate the current project leadership of work item 11, Geodetic reference systems, held by the International Association of Geodesy.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to consult with the ISO CS on the procedure for terminating the assignment of project leadership.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the WG 3 convenor to progress the work with Dr. Johannes Ihde, Germany, as interim editor of the Geodetic reference systems work item, and provide a new timetable.

Objection: France

Resolution 37 Revision of title, scope, and purpose and justification of standards

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to work together with the WG's in revising title, scope, and purpose and justification of all work items in the ISO/TC 211 programme of work, and to present a proposal in time to be adopted at the next plenary. The titles shall follow the principles for defining titles in the ISO directives, and the other revisions shall take account of the proposals tabled at the 4th ISO/TC 211 plenary meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 38 Raising the priority of raster and matrix data

ISO/TC 211 instructs the convenors and project leaders to provide feedback to Standards Council of Canada by 31 March 1997, identifying which elements of their work are related to raster and matrix (grid) data.

Canada will report back to the 5th plenary of ISO/TC 211, with estimates of the work and resource implications. ISO/TC 211 welcomes the offer from Canada and the USA to consider resourcing this work.

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the drafting of a new work item proposal on imaging by Canada for presentation to the 5th plenary, in consultation with other relevant organizations, including Center for Earth Observations (CEO), Committee on Earth Observation Sattelite (CEOS), International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and Open GIS Consortium, Inc (OGC).

Unanimous

Resolution 39 Class A Liaison Status for The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the application from The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific to become a class A liaison, and instructs the secretariat to recommend to the ISO Central Secretariat the establishment of this liaison.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Henry Tom, USA, as its liaison representative to this committee.

Unanimous

Resolution 40 Use of character sets in ISO/TC 211 standards

ISO/TC 211 instructs the project leaders to ensure that ISO 8859-1 and ISO 10646 (UCS 2 and 4) are used as normative references for character sets where appropriate.

Abstention: Japan

Resolution 41 New work item proposal: Functional standards

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to modify the scope of the new work item proposal given in document ISO/TC 211 N 310 according to the proposal from WG 5 and initiate the formal adoption procedures.

Unanimous

Resolution 42 Requirement concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

5th plenary	1997-10-02/03	Swindon, UK 

6th plenary	1998-03-05/06	Sidney, BC, Canada 

7th plenary	1998-09/10	Beijing, China 

All WGs have decided to have meetings prior to the plenary meeting in the UK and Canada, and provisions for WG meetings will also be made in China.

Unanimous

Resolution 43 External meetings

ISO/TC 211 appoints Professor Tschangho Kim, Korea, and Mr. Steve Gordon, USA, to represent ISO/TC 211 at the forthcoming ISO/TC 204 meeting in Noosa Head, Australia, March 1997.

Unanimous

Resolution 44 Liaison representatives

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to develop a complete proposal for representation of ISO/TC 211 in liaison organizations for consideration at the 5th plenary. ISO/TC 211 welcomes nominations from national bodies.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to SAA for the excellent arrangements offered for hosting the working group and plenary meetings.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Neville Chen, Mrs. Betty Titcombe and Mrs. Cheryl O'Neill for their excellent organization of the meetings and their helpful assistance throughout the meeting, and Mrs. Geraldine Mijajlovic and Mrs. Gwen Sorensen for their kind and helpful assistance to the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Colin Blair and Mr. Max Maffucci, SAA, for their kind words of welcome to the delegates. ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to SAA for the excellent reception given on Thursday 23.

Acclamation

Resolutions ISO/TC 211 5th Plenary Meeting
in Oxford, United Kingdom
1997-10-02/03

Resolution 45 - ISO Central Secretariat's decentralization

Unanimous

Resolution 46 - Quality control procedures

a special working group on quality control be established, consisting of the chairman, convenors of the WGs and all project leaders of WG 1 as well as the project leader of 15046-6, with a mandate to
	finalize the quality control guidelines, including procedures, by October 31 1997; this shall include the requirement to adhere to the terminology checking procedure; assist WGs in implementing the guidelines; smonitor the implementation and revise the guidelines as necessary;
all WGs shall implement the quality control guidelines before submission of CD and DIS; in the meantime WGs shall implement N 232 Rev. and N 419.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to distribute the quality control guidelines to the members for comments and to distribute a revised version for approval at the next plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 47 - Cooperation with OGC

ISO/TC 211 accordingly agrees to

establish a task force consisting of the chairman and the WG convenors to
	liaise with OGC in order to develop a proposal for the detailed process of harmonization indicated in document N 418; develop a business case to identify the benefits of this cooperation, including effective use of resources;
seek establishment of a formal agreement with OGC for joint development of imagery and gridded data requirements, if the new work item proposal in document N 404 is accepted. This work will be carried out with other liaisons as appropriate; propose a joint project (case study) with OGC to demonstrate mutual cooperation and the feasibility of implementing the emerging ISO standard (ISO WD 15046-15 Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata).

Unanimous

Resolution 48 - Appointment of liaison representatives

Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DWIWG)	Mr. David Danko
European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG)	Mr. Roger Lott
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)	Mr. Larry Hothem
International Cartographic Association (ICA)	Ms. Leslie Godwin
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)	Mr. Norman Andersen
Open GIS Consortium, Incorporated (OGC)	Mr. Olaf Østensen
ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 21/WG 3 Open systems interconnection, data management and open distributed processing/Database	Dr. John R. Herring
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics and image processing	Ms. Laura Moore

Unanimous

Resolution 49 -Adjustments of the ISO/TC 211 Programme of work

ISO/TC 211 agrees to the following adjustments in the titles and target dates of the ISO/TC 211 Programme of work, and instructs the secretariat to forward these changes to the ISO Central Secretariat, while recognising that these changes cannot fully accommodate the requirement of quality control and harmonization:

15046-1

Title: Geographic information - Part 1: Reference model

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	97-12	98-06	98-12	99-03

15046-2

Title Geographic information - Part 2: Overview

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-3

Title: Geographic information - Part 3: Conceptual schema language

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-01	98-09	99-03	99-09	99-12

15046-4

Title: Geographic information - Part 4: Terminology

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	99-12	00-05	00-11	01-02

15046-5

Title: Geographic information - Part 5: Conformance and testing

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-6

Title: Geographic information - Part 6: Profiles

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-7

Title: Geographic information - Part 7: Spatial schema

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-10	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-8

Title: Geographic information - Part 8: Temporal schema

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-9

Title: Geographic information - Part 9: Rules for application schema

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-10

Title: Geographic information - Part 10: Feature cataloguing methodology

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-11

Title: Geographic information - Part 11: Spatial referencing by coordinates

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
97-10	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-12

Title: Geographic information - Part 12: Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-01	98-07	98-12	99-03

15046-13

Title: Geographic information - Part 13: Quality principles

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-01	98-07	98-12	99-03

15046-14

Title: Geographic information - Part 14: Quality evaluation procedures

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-15

Title: Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-16

Title: Geographic information - Part 16: Positioning services

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
97-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-17

Title: Geographic information - Part 17: Portrayal

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-18

Title: Geographic information - Part 18: Encoding

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

ISO/TC 211 recognises the dependency of this work item with 15046-3 and will revise the dates if necessary at the next plenary.

15046-19

Title: Geographic information - Part 19: Services

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-20

Title: Geographic information - Part 20: Spatial operators

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15854

Title: Geographic information - Functional standards

Target dates:
TR: 98-03

Unanimous

Resolution 50 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

6th plenary	1998-03-05/06	Victoria, BC, Canada
7th plenary	1998-09-24/25	Beijing, China
8th plenary	1999-03	Europe
9th plenary	1999-09/10	Tentative date, offer by Japan

All WGs have decided to have meetings in connection with the plenary meeting in Canada, and provisions for WG meetings are also made in China.

Unanimous

Resolution 51 - External meetings

ISO/TC 211 shall be notified of the participation at the meetings and requires a report after the meetings.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Ms. Kara Kelly to represent ISO/TC 211 at the ISO/TC 204 meeting in Berlin, 1997-10-17.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to BSI for the excellent reception in the Town Hall on Monday, and asks the BSI also to forward the committee's appreciation to the Lord Mayor of Oxford and AGI.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor David Rhind, Director General of Ordnance Survey, for his kind words of welcome to the delegates.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to BSI for arranging the excellent organ recital and dinner Thursday night.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the arrangement committee, Mr. John Rowley, Ms. Sue Besbrode, Mr. Rob Walker and Mr. Les Rackham, and to Mr. Martin Ford and Ms. Mary Marriott of Loxley Associates, for their organization of the meetings and their helpful assistance throughout the meeting. ISO/TC 211 also expresses its appreciation to Mr. Darren Hunter and Mr. Atul Gautam for their helpful and kind assistance during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 6th Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 211
Victoria, B.C., Canada
1998-03-05/06

Resolution 52 - Establishment of editing committees

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish an editing management committee to process the resolution of the comments resulting from the review of the CDs and DIS's circulated to the members.

The editing management committee shall constitute the convenors of the working groups, chaired by the chairman of the TC, and supported by the secretary of the TC.

The editing management committee shall appoint editing committees for individual work items or groups of work items, using the resources provided by the convenors, project leaders and editors, or otherwise the working group members.

The editing committees shall hold at least one meeting to

• appoint an editor for each work item assigned by the editing management committee,
• resolve comments on the drafts from the members,
• report to the editing management committee:
• concerning consistency with all other parts of 15046
• concerning conformance to the Quality control guidelines and
• recommend to the editing management committee on the advancement of drafts to the next stage.

Unanimous

Resolution 53 - Quality control guidelines

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the SWG-QC shall revise the Quality control guidelines to enable self assessment by the project teams and according to the received comments.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to distribute the updated guidelines before the end of March 1998 for immediate implementation as stated in resolution 46.

In the meantime the existing guidelines shall be used and interpreted in the spirit of this resolution.

Unanimous

Resolution 54 - Cooperation with OGC

ISO/TC 211 supports the intentions of the draft resolutions in document N 503 and instructs the secretariat to consult with the ISO Central Secretariat on the proper method for ISO/TC 211 to process specifications developed by class A liaisons.

The result of this shall be presented in due time for decision at the next plenary in Beijing.

Unanimous

Resolution 55 - Conceptual schema language for specifying ISO 15046

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to carry out an immediate postal ballot on the following resolution:

ISO/TC211 shall use the Unified Modelling Language (UML) static structure diagram with the ISO Interface Definition Language (IDL) basic type definitions and the UML Object Constraint Language (OCL) as the conceptual schema language for specification of the normative parts of ISO 15046. This requirement shall be implemented prior to submission of the parts for CD and DIS.

Justification:

The reason for this decision is that the goal of ISO/TC 211 is to create a framework to enable syntactic interoperability and to support semantic interoperability, while supporting multiple interchange formats and multiple service implementations. UML is selected as the conceptual schema language for producing specifications that can support the creation of such a framework.

ISO/TC 211 resolves to replace the use of OMT by UML for the graphical presentation of conceptual schemas immediately. However, this change shall not be required for the CDs due in March 1998 if this will delay their submission.

Unanimous

Resolution 56 - Progress on WIs Spatial schema and Spatial operators

ISO/TC 211 intends to merge work item 15046-20 Spatial operators into 15046-7 Spatial schema, and instructs the secretariat to consult the ISO Central Secretariat on the formal procedure to be adopted.

Abstention: Sweden
Approved

Resolution 57 - Harmonization on spatial schema and operators

ISO/TC 211 resolves to submit document ISO/TC 211 N 504 Comments and proposals on harmonization of TC 211, SQL/MM and OGC spatial schemas and operators, as a liaison contribution to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 and also invites its individual member bodies to submit this document to their appropriate ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 secretariat, for their consideration in commenting on the current SQL/MM Part 3 Spatial FCD. (The ballot period ends March 18 1998.)

ISO/TC 211 encourages further harmonization between the three groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 58 - NP 16569 Geographic information - Imagery and gridded data

ISO/TC 211 assigns the new work item NP 16569 to Working group 1, and welcomes Dr. Kian Fadaie as the project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 59 - Terminology

ISO/TC 211 regrets and respects the decision of Sweden to withdraw from the project leadership of 15046-4 Terminology, and thanks Swedish Standards Institution and their representatives for their excellent work.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a call for a new project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 60 - Draft new work item proposal on qualification and certification of personnel

ISO/TC 211 invites the National body of Canada to further develop its new work item proposal with relevant international bodies, and if appropriate submit a revised proposal. ISO/TC 211 encourages the National Body of Canada to arrange an international consultation meeting at an appropriate venue, which should be open to ISO/TC 211 members as well as the international bodies.

ISO/TC 211 invites members to submit comments to the National Body of Canada on document ISO/TC 211 N 502 by May 15 1998.

Unanimous

Resolution 61 - Liaison request from CEO, Centre for Earth Observation

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the request for class A liaison from CEO, and instructs the secretariat to advise the ISO Central Secretariat to accept the application.

Unanimous

Resolution 62 - Establishment of liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to establish a liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Coded Character Sets.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Yves Luc Hudon as its liaison representative.

Unanimous

Resolution 63 - Withdrawal of ballot on project 15046-1

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a document withdrawing the ballot, changing the required action on document ISO/TC 211 N 455 to comments only.

Unanimous

Resolution 64 - Adjustments of the ISO/TC 211 Programme of work

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following changes to the programme of work, and instructs the secretariat to distribute an updated version.

15046-7

Title: Geographic information - Part 7: Spatial schema

Target dates:

15046-8

Title: Geographic information - Part 8: Temporal schema

Target dates:

15046-9

Title: Geographic information - Part 9: Rules for application schema

Target dates:

15046-11

Title: Geographic information - Part 11: Spatial referencing by coordinates

Target dates:

15046-12

Title: Geographic information - Part 12: Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

Target dates:

15046-13

Title: Geographic information - Part 13: Quality principles

Target dates:

15046-14

Title: Geographic information - Part 14: Quality evaluation procedures

Target dates:

15046-15

Title: Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata

Target dates:

15046-16

Title: Geographic information - Part 16: Positioning services

Target dates:

15046-18

Title: Geographic information - Part 18: Encoding

Target dates:

15046-19

Title: Geographic information - Part 19: Services

Target dates:

15046-20

Title: Geographic information - Part 20: Spatial operators

Target dates:

Unanimous

Resolution 65 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

All WGs have decided to have meetings in connection with the plenary meeting in China, and provisions for WG meetings are also made in Austria and Japan.

Unanimous

Resolution 66 - External meetings

ISO/TC 211 asks Professor Tschangho Kim and Ms. Kara Kelly to represent ISO/TC 211 at the ISO/TC 204 meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1998-05-01

ISO/TC 211 asks Mr. Henry Tom to represent ISO/TC 211 at the UN Regional Cartographic Conference in Mexico March 25/27 1998.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics for hosting the working groups and plenary meetings, and a special thanks to Mr. David McKellar, Mr. Tim Evangelatos, and Ms. Marion Fuller for their excellent preparations for the meetings.

ISO/TC 211 thanks Mr. Mark Corey, chair of Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics for his welcome address to the committee.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to RadarSat for the excellent reception on Monday night.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the sponsors who made the meetings possible:

Canadian Hydrographic Service Canadian Institute of Geomatics CGSB ONGC Data Warehouse Technologies Defence Geomatics Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics L. A. S. Inc. MacDonald Dettwiler Natural Resources Canada, Geomatics Canada Navigation Technologies Canada, Inc. Pacific International Mapping RadarSat International

ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner and entertainment on Thursday evening

ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its appreciation to Mr. Gabe Batstone, Mr. Nick Baldwin, Ms. Linda Baldwin, Ms. Nancy Evangelatos as well as volunteers from the Canadian delegation for their helpful and kind assistance during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions ISO/TC 211 by correspondence

Resolution 67 - Business case for harmonization between ISO/TC 211 and OGC

Abstention: France
Approved by a majority of 17 members

Resolution 68 - Conceptual schema language for specifying ISO 15046

Justification:

The reason for this decision is that the goal of ISO/TC 211 is to create a framework to enable syntactic interoperability and to support semantic interoperability, while supporting multiple interchange formats and multiple service implementations. UML is selected as the conceptual schema language for producing specifications that can support the creation of such a framework.

Disapproval: The Netherlands, Sweden
Abstention: France, New Zealand
Approved by a majority of 16 members

Resolutions of the 7th Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 211
Beijing, Peoples' Republic of China
1998-09-24/25

Resolution 69 - Conformance clause

Therefore, ISO/TC 211 resolves that a single concise conformance statement be placed always as Clause 2 which references to a normative annex (if required) containing the abstract test suite and detailed requirements.

Unanimous

Resolution 70 - Liaison statement to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 SQL-MM

ISO/TC 211 asks Working Group 2 to prepare a liaison report resulting from the review of the progress of SQL-MM: Part 3 Spatial, and forward this to the ISO/TC 211 secretariat for submission to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 3 by 1998-10-15.

ISO/TC 211 asks Working Group 3 to contribute to the above report concerning the list of geodetic reference systems and parameters by 1998-10-15.

Unanimous

Resolution 71 - Co-operative agreement between ISO/TC 211 and the Open GIS Consortium, Inc.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the chairman in cooperation with interested members, the OGC and the ISO Central Secretariat to finalize the agreement for ballot by 1998-12-31.

Unanimous

Resolution 72 - Liaison with ISO/TC 204

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the need for ISO/TC 204 to advance their work to meet urgent internal requirements.

ISO/TC 211 believes there is a strong business case for ensuring technical harmonization between ISO/TC 204/WG 3 and ISO/TC 211, and that it is essential to maintain a high level two-way liaison between both TCs and appreciates the continuance of liaison representatives.

ISO/TC 211 extends and welcomes the opportunity for future harmonization with ISO/TC 204 at a mutually agreeable date.

ISO/TC 211 encourages the members to strengthen the liaison at the national level and consider further actions that might be taken.

Unanimous

Resolution 73 - Character sets

Unanimous

Resolution 74 - Liaison request from the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM)

ISO/TC 211 asks the Japanese member body to propose a liaison representative to ISCGM.

Unanimous

Resolution 75 - Cancellation of work item 15046-20

Unanimous

Resolution 76 - Terms of reference for the editing committees

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out document N 587 for comments by 1998-12-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 77 - ISO/TC 211 Quality Control Procedures

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the following shall apply provisionally:

1. The ISO/TC 211 Special Working Group - Quality Control Guidelines will be fully implemented to ensure that all parts of ISO 15046 comply with the harmonization and quality objectives in this document.

2. Editing Committees appointed by the Editing Management Committee shall perform an audit of the Quality Control Check List prior to recommending the advancement of any part of ISO 15046. The actions of editing committees will include processing comments regarding harmonization with other parts of the standard.

3. Working Groups shall review committee documents and submit comments to each editing committee as necessary to ensure harmonization with their parts.

4. If necessary, each Editing Committee will initiate activity to resolve any issues involving harmonization of the document with other parts of ISO 15046. The actions that may be taken by the Editing Committee to resolve harmonization issues include, but are not limited to:

a) Progressing a document if harmonization issues are considered not to be critical.

b) Amending a document as required to resolve harmonization issues at the meeting.

c) Convening a continuation editing committee meeting with additional experts representing other parts of ISO 15046 or external organization in order to resolve outstanding harmonization issues.

5. The Special Working Group on Quality Control shall review the Quality Control Guidelines and update it and to include checks to remove unnecessary duplication and ensure consistent cross-referencing within ISO 15046.

6. The Quality Control Guidelines shall include an updated dependency matrix at a subclause level.

Unanimous

Resolution 78 - Harmonization between ISO/TC 184/SC 4 and ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to inform other relevant liaison organizations and committees about this meeting, and encourage them to attend.

Unanimous

Resolution 79 - Harmonization with ISO/IEC JTC 1 standards and work items

This includes consultation with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 and DGIWG with regard to document N 576.

Unanimous

Resolution 80 - Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Resolution 81 - New work item proposals

* a new preliminary work item on imagery and gridded data after the submission for ballot of the type 3 technical report 16569, taking into account the proposal of Coverages by WG 2 (WG 1)

* Coverages taking into account work item 16569 (WG 2)

* ISO TS on Geodetic codes and parameters (WG 3)

* Coordinate transformation services, taking into account 15046-7 and 15046-11, Catalogue services (WG 4)

* an amendment to 15854 (WG 5)

Unanimous

Resolution 82 - Distribution of documents prior to meetings

ISO/TC 211 likewise instructs the convenors to distribute WG documents in due time before their meetings and the experts to bring the paper copies they require to the meetings. Copying will only be available for documents issued during the meetings. ISO/TC 211 reminds Working Groups that their reports to TC should be based on agreed resolutions within the working groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 83 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

8th plenary	1999-03-04/05	Vienna, Austria
9th plenary	1999-09-29/30	Kyoto, Japan
10th plenary	2000-03-09/10	South Africa - to be confirmed
11th plenary	2000-09-28/29	USA - to be confirmed

Provisions for WG meetings are made in Austria and Japan.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 thanks Mr. Jin Xiangwen, Director General and Mr. Wang Chunfeng, Deputy Director General of the State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping, and Mr. Su Xhongmin, Director Assistant of CSMTS for their welcome address to the committee.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping for the excellent reception on Monday night, and for providing the delegates with lunch every day.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner at the Beijing Duck restaurant on Thursday evening.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Bai Bo, Mr. Wang Qian, Mr. Zhang Weiping, Mr. Fan Jingsheng, Mr. Sun Baowu, Mr. Yang Heping, Ms. Zhang Pengpeng, Ms. Xu Hui, Ms. Jin Wenhong, Ms. Jiang Xiashong, Mr. Liu Xianhua and Mr. He Xinjian for their helpful and kind assistance during the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the hosts for arranging technical excursions and sightseeing, for the delegates as well as for the accompanying persons. ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its appreciation to Ms. Xu Hui, Mr. Wang Qian and Mr. Fan Jingsheng for accompanying the visitors on excursions.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 8th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Vienna, Austria, 1999-03-04/05

Resolution 84 - Change of WG 3 convenor

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the nomination from the United Kingdom of Mr. Neil Smith as the new convenor.

Unanimous

Resolution 85 - Resignation of WG 5 convenor

Until the next plenary meeting in Kyoto, the chairman, Mr. Olaf Østensen will convene WG 5.

Unanimous

Resolution 86 - Project leader of 15046-4 Geographic information - Part 4: Terminology

Unanimous

Resolution 87 - Free availability of ISO 15046-4 Geographic information - Part 4: Terminology

Unanimous

Resolution 88 - Free availability of ISO 15046-2 Geographic information - Part 2: Overview

Unanimous

Resolution 89 - French language version of ISO/TC 211 standards and reports

Unanimous

Resolution 90 - Liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping, ISCGM

Unanimous

Resolution 91 - Cultural and linguistic adaptability

ISO/TC 211 requests its chairman to compile these comments and prepare a summary for review by members prior to the 9th Plenary in Kyoto. ISO/TC 211 requests its chairman to convene during the meeting week in Kyoto a workshop to address the summary report on cultural and linguistic adaptability within ISO/TC 211.

Unanimous

Resolution 92 - Unique identifiers for encoding purposes

The work shall address the issue of cultural and linguistic adaptability, and be completed in time to be sent out one month prior to 9th ISO/TC 211 Plenary in Kyoto.

Against: Finland, Sweden
Accepted

Resolution 93 - Forming ISO/TC 211 Model harmonization team

The result will be made available at the Kyoto meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 94 - Co-operative agreement between ISO/TC 211 and the Open GIS Consortium, Inc.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. John Rowley and Mr. Martin Ford for their work with the establishment of the agreement.

Unanimous

Resolution 95 - Terms of reference for the ISO/TC 211 / OGC co-ordination group (TOCG)

The co-ordination group shall begin its work as soon as possible, and shall in particular monitor progress on the development of new work item proposals reported by working groups at the 8th plenary.

All activities of the co-ordination group shall abide with the ISO Directives.

Unanimous

Resolution 96 - Identification of dependencies

• ISO/TC 211 is developing a suite of standards that are highly interdependent;
• many of these standards development projects are nearing completion;
• the documentation of dependencies between the parts of the suite of ISO/TC 211 standards assists in the development of standards within ISO/TC 211;
• the development of profiles of the ISO/TC 211 standards requires the identification of the dependencies between the elements being profiled and the other parts of the suite of ISO/TC 211 standards and external standards;
• The dependency matrix previously developed in ISO/TC 211 is now out of date;
• the resources within ISO/TC 211 are limited;

Unanimous

Resolution 97 - Product specification

ISO/TC 211 asks working groups 3 and 5 to work together to develop such a template for inclusion within ISO 15046-6 Geographic information - Part 6: Profiles. This is an urgent requirement; both working groups shall present a report on feasibility and progress at the 9th Plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 98 - Co-operation with class A liaison organizations

ISO/TC 211 also invites other liaison organization to consider this issue.

Unanimous

Resolution 99 - Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

16822	Geographic information/Geomatics - Qualifications and Certification of personnell	Preliminary to WG 5
N 616	Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions	WG 2
N 616	Geographic information - Imagery and gridded data components	WG 1

Unanimous

Resolution 100 - Members' participation

• notify the ISO Central Secretariat to make sure that P-members that have been persistently inactive have their membership status changed to O-members.
• notify those P-members that have failed to vote and/or participate that unless they provide an undertaking to increase their participation within 3 months, the ISO Central Secretariat will be notified to change their membership to O-member.

Unanimous

Resolution 101 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its appreciation to the Federal Capital Vienna and Stadtbaudirektör Dipl. ing. Weber for the excellent reception in Rathauskeller on Thursday.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Dr. Johann Bogath, Ms. Hedy Sandtner, Ms. Elisabeth Ettel and Ms. Claudia Stowasser for their excellent support to the delegates during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 9th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Kyoto, Japan 1999-09-29/30

Resolution 102 Liaison request from The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)

Unanimous
 

Resolution 103 Request for liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35

Unanimous
 

Resolution 104 Cultural and Linguistic Adaptability (CLA)

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the offer from the NB of Canada to carry out a survey of relevant places in the standards under development by ISO/TC 211 where CLA should be taken into account. The survey, which shall include an impact analysis, shall be presented at the next plenary, where ISO/TC 211 shall decide how to implement the principles.

Compliance with CLA principles should not delay the progress of accepted work items - where appropriate work on technical addenda, or other means, should be started as soon as practically possible.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 105 Equivalence tables

ISO/TC 211 requests that the Encoding Project Team with Canada's assistance produce a case study/test of the use of equivalence tables for the use of localization and encoding. The study shall be sent out for review by the national bodies one month prior to the Cape Town meetings.

Pending a successful review of this test, ISO/TC 211 adopts the use of equivalence tables.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 106 Terminology editing committee

The editing committee for Terminology shall at the Cape Town editing meeting make the necessary decisions, based on formal comments on the next Terminology CD, to ensure that all terms listed in the normative clause(s) of Terminology CD shall have a single definition where consensus is achieved. Similarly, the EC shall ensure that individual concepts are associated with only a single term and definition. These decisions shall be made in accordance with N 651. Thereafter, all ISO/TC 211 documents shall use the terms, concepts, and definitions in the Terminology standard. Document WG 1 N 207 contains all current terms used in ISO/TC 211. Any changes by editors need to be received by 1999-10-21.

The next release of Terminology shall be distributed as a CD for Comment in accordance with the decisions of the Editing Management Committee. This document shall contain all terms and definitions used in the different ISO/TC 211 drafts including terms that currently have multiple definitions.

Any terms or concepts for which consensus cannot be gained on a single definition shall be placed in an informative annex of the Terminology standard containing candidate terms.

All Project Leaders and Editors shall receive a copy of comments on the next Terminology CD, and are requested to provide feedback before the editing committee meeting to resolve differences in use of terms, concepts, and definitions.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 107 Advisory Group for the creation of strategic direction statement for ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 secretariat will as necessary distribute agendas and announce date and location for the meeting(s) of the advisory group. The chairman will convene the meeting(s).

The first draft of the strategic direction statement shall be presented at the 10th Plenary meeting 2000-03-09/10.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 108 New work item: Geographic information - Simple feature access - SQL option

ISO/TC 211 asks Working Group 4 to prepare the Committee Draft for ballot by 1999-11-15, based on the draft accompanying the new work item proposal and the comments accompanying the votes on this proposal.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 109 Renumbering of the ISO/TC 211 projects

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat, in cooperation with the convenors and project leaders, to update the drafts according to the new numbers.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 110 2nd Committee Drafts for comments

CD 15046-7 Geographic information - Part 7 Spatial schema
CD 15046-9 Geographic information - Part 9: Rules for application schema
CD 15046-14 Geographic information - Part 14: Quality evaluation procedures
CD 15046-15 Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata

ISO/TC 211 instructs the editing committee to submit the new drafts to the secretariat at the latest by 1999-11-15 in order to have the comments back for editing at the meetings in South Africa in March 2000.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 111 Committee Drafts for 2nd vote

CD 15046-13 Geographic information - Part 13: Quality principles
CD 15046-17 Geographic information - Part 17: Portrayal

ISO/TC 211 instructs the editing committee to submit the new drafts to the secretariat at the latest by 1999-11-15 in order to have the comments back for editing at the meetings in South Africa in March 2000.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 112 Work item 16822

Unanimous
 

Resolution 113 Working Group 5

Unanimous
 

Resolution 114 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work