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Submit and request review

How to ask for a record, request a review or report a correction. Contributions arrive through a gateway, are routed to the body that decides, and are answered in the open for standards. Submitting confers no authority and no authorship.

01Routes in

Three ways to submit.

RouteUse it forGateway
Reports gatewayEvidence, a correction, a case, a method, a review, a translation or profile input, tagged with the page you send it from.GW-GCRI
The standards processA new or changed standard, an erratum, a code or schema contribution, or a comment on a draft.GW-STD
The SecretariatA question about a record, a rights concern or a request to list something.the contact form
02Contribution types

What can be submitted, and who answers.

From the participation register of the Nexus Standards. Every contribution type routes to a body that exists.

TypeRoleRouted toThen
Apply to a working group or a callcontributorSECThe Secretariat checks eligibility and balance; the working group convenor or the Council decides.
Comment on a standard, part or proposalobserverEDThe editors dispose of every comment with a reason; dispositions are published with the draft.
Propose a new standard, a change or an erratumcontributorTCThe committee decides whether to open an NS-13 proposal; editors draft it.
Report an error or a gapobserverEDFixed as errata, carried to a revision, or answered.
Offer code, schemas, test vectors or a reference implementationcontributorTCReviewed by WG-DEV or the owning working group; accepted code is carried into the canonical repository by its maintainers.
Offer a translation or a plain-language summarycontributorTCWG-ACC assigns and reviews it.
Register to observe a Council or committee sessionobserverSECThe Secretariat sends the link and the papers.
Request a liaison (standards bodies and public authorities)observerSECPut to the Council at its next session.
Express interest in national adoption or a National Standards CouncilobserverSECThe Secretariat follows up under the national adoption and sovereignty rules.
03Standards process

A change to a standard is an NS-13 proposal.

Anyone may file; there is no fee. A proposal moves through OPEN, In review, Last call, ACCEPTED / REJECTED / WITHDRAWN, ADOPTED, Version and changelog, with a public disposition for every comment, and editors never adopt. See the state machine for the states.

04Request a record

Ask for something to be listed, or reviewed.

  • Name the record type, the identifier if there is one, and the register that holds the source.
  • Say who stewards it and under what licence.
  • Records are listed from their registers; if the register does not have it, the request goes to the owner of that register first.
05What never to send

Keep personal and sensitive data out.

  • Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share.
  • A contribution is reviewed before use. Sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never changes a finding.
06Sources

Where this page’s references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

07Questions

Questions and answers.

Do I need an account?
No. The gateway routes accept a message with the page and type; no sign-in is printed on the pages.
Who decides?
The body the contribution type routes to: the editors, a technical committee, the Secretariat or the owner of the register.
Take part

Take part in Registry.

Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell on the Registry platform.

Route

National institutions

Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. National chapters

Route

Sectors and professions

Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Registry. Participate

Route

Learning

Courses and practice, with a record of every course completed. Free to study. Open learning

Route

Standards

Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Working groups

Route

Communities and research

Universities, civil society and individual experts: projects, data and review. Write to the team

Registry

Bring a method, a dataset or a question.

Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.

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