Draft terms for the Institute’s calculators — disposition

§3Disposition and amendments

§3.1Disposition table

Table 1. Every submission with its disposition. Each row links to the submission in full.

§3.2Summary by disposition

Table 2. Counts by disposition, with the meaning of each.

§3.3Resulting amendments

1. Independence is asserted and the mechanism securing it is not described — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/001. The governance document now describes the separation in operational terms: who accepts funding, who makes assessments, that the two sets do not overlap, and that assessment staff are not informed of placement decisions before publication.
2. What the site collects about a reader is not stated in terms a reader can check — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/002. The statement now enumerates what is collected and what is not, and is written so that a reader can verify it from the page source, which is the only form of the statement that can be checked without trusting the Institute.
3. The search date is not on the face of the document — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/003. The search date is now printed adjacent to every certainty rating and is carried in the document metadata, so that the interval between the search and the reading is visible without reference to the methods section.
4. A party that is assessed and also sponsors should be disclosed on its own assessment — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/004. The disclosure now appears as a numbered section on the dossier of any assessed party that sponsors the site, as well as on the funding page.
5. The terms on which the documents may be reused are not stated — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/005. The reuse terms are now stated explicitly on the legal page and in the document footer, permitting quotation and reproduction with attribution and the document version, and requiring that any reproduction carry the certainty rating that accompanied the quoted…
6. Funding should not be accepted from any party the Institute assesses — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/007. The policy now prohibits funding from an assessed party for any activity bearing on that party's assessment, requires that any other relationship be published on the funding page and on every page it could bear on, and records the sums involved rather than…
7. No term limit applies to membership of the assessment committee — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/008. Members are appointed for a four-year term renewable once. Appointment and expiry dates are published in the register of members.
8. A reader who acted on a document is not told when it is corrected — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/009. A corrected passage now carries an inline notice for twelve months from the date of correction, naming the log entry, in addition to the entry itself.
9. A four-week window is too short for a respondent without institutional support — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/010. The minimum window is now six weeks for a document of general application and four for a document-specific draft. A respondent who asks for more time before a window closes is given it, and that is now stated in the policy.
10. References should carry a persistent identifier for every cited source — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/012. Every reference without a persistent identifier now carries an explicit statement that the identifier is not held by the Institute, so that its absence is a recorded fact rather than an apparent oversight.
11. The same concept is given three different names in one document — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/013. A single term is now used throughout for each defined concept, and the glossary entry is linked at first use within each section rather than once per document.
12. Whether external reviewers are paid is not stated — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/015. The policy now states whether external review is remunerated, records any payment made in respect of a document in that document's front matter, and treats a payment received from the Institute as a declarable interest in the same way as any other.
13. There is no route to challenge a disposition — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/016. A disposition may now be referred for review to a member of the assessment committee who did not author the response, once per submission, with the referral and its outcome published alongside the original disposition whether or not it changes.
14. The secretariat answers submissions and is not itself named — arising from DRAFT-TOOLS-DISCLA/017. Every comment period now names the secretariat members responsible for it, with their declared interests, in the consultation front matter, so that the responses can be read against the interests of the people who wrote them.

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1. International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. ISO/IEC Standard 2017;3rd edition. identifier not held by the Institute

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