Draft structure of the document registry

§1Consultation and window

§1.1Window

Opened

21 October 2024

Closed

20 December 2024

Duration

60 days

Status

Closed — the disposition is published

Document under consultation

Document series

Submissions received

9

§1.2Consultation questions

The secretariat put the following questions. A submission was not required to address them and several did not; the questions record what the Institute was uncertain about rather than restricting what a respondent could raise.

1. Is the identifier scheme robust to a document changing series or type after publication?
2. Should the registry record the review date and the next review date for every document, including those with no scheduled review?
3. Is the representation of a withdrawn document sufficient for a reader who arrives at it from an external link?

§1.3How a submission is handled

• Every submission is signed. The Institute publishes no anonymous submission.
• Every submission carries a declared interest. A declaration of no interest is itself a declaration and is recorded as one. A declaration is not a disqualification and the Institute has never given a submission less weight on that ground.
• A submission from an employee of a marketing-authorisation holder is identified as an industry submission on its face, following a unanimous consultation on the conflicts policy.
• Every submission receives a secretariat response and a disposition. Submissions that are not accepted remain published in full; the Institute does not remove a submission because it disagrees with it.
• There is no voting, no reputation score, no reply thread and no editing after receipt.

§1.4Outcome

The registry structure was ratified with amendments. A withdrawn document now carries the reason for withdrawal and a link to whatever supersedes it, and the next-review field is recorded as not scheduled rather than left blank.

The disposition table, listing each submission with its disposition and the resulting amendment, is at §3.