ISO/TR 17465-3:2015

TECHNICAL ISO/TR
REPORT 17465-3
First edition
2015-08-15
Intelligent transport systems —
Cooperative ITS —
Part 3:
Release procedures for standards
documents
Systèmes intelligents de transport — Coopérative ITS —
Partie 3: Procédures de publication pour les documents normatifs
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Terms and definitions . 1
3 Symbols and abbreviated terms . 2
4 Standards release procedure . 2
4.1 General . 2
4.2 What is a “release”? . 2
4.3 What is the release procedure? . 2
4.4 Benefit and impact of a release procedure . 3
4.5 How is the release procedure implemented? . 3
4.6 Coordination between SDO’s . 4
Foreword
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The committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 204, Intelligent transport systems.
ISO/TR 17465 consists of the following parts, under the general title Intelligent transport systems —
Cooperative ITS:
— Part 1: Terms and definitions
— Part 2: Guidelines for standards documents
— Part 3: Release procedures for standards documents
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Introduction
As cooperative ITS is able to provide many services, many applications will be needed to deliver them,
all communicating with each other and sharing data, it is very likely that many different standards will
be needed. The users of standards such as system designers and applications developers will have to
be able to select a consistent group of standards from those that are relevant to the particular services
that they are implementing. However, as standards development is a continuous process, it is likely to
become difficult for users to easily identify which version of each standard they have to use if all the
standards in the selected group are to be consistent with each other.
Therefore, it is proposed that ISO TC 204 follow the practice adopted by several other Standards
Development Organizations and put in place a Release Procedure that will enable the identification of
the standards that are consistent with each other. This will be done through a Technical Report that
defines which standards are to be included in a particular Release, and what each of these standards
will cover. Thus, users will be able to identify which standards are consistent with each other from the
group of standards that are relevant to the particular system or application that they are creating.
The identification of the applicability of the standards in each Release to the work that the users are
doing will be through the service(s) that will be supported by the use of those standards. This is because
the content of the service(s) will define the functionality needed by the applications that are to deliver
them and the communications the applications require to exchange and share data. Both the content of
the applications and the communications requirements will make it possible to identify the standards
that will be needed.
Although intended for use internally by ISO TC 204, there is no reason why what is described in
the Release Procedure described in this Technical Report could not be used by other Standards
Development Organizations that do not already have their own similar procedures, or indeed by any
other organization needing to produce a consistent set of documents.
TECHNICAL REPORT ISO/TR 17465-3:2015(E)
Intelligent transport systems — Cooperative ITS —
Part 3:
Release procedures for standards documents
1 Scope
The scope of this Technical Report is to provide a description of the release procedures for standards
that is to be used within ISO TC 204. In the main, these will be International Standards produced
by ISO TC 204; however, it is likely that some standards produced by other Standards Development
Organizations will have to be included in some releases. Initially, this release procedure will be applied
to the deployment of standards for cooperative-ITS, however, in principle at least, it should be possible
to apply it to standards for other ITS domains. It also has to be possible for this release procedure to
be used by other Standards Development Organizations that do not already have their own procedures
and with suitable changes to the identities of the people and groups involved, by any other organization
that needs to produce a consistent set of documents.
2 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
2.1
cooperative-ITS
C-ITS
subset of overall ITS that communicates and shares information between ITS stations and
ITS applications to give advice or facilitate actions with the objective of improving safety, sustainability,
efficiency and comfort beyond the scope of stand-alone systems
[SOURCE: ISO/TR 17465-1: 2014, 2.1 — modified]
2.2
intelligent transport systems
ITS
transport systems in which advanced information, communication, sensor and control technologies,
including the internet, are applied to increase safety, sustainability, efficiency and comfort
[SOURCE: ISO/TR 17465-1: 2014, 2.3]
2.3
ITS service
functionality provided to users of intelligent transport systems (2.2) designed e.g. to increase safety,
sustainability, efficiency, or comfort
[SOURCE: ISO 21217:2014, 3.11]
2.4
Technical Report
TR
standards document that provides information, compliance with which is not mandatory and the
format of which is defined in ISO rules and regulations
3 Symbols and abbreviated terms
HMI human machine interface
QoS quality of service
SC sub-committee
TC technical committee
SDOs standards development organizations
4 Standards release procedure
4.1 General
The evolution of ITS and the consequent development of the services that it is capable of offering means
that increasingly ITS is having to make use of inter-related and cross-referenced standards. These
has been exacerbated by the advent of cooperative-ITS which, in order to deliver its services, requires
ITS applications to communicate with each other and share data. The result is that to guarantee
inter-operability, it is necessary to apply many standards, often produced by different Standards
Development Organizations (SDO’s), different Technical Committees (TC’s) within a particular SDO, and
different Working Groups within a TC.
Unfortunately, the development and subsequent publication of standards is usually not synchronised,
both within SDO’s and across SDO’s. This makes the development of system designs and the creation
of applications needed for implementations of cooperative-ITS difficult to successfully achieve.
To overcome this problem, a “release mechanism” is needed for standards, particularly those for
cooperative-ITS so that consistent sets of standards can be easily identified.
4.2 What
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