Technical Contributions Forum (forum.iacs.org.uk)
IACS maintains a subscription-based online Technical Contributions Forum ("IACS
TC Forum") to provide Classification Societies (CSs) with a platform for
publication of comments and discussion with other CSs (including both IACS
Members and non-IACS CSs) relating to IACS' technical work programmes. The
subscription is set to recover the reasonable costs of establishing and
maintaining the IACS TC Forum only. The IACS TC Forum shows all technical work
items leading to new technical IACS Resolutions and, as soon as they become
available, the initial draft related to those technical work items. The TC
Forum includes the following:
| Information posted on TC Forum |
Publicly accessible - Visible to any interested party |
Accessible to Members and interested CSs - granted access by IACS * |
| a. Current IACS Work Programme assigned to each Working Group |
Yes |
Yes |
| b. Posting date of each Work Programme Task |
Yes |
Yes |
| c. Moderator of each Work Programme Task |
Yes |
Yes |
| d. Work Programme Item related to Task |
No |
Yes |
| e. Initial draft of a new or revised technical IACS Resolution |
No |
Yes |
| f. Deadline for comments on initial draft document |
No |
Yes |
| g. All comments voluntarily posted to TC Forum on each Item |
No |
Yes |
| h. Final Item closure statement by moderator |
No |
Yes |
The Requirements to establish "Classification Society" status are given in the IACS Procedures, Volume 2.
The Procedures concerning the TC Forum and non-IACS Member participation in IACS Working Groups are given in the IACS Procedures, Volume 1.
If there are any comments relating to the IACS Work Programme please address them to permsec@iacs.org.uk