Talk:PCC Profile Deprecation

DCC Call 2018-05-22

Discussion

• Review PCC Process (not individual profiles for deprecation)
• Introduction of new "Intent to Deprecate" status

Questions

• Should the Intent to Deprecate term be set or flexible? What should the term/range of term be?
  • "Proposal to Deprecate"
  • "Consideration for Deprecation"
  • HL7 has used "deprecated" status and standards have been resurrected after community response
  • deprecated, retired, removed - understand the definition of each of these
  • IHE only has the status of deprecated
  • maybe we should add a status of retired

• Deprecated
  • Indication that committee has stopped maintenance
  • Eligible to move out of deprecated status and back into active status
• Retired
  • Deprecation is "final"

• FTP site management considerations
• Identify which existing profiles are deprecated vs retired

• Where in the development cycle would the deprecation process be done?
  • value - take advantage of existing marketing channels (i.e. sent out a note along with public comment emails)
  • caution against deprecating/intent to deprecate and organizations spending time preparing for connectathon
• How would deprecation/retirement be handled in profiles already published in final text?
  • Section headers, start of volume 1 profile add text to highlight deprecation status??

Next Steps

• Propose to adopt these steps across all IHE domains
• PCC: define deprecated and retired, and propose back to DCC
• PCC: identify any PCC specific items and general items and bring back to DCC
• Discuss w/DCC time/term for deprecation