The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) encourages relevant stakeholders to review and comment on a draft proposal for a new International Organization for Standardization (ISO) International Workshop Agreement (IWA) on hydrological risks.
As part of the current ISO/Technical Management Board (TMB) process for considering proposals for new areas of ISO work, such proposals are circulated to ISO/TMB members for an initial commenting period. This is intended to provide the proposer with some input to potentially improve the proposal before it is circulated for formal approval.
JISC (the ISO member for Japan) has submitted a draft proposal for a new ISO IWA on Hydrological Risks – Guidelines and Relevant Potential Standards. The scope of this proposed IWA at this time is as follows:
The main purpose of this International Workshop is to discuss and make a consensus among the relevant Technical Committees (TCs) / Subcommittees (SCs) and other stakeholders on what kind of new areas of activities should be addressed and how they should be dealt with in the area of Hydrological Risks. The proposed IWA will start with the identification of issues, conduct a gap analysis between existing works and standardization needs, and finally agree on possible future areas for standards to fill the gap.
Attached to the proposal is a document by ISO staff assessing the relationship of this proposal to existing ISO committees and projects.
Relevant stakeholders are invited to review this document and send comments to Steven Cornish, ANSI senior director of international policy ([email protected]) by close of business on Friday, February 14, 2025. All input that ANSI receives will be used to develop the ANSI representative input to the ISO/TMB.