The ISO/TC 68/AG 3 Best Practices Advisory Group has finalized their work on the AG3 Best Practices document.
The AG 3 Best Practices was developed over a period of four years under the leadership of Karla McKenna as convener of TC 68/AG 3. Jason Polis assumed the leadership of AG 3 and finalized the publication of this standard. The AG 3 Best Practices document was approved by majority ballot within ISO/TC 68.
These best practices are non-normative guidelines for use within TC 68 that are based upon broad industry consensus best practices as inventoried and vetted by ISO/TC 68/AG 3. These best practices are aspirational. These best practices are meant to be directional in areas that are not explicitly covered or outlined by other ISO normative documents and ISO guidelines.
The intent of these best practices is to help us improve the overall quality of new and existing standards. While adherence to the recommendations is an aspiration, we must clearly understand that one of the best practices we can provide to our standards adopters is consistency and non-breakage of existing standards. This means where existing standards do not fully meet these best practices, backward compatibility and non-disruption of existing adoption communities would be almost always preferential to changing a standard for change's sake.
We hope that all standards initiatives within TC 68 would review the best practices as part of their initiation of any new work and during revisions of existing standards.
Click here to download a pdf of the ISO/TC 68 Financial services - Standards Best Practices document.