Approval of the DMTF Board is not required for these changes. At the end of six months the Technical Committee can recommend withdrawal of a schema if there is no interest in implementation from the industry. At the end of the Preliminary Phase all outstanding CRs against that release to be resolved. The Technical Committee must approve all specification and schema as final standards for public release by the DMTF board in accordance with the Committee Voting Process. The DMTF Board must approve the public release of all versions and releases of DMTF Standards Specifications and Schema in accordance with DMTF Board Voting.
Any company can originate a change request to the appropriate working group.
The change requests must clearly state the old and the proposed new text. Changes must address a single issue. Multiple issues must not be submitted in the same change request. The same change request on a single issue against multiple items can be submitted as one change request. There shall be a running change log kept of changes.