The consultation for the (nearly) complete draft of MoReq2010 closed on 26th December. Only 25 people (approximately) submitted comments, including hundreds of comments submitted in a rush on the last three days - over Christmas.
Most observers would agree that such a small number of people taking part constitutes a failure. The promised input from AIIM and other professional bodies did not materialise; and there was virtually no input from national archives.
Worse yet, the DLM Forum has announced a commitment to publish a completed MoReq2010 specification by 31st December 2010. Given that many of the consultation comments are major and fundamental, it defies belief that this can be done.
Let us all hope - for the good of the records management community - that the DLM Forum has the courage to realise that more consultation is needed - much more - and that it must not try to publish a completed specification by the end of 2010.
What is needed now is a next draft, then a properly planned, extended, further consultation. This extended consultation must consist of more than just posting on a web portal - that has been proved not to work. We need to see meetings, conferences, more publicity, and better mechanisms for collecting comments, all spread out over at least 3 months. And the next draft needs to be complete, not (as the last review draft) missing some crucial components.
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