Working Group 1

Task Force 19

The work of Task Force 19 was largely completed by the end of 2005, but due to the ANNA autumn meeting being postponed, the efforts of this group continued into Q1 2006.

At the Zurich meeting in late January 2006, the findings and proposal of the Task Force were presented to the ANNA membership for discussion. The outcome of these discussions was that the ANNA members voted 36-6 in favour of presenting a summary of their efforts and the proposed Look-Up Service to ISO for their consideration. The Task Force 19 memorandum endeavoured to provide ISO with full transparency on the limitations faced by ANNA with respect to the ISIN Licensing matter. The memorandum also emphasised that ANNA meets most but not all of the requirements (as defined by ISO) in its’ capacity as the Registration Authority for ISO 6166.

Following the approval of the resolution in January 2006, the Task Force members revised the ISO Memorandum and submitted it to ISO at the end of February, for their further consideration.

With the submission of this report, the efforts of the Task Force were put on hold for the remainder of 2006. ISO passed further assessment of the Task Force findings to SC4 which subsequently resulted in the formation of SC4 Working Group 1 – whose objectives were to assess the findings of the ANNA Task Force. Discussions within SC4 WG1 continued into 2007.

Task Force 19 remains an approved and functional group pending the results of the WG1 discussions.