The purpose statement for the Terminology Release Advisory Group is to advise the IHTSDO Management Team (MT) on the standards, business processes and documentation related to the production, productization, quality assurance, packaging and distribution of SNOMED CT and derivative products.

The Group is guided by the stated objectives of IHTSDO in its vision statement, as articulated in the Articles of Association in section 2.1, and the organization's five strategic priorities set to 2020.

The Terminology Release Advisory Group supports the work plan of IHTSDO.  Therefore its activities reflect the current priorities and objectives identified in that plan. 

The scope of the Terminology Release Advisory Group includes:

• Advising the IHTSDO Management Team (MT) on the standards, business processes and documentation related to the production, productization, quality assurance, packaging and distribution of SNOMED CT and derivative products.
• Advising on the implications operational consequences to Members and software vendors of the standards, business processes and documentation related to the production and distribution of SNOMED CT. Such implications would include those for proposed changes in the way SNOMED CT is currently produced, packaged and distributed, proposals for introducing and managing new terminology products.
• Deprecation and withdrawal of terminology products.
• The usefulness of proposed terminology products.
• Modifications to existing standards that affect the delivery of SNOMED CT, e.g. release format 2 (RF2).