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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE 25 West 43rd Street, NY, NY 10036 VOL. 35, #5 January 30, 2004 Contents American National Standards Call for Comment on Standards Proposals ................................................ 2 Call for Comment Contact Information ....................................................... 9 Initiation of Canvasses ................................................................................. 11 Final Actions.................................................................................................. 12 Project Initiation Notification System (PINS).............................................. 13 International Standards ISO Draft Standards ...................................................................................... 16 ISO Newly Published Standards .................................................................. 17 CEN/CENELEC ................................................................................................ 19 Proposed Foreign Government Regulations................................................ 21 Information Concerning ................................................................................. 22 Standards Action is now available via the World Wide Web For your convenience Standards Action can now be down- loaded from the following web address: http://www.ansi.org/news_publications/periodicals/standards _action/standards_action.aspx?menuid=7 American National Standards Call for comment on proposals listed This section solicits public comments on proposed draft new American National Standards, including the national adoption of Ordering Instructions for "Call-for-Comment" Listings ISO and IEC standards as American National Standards, and on 1. Order from the organization indicated for the specific proposals to revise, reaffirm or withdraw approval of existing proposal. American National Standards. A draft standard is listed in this section under the ANSI-accredited standards developer (ASD) 2. Use the full identification in your order, including the that sponsors it and from whom a copy may be obtained. BSR prefix; for example, Electric Fuses BSR/SAE J554. Comments in connection with a draft American National 3. Include remittance with all orders. Standard must be submitted in writing to the ASD no later than 4. BSR proposals will not be available after the deadline of the last day of the comment period specified herein. Such call for comment. comments shall be specific to the section(s) of the standard under review and include sufficient detail so as to enable the Comments should be addressed to the organization indicated, reader to understand the commenter’s position, concerns and with a copy to the Board of Standards Review, American National Standards Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, suggested alternative language, if appropriate. Please note that the ANSI Executive Standards Council (ExSC) has determined NY 10036. Fax: 212-840-2298; e-mail: [email protected] that an ASD has the right to require that interested parties submit Ì public review comments electronically. Standard for consumer products © 2004 by American National Standard Institute, Inc. ISSN 0038-9633 ANSI members may reproduce for internal distribution. Journals may excerpt items in their fields standards action - january 30, 2004 - page 2 of 22 pages BSR/ASAE S396.2-JAN91 (R200x), Combine Capacity and Performance Test Procedure (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE S396.2-JAN91 Comment Deadline: March 15, 2004 (RMAR98)) Provides the basic requirements for uniform procedures for measuring and reporting combine capacity. Because crop conditions are variable ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers) and uncontrollable, the procedure provides only for the comparative testing of one combine, or one combine configuration, relative to Reaffirmations another, in a particular crop condition. This Standard is also provides the BSR/ASAE EP282.2-SEP93 (R200x), Design Values for Emergency basic requirements for evaluating the uniformity of material spread from Ventilation and Care of Livestock and Poultry (reaffirmation of harvest residue spreading or chopping device(s). ANSI/ASAE EP282.2-SEP93 (RJUNE00)) Single copy price: $40.00 Provides data and guidelines to assist designing emergency ventilation, Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] feeding, watering, and lighting systems for livestock and poultry. Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same Single copy price: $40.00 ATIS (ASC T1) (Alliance for Telecommunications Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same Industry Solutions) BSR/ASAE EP403.3-JUL99 (R200x), Design of Anaerobic Lagoons for New Standards Animal Waste Management (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE BSR T1.424-200x, Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Lines (VDSL) EP403.3-JUL99) Metallic Interface (DMT based) (new standard) Describes the minimum criteria for design and operation of anaerobic Describes the electrical and functional characteristics of very high bit rate animal waste lagoons located in predominantly rural or agricultural Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL). VDSL is designed to operate on a single areas. pair of unshielded metallic cable. It offers a variety of bit rates (22/3 Single copy price: $40.00 Mbps, 6/6 Mbps, 10/10 Mbps, …) on loops that are typically shorter than Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] 4500 ft. VDSL can operate over loops of various gauges, including loops Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same with bridged taps. Single copy price: $352.00 BSR/ASAE S289.2-FEB98 (R200x), Concrete Slip-Form Canal Linings (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE S289.2-FEB98) Order from: Aivelis Colon, ATIS (ASC T1); [email protected] Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same Provides standards and specifications for the installation of concrete slip-form canal linings in the interest of reducing costs and assuring quality control. I3A (International Imaging Industry Association) Single copy price: $40.00 New Standards Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] BSR/I3A IT2.45-200x, Photography - Viewing Conditions for Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same Transilluminated Monochrome Medical Images - Method for BSR/ASAE S343.3-1991 (R200x), Terminology for Combines and Grain Characterizing (new standard) Harvesting (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE S343.3-1991 (R1998)) Provides methods for determining luminance and luminance spatial Establishes terminology pertinent to grain combine design and uniformity of illuminators used for viewing medical films that have performance. It is intended to improve communication among engineers viewing areas of 18 cm x 24 cm or larger. It also provides a method for and researchers and to provide a basis for a comparative listing of measuring the illuminance falling on the medical film from light sources machine specifications. other than the illuminator. Single copy price: $20.00 Single copy price: $40.00 Order from: James Peyton, I3A; [email protected]; [email protected] Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same BSR/ASAE S375.2-JUL97 (R200x), Capacity Rating and Unloading ITI (INCITS) Dimensions for Cotton Harvester Baskets (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE New Standards S375.2-JUL97) Provides a uniform method of expressing the following information BSR/INCITS 382-200x, Information technology - SCSI Medium Changer relative to cotton strippers and cotton pickers: Capacity of basket, commands -2 (SMC-2) (new standard) Unloading height of basket, Lip height of raised basket, Unloading angle This standard defines the command set extensions for operation of SCSI of basket, Maximum basket height, Working height, and Transport media changer devices, and command set extensions that allow media height. changer functions in other types of SCSI devices. Single copy price: $40.00 Single copy price: $18.00 Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] Order from: Global Engineering Documents Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Deborah Spittle, ITI (INCITS); [email protected] BSR/ASAE S376.2-JAN98 (R200x), Design, Installation and Performance of Underground, Thermoplastic Pipelines (reaffirmation BSR/INCITS 384-200x, Information Technology - Fibre Channel- Switch of ANSI/ASAE S376.2-JAN98) Fabric-3 (FC-SW-3) (new standard) Applies to underground, thermoplastic pipelines used in the conveyance FC-SW-3 describes the operation and interaction of Fibre Channel of irrigation water to the point of distribution and may or may not apply to Switches. This standard includes: potable water systems. (a) E_Port operation and fabric configuration; Single copy price: $40.00 (b) Path selection (FSPF and FSPF-Backbone); (c) Bridge port (B_Port) operation; Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] (d) Distributed server interaction and communication; Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same (e) Exchange of information between switches to support zoning; and (f) Distribution of event notifications between switches. Single copy price: $18.00 Order from: Global Engineering Documents Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Deborah Spittle, ITI (INCITS); [email protected] standards action - january 30, 2004 - page 3 of 22 pages New National Adoptions INCITS/ISO/IEC 9075-10-2003, Information technology - Database languages - SQL - Part 10: Object Language Bindings (SQL/OLB) INCITS/ISO/IEC 9075-1-2003, Information technology - Database (identical national adoption