Editorial Comments observed during Legal Review

Project Number PN-3-0364, proposed creation of a new TIA Standard, “Test Application Specification for cdma2000® Ultra Mobile Broadband™ Air Interface” (if approved, to be published as TIA-1172)

1. As an editorial comment, reference documents in TIA documents are typically listed alphanumerically … designation numbers of documents listed in any normative references clause shall contain the year of publication, and Titles of referenced documents shall be set in italics. Only the first word of the main title or subtitle of standards shall be capitalized . . . . See Section 2.3.3 of TIA Style Manual. I note this proposed TIA Standard is inconsistent in that regard, which you may wish to handle in the editorial review for the proposed TIA Standard. 2. Trademarks should be used properly as adjectives always modifying a NOUN never as nouns themselves, whether it is a TIA Trademark or Trademark of another party such as UMB™ or WiMAX™. The symbols ® and ™ are also always supposed to superscripted when used. The registered mark symbol is only used for marks that have in fact been registered. 3. At eight places in this proposed TIA Standard the phrase “No Text” is used. You can search for them in the Search function of Adobe Acrobat. See PDF pages 2, 6, and 8, as examples. I am not sure what the phrase ‘No Text,” is supposed to convey to the reader of the TIA Standard. I believe it is common TIA practice that when a Formulating Group wishes to force page breaks at certain points in the document, they use the more understandable to the reader, terminology of “This page left intentionally Blank,” or words to that effect. In its editorial review, TIA staff may want to consider what is appropriate terminology prior to publication of this proposed TIA Standard. 4. Although not a legal comment but an editorial comment in this draft Standard (see, PDF Page 45), the foreign language abbreviation “i.e.,” is used. You can easily find them all by doing a Search function (1 for i.e.). Terms like “i.e.” and “e.g.” are properly always followed by a COMMA. In this draft Standard the comma is missing.

In the final editorial review of this draft TIA Standard prior to publication, these types of editorial corrections should be made.