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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE 25 West 43rd Street, NY, NY 10036 VOL. 35, #13 March 26, 2004 Contents American National Standards Call for Comment on Standards Proposals ................................................ 2 Call for Comment Contact Information ....................................................... 10 Final Actions.................................................................................................. 12 Project Initiation Notification System (PINS).............................................. 14 International Standards ISO Draft Standards ...................................................................................... 21 ISO and IEC Newly Published Standards.................................................... 22 CEN/CENELEC ................................................................................................ 24 Proposed Foreign Government Regulations................................................ 26 Information Concerning ................................................................................. 27 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 - march 26, 2004 - page 2 of 29 pages Comment Deadline: April 25, 2004 ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers) New National Adoptions UL (Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.) BSR/ASAE S366.2 MON04 (ISO 5675:1992), Agricultural tractors and Revisions machinery - General purpose quick-action hydraulic couplers (national adoption with modifications) BSR/UL 508C-200x, Standard for Safety for Power Conversion Specifies the essential interface dimensions and the operating Equipment (revision of ANSI/UL 508C-2003) requirements for hydraulic couplers employed to transmit hydraulic Covers open or enclosed equipment that supplies power to control a power from agricultural tractors to agricultural machinery and is identical motor or motors operating at a frequency or voltage different than that of to the ISO standard scope except for the inclusion of: the input supply. Proposed requirement revisions relating to: Polymeric Enclosures. 1) The 15-degree angle to accommodate dust protection; Click here to see these changes in full, or look at the end of “Standards 2) Detailed location for the couplings on the tractor; and Action.” Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Warren Casper, UL-NC; 3) All of the coupler performance specifications. [email protected] Single copy price: $40.00 Order from: Carla Miller, ASAE; [email protected] Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same ASC X9 (Accredited Standards Committee X9, Incorporated) Comment Deadline: May 10, 2004 New Standards BSR X9.96-200x, XML Cryptographic Message Syntax (XCMS) (new API (American Petroleum Institute) standard) Specifies a text based Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) New Standards represented using XML 1.0 encoding that can be used to protect financial transactions and other documents from unauthorized disclosure BSR/API MPMS 5.8-200x, Measurement of Liquid Hydrocarbons by and modification. Ultrasonic Flowmeters Using Transit Time Technology (new standard) Single copy price: $50.00 Includes application criteria for Ultrasonic Flow Meters and considerations regarding the liquids being measured. It also address the Order from: Isabel Bailey, ASC X9; [email protected] installation, operation, proving and maintenance of UFMs in liquid Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same hydrocarbon service. Comments preferred on-line through the API “electronic balloting system." ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) Single copy price: N/A Order from: API, Attn: Julie Santi New Standards Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Use Ballot ID: 363 and the API BSR T1.524-200x, Reliability-related Metrics and Terminology for electronic ballot system http://ballots.api.org Network Elements in Evolving Communications Networks (new standard) Defines Functional Element (FE) and Network Element (NE) reliability-related terminology, metrics and features for evolving communications networks. The term “reliability-related” refers to Revisions “reliability, availability, maintainability, and survivability.” The standard is applicable to any layer 1 to 8 FE and NE. BSR/API RP 579-200x, Fitness-for-Service (revision of ANSI/API RP 579-2000) Single copy price: $58.00 Std. 579 standardizes fitness-for-service (FFS) assessment techniques Order from: Aivelis Colon, ATIS (ASC T1); [email protected] for pressurized equipment in the refining and chemical industries. FFS is Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Same defined as the ability to demonstrate the structural integrity of an in-service component containing a flaw. RP 579 is intended to supplement the requirements in API 510, 570 and 653: ITI (INCITS) (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards) (i) to ensure safety of plant personnel and the public while older equipment continues to operate; Supplements (ii) to provide technically sound assessment procedures; and BSR INCITS 361-200x (Amendment 1), Amendment to Information technology - AT Attachment with Packet Interface - 6 (ATA/ATAPI-6) (iii) to help optimize maintenance and operation of existing facilities. (supplement to ANSI INCITS 361-2002) Specifies the AT Attachment Interface between host systems and storage devices. It provides a common attachment interface for systems Single copy price: Free manufacturers, system integrators, software suppliers, and suppliers of Order from: Valeen Young, API intelligent storage devices. Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Roland Goodman, API; [email protected] Single copy price: $18.00 Order from: Global Engineering Documents; http://www.global.ihs.com/ Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); [email protected] standards action - march 26, 2004 - page 3 of 29 pages NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) NFPA Fire Protection Standards Documentation Revisions The National Fire Protection Association announced the availability of BSR/TIA 678-A-200x, Data Transmission Systems and Equipment - the National Electrical Code® Report on Proposals (NEC® ROP Serial Asynchronous Automatic Dialing and Control for Character 2004MM) for concurrent review and comment by NFPA and ANSI in the Node DCE on Wireless Data Services (revision of ANSI/TIA Volume 34, Issue 27, July 4, 2003 issue of Standards Action. The 678-1999) disposition of all comments received will now by published in the NEC ® Report on Comments (NEC® ROC 2004MM). Specifies extensions to the protocol elements, procedures, and Singlebehaviors. copy price: $115.00 The 2004 NEC ® Report on Comments will be released on April 8, 2004, Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) and contains the disposition of comments received. As a result of the 854-7179 comments, changes were made to the Report, and these changes are Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Billie Zidek-Conner, TIA; included in the NEC ® Report on Comments. Anyone wishing to review [email protected] the NEC® Report on Comments (NEC® ROC 2004MM) may do so at http://www.nfpa.org/nec/2005_NECR/2005_necr.asp, or may secure a UL (Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.) copy from: National Fire Protection Association New National Adoptions Publication Sales Department BSR/UL 60335-2-3-200x, Standard for Safety of Household and Similar 11 Tracy Drive Electrical Appliances, Part 2: Particular Requirements for Electric Irons Avon, MA 02322