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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE 25 West 43rd Street, NY, NY 10036 VOL. 35, #39 September 24, 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 and IEC Draft Standards........................................................................ 15 ISO and IEC Newly Published Standards.................................................... 16 CEN/CENELEC ................................................................................................ 18 Proposed Foreign Government Regulations................................................ 20 Information Concerning ................................................................................. 21 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. 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Journals may excerpt items in their fields standards action - september 24, 2004 - page 2 of 22 pages BSR INCITS 224-1994 (R200x), Information Systems - Extended Magnetic Tape Format for Information Interchange (18-Track, Parallel, 12.65 mm (0.50 in), 1491 cpmm (37 871 cpi), Group-Coded Comment Deadline: November 8, Recording) (reaffirmation of ANSI INCITS 224-1994 (R1999)) 2004 Provides the requirements for a tape format to be used for information interchange of processed or unprocessed data between information processing systems, communication systems, and associated equipment ITI (INCITS) using standard code as agreed upon by the interchange parties. This standard deals solely with the requirements for recording, with provision Reaffirmations made for using a processing algorithm, on magnetic tape. BSR INCITS 137-1988 (R200x), Information Systems - One- and Single copy price: $18.00 Two-Sided, Unformatted, 90-mm (3.5-in), 5.3-tpmm (135-tpi) Flexible Disk Cartridge for 7958 BPR Use - General, Physical, and Magnetic Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) Requirements (formerly ANSI X3.137:1988/AM1-1999) (reaffirmation 854-7179 of ANSI INCITS 137-1988 (R1999)) Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); [email protected] The standard specifies the general, physical and magnetic requirements for interchangeability of the one-and two-sided 90-mm (3.5-in) (nominal) BSR INCITS 225-1994 (R200x), Information Systems - Compaction flexible disk cartridge (for 7958 bits-per-radian (bpr) use) as required to Algorithm - Binary Arithmetic Coding (reaffirmation of ANSI INCITS achieve unformatted disk cartridge interchange among disk drives using 225-1994 (R1999)) 80 tracks per side and associated information processing systems. Provides the information necessary to ensure interchangeability of Single copy price: $18.00 compacted data between information processing systems, Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) communications systems, and associated equipment using standard 854-7179 codes as agreed upon by the interchange parties. This standard deals Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); solely with the requirements for using the compaction algorithm. [email protected] Single copy price: $18.00 BSR INCITS 162-1988 (R200x), Information Systems - Unformatted Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) Flexible Disk Cartridge for Information Interchange, 5.25 in (130 mm), 854-7179 96 Tracks per Inch (3.8 Tracks per Millimeter), General, Physical, and Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); Magnetic Requirements (includes ANSI X3.162/TC-1-1995) [email protected] (reaffirmation of ANSI INCITS 162-1988 (R1999)) BSR INCITS 241-1994 (R200x), Information Systems - Data Specifies the general, physical, and magnetic requirements for Compression Method - Adaptive Coding with Sliding Window for interchangeability for two-sided, 5.25-in (130-mm), 96-tracks-per-inch Information Interchange (reaffirmation of ANSI INCITS 241-1994 (tpi) (3,8-track-per-millimeter (tpmm)) flexible disk cartridge (for 13 262 (R1999)) flux-transitions-per-radian (ftpr) use) as required to achieve unformatted disk cartridge interchange among disk drives using 77 or 80 per side and Specifies an encoding method for the lossless compression of binary associated information processing systems. Singledata. copy price: $18.00 Single copy price: $18.00 Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) 854-7179 854-7179 Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); [email protected] [email protected] BSR INCITS 242-1994 (R200x), Information Systems - Magnetic Tape BSR INCITS 175-1999 (R200x), 19-mm Type ID-1 Recorded Cartridge for Information Interchange - 0.50 in (12.65 mm), Serial Instrumentation Digital Cassette Tape Format (reaffirmation of ANSI Serpentine, 48-Track, 42 500 bpi (1 673 bpmm) DLT1 Format INCITS 175-1999) (reaffirmation of ANSI INCITS 242-1994 (R1999)) Establishes the format of information on 19-mm type ID-1 Provides the requirements for a tape cartridge to be used for information instrumentation digital cassettes. It specifies the dimensions and interchange among information-processing systems, communications locations of the helical data, control, time code, and annotation tracks. systems, and associated equipment utilizing a standard code for Also, it defines the format and recording requirements of the data blocks information interchange as agreed upon by the interchange parties. This forming the helical data record containing digital instrumentation and standard deals with the requirements for the unrecorded cartridge and other associated data and specifies the content, format, and recording for recording on the enclosed magnetic tape. method for the control record. This standard also specifies the recording Single copy price: $18.00 requirements for the longitudinal records contained in the annotation and Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) the time code tracks. 854-7179 Single copy price: $18.00 Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); Order from: Global Engineering Documents; www.global.ihs.com, (800) [email protected] 854-7179 Send comments (with copy to BSR) to: Barbara Bennett, ITI (INCITS); [email protected] standards action - september 24, 2004 - page 3 of 22 pages INCITS/ISO/IEC 10179-1996 (R200x), Information Technology - Text UL (Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.) Composition - Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) (reaffirmation of INCITS/ISO/IEC 10179-1996) New Standards Designed to specify the processing of valid SGML documents. DSSSL defines the semantics, syntax, and processing model of two languages BSR/UL 72-200x, Standard for Safety for Tests for Fire Resistance of for the specification of document processing: Record Protection Equipment (new standard) These requirements cover the test procedures applicable to the a) The transformation language for transforming SGML documents fire-resistance classification of record protection