Tuesday, January 24, 2012

General information on the list of technical committees

12:28 AM

Basic information is provided for each technical committee (TC), listed in numerical order, with subcommittees (SC) and working groups (WG). The list begins with JTC 1, the Joint ISO/IEC Technical Committee established in 1987. The ISO technical committees are assigned numbers in order of their establishment.

When a technical committee is disbanded its number is not allocated to another technical committee. A list of disbanded technical committees can be found here.

Certain technical committees have no further work item under study or foreseen; they regularly review the ISO International Standards for which they are responsible. Their titles are followed by "STAND-BY" in the list of technical committees.

Read more »

Labels: Standard | 0 comments

Thursday, December 15, 2011

ISO Standard

3:09 AM

A normative document, developed according to consensus procedures, which has been approved by the ISO membership and P-members of the responsible committee in accordance with Part 1 of the ISO/IEC Directives as a draft International Standard and/or as a final draft International Standard and which has been published by the ISO Central Secretariat.

The way it is done

A text corresponding to an approved work item is developed as necessary through the preparatory and/or committee stages until consensus is reached in the committee. (In case of doubt, approval by 2/3 of the P-members voting may be considered to constitute consensus.) The text is submitted to all ISO member bodies for a five-month vote as a draft International Standard (DIS) and is approved if two-thirds of the P-members vote affirmatively and not more than a quarter of all votes cast are negative. A final text is prepared taking into account member body comments on the DIS and this text is issued for formal vote as a final draft International Standard (FDIS). If the text is again approved by two-thirds of the P-members voting and if not more than a quarter of all votes cast are negative, then the text is approved and the Central Secretariat publishes the International Standard.

Source: ISO - International Organization for Standardization

Labels: Standard | 0 comments