brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) (08/01/83)
The standard in question is not yet publicly available in the sense that it is an approved standard with an official number. As a result, the normal channels for getting copies of a standard will not work for the document. In any case NTIS is not the place to get ANSI or ISO standard documents, since neither is a US government agency. To know where to get copies of a standards document, you need to be able to parse the document ID number. That number is is: ISO TC97/SC5/EG CLPT-X3J6 N177. This means that it is an International Standards Organization document, produced by the Experts Group on Computer Languages for the Processing of Text (hence EG CLPT) of Sub-Committee 5 of Technical Committee 97. This group is working with American National Standards Institute Technical Committee X3J6 (responsible for text processing) to develop a common draft standard. It is sometimes possible to get draft ANSI documents from the secretariat for the ANSI committee involved, which is CBEMA (Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association) for all the X3 (computer standards) committees of which X3J6 is one. Their address is: X3 Secretariat:CBEMA 311 First Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20001 The draft standard I have (an earlier version) lists the ISO secretariat: Secretariat ISO/TC 97/SC 5/EGCLPT 1430 Broadway New York, New York 10018 PLUG: ANSI is a volunteer organization, run on the dues paid by its members. Voting membership on a technical commmittee costs $100 per year for the sponsoring institution, and (I believe) $50 per year for alternate members. It will also generally cost the delegate roughly 20% of his working time (you are expected to help develop the standard, not just kibbitz). If you or your institution has an interest, commercial or technical in an evolving standard, by all means join ANSI and make your voice heard. Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!teklabs!tekecs!brucec CSNET: tekecs!brucec@tektronix ARPA: tekecs!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay
brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) (08/02/83)
Apologies to anyone who gets this twice; we had a uucp failure which dumped a lot of mail and news on the floor. The standard in question is not yet publicly available in the sense that it is an approved standard with an official number. As a result, the normal channels for getting copies of a standard will not work for the document. In any case NTIS is not the place to get ANSI or ISO standard documents, since neither is a US government agency. To know where to get copies of a standards document, you need to be able to parse the document ID number. That number is is: ISO TC97/SC5/EG CLPT-X3J6 N177. This means that it is an International Standards Organization document, produced by the Experts Group on Computer Languages for the Processing of Text (hence EG CLPT) of Sub-Committee 5 of Technical Committee 97. This group is working with American National Standards Institute Technical Committee X3J6 (responsible for text processing) to develop a common draft standard. It is sometimes possible to get draft ANSI documents from the secretariat for the ANSI committee involved, which is CBEMA (Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association) for all the X3 (computer standards) committees of which X3J6 is one. Their address is: X3 Secretariat:CBEMA 311 First Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20001 The draft standard I have (an earlier version) lists the ISO secretariat: Secretariat ISO/TC 97/SC 5/EGCLPT 1430 Broadway New York, New York 10018 PLUG: ANSI is a volunteer organization, run on the dues paid by its members. Voting membership on a technical commmittee costs $100 per year for the sponsoring institution, and (I believe) $50 per year for alternate members. It will also generally cost the delegate roughly 20% of his working time (you are expected to help develop the standard, not just kibbitz). If you or your institution has an interest, commercial or technical in an evolving standard, by all means join ANSI and make your voice heard. Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!teklabs!tekecs!brucec CSNET: tekecs!brucec@tektronix ARPA: tekecs!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay ------- End of Forwarded Message