in060566, 2006 Systematic Review of International Standards for SC2

in060566 L2/06-195

InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005
Telephone 202-737-8888; Fax 202-638-4922

Date:
To:	INCITS L2 Chair: E. Muller - ACTION REQUIRED INCITS L2 Intl. Rep.: M. Suignard
cc:	INCITS Standards Development Board and INCITS Executive Board
From:	Deborah J. Spittle, Associate Manager, Standards Operations
Subject:	Advance Transmittal to INCITS L2 for the 2006 Systematic Review of International Standards

Attachment(s):	1. List of International Standards 2. List of Five Questions

INCITS L2 Recommendation Due:	June 21, 2006
Anticipated INCITS EB Ballot:	June 21, 2006 - July 22, 2006
Possible Reconsideration Period:	July 23, 2006 - August 1, 2006
U.S. Vote to ANSI:	August 2, 2006
JTC 1 Closing Date:	October 12, 2006

The INCITS Secretariat has received the 2006 List of International Standards published five or ten years ago, or more, for systematic review. The U.S. TAG is required to recommend a vote for the National Body.

In accordance with clause 15.3 of the Procedures for the Technical Work of ISO/IEC JTC 1 on Information Technology (JTC 1 N 8122), International Standards coming up to five years of age since publication shall be reviewed by the committee responsible for their development and maintenance. The review aims at deciding whether these International Standards should be confirmed, revised, declared as stablized or withdrawn. The decision regarding confirmation, revision, declared as stablized, or withdrawal should be based on the degree to which the International Standards have been implemented at the national level and applied in practice.

Technical Committee Action

The committee is to coordinate and develop the U.S. recommended position (via thirty-day letter ballot or roll call vote) to INCITS for approval. The U.S. vote will be forwarded to ANSI for submission to ISO/IEC JTC 1. For some standards, the Subcommittee (SC) recommendation is provided. If the committee concurs with the SC recommendation, it should state this and provide the technical committee vote. Please submit recommendations to dspittle@itic.org by the TC due date. If you need a copy of the standards in order to provide a recommendation to INCITS, please let us know.

[Note: The answers to all five questions is required as stated below or in the attached pdf questionniare form.]

The questions are:

Question 1

Are you in favour of:

confirmation of the International Standard for a further period of five years?

revision of the International Standard? If YES, please give reasons;

withdrawal of the International Standard? If YES, please give reasons;

stabilization of the International Standard? If YES, please give reasons.

Question 2

If the voting results show a need to revise the standard, are you prepared to participate in the development of the project?

YES
NO

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Question 3

Has this ISO/IEC standard been implemented as a national standard or is it used per se by your national industry?

YES
NO

Question 4

If the response to question 3 is affirmative, is the standard implemented or used without change?

YES
NO

In case of modifications, please identify the changes on a separate sheet, if necessary.

Question 5 (optional)

Please indicate the number of the corresponding national standard:

ACTION REQUIRED BY INCITS SDB and EB

INCITS SDB and EB members are requested to begin reviewing the documents in preparation for expeditiously determining their vote when the U.S. TAG recommendation is submitted for approval. Members noting objections are urged to send their comments via email to the TC Chair immediately - see email address above.

INCITS SDB and EB members should anticipate providing the U.S. vote if it becomes necessary to post this request to the INCITS SDB Agenda at a future meeting.