[802SEC] Fwd: Policy statement on normative references

[Geoff Thompson <gthompso@nortelnetworks.com>]

To Working Group Chairs

If your group's standards are sent to ISO for international approval and
publication as ISO/IEC Standards then you need to note these newly
refined rules. I suggest that you forward this to each of your
editors.

Geoff

From: Karen Ptak <kptak@ansi.org>
To:
Subject: Policy statement on normative references
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:11:12 -0500

        To:          ANSI International Forum (AIF) Members

        From:         Joseph Tretler, Jr.         ANSI Business Director, Standards Facilitation
Subject:  Policy statement on normative references

At its April 2002 meeting the ISO Technical Management Board (TMB) approved ANSI recommendations concerning normative references in international standards that were developed by the ANSI International Committee's (IC) ad hoc group on ISO/IEC policy changes.  Consequently, the TMB requested that a policy statement be prepared explaining ISO's policy concerning normative references in ISO publications.  A draft policy statement on this subject that favorably reflects ANSI's concerns was approved at the September 2002 ISO/TMB meeting in Stockholm.  ANSI's IC played an integral role in the achievement of increased flexibility and enhanced response to the needs of end-users with the approval of new guidance and rules governing the referencing of normative documents in International Standards.  The new policy which ANSI has successfully promoted will provide greater openness for an ISO committee to include normative references to relevant documents published by any other standards developing organization (SDO).     Please be advised that the policy statement on normative references AIF N 406 is available on the ANSI website where it can be accessed directly at: <http://www.ansi.org/reports/master.asp?room=19>.   Attached you will find a copy of  the aforementioned document.  Please note that the basic rules concerning normative references, found in 6.2.2 of Part 2 of the ISO/IEC Directives  (4^th Edition, 2001), are also presented in this policy statement document.  Please feel free to contact Joseph Tretler jtretler@ansi.org <mailto:jtretler@ansi.org  should you have any questions or concerns. <<Policy_statement_on_normative_references.pdf>>

Policy_statement_on_normative_references.pdf

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