Re: [stdsreg] Metadata Specification v2.8

[Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>]

FYI
>
> There are many standards that have multiple ownership. For example, most
> JTC1 standards are shared by both ISO and IEC, but in this case they have
> the same number and publication date. Of more importance, is the large set
> of standards published jointly by JTC1 and ITU-T, which have totally
> different numbering schemes and are typically approved on totally
different
> cycles, so that an ISO 2001 standard can be an ITU-T 2003 standard.

You'll find a good example of how ISO and ITU can remain out of step over
multiple editions of a standard in the Diffuse write-up on the X.500
standards group at http://www.diffuse.org/directory.html#X500. Note that:

1) There is one ISO/IEC standard with multiple parts yet ITU give separate
numbers to each part, which are not assigned sequentially

2) Some editions were published in parallel, but most were of different
dates, up to two years apart.

Other examples involve other groupings of organizations, including:

ISO 12642:1996/ANSI IT8.7/3: Graphic technology -- Prepress digital data
exchange -- Input data for characterization of 4-colour process printing

and

ISO 17799:2000/BSI 7799-1:1999 Code of practice for information security
management

Martin Bryan
Technical Manager, The Diffuse Project

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