RE: [stdsreg] Metadata Specification v2.8

[Ketchell John <john.ketchell@cenorm.be>]

Martin

I can see the problem with these JTC1/ISO standards, but generally speaking
in Europe these co-designations are co-ordinated.  Thus, the BSI reference
BS EN ISO 128-21:2001 is an identical British, CEN and ISO standard numbered
identically.  On the other hand, this seems to break down in some cases,
presumably where a national standard has been published before the
international version has been numbered.  An example again from BSI is BS
5766-22:2001, BS EN ISO 14181:2001, which are certainly catalogued as the
same publication.  

There is unfortunately perhaps another small obscurity to look at, in that
under CENELEC's Dresden Agreement with IEC, CENELEC may publish versions of
IEC standards with local European deltas as European Standards (and these
are then republished as national standards), but I believe they keep the
same numbering series!  Thus BS EN 60118-14:1998, IEC 60118-14:1998 may or
may not be identical in the British/European and IEC versions.   I suppose
this has to be recognized somewhere in the meta-data itself.

Thankfully, the European and national versions in Europe are always
identical (a legal requirement is that national bodies must withdraw
conflicting national standards where a European Standard has been agreed).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bryan [mailto:mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 19:00
To: 'Standards Registry Mail List'
Subject: Re: [stdsreg] Metadata Specification v2.8



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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