WHAT IS A STANDARD

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WHAT IS A STANDARD?
JOE KOEPFINGER
3 DEC 2007
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TYPES OF IEEE STD

• IEEE STANDARD
• IEEE RECOMMENDED PRACTICE
• IEEE GUIDE

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IEEE STANDARD PUBLICATIONS

• Standard
• Mandatory
• Recommended Practice
• Suggested Procedure
• Guide
• Guidelines

• Defined by words
• shall
• should
• may

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IMPRESSING OF IEEE STANDARDS PUBLICATION RANKING

• Which of the Following?

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HIERARCHAL ORDER A
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HIERARCHAL ORDER B
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Ranking What Do Industry and Members Believe?

• Based on Experience
• Many believe the ranking is as described by
  diagram B
• Impression
• A Recommend Practice is more prestige than a
  guide.
• A Standard is the ultimate level

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Consideration for Approval Process Changes?

• Does Approval Process need to be the same for all
  three document levels?
• If the impression of the ranking is as shown in
  hierarchal order B is true, should the approval
  procedure be more liberal for Recommended
  Practices and Guides?

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STANDARD-INTENT OF USE

• Why is document classified as a standard and
  written in a mandatory manner? Is the intent that
  it will be
• adopted as an Industry Test Procedure?
• adopted as an Industry Specification?
• adopted as a regulator regulation?
• to give it more prestige?

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Recommended Practice Intent of Use

• What is the intent for a document to be
  classified as a RP? Is it to
• encourage its use for a preferred method, test
  procedure, or practice?
• Gain use experience before it is converted to a
  standard?
• give the document more prestige?

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• Should a Standard be written so mandatory
  requirements can be quickly uniquely
  identified?
• Should the Standard contain large volumes of
  peripheral information?

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STANDARD QUALITY

• Should tutorial, historical, etc info pertaining
  to the Standard be integral to the standard or a
  separate document?

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ISSUES

• Is there a need to better define what is meant by
  quality of a standard?
• Should there be an abbreviated development and
  approval process for Recommended Practices and
  Guides to better serve the members and industry?

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STUDY GROUP

• To address the answers to the questions raised is
  an AdHoc Study body needed?

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