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How to develop an IEC standard?

Shenzhen – 2007-11-22

Dennis Chew

Officer-in-Charge

IEC Asia-Pacific Regional Centre

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IEC structure and management

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International consensus products International Standards (full consensus)

Technical Specifications (full consensus not (yet) reached)

Technical Reports (information different from an IS or TS)

Publicly Available Specifications (IEC-PAS)

Guides (non-normative publications)

Limited consensus products Industry Technical Agreement (ITA)

Technology Trend Assessment (TTA)

Products

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IEC functioning

Requirements

Work items

Standards outputExpert resources

National level

Industry

Government

Academia

Users

Etc.

Technical committees

National Committees

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Technical committees and subcommittees are made up of

a secretariat a chairman members, which are NCs

All NCs are free to take part in the work of any TC, either

actively (P-members), carrying the obligation to vote on drafts and to attend meetings; or

as observers (O-members), with a right to vote on CDV and FDIS

TCs: how they work

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Stages in international standards development

PWI Preliminary stage

NP Proposal stage

WD Preparatory stage

CD Committee stage

CDV Enquiry stage

FDIS Approval stage

IS Publication stage

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Preliminary stage (PWI)

Elaborate market need for a standard Preliminary technical study

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Proposal stage (NP)

Proposal submitted for 3-month ballot to P-members of TC/SC concerned

Requirement Majority of P-members voting in favour +

For TC/SCs with ≤16 P-members, 4 must nominate expert to participate in work

For TC/SCs with > 16 P-members, 5 must nominate expert to participate in work

Experts constitute project team with project leader nominated by proposer

Work plan with target dates

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Working draft (WD)

Draft documents developed by project team/ working group

Project teams work independently Encourage use of electronic tools

E-mail “Groupware” (shared documents)

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Committee draft (CD)

Draft distributed to National Committees for comments

3 months Stage at which substantive technical

comments to be made

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Enquiry stage (CDV)

Draft submitted for 5-month ballot to National Committees

Last stage at which comments can be submitted

Approved if 2/3 majority of P-members voting approve less than 25% of all votes submitted are negative

New! Draft can now proceed to publication if no negative votes!

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Approval stage (FDIS)

Formal approval ballot for 2 months No comments allowed Approved if

2/3 majority of P-members voting approve less than 25% of all votes submitted are negative

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Publication stage (IS)

Document prepared for publication 2 months maximum

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Summary of time limits for development of IS

Document Time limits of availability

Working Draft 6 months

Committee Draft 12 months

Enquiry Draft 24 months

Approval Draft 33 months

Published Standard 36 months

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Paths to publication

Project stage

Normal procedure

Draft submitted with proposal

“Fast-track procedure”

Technical Specification

Technical Report

Publicly Available

Specification

Proposal

Working draft

Committee

Enquiry

Approval

Publication

PNW

ANW

CD

CDV

FDIS

PNW

ANW

CD

CDV

FDIS

PUB

CDV

FDIS

PUB

PNW

ANW

DTS

PUB

DTR

PUB

PNW

ANW

PUB

PNW

PUB

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Voting/Commenting Periods (AC/29/2006)

Summary of voting/commenting periods for the various technical documents

A two-week extension is applicable for documents closing dates between 15/31 Aug and 15/31 Dec.

Documents for votes and comments:

New Work Item Proposal NP 3 months

Committee Draft for Vote CDV 5 months

Final Draft International Standard FDIS 2 months

Publicly Available Specification PAS 2 months

Draft Technical Report DTR 2 months

Draft Technical Specification DTS 3 months

Documents for comments only:

Committee Draft CD 3 months

Document for Comments DC 6 weeks

Questionnaire Q 6 weeks ↑

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Conclusion

Covered key stages on the development of International Standards

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Wishing you success participating in IEC international standards development!

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